PCMech – Yahoo is in the digital doghouse lately after they made what many see as a bonehead move and walked away from talks with Microsoft. Stocks crashed on the news and it hasn’t really recovered since the drop. Now we have news that the co-founders of Flickr are leaving the company.
Flickr is and has been one [...] read more
Data Center Knowledge – The Blackberry e-mail network experienced a high-level outage this morning that affected the southeastern U.S., according to Data Outages. Reports are scattered, with some sources saying the issue is resolved and others continuing to report service problems.
The Blackberry network suffered a [...] read more
Data Center Knowledge – Google App Engine, the company’s new utility computing platform for developers, had several extended outages yesterday. Here’s the advisory from Google: We’ve experienced several outages during the past 12 hours, the most recent of which started at 6:30am PDT and is still ongoing. During these [...] read more
Significant Figures – Is there any aspect of our lives that we don’t manage on the internet these days? Maybe one or two, but over the last decade or so (pretty much since the appearance of the first graphical web browser), we have [...] read more
PCMech – Yesterday at 1PM EST, the launch of Firefox 3 was on. And immediately, the Mozilla servers croaked Twitter-style.
I was monitoring Twitter (as I usually do) at the time and the anticipation and buildup was something to behold. People were waiting around until 1PM to download Firefox 3. Some were doing countdowns. Then, as 1 PM [...] read more
The World Is My Office – CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA — Geek blogs today are talking about Toshibas new Portégé R500-S5007V laptop — especially its 128 GB solid state drive. But its not just a big flash drive that makes this awesome new laptop ideal for digital nomads [...] read more
Apple, Ink – As an IT Manager by day, I am tasked with evaluating software that can help our company be more productive. The comapny is a 60 person creative agency that has a footprint on 3 continents. Overall we are run very well but we could be more efficient with the proper software. I am not talking about Microsoft Office or Adobe Creative Suite here [...] read more
The AppGap – I sat down earlier today with Eric Bonabeau, one of the presenters speaking at Tuesday’s opening Supernova session on the Theory and Practice of Networks.
Eric Bonabeau is the founder and Chief Scientist of Boston-based Icosystem Corporation. Icosystem creates customized tools that replicate the detailed behavior of real systems—be they companies, processes, physical systems, or social [...] read more
PCMech – I was born in 1975 which means that I’m probably the last generation to know pre-internet means of going online. And that method is known as BBS.
The first BBS officially started accepting calls in 1978. It was called CBBS.
It is very difficult to describe with BBSing was like but I’ll give it my best shot.
Imagine [...] read more
T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – New technology is making a mockery of the notion that you need fiber optic cable to transport DS3 or Carrier Ethernet beyond the local area network. The latest amazement comes from Aktino, the Irvine, California company that builds carrier equipment designed to get higher performance from conventional unshielded twisted pair copper loops. They are now able to deliver DS3 bandwidth (45 Mbps) or [...] read more
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