How Twitter engineers outwitted Mubarak in one weekend
When they first came to office, the Obama team had a mantra: "Never waste a good crisis". They at the time spent the then two years doing specifically the in contrast. More...
SaaS Won't Succeed With Some Apps
Still, products where SaaS has taken hold of until further notice 50 percent of revenue amount to only 3 percent of the total software market, Forrester said. More...
A Linux PC That Looks Like a Phone Charger
Take a look at your power outlet. If you saw a DreamPlug PC there, you could mistake it in vain more than your mobile phone charger. But Globalscale Technologies' newest Linux PC offers enough zing to make the "plug computing" concept a serious one. More...
Google's Eric Schmidt predicts the future of computing
As a child growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, Schmidt grew up with what were known as time-share computers – devices linked by telephone lines that used punch cards to relay information. More...
Time for smart helmets in the Super Bowl?
Current helmets are designed to prevent heavy blows penetrating the outer shell and causing skull fractures or other serious brain injuries, however they are less good at stopping the force of lower-level impacts from passing through to the brain and causing concussions. More...
The Daily launches while Apple flips the script on e-book apps
Apple has revealed that it wants a cut of third-party e-book sales during it rolls out in-app subscriptions on the side for newspapers and magazines. More...
Would You Outsource Your Startup to a SaaS?
The idea that a startup would use a SaaS for launch is a testament to the level of automation that comes with cloud computing. It's as well an example of how startups will be launched ever faster and at a clip that makes today's pace seem slight by comparison. More...
Telecoms face new uncertainty
Canada’s telecommunications sector is bracing for an uncertain regulatory future as the federal government increasingly undermines its watchdog. More...
Apple's greatest hits under Steve Jobs
The Apple II was the first product released from Apple Computer Inc afterwards incorporation in 1977. Unlike the Apple-1, this computer came with a monitor, keyboard, case and power supply, making it a machine for the masses, not just homebrew hackers. More...
Dell to Use Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud for IaaS
It said workloads can be shared with external providers for capacity growth due to Ubuntu's open-source implementation of the de facto cloud-computing standard provided by Amazon Web Services. More...