December 30, 2008 7:34 PM
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
UncategorizedIn the Register, John K. Waters has written about the year's most overused terms: They used 'em, you reeled: the year's most overused phrases (Green cloud-as-a-service, anyone?)
Top of the list? No...
December 23, 2008 4:45 PM
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
free,
fun,
Skype,
Uncategorized,
videoDid you know that 15 minutes of laughter = 2 hours sleep? Or that a good belly laugh burns 3.5 calories? Granted, you'd still have to laugh a heck of a lot to incinerate all the festive eggnog and rumballs but every little bit helps...
The
December 10, 2008 1:20 PM
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
collaboration,
communications,
environmentalism,
free,
gadgets,
lifehack,
Mobile,
Mobile Computing,
multimedia,
new media,
podcasting,
Skype,
Uncategorized,
useful,
video,
VoIP,
Web 2.0This video takes you through the process of making free calls with Skype from downloading the software to connecting:
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December 9, 2008 6:17 PM
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
data center,
energy efficiency,
environmentalism,
green,
high-performance computing,
HPC,
supercomputers,
UncategorizedThis video from Cray takes you on a tour of the ECOphlex cooling system at work in a data center.
[brightcove]
December 8, 2008 5:59 PM
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
adobe,
applications,
cool,
documentation,
innovation,
interactive media,
mashup,
new media,
news,
Uncategorized,
Web 2.0,
Web analytics,
Web applications,
YouTube
Adobe's come up with an application that lets users look at past versions of Web pages or sections of pages and perform complex comparisons of various data, such as exchange rates or gas prices over time. A scroll bar at the bottom of the screen...
November 30, 2008 5:38 PM
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
applications,
browsers,
CIO,
demonstration,
design,
Fennec,
gadgets,
messaging,
Mobile,
Mobile Computing,
social bookmarking,
social networking,
Uncategorized,
video,
wirelessSite director Margaret Rouse and I were IMing a couple of weeks ago, which we do a fair amount of because our "office" spans about 800 miles. We were discussing a definition for Fennec, Mozilla's mobile version of...
November 20, 2008 9:08 AM
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
cloud computing,
Microsoft,
operating systems,
programming,
software development,
the cloud,
Uncategorized,
utility computing,
Virtualization,
Web 2.0,
Web applications,
Web services,
WhatIs.com,
WindowsHere's Manuvir Das' presentation about Windows Azure, from Microsoft's 2008 Professional Developers' Conference:
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