tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22934010563770939632024-03-18T20:23:10.826-07:00CherryPal for EveryoneLook, up in the sky...Is it a bird? A plane? No, its a lean, green, mean, cloud computing machine.
"You're kidding," you say, "It's the size of a paperback book and I can get it here for less than $250? - no way!" We say, "Its true!" CherryPal 4Every1 (CPFE) is the number one CherryPal fan site with info on CP discounts, gigs, sitings, buyings and cloud computing raves...Use CODE CPP206 for $10 off a CherryPal C114 desktop - click on cherries in monitor picture below!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-8728010341523508362008-12-05T23:24:00.001-08:002008-12-05T23:29:59.473-08:00Actual Pictures of my CherryPal<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5p3hxj7PB1v_w36H66ch5gatpEzq8q16lJY-Kj4hw9c9Q3t8IHDBmBn5ZquZfX7mOMAFa-pRhp_7evvTaEFImA0dGTorik-9nIZ6_C4xuMEB1E8L_OSX2uCKffft0C5T-Z5fVRLyjp5U/s1600-h/securedownload-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5p3hxj7PB1v_w36H66ch5gatpEzq8q16lJY-Kj4hw9c9Q3t8IHDBmBn5ZquZfX7mOMAFa-pRhp_7evvTaEFImA0dGTorik-9nIZ6_C4xuMEB1E8L_OSX2uCKffft0C5T-Z5fVRLyjp5U/s320/securedownload-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276575968174313362" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPba9IqpggPCvkr3pI-bjr1dGiaoCBjC5_9PNrhv5YjKh2uvMG3V9EAi3uor93PRNDqRogeJhBZFVmKx6ftb3pDketGXOUFmz45eyonOYxr6oOmtkdePTl4zehPZ0-UsOGdczW2EHRl9o/s1600-h/securedownload.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPba9IqpggPCvkr3pI-bjr1dGiaoCBjC5_9PNrhv5YjKh2uvMG3V9EAi3uor93PRNDqRogeJhBZFVmKx6ftb3pDketGXOUFmz45eyonOYxr6oOmtkdePTl4zehPZ0-UsOGdczW2EHRl9o/s320/securedownload.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276575967243415506" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4GV4phmqDsmTETds9VtMX5DPCE-CygzAWSnEGWVBhfrCXb9pZECcqeMywsft1pc6GU8HSU7NtqY0Sh5mP-QHkxtDGy9prNektPMJDpVdmASv_8P9XIuw79GNQ78_xhar8Q3VJt1dqF6U/s1600-h/box.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4GV4phmqDsmTETds9VtMX5DPCE-CygzAWSnEGWVBhfrCXb9pZECcqeMywsft1pc6GU8HSU7NtqY0Sh5mP-QHkxtDGy9prNektPMJDpVdmASv_8P9XIuw79GNQ78_xhar8Q3VJt1dqF6U/s320/box.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276575963573695234" border="0" /></a><br />A blog reader requested pictures of my CherryPal and here they are, taken with my phone.<br /><br />You can see the black box it arrived in that has the picture of it on the outside, a close up of the CherryPal sitting on the box, hooked to the monitor and power supply, and the CherryPal sitting on the keyboard so you can see the comparative size of it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-78520255746555570822008-12-05T10:16:00.000-08:002008-12-05T10:27:21.959-08:00Took my CheryPal out to a cafe!So I thought it would be interesting to see just how portable this device is. Yes, it is tiny and hand held, but that's before you add the monitor, keyboard and mouse peripherals. <br /><br />So I loaded everything into my black HBO duffle bag. The keyboard is weightless and it would have fit into a messenger bag if not for the fact that my flat screen monitor is of the desktop variety, and not the smallest, slimmest available.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.espressoroma.com">Cafe Roma</a> is in UC Berkeley territory, and there is a back room where people can sit for hours working, studying, reading, without being disturbed. I have been there for live performances in this back room as well. <br /><br />So I chose a table next to the wall where there was a 3 prong outlet, necessary for my monitor. Of course the CherryPal requires electricity, but only a 2 prong. (Note to self- place a 3 prong to 2 prong adapter in my bag for future CherryPal outings.)<br /><br />I felt like a magician pulling out my bag of tricks, wires and peripherals in front of an audience. It is funny that the CherryPal itself is so non-intrusive. I was pleased that I had both a full size keyboard and monitor for much more comfort. <br /><br />Some places provide the monitor for hooking up your laptop - and so now I have a new opportunity to explore conducive CherryPal locations outside my office.<br /><br />I did explore the word processing program briefly. I plan to blog directly on location from my CherryPal for future posts!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-69131181910013518622008-12-04T13:25:00.001-08:002008-12-04T13:33:02.958-08:00Received my Username and Password!Ok - just to manage some expectations here:<br /><br />There is no huge organization behind the CherryPal from my direct experience. <br /><br />Max Seybold is answering emails personally and recently said:<br /><br />"At the Brand Angel party July 3rd I clearly stated that the success of CherryPal's design principles (building the same product, though, lower energy consumption and much cheaper) is much more important to me than the success of CherryPal (the company) itself. Don't get me wrong, I am fully commited to making CherryPal successful.<br /><br />CherryPal evolved from a project to a company just recently. We are not a multi-billion dollar company. We don't have budget nor desire to put any spin on what's going on. It is what it is."<br /><br />So, it goes that I received my username and password,<br />and my 2 colleagues and I are working to get the keyboard, mouse and CherryPal all communicating...