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"Clouds" Is a Place on the Earth

News - 69 days ago

As the popular Belinda Carlisle song, Heaven is a place on earth, goes, while we talk about all this virtualised computing power and clouds, somewhere there is a real physical CPU doing real work somewhere on earth. In some data center your cloud application is taking up physical space, using real read more

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Yahoo To Pair Up with AOL?

News - 69 days ago

Quoting an unidentified source, Reuters said Wednesday that Yahoo and AOL are looking at each other’s book to see where money could be saved or, God willing, made if they pair up although the Wall Street Journal, which pretty much said the same thing Tuesday, claims they going through the exercise read more

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Microsoft Dubs its Cloud ‘Azure’

News - 69 days ago

Well, there’s another Big Blue on the block. The official name of the widgetry that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently called “Windows Cloud” is Windows Azure – (which should grate on IBM) – described by Microsoft’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie at the company’s Professional Developers Confe read more

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Dell Builds its First Thin Client

News - 69 days ago

With virtualization so terribly “a la mode,” the cloud hovering over head and green the color of the day, Dell is going with its own thin client business, an Atom-based $399-to-start OptiPlex FX160. (Score another one for the Atom.) Dell previously sold third-party thin clients.
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Cloud Computing Bootcamp Announces Special Guest Appearance

News - 69 days ago

The biggest problem we have is trying to figure out what to leave out, because we simply have too much to present. Attendees are going to get a real hands-on feel for how they can utilize the world of on-demand computing. It won't be a sit-back-and-listen day, it's a true hands-on, sleeves-rolled u read more

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A Patent On?. The SCRIPT tag

News - 70 days ago

I just stumbled across an interesting/scary patent (via JSONet). It looks like someone has tried to patent using the SCRIPT tag to invoke web services:
The present invention permits a JavaScript-based Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to be executed from a Web page displayed in a Web browser window, read more

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ILOG Named As Buisness Rule Management Systems Market Leader

News - 70 days ago

ILOG has announced that it has been designated by International Data Corporation as the Business Rule Management Systems market leader in the October 2008 report “Worldwide Business Rules Management Systems 2008 – 2012 Forecast and 2007 Vendor Shares”. ILOG is the sole vendor residing in the “star” read more

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AJAX Development: Scary Tales from AJAXWorld

News - 70 days ago

Last week, we attended AJAXWorld in San Jose and chatted with developers about some amazing innovations happening within the AJAX community. Beyond their experiences with AJAX, we wanted to uncover developers’ opinions about the hottest trends in web app development and also their worst coding nigh read more

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Cloud Computing Expo: Swiss Post First to the Cloud

News - 71 days ago

Showing incredible foresight and leadership, Swiss Post is going to pilot Earth Class Mail’s online postal mail service, starting in five Western European countries – Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy and Austria. If its guess is right and the market proves receptive – its customers have been say read more

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Not Possible to Use IE?s Web Slice Icon In Other Browsers

News - 71 days ago

Update: Jane Kim from Microsoft posted a message about this issue:

Hey folks, we created the guidelines with this scenario in mind - we definitely want to support applications using the icon to indicate Web Slice content.
We will update the documentation to make this clearer. Thanks read more

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