Monday, June 29, 2009 10:45 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer Two weeks ago, I wrote about Virgin America's and Google's joint plans to promote cloud computing through what they were touting as the world's first online scavenger hunt. I'm here to report that the Day in the...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:15 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer Eastman Kodak's decision to stop producing its Kodachrome film stock after 74 years is the proverbial nail in the coffin, signaling an unofficial end to the film era. Once considered the pinnacle of photographic technology, with unparalleled...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:45 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer When I was a senior in high school, I was not a member of the "in" crowd. In fact, my friends and I mocked the "in" crowd for being superficial and trendy, and we knew (hoped?) that...
Monday, June 15, 2009 10:32 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer In the latest issue of Funny Times (a collection of left-leaning cartoons and columns), there's a drawing of a man with his finger lodged up his nose, and the caption reads, "Oops! Is big brother watching?" Only...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:40 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer What happens when The Cloud meets a man with his head in the clouds? We'll all find out June 24 when Richard Branson, the eccentric billionaire adventurer and entrepreneur behind Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America airlines, unveils...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 10:30 AM/EST
By Tony Kontzer More than a year after it announced its "Blue Cloud" initiative, IBM is taking the covers off of a slew of cloud computing products and services it claims will help large companies to establish private clouds, manage...
Friday, February 06, 2009 10:51 AM/EST
Ericka Chickowski reports: Over the past two days I've been attending sessions at the Security Practitioners Conference, which is run as a component of The Open Group Conference in San Diego. Much of the content yesterday focused on security in...
Friday, December 12, 2008 11:02 AM/EST
I find the Bernstein report discussed here (The Long View: Netbooks, Wireless and Cloud Computing -- Client Software's Imperfect Storm) somewhat perplexing, if only for the lack of timelines and qualifiers. There is plenty of useful information about the industry...
Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:38 PM/EST
Some clouds are light and fluffy. They are filled with data that makes companies healthy and strong. But some clouds are dark and dangerous. "The cloud will increasingly be used for malicious purposes in 2009, as malware writers look for...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:44 AM/EST
The World Wide Web erases distance, and the computing cloud makes location an afterthought, except, as it turns out, when distance and location still matter. "Starting today the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) supports the ability to launch instances in...
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