<br /><br />We plug in the username, the password, and a desktop comes up that has icons for<br />Home, Trash and File System.<br /><br />:)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-89740208599430915922008-12-04T12:37:00.001-08:002008-12-04T12:51:02.532-08:00Plugged in My CherryPal, and...GNOME?So I immediately plugged in my CherryPal to the electricity and plugged in my waiting monitor.<br /><br />On the screen, the CherryPal logo appeared!!!!<br />Yeah, I'm in now, finally, after all these months -<br />then I saw a small box appear that said<br /><br /> "GNOME Desktop Manager"<br /><br /> across the top, in a gold color, with the following horizontal menu underneath:<br /><br />"Session / Language / Actions / Sun, Jan 13 4:21 AM"<br /><br />(followed by:)<br />Welcome<br />_____________________<br />Username<br /><br />and box to fill in a username followed by:<br /><br />Please enter your user name."<br /><br />I thought that this related to the monitor as it has been around for about 7 years and originally belonged to an HP sys admin who may have swiped it before selling it to me...<br /><br />So, I went out to Radio Shack with the intention of purchasing a PS/2 Female to USB-A Port Adapter to plug in my keyboard to one of the USB ports. I thought I would need two of them or else a USB mouse, and decided to purchase a cordless keyboard and mouse for $29.00 (Logitech Cordless Desktop EX100).<br /><br />I put batteries into keyboard and mouse (included in box), plugged in my CherryPal (there is no on or off switch), and voila! CherryPall logo appears on screen and a connection bar (much like sending an email via cell phone) appears - then, <br /><br />GNOME Desktop Manager...<br /><br />WTF!<br /><br />Max had said that there should have been a one page start up sheet included in the box. I did not get anything other than a small tshirt (thank you!) in the box with the cardboard packaging and the foam pocket on the CherryPal unit.<br /><br />More to come...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-91475853603288104852008-12-03T16:05:00.000-08:002008-12-03T16:39:18.721-08:00CherryPal At My Front Door!!!!It arrived! <div><br /></div><div>In a small, black cardboard box with a picture of the CherryPal on the outside.<div>I'm openning it - It is soooo tiny - like a compact make-up case.</div><div><br /></div><div>It is even smaller than a paperback book - its the size of a handheld Nintendo GameBoy - the original ones - about the size of the Nintendo DS (dual screen). If you take a standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch peice of printer paper and fold it in half, it is smaller than that.</div><div><br /></div><div>I've plugged in my monitor, which goes directly into the back. I went to plug in my keyboard, but found I need a USB connector to plug it into the CherryPal...there are 2 USB ports available - which means one for the keyboard and one for the mouse. It only came with a cord to plug it into the wall. I'll also need a phone connection, as there is a port for a phone jack.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is no literature, no user manual, no directions, NADA...</div><div><br /></div><div>I thought I was prepared with everything I needed, but guess its off to Radio Shack for my USB connector for the keyboard and mouse.</div><div><br /></div><div>More to come in the new adventures of plugging in my CherryPal!</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-80771385117167516192008-10-13T14:17:00.000-07:002008-10-24T21:10:38.814-07:00Announcing Cherrypal C114 - 8GB local FLASH storage<span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 0); line-height: 7px;font-size:90;" ><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 0); line-height: 7px;font-size:90;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 0); line-height: 7px;font-size:90;" > <div><span style="font-size:100%;"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257789630731825522" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQyp5QoC-84FOA0rFCCY2_0KMlLsd6aGfZjF_15AeYL4Pjr76-wpZxQesa4sPWO7JXJKSntJk1mXTb6Xx-J4cAireyQ_O-NQ2r1ikVDk-EW3ofG7eamM5gINI0hOyIb3z5bFeGdk5n5es/s320/cpp114.jpg" border="0" /></span></div> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 0); line-height: 7px;font-size:90;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 0); line-height: 7px;font-size:90;" > </span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 0); line-height: 7px;font-size:90;" > </span></span><br />CherryPal™ replaced the C100 with the 8GB SSD C114<br /><br />- still the same price!!!<br /><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >CherryPal™ C114</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >The CherryPal™ C114 desktop is about the size of a paperback book, but has the performance you would expect from a full-size desktop computer. Freescale's fast triple-core mobileGT processor delivers exceptional multimedia performance and feature-rich user interfaces, while only consuming as much power as a clock radio. CherryPal uses 80 percent fewer components than a traditional PC, and because it has no moving parts, it operates without making a sound and will last 10 years or more.