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The Next Big Thing: Embrace the Cloud
As computer networks began to grow and the possibilities of offloading both storage and computing from local machines became a reality, the cloud as we know it today was born. It lives as an emergent phenomena in webmail, offsite backups, even Skype, Twitter, and other communication platforms. They all take place in the “out there” ...
Windows Coming to ARM, Will Intel Get Edged Out?
As tablets and other mobile platforms begin to rise in sales—predicted to outshine even desktop PCs within the next few years—a lot of hardware and software companies are looking to cash in on this ascending star. Microsoft among them, partnered with ARM in July to start producing chips that can run their titular software, Windows. ...
Microsoft Kinect as a Perfect Foundation for Amateur Animators
Animation is foundational to pretty much all computer generated special effects, the entire video game industry, and even a great deal of entertainment. Part of animation, of course, is creating effective renderings of the motions of things—and often those things happen to be human beings, or at least ape human motion. Numerous extremely expensive tools ...
Net Neutrality Advocates Complain New Rules Under Vote Are Broken
Right now the big row about the net neutrality vote in front of the FCC happens to be about how many groups feel that the rules being considered are broken and don’t go far enough to protect an open Internet. Most proponents advocate a reclassification of broadband as regulated common-carriers much the same way telephone ...
Kinect Hacked to Aid Learning American Sign Language
Didn’t I just predict this? Although, I see the merit for a computer being capable of reading American Sign Language simply for interface purposes, as a somatic and tactile language, it can be quite difficult for some people to pick up on and having a tutor (even in computer form) can be a tremendous aid. ...
Nokia Might Go With Windows Phone 7
Rumbling is still grinding in the rumor mill as people mutter about Nokia mulling over offering Windows Phone 7 in their lineup. We have heard this one before, but Larry Dingan of ZDNet thinks that they’ll bite this time, and they might as well go even further. It’s hard to disagree with the analysis, in ...
Carriers and Fee-Per-Service, the Net Neutrality Argument
With the FCC putting Net Neutrality regulation to vote tomorrow it seems like a fairly good time to unveil some recent news stories that articulate the issue and CrunchGear has one. Allot and Opennet, some sort of communications carriers it seems, have posted a presentation about how to monetize networks based on specific traffic and ...
The Internet Watches with Bated Breath, FCC Votes on Net Neutrality Tomorrow
The ground-shaking vote within the Federal Communications Commission covering how the Federal government will choose to regulate how Internet providers and carriers will treat traffic on their networks happens tomorrow. As a result, a multitude of political parties, industry interests, and others wait with bated breath as their factors and lobbyists furiously send letters, make ...
AT&T to Purchase Qualcomm FLO TV Spectrum for $1.93B
With the shutdown of their FLO TV service, Qualcomm will make available the spectrum that the service once used and AT&T is on the prowl for extra room to spread their wings into for the development of 4G. October, Qualcomm told the media that they intended to suspend FLO TV, which delivered video to cell ...
Sophistication of Malware Targeting Android Increasing
A significant jump in malware attacks has been seen targeting Android since the past year. Along with the jump in the number of attacks, the sophistication of the viruses and worms has also been increasing. In order to avoid becoming a victim, people should make themselves aware of the current environment and move to protect ...