The Azure Appliance: Returning to Microsoft’s Roots?
This week Microsoft announced its Azure appliance in partnership with Dell, HP, and Fujitsu. Not doubt these companies also began breathing easier because it had looked like Microsoft was going to vertically integrate with Azure as it had done with Zune and the Xbox, locking out hardware partners. Microsoft’s success was defined by an initial argument in the ’80s between Apple and Bill Gates over what the future would look like
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The Azure Appliance: Returning to Microsoft’s Roots?
Ashlee Vance over at The New York Times is going Medieval on Dell’s head this week over some faulty computers that Dell sold between 5 and 10 years ago. Vance and I go back a bit on Dell – he once accused me of acting as Dell’s agent when I went on record in The Economist predicting that Sun would fail due to a lack of a stable strategy. Dell was and is a client of mine, but it has never dictated what I write
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Dell and the Cost of Cover-Ups
Therese Poletti over at MarketWatch was asking whether Larry Ellison should eat crow after announcing a massive layoff at Sun last week. The reason for the question was that back in January, Larry was very critical of those of us that predicted these massive layoffs and had folks wearing “We Are Hiring” buttons. This is like a weatherman being critical of folks predicting a tsunami and then suggesting the beach was where you should be trying to take a post-tsunami interview from a raft after being swept out to sea — with one exception
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Is Snorkel (Sun and Oracle) Sinking?
Web users putting themselves at risk of being penalised by ISPs Just under half (48 percent) of all web users have no idea what the download limit is on their broadband package, says uSwitch.com.
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48% of Brits don’t know what their broadband download limit is
Lithium find to impact laptop, smartphone prices A massive $1 trillion deposit of untapped minerals discovered in Afghanistan includes huge amounts of lithium, which is used in batteries for laptops and mobile phones such as the iPhone and BlackBerry.
Microsoft confirms no browser updates after 13 July Unless Microsoft releases an emergency IE update in the next 31 days, PC users running Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) have seen their last security update for Internet Explorer (IE).
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No more IE patches for Windows XP SP2 users
Psychologist believe screens damage brains Children should not be allowed to use a PC until they are nine years old, as one psychologist believe it could damage their brain, which is still developing at that age.
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Children under 9 years old ‘shouldn’t use a PC’
Server designed for fast-moving workloads like web applications SeaMicro has developed a server that packs in 512 low-power Intel Atom processors on miniature motherboards the size of credit cards, the company announced today.
Visitors to adult sites often have out-of-date software Web users looking on the net for porn are likely to have out-of-date software that can be exploited, making them an attractive target for cybecriminals.
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Cyberciminals exploit those looking for porn on the web
Antitrust case is ‘likely’ expert warns Apple will probably face a federal investigation into its decision to bar rival Google from iPhone’s mobile advertising market, an antitrust expert said last week.
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Apple to face antitrust case over Google ad ban?
Public demonstration was ‘responsible disclosure’ The hackers who harvested an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad 3G owner email addresses defended their actions Friday as “ethical” and said they did nothing illegal.
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iPad email attack ‘legal and ethical’, say hackers
Unethical, yes, but not against the law Google is under global scrutiny for its “accidental” gathering of wi-fi data while driving about photographing the world with its Street View camera cars. In the court of public opinion Google’s actions cross ethical boundaries, but whether or not the activities were illegal depends on the laws in place for the given jurisdiction.
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Google Wi-Fi data gathering ‘not illegal’
Tie-up with Google Street view offers street-level photos Expedia has joined forces with Google to offer holiday makers the chance to really discover the amenities and transport links close to a hotel before they book.
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Expedia lets web users explore their holiday destination
Messages just ignored, says survey With spam volumes rising relentlessly a new survey claims to have detected an iota of worry among service providers. It seems many of them would love to do something about it but don’t know what.
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ISPs failing to stop outbound spam
Music service targets set-top boxes in Scandinavia Subscribers of telecom operator TeliaSonera’s IP-based TV service in Finland and Sweden are to get access to music service Spotify via their set-top boxes later this month, the two companies have announced.
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Spotify brings music streaming to TV
Lenovo release 2 new desktop workstation PC called ThinkStation C20 and ThinkStation C20x . Its serious computing power packed with Intel Xeon 5600 Series processor and up to 96GB DDR3 ECC UDIMM and RDIMM memory. The Lenovo ThinkStation C20x has up to 12 DIMM slots, 2x NVIDIA FX4800 graphic card, SATA or native NAS (C20x), hard disk drive, power supply with 80plus bronze-certified
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Lenovo ThinkStation C20 and ThinkStation C20x Workstations PC
In March Dell unveiled its Solutions For The Virtual Era strategy and differentiated approach to the datacenter. This announcement showcased our commitment to customers to deliver open enterprise IT solutions that simplify the way technology is deployed, integrated and maintained in today’s data centers. This approach is predicated on Dell’s hallmarks of delivering open, capable and affordable solutions which give customers flexibility now and in the future
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Delivering on the promise of the “Virtual Era”
A Vampire Division is defined as a business unit that sucks value from a company but doesn’t return a comparable level of benefit. In short, it does more damage than good but often conceals that damage because the true costs are not captured by finance.
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Microsoft Stakes Entertainment and Devices Division: The Vampire Division Problem
Make your dongle work with open source QUESTION I bought a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v netbook with Ubuntu 8.04 preinstalled. I’d like to use a mobile broadband dongle, such as the Huawei 160 on 3 or Vodafone, but neither supports Linux
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How to get mobile web on a Linux laptop
Ofcom code initially applies to 7 largest ISPs ISPs with less than 400,000 subscribers will not have to issue warning letters to customers accused of illegally downloading, under proposals from Ofcom.
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Small ISPs to be exempt from net piracy measures?