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Google Bringing Ultra Fast Broadband to Kansas City. Town Renaming Next?
In an effort to encourage existing internet service providers to offer higher speeds, Google chose Kansas City, Kansas as the first city where it will deploy an “ultra” high-speed broadband network. This project doesn’t mean Google is ready to jump into the internet service providers market and take on AT&T Verizon and others (yet), but ...
Personal Cloud Scales the Web: Evernote Gets More Social, Efficient
Note-taking cloud service Evernote has revamped its website – not the main (and actually the last) element pushing its ever-growing userbase. Either way, the updated site provides a glimpse into what we can expect from the Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android Evernote apps in the near future, including some pretty neat features. Among these tweaks ...
Cloud.com Powers KT ucloud: 60% Cheaper than AWS
Open source cloud software Cloud.com is providing its services to Korea’s largest landline operator and mobile service provider, which is using its open source multi-tenant IaaS platform, CloudStack, to develop the KT ucloud public cloud IaaS offering currently in beta. Intel, Citrix and others are also participating in the process. KT will provide services with ...
GigaSpaces Scores Another Partnership – this Time with SuperDerivatives
Today virtualized application platforms vendor GigaSpaces announced it has landed another partnership, this time with financial company SuperDerivatives. SD is using GigaSpaces’ eXtreme Application Platform to enhance the performance of some of its risk management solutions. GigaSpaces is still a relative newcomer to the cloud services industry, and partnerships are very important element for the company’s ...
The Web’s Global Map Looks Like This: Today & Tomorrow
What is the worldwide web? We know it spans the globe, and we know what we can do with it. But from a network perspective, what does it look like on a global scale? Communications research firm TeleGeography released its Global Internet Map for 2011, which provides some insight to the internet activity this year ...
Amazon Cloud Drive Takes on Personal Cloud Hosting, Music Industries
Amazon music has always been a significant alternative in the iTunes culture market. And the personal cloud, notably cloud file hosting space, has been really picking up in light of Box.net’s recent $48 million funding round and other developments we’ve seen lately. Amazon evidently realized the enormous momentum this industry has gained, which is one ...
Data2Conf Kicking Off in a Week: Highlights
This year’s Data 2.0 conference is due one week from now, launching on Monday, April 4 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. The conference, hosted by midVentures, will focus on the rise of data accessibility throughout numerous areas including social, geo, government and advertising data – all of have been very active ...
SingTel Partners with VMware: Expanding the Cloud in Asia
Singapore-based telecommunications service provider SingTel has partnered up with VMware to integrate a part of the virtualization giant’s offerings portfolio, the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services, into its newly launched SingTel PowerON Compute cloud solution. The private cloud offering, and offers simplified integration – as well as a highlighted “no-one-cloud-fits-all” approach: “Companies will be able to ...
Microsoft the Last to Invest in IPv4? The End Is Near.
2011’s Y2K. The Internet Address and Naming Agency (IANA) rolled out 40 billion 32-bit IPv4 addresses roughly 40 years ago, but after that much time, and 2 billion internet users later, we ran out of the precious commodity. This is where the presumably bumpy transition to IPv6 comes in, but Microsoft just spent $7 million ...
Android not so Open-Source After All: Expansion and Bad Karma
Android was first introduced by Google as the platform which will bring “freedom to the masses” via publicly available source code, but it may just have been a very broad marketing hype. Google today announced it will delay the release of Honeycomb’ source code for the foreseeable future, which puts in question when – or ...