Archive for the ‘QuickHits’ Category
High Profile Support for AT&T T-Mobile Merger
The New York Times reports that large industry players and companies like Microsoft, Research In Motion (makers of Blackberry), Qualcomm, Facebook, Yahoo, Oracle, and 10 major Venture Capital firms are [...]
Google Chromebook misses the mark
Google has launched a new cloud based computer called the Chromebook that relies on Google services hosted on the Internet. But based on Google’s specifications for the device, it seems that Google’s [...]
Monday 5/9/2011 reading wrap-up
Privacy advocacy groups support Rockefeller “Do Not Track” bill - Senator John Rockefeller has introduced a bill that would allow users to opt out of online tracking. Many websites rely on [...]
Tuesday reading wrap-up
Rackspace to shut down slicehost cloud service – Rackspace is citing a shortage of IPv4 addresses as one of the reasons for shutting down the slicehost service which leased virtual [...]
3D surface scanner now a $5 app
Grant Schindler, a research scientist at Georgia Tech, created a true three dimensional scanner application (not to be confused with stereoscopic movies) called “Trimensional” that captures the 3D surface of [...]
Government enforced cell phone interoperability moot with LTE
Consumers Union is pushing for government mandated cell phone interoperability between all the US Carriers with their own new poll, but this latest campaign is a waste a waste of [...]
End of the PC era when 337M PCs sell in 2011?
The Internet blogosphere is ablaze with news that we’re supposedly reaching the end of the Personal Computer (PC) era because PC sales have peaked while Apple products (Mac + iOS [...]
Tell me again why they need Level 3
Here’s a tidbit noteworthy for the magnitude of the numbers: Time Warner Cable has finished installing 361,149 miles of fiber optic cable in Southern California and now has enough strands [...]
Security and the Cloud
Here’s another reason to read Unclouded Vision. IBM: Biggest threat to the cloud could be security issues | VentureBeat The number of exploitable options in computer programs grew by 36 [...]
LTE Rolling-out in Sweden
TeliaSonera is one of the most forward-looking network operators in the world. Here’s the news on their LTE roll-out. TeliaSonera plans LTE in 218 Swedish communities in 2011 – FierceBroadbandWireless [...]
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