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Web Apps For Sale Without Censorship
OpenAppMkt.com offers a place to distribute and sell Web apps without an Apple-style approval process.
Apple Developing Social Fashion Shopping Technology
Shoppers with iOS devices may soon have access to an Apple Virtual Closet that will facilitate buying, sharing, and washing clothes.
The Cloud's Proliferating Open Source APIs
In June, Red Hat moved its Deltacloud open source project into the Apache Software Foundation's incubator. In July, Rackspace made its Cloud Files code open source and will collaborate with partners in the OpenStack project. The Open Cloud Standards Incubator at the DMTF is producing another set. Isn't this just too much open source?
YouTube Promises 15 Minutes Of Fame
To mark an increase in allowable running time for non-partner videos, YouTube says it will promote a handful of video makers.
Army Plans Private Cloud
APC2, the Army Private Cloud, will be a cornerstone of a broader data center consolidation initiative that aims to reduce the number of Army data centers from 200 to less than 20.
Amazon Launches $139 Wi-Fi Kindle
The Wi-Fi only electronic reader and a $189 third generation model of the original Kindle with Wi-Fi and 3G are Amazon's latest bid to spur digital book sales.
Black Hat: Android, iPhone App Data Risks Overlooked
A survey of mobile app security for iPhone and Android reveals that information disclosure isn't always obvious.
Google Ramping Games Business
Discussions with online gaming companies and a job listing for a games project manager suggest Google is prepping its Facebook-competing social network.
Defense Agency Expands Cloud Computing
Platform-as-a-service, Microsoft Office, and SharePoint may be delivered to military agencies from the Defense Information Systems Agency's private cloud.
Google Fights Android Piracy
A new licensing service for Android apps aims to limit misuse.
Google Pitches Wave For Health Records
Wave's auditable multi-user collaboration turns out to be well-suited for health records, as long as patients don't mind a bit less privacy.
Slideshow: Top 10 Tech Newsmakers Of 2010
These individuals and companies involved in the most significant news stories so far this year. Here's of list of the people and businesses who are making waves in the tech pool.
Black Hat: 'App Genome' Exposes Smartphone Risks
Researchers from Lookout will present their findings thus far in study of freebie Android, iPhone apps.
EVO Drives Sprint Nextel Subscriber Growth
Despite reporting a $720 million quarterly loss, the wireless provider's announcement of a net customer gain after three years of subscriber attrition drove its stock up 4%.
Amazon Sells Out Of Kindles
The growth rate of Kindle sales has tripled since Amazon lowered the price to $189; customers can still order the electronic reader, but estimated delivery dates are not available.
Apple Safari 5.01 Fixes Security, Adds Extensions
An update to Apple's Safari Web addresses longstanding complaints about the difficulty of Safari plugin development.
Google For Government Signals Long Cloud March Ahead
Google's announcement Monday that it was formally releasing a version of its application suite for government doesn't just represent a Google sales push, but in some ways also indicates that although the federal government is stepping up its cloud computing push, much work remains.
Google Docs Gets Smartquote Controls
Google on Tuesday is adding two new features to Google Docs: The ability to translate documents into one of 53 languages and the ability to remove smartquotes.
Black Hat: External Content Threatens Web Security
Companies that rely on third-party Web content place themselves at the mercy of their partners' security practices.
WoW Expansion Closer To China Approval
World of Warcraft upgrade approved by Chinese regulators, awaits decision of Ministry of Culture.
Geminare Cloud Backup Adds Indexing, Auditing, Discovery
Cloud Storage Assurance 2.0 lets SMBs do affordable e-discovery, compliance auditing, and cloud migration, as well as for data backup and archiving data.
Cloud Working Group Developing Standard APIs
The goal is a set of standard application programming interfaces, usable by all vendors, for each phase of cloud operation.
Smartphone Death Match: iPhone 4 Versus Droid X
Our mobile expert pits the Apple iPhone 4 against the Motorola Droid X to name the better enterprise smartphone.
India Unveils $35 Tablet PC
The solar-powered iPad lookalike, targeted to students with support for web browsing, video conferencing and word processing, is the Indian government's "answer to MIT's $100 computer."
Microsoft Bundles Halo Reach With Xbox 360
The bundle includes a chrome color Xbox 360 console with a 250 GB hard drive, two wireless controllers, and the standard edition for the video game.