<br /><br />Specifications:<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">-Freescale’s MPC5121e mobileGT processor, 800 MIPS (400 MHz)<br />of processing<br />-256 MB of DDR2 DRAM<br />-8GB NAND Flash-based solid state drive (increased from 4GB<br />C100)</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">-WiFi 802.11b/g Wi-Fi<br />-Two USB2.0 ports<br />-One 10/100 Ethernet with RJ-45 jack<br />-One VGA DB-15 </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">display out jack<br />-Headphone level stereo audio out 3.5mm jack<br />-9vDC 2.5mm 10 watt AC-DC adapt</span></span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">er power supply<br />-Weighs 10 ounces<br />-1.3” high, 5.8” x 4.2” wide</span><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;">From <a href="http://maxseybold.blogspot.com/">Max Seybold</a>, CEO, <a href="http://www.cherrypal.com/">Cherr</a></span> <span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.cherrypal.com/">ypal</a><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;">"The first CherryPals will get shipped on US election day, November 4th, guaranteed. We were able to upgrade the C100 to the </span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;">C114 for the same low price. We increased the local Solid State Disk Drive from 4GB to 8GB and slightly changed the casing, lighter and slimmer, very cool. I am sure you will like it. So, the store is open again with guaranteed shipment 11/4/2008, guaranteed."</span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >1. Order directly at <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://cherrypal.com/SHOP.html">http://cherrypal.com/SHOP.html</a></span></span><a href="http://cherrypal.com/products.html">:</a></span></span></div><div>for $249.00 plus shipping. Shipping begins on November 4, 2008.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2. For $10 off, use the coupon <span style="font-weight: bold;">code CPP206</span>: </span><br />You will be asked to enter the coupon CODE at the Google Checkout site. <span style="font-weight: bold;">ENTER <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">CPP206</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">YOU MUST ENTER THE CODE </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">CPP206</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> IN ORDER TO GET TEN (10) DOLLARS OFF! </span><br />You will be notified when your new CherryPal has shipped.<br /><br />3. Please come back to<a href="http://cherrypal.blogspot.com/"> http://cherrypal.blogspot.com</a> to share your comments about your experience of purchasing, receiving, using and being a CherryPal!<br /><br />CherryPal will start shipping the C114 (read that as C-eleven-four) on US Election Day, Tuesday November 4th, 2008. We all hope this day will change the world for the better.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >All open and future orders will get an automatic upgrade<br />to the C114 - same low price of $249.00 but with 8GB<br />(C100 4</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >GM) local FLASH storage. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Use <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Code CPP 206 for $</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">10 off<br /><br /></span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >CherryPal will <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">start shipping the C114 (read eleven, four) on US </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Election Day, Tuesday November 4th, 2008</span>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >CherryPal is accepting orders again, shipment on 11/4 guaranteed!!!</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >We all hope this da</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >y will change the world for the better.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >CherryPal thanks you for your in</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >terest in green/open/fair personal<br />cloud computing.<br /><br />For international buyers: The C114 comes with US power<br />adaptor </span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 153, 0); line-height: 7px;font-size:90;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLOmdalgNfRkpv93ngtq7CZzkCnwZeJkkpHhhwlDb1Jk02_4ZcQwL5lrREbj8adodqQO8vkyPIye3EGdlxPyvRNFikeoWX-5L-PXzVgb_fMSit_c7tZmr6Vzl5Hygse4pQVi2gjwA7bNs/s1600-h/maxblogimage-405x2254.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257790240554444322" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLOmdalgNfRkpv93ngtq7CZzkCnwZeJkkpHhhwlDb1Jk02_4ZcQwL5lrREbj8adodqQO8vkyPIye3EGdlxPyvRNFikeoWX-5L-PXzVgb_fMSit_c7tZmr6Vzl5Hygse4pQVi2gjwA7bNs/s320/maxblogimage-405x2254.jpg" border="0" /></a></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" >110V to 240V.<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(102, 153, 0);"><span style="line-height: 17px;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />From cherrypal.com:<br />CherryPal HyperCloud™ Technology<br /><br /></span></span></i></b><span style="line-height: 15px;">CherryPal is the only company that provides a patent-<br />pending combination of both hardware and software<br />encryption, making it highly secure. The CherryPal also<br />offers a patent-pending single software layer technology.