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Cloud Computing Expo: ARM to Get Flash

News - 10 hours ago

Adobe and ARM are gonna put Flash Player 10 and AIR, the stuff of web video and rich Internet apps, on ARM widgets by the second half of next year. They mean phones, set-tops, MIDs, TVs, car mojo and personal media devices, which have so far only had access to Flash Lite, not the best in browsing. read more

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Big Week This Week for Cloud Computing - Starting Today

News - 16 hours ago

SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo will take place in San Jose. Seems like everyone is coming in to the Bay Area for this one, so I am looking forward to meeting a lot of the folks active in cloud computing at this event. There is also talk of another Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum get together read more

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Cloud Computing Journal: Amazon Launches CloudFront

News - 16 hours ago

Amazon has launched an HTTP content delivery service (CDN) called CloudFront that works with its S3 cloud storage widgetry and EC2. It's now a public beta, having been privately tested the last couple few months. It's the stuff Amazon promised in September and may someday give the likes of Akamai a read more

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The Soul of the Web - Why AJAX Standards Matter

News - 16 hours ago

I spoke on a panel at Mashup Camp this week on why Ajax Standards matter. I was quoted by Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise as saying that we are locked in a struggle for the soul of the web, so I thought I would expand on that theme. Just because the web has been open so far doesn't mean tha read more

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Cloud Computing Journal: Approaching Cloudsizing

News - 1 day 10 hours ago

You’ve heard of downsizing and rightsizing, so how about Cloudsizing? As properly defined, Cloudsizing is: The improvement of efficiency and effectiveness of an organization through the selective use of computing resources that are delivered over the Internet. Simple but powerful, and fairly obviou read more

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New ILOG JViews 8.5 Offers Eclipse Integration and Support for RIA

News - 1 day 16 hours ago

ILOG has announced ILOG JViews 8.5, the latest version of ILOG’s Java-based visualization suite, with new features that enhance the creation of Rich Internet Applications as well as desktop applications. ILOG JViews 8.5 adds support for the Eclipse platform including the new ILOG JViews Graph Layou read more

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Symantec’s CEO To Step Down

News - 1 day 22 hours ago

Symantec CEO John Thompson, 59, the ex-IBMer who bit off more than he could chew when Symantec acquired Veritas for $13.5 billion three years ago, is going to retire at the end of the company’s fiscal year in March. He will however remain chairman.
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MAX is One of the Best Places to Improve Your Technical Flex Skills

News - 2 days ago

I’ll just give you one example. Last week my colleague and I were running a private Flex workshop for software architects of a large corporation who are about to start development with Flex. Needless to say that they are smart and experienced software professionals. Some of them already started wor read more

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Emulex FCoE CNAs Compatible with IBM System x Servers

News - 2 days ago

Emulex has announced that its LightPulse LP21000 family of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) have been tested and found to be compatible for use with IBM Systems x3650(7979), x3655(7943) and x3755(7163) series servers. Emulex CNAs enable the consolidation of serve read more

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image diff

News - 3 days ago

Was having fun today with idiff.php - a PHP shell script to tell you if two images are visually different by comparing them pixel by pixel. If there's a difference, the script creates a third image - black background with the different pixels in green. Only after writing the script I found that the read more

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