Rackspace's OpenStack: Where Do We Go From Here
There's a new kid in town when it comes to open source code in the cloud. It's Rackspace's OpenStack, based on both Rackspace's and NASA Nebula's existing cloud engines. Wasn't there already sufficient open source code in play? Why do we need this initiative on top of those already afoot? Actually, we need 3-4 such initiatives.
NASA Evaluates Nebula Cloud Platform
Data center outsourcing services RFPs totaling $1.5 billion have been placed on hold while the agency assesses the Nebula cloud computing platform for providing compute power to several large-scale applications.
Web 2.0 Triggers Government Security Challenges
Record keeping, privacy, and freedom of information are also concerns as agencies adopt new Internet technologies, says federal auditor.
Violating Web Site Rules Not A Crime
But a California district court judge's ruling leaves open the question of whether bypassing IP blocking is a criminal act.
Cloud Computing Comes Down To Earth
Emerging tech always comes with a learning curve. Here are some real-world lessons from early adopters.
Analytics Slideshow: Calculating Cloud ROI
Highlights of exclusive InformationWeek Analytics research as it appears in "Cloud ROI: Calculating Costs, Benefits, Returns," our report and visual case study evaluating the fiscal consideration companies apply before tapping into the public cloud.
Terracotta Announces Terabyte Data Cache For Apps
The Ehcache 2.2 elastic caching platform can manage up to a terabyte of data in server memory to meet higher traffic demand by speeding application response time.
Cloud Computing Comes Down To Earth
Emerging tech always comes with a learning curve. Here are some real-world lessons from early adopters.
Backupify Offers Business Backup For Google Apps Data
The service provides daily data backup for Google's Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Contacts and Sites applications using Amazon's secure cloud storage.
Global CIO: IBM Doubles Down On Red-Hot Optimized Systems
A management shuffle and pointed comments from IBM CEO Palmisano show the drive for optimized systems will accelerate.
Facebook Celebrates 500 Million Users
The social network's meteoric rise suggests that the open Internet isn't as appealing as a more controlled environment.
Google Images Reimagined
A revamped image search interface and a new image ad format promise easier image searching and more ad revenue.
Cloud Pushes EMC Profits Up 108%
Cash flow and net income hit record levels in the second quarter, as more of the world's data is stored in EMC's cloud.
Media Tablets To Sell 11 Million In 2010
Apple iPad to account for a significant portion, said ABI Research in nearly tripling its original projection.
With VDI, Local Disk Is A Thing Of The Past
Last week I read a few interesting articles about storage in desktop virtualization, VDI in particular. The consensus is that this storage belongs on local disk, not the SAN. One industry expert even says you can use SSDs locally and still get away for less money. I beg to differ.
iPad For The Enterprise: Remote Control Solutions Reviewed
We've evaluated file synchronization tools for the iPad, and Citrix Receiver client for remote desktop access. Now we delve into a few more remote access tools from Array Networks and LogMeIn; and a Air Display, which turns your iPad into an extra monitor.
iSuppli Raises iPad Sales Forecast
Apple is increasing production targets for the tablet computer, prompting the market research firm to boost its 2010 sales forecast by 45%.
Amazon Kindle E-Book Sales Surpass Hardcover Sales
Hardcover books continue to sell, but e-book sales are growing at a much faster rate.
Dell Acquiring Ocarina Networks
The privately held company provides technology to compress images and other unstructured data in order to free up storage space, complementing the deduplication capabilities in Dell's storage systems.
Google Strikes Wind Power Deal
Clean, renewable energy will be powering several Google data centers by the end of the month.
Building The Open Source Cloud
Despite the fact that most of the underlying technology of cloud computing is based on open source, much of the current wave of cloud computing platforms are closed. But a new open source initiative is hoping to fully open up cloud computing.
Gartner Outlines the Basic Rights of Cloud Users
In a typical Gartner move, the analyst firm has listed several rights and one responsibility that should lead us to a better cloud-enabled world. Here's the abridged version...
Google Acquires Metaweb
With Metaweb's knowledge, Google aims to enhance its ability to understand search queries and deliver definitive answers.
Apple iPad Hits Nine More Countries Friday
The iPad continues its march into new markets as competition remains scarce.
Windows Phone 7 In Technical Preview
Microsoft's new mobile OS is now in the hands of operators for testing, and well on track for a holiday ship date. We took a video tour of some of its features, apps and capabilities.
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