<br />This collapses the operating system and browser into<br />one layer, where there had traditionally been three<br />separate layers. It makes the computer exponentially<br />faster and virtually eliminates any risk of bugs or viruses<br />for the user.</span></span><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(102, 153, 0);"><span style="line-height: 17px;">Why being in a "CLOUD" is a good thing...<br /><br />The CherryPalCloud™ Innovation<br /><br /></span></span></i></b><span style="line-height: 15px;">CherryPal has removed the hassle from personal<br />computing by moving most of the software and data that<br />traditionally sits on the desktop to the Internet. Instead of<br />accessing programs and data from your desktop<br />computer, the majority of information is processed and<br />stored on the web in a highly secure environment called<br />the CherryPalCloud™, which is automatically accessed<br />at boot-up. The CherryPalCloud removes many of the<br />headaches typically associated with traditional personal<br />computers, including:<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">* application downloads, software upgrades and<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">crashing operating systems, because everything is </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">maintained in the CherryPalCloud by CherryPal </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">administrators</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />* viruses and hackers, because the user’s hardware<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">is no longer exposed to local bugs and viruses</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />* lag time, because the majority of cumbersome<br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">software applications are stored in the CherryPalCloud, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">the computer operates just as fast – if not faster – than a </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">traditional PC.</span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-25433400824927737592008-10-11T02:16:00.000-07:002008-10-11T02:29:51.312-07:00Portable TVs To Be Left Behind in Signal Switch<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.mobile-tech-today.com/images/05/mtt-logo.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://images.mobile-tech-today.com/images/05/mtt-logo.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><br><br><br />By David Lieberman</span> </span><br /><br><br><br />October 10, 2008 7:16AM </span><br /><img src="http://images.mobiletechtoday.com/images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="25" border="0" /></td><td valign="top" align="right" class="smallText" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; line-height: 125%; "><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></td></tr></tbody><span class="storyCaption" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; line-height: 125%; font-family:arial, verdana, helvetica;font-size:10pt;">Many electronics manufacturers find themselves waiting to reach an agreement with broadcasters on a technology standard for a new generation of energy-efficient mobile televisions that could work in cell phones, iPod-like portable players and PDAs. Broadcasters would then transmit a separate signal to these devices.</span> </span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 23px; font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;"><p style="line-height: 22px; ">In an era of dazzling battery-powered portable devices including iPods, computers and cellphones, it’s hard to imagine what it’s like to be unable to catch the news and entertainment anytime and anywhere we want. But millions of people who own portable televisions, including those who depend on them when they flee their homes or lose power during hurricanes and other emergencies, may soon return to the dark ages. Virtually all of the nation’s 7 million battery-powered TVs receive analog signals. They’ll become useless after Feb. 17, when broadcasters must abandon analog and just transmit digital signals — unless the sets are connected to digital-to-analog converter boxes. </p><p style="line-height: 22px; ">The problem is, the vast majority of converters must be plugged into the wall. That makes them unreliable in an emergency. </p><p style="line-height: 22px; ">“Unfortunately, a lot of well-intentioned policymakers found out after the ink was dry that there were more (portable) devices and households affected” than they imagined, says Richard Doherty of The Envisioneering Group, a research and consulting firm. </p><p style="line-height: 22px; ">That’s a “great irony” in the federally mandated move to digital TV, says Shannon Dunham, a communications specialist at law firm Sherman & Howard. Although the government “intended to reclaim the (analog) bandwidth for emergency use” — including police, fire and medical communications– “in the end, they’re going to affect people who get emergency information” from portable TVs. Radios equipped to pick up audio from local TV broadcasts also will lose those analog signals. The Red Cross says that it’s not worried. </p><p style="line-height: 