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Daily Show Video: Apple Busting Down Doors WTF Is Going On
Ever since Gizmodo broke the news of the new iPhone 4 which was acquired illegally, the entire iPhone 4 thing has been a disaster. Everything went wrong with it. My Angle: Gizmodo never should have bought stolen goods, Apple never should have broken down their doors, the blogger never should have participated in this scheme, ...
C-Squared – Controversy & Creativity; Is The Theme For Apple Worldwide Developers Conference Kicks Off June 7 in San Francisco
Apple is announcing the dates for their Worldwide Developer Confernence – June 7th in San Francisco. This should be a ton of fun given all the creativity around the iPad and all the market success of the iPhone. Of course on the heels of the most amazing financial quarter of corporate performance in the company’s ...
#Datacenter #Metrics – Is 70 Data Center Performance Metrics Enough?
There is a movement in the datacenter circles to rethink metrics. What are the right metrics for performance? The industry is moving towards heavily towards Application Performance oriented metrics for better business visibility into their Data Centers and away from traditional “up / down status” reporting. Faster troubleshooting is increasingly important especially as companies begin ...
Moving Up The Stack – VMWare and Salesforce.com Team Up for Turn Key Cloud Applications as a Service
Today, VMWare and Salesforce.com teamed up to announce VMforce an enterprise Java cloud. In an effort to productize general-purpose cloud computing services VMware and Salesforces produce a joint product called VMforce. The new solution and offering is a loud-based service called VMforce for running Java applications and is the combination of a server virtualization player ...
Facebook Announces Web Land Grab – The Evolution Of The Web
Brett Taylor of Facebook is posting his Angle on the new announcements called The Evolution of the Web. Many people are worried about Facebook’s massive land grab to dominate the web. I feel ok since they are committed to being open and enabling the ecosystem. Plus Brett has credibility in the community of hard core ...
Facebook Friends The Web – They Will Unleash Creativity and Money For All
Facebook is trying to leverage their huge installed based to socialize all the web. Today, at F8 Facebook’s developer conference Mark Zuckerberg announced his vision to socialize the web with Facebook’s new changes. This Is All About Google It’s clear this is all about countering Google. It’s know in the industry that Facebook has recruited ...
Apple Crushes It’s Financial Results – Reports Second Quarter Results
Apple posted record March quarter revenue and profit as iPhone sales more than double. The revenue were up about 50% and profits up 89% representing the best non-holiday quarter ever for Apple Computer. Man this is just the beginning of a big run by Apple. The impressive results didn’t include the iPad which didn’t factor ...
Cisco Completes Tandberg Deal
Cisco announces the completion of the Tandberg deal. I’m adding the entire press release. Video is hot and Cisco gets to work intergrating this into their overall mix. We hope this doesn’t cause any delays to their core products which have been undergoing complete revamp for years. This has caused some product delays according to ...
Google Under Siege – Reason: Jealousy – The International Letter To Google Over Privacy
Privacy officials from 10 countries Monday sent Google a letter demanding that the Internet giant build more privacy protections into its products and services. This is another signal around the international tension over Google’s power. Google dominance around the world is under siege. What’s next Facebook? Damn. This is the letter (in full) to CEO ...
Datacenter Trends – HP Reorganization Walks The Talk On Convergence
HP announced some organization changes (thx Larry Dignan). I guess you can say that it’s now the HP “converged datacenter group”. HP is rolling out a HP Networking brand, under it which it will offer an edge-to-core set of sub-brands: the A Series; E Series; V Series; and S Series products. The ProCurve and 3Com ...