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Dr. John Hennessy Speaks at Fujitsu North America Technology Forum

Dr. John Hennessy Speaks at Fujitsu North America Technology Forum

By on January 28, 2013 in Bandwidth, Cloud Computing, Community Manager, Data Center, Editorial, Hardware, Information Technology, Mobile and Wireless, Networking, Programming, Software, Storage, Virtualization

Fujitsu’s annual conference is a good deal. It is free and presents prominent speakers on timely technology subjects with very little Fujitsu propaganda. I am fortunate enough to be on their invitation list. I will discuss the overview of the conference in a later blog but focus now on this special keynote by Dr. John [...]

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Google update for the week of 7/2

Google update for the week of 7/2

By on July 2, 2012 in Editorial

Google is everywhere. And it’s everywhere because it’s essential to our lives and a powerful disrupter of orthodoxies. It always seems to be on the front lines, on one side or the other, in big societal battles over such issues as censorship, the right to privacy, the meaning of copyright, the evolution of 21st century [...]

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Mapping software update for the week of 6/11

Mapping software update for the week of 6/11

By on June 12, 2012 in Editorial

Apple is escalating the feud between two of the world’s most influential companies by dumping Google’s mapping service as a built-in feature on most iPhones and iPads. Apple is also making it easier for users of those devices to share their lives on Facebook instead of Google’s competing social network. But that’s another post for [...]

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Google… paranoid, or proactive?

Google… paranoid, or proactive?

By on June 5, 2012 in Editorial

From alerts about malware to blocked websites in China, Google sometimes comes off as a bit paranoid. Today Google reinforced this image, with security warnings about state-sponsored attacks.   Google said the warnings will appear for a “subset” of users who Google believes “may be the target of state-sponsored attacks.” When activated, a pink bar [...]

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Oracle vs. Google: Jury Makes Decision

Oracle vs. Google: Jury Makes Decision

By on May 23, 2012 in Editorial

A federal jury in San Francisco has decided that Google didn’t infringe on Oracle’s patents when the search company developed its popular Android software for mobile devices. Earlier, the jury had ruled that Google did infringe on the “sequence, structure and organization” of 37 Java APIs owned by Oracle, but couldn’t decide whether or not this [...]

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What is Your Digital Grid?

What is Your Digital Grid?

By on May 17, 2012 in Cloud Computing, Editorial, Information Technology

As consumers of digital technology do you not get the sense that the pace of change is increasing and impacting us with little time to sit back, watch, take things in, and try to make sense of it all.  Nowadays digital devices and digital environments tend to suddenly show up almost invisible to our awareness [...]

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Google Brings Intelligence with Knowledge Graph

Google Brings Intelligence with Knowledge Graph

By on May 16, 2012 in Editorial

Starting today, your search results for google may look different. That’s because the search king has built a 500-million-item database of people, places, and things – and they’re calling it the Knowledge Graph. It will display summaries of topics when your search is related to one of the 500 million items in Google’s new database [...]

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Web Design Update for the week of 5/14

Web Design Update for the week of 5/14

By on May 14, 2012 in Editorial

Today, many companies and businesses successfully harness the new media for different campaigns. These include product branding, advertising, and generally tapping the vast online community. These companies know the importance of web design in achieving their distinct needs and goals. A business makes profit online when the site attracts potential clients on the strength of [...]

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Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years

Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years

By on May 1, 2012 in Editorial

With the rate that the tech world is moving these days, some feel that giant tech companies Facebook and Google might be completely gone in 5 – 8 years. The author of this selection, Eric Jackson from Forbes.com, presents two schools of thought. The first is that senior teams and directors have an outsized influence [...]

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No Privacy, please!

No Privacy, please!

By on April 5, 2012 in Editorial, Information Technology

We are in a world were our communication, information , search, entertainment, creation, and content are done with some form of digital device with access to the internet. This dynamic intricately tied to our personal and professional lives : privacy both online and offline is being transformed.  Some of this is within our control and [...]

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