22px; ">“More people tend to listen to radio (stations) than watch TV in a disaster,” spokesman Jonathan Aiken says. Looking for Local News But many local disaster officials are apprehensive about the loss of portable TV at a time when lots of chain-owned radio stations have cut back on local news. “It is absolutely a concern of ours,” says Veronica Mosgrove, a spokeswoman for…<br /></p><p style="line-height: 22px; ">View original post here:<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=62376" title="Portable TVs To Be Left Behind in Signal Switch" style="outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; color: rgb(1, 44, 86); text-decoration: underline; ">Portable TVs To Be Left Behind in Signal Switch</a></p><p style="line-height: 22px; "><a href="http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=62376">http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=62376</a><br /></p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;">© 2008 USA TODAY. 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All rights reserved.</span><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 17px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><a href="http://newmobiletech.com/portable-tvs-to-be-left-behind-in-signal-switch/">http://newmobiletech.com/portable-tvs-to-be-left-behind-in-signal-switch/</a><br /></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-18600904245222625402008-10-08T08:18:00.000-07:002008-10-08T08:53:14.103-07:00Samsung Korea shows off two new green PCs<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://hongkongphooey.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/cnet-logo.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://hongkongphooey.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/cnet-logo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;font-size:10;" ><h1 style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 25px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 5px 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></h1><h1 style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 25px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 5px 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"></h1><h1 style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 25px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 5px 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 100%; PADDING-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /><br /><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(102,102,102); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/high-on-a-hill/">High on a Hill</a></h1><h4 style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">Eco-friendly technology for Asia</h4><h4 style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%">by <a style="COLOR: rgb(0,72,192); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/high-on-a-hill/post.htm?id=63006747&scid=hm_bl#about">Hillary Chan</a>, Malaysia</h4><h4 style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; PADDING-TOP: 0pxfont-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;font-size:10px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(153,153,153); LINE-HEIGHT: 16px">Oct 8, 2008 02:11</span><br /></h4><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; LINE-HEIGHT: 15px"><img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 120px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://asia.cnet.com/u/012/014/3b47acc5483293b480x80.jpg" border="0" /></span></div></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,238); TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,238); TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254806128434620610" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm_TVf9yTJoI9n43-c-CJGcvF8JBhxXFlgU-VEyEqsbNIXAxf5BcTm8VBi2RYsVG2xujPgBXuGZFLNEpUWfNczPEy_4gwIYkRC4wapzISjs8qhGmygClbl1693qRnt8CuyREhmJiT4Wtg/s320/green-computers-comparison.jpg" border="0" /><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,238); TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,238); TEXT-DECORATION: underline"><div><br /></span></div><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><br /><br /><br />I think it is unfair that when green tech gadgets get reviewed, the reviewer will inevitably emphasize how low the specs of the machine are and give it lower points or star ratings because of that, without giving it additional brownie points for being green. I guess gadget makers will just need to work harder to bring us greener yet more powerful machines, while consumers keep pounding their doors to keep demanding them to be made. The latest to launch green PCs is Samsung Korea, which showcased the MV100 Tower and MZ100 Slim Tower only a few days ago. <div></div><br /><a href="http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_details.php?id=16805" included="null">Samsung's new machines consume only 60W</a> when used in power-saving mode and that's pretty amazing even though it is not the lowest in the market. I don't know the exact specs for these Samsung PCs, so I can't compare.But the CPU casings are black and mean-looking, which mean I assume it is more powerful than any on the EarthFirst chart. <div><br />The lowest energy sipper is still the CherryPal which <a href="http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/infochat/post.htm?id=63005176" included="null">my colleague wrote about here.</a> It uses CherryPalCloud which helps you save information on the Internet, so you will never need that much harddisk space anyway. So which green PC (on the chart and off) appeals to you most? </div><br /><a href="http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/high-on-a-hill/post.htm?id=63006747&scid=hm_bl">http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/high-on-a-hill/post.htm?id=63006747&scid=hm_bl</a> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong></strong></span> </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana;" ><strong>Copyr<a style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102); TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.cnetnetworks.com/editorial/copyright.html">ight</a></strong> © 2008 CNET Networks, Inc., a CBS Company. All rights reserved.</span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-63260865974726183392008-10-04T21:44:00.001-07:002008-10-04T21:56:18.948-07:00Union Square's Albert Wenger offers crash course on cloud computing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/images/top/TheDeal.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/images/top/TheDeal.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/images/top/TCLogo.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 323px; height: 65px;" src="http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/images/top/TCLogo.gif" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/behind-the-money/blog/images/AlbertWenger1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 86px; height: 117px;" src="http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/behind-the-money/blog/images/AlbertWenger1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Arial;font-size:11;" >[Posted on October 3, 2008 - 6:47 PM]<br /></span>-- Mary Kathleen Flynn<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:Arial;font-size:11;" ><br /></span>The profile of so-called "cloud computing" has been rising rapidly over the last week or so. First, Oracle Corp. Larry Ellison mocked it as "gibberish," then Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman called it "stupidity," citing privacy concerns. Meanwhile Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer told a London audience Wednesday that the software giant will soon release "Windows Cloud."<br /><br />Amid the controversy, I figured it was a good week to get a tutorial on cloud computing, and fortunately Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger (pictured) was kind enough to give me one. At Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo in New York last month, Wenger gave a presentation on cloud computing, which he walked me through Thursday at Union Square's office.<br /><br />One of the tricky things about trying to understand cloud computing is that there is no concensus on a definition. If you try to look up the term on Wikipedia or through Google searches, as I did, you'll find yourself more confused at the end of the exercise than you were going into it.<br /><br />Thankfully, Wenger begins his presentation with a definition, albeit a multi-part one. He says there are four key characteristics of true cloud computing:<br /><br />1. Cloud computing is independent of machines (either real machines or virtual ones), giving applications developed for it the ability to run on any hardware.<br /><br />2. It requires little if any configuring.<br /><br />3. The same code scales from hundreds of users to hundreds of thousands of users so developers do not need to rewrite their programs as they grow their companies.<br /><br />4. It enables easy integration and delivery of Web services at scale.<br /><br />"When the cloud is fully realized, developers will no longer have to worry about provisioning and monitoring machines, whether virtual or real, or whether they will be able to handle a 1000-fold increase in load on their service," Wenger explains. "A single individual will be able to create a site or service that can affect the lives of many millions or even billions of people."<br /><br />Wenger says cloud computing will "fundamentally transform how software and services on the Web are created."<br /><br />Putting his money where his mouth is, Wenger leads Union Square's $1.5 million investment in 10gen, which is developing a cloud computing environment. The majority of 10gen is owned by AlleyCorp, the New York incubator of former DoubleClick Inc. executives Kevin Ryan and Dwight Merriman.<br /><br />Wenger, who advocates "regulation by transparency" instead of standards, says Stallman is right to raise privacy and other control issues about proprietary cloud computing environments, such as Google App Engine, Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com Inc.'s Force.com.<br /><br />10gen's approach is to develop an open-source cloud computing environment. "What MySQL did for databases, 10gen will do for cloud computing," predicts Wenger.<br /><br /><a href="http://continuations.wenger.us/">See Albert Wenger's Continuations blog</a><br /><a href="http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/behind-the-money/blog/behind-the-money/richard-stallman-joins-larry-e.php">See Sept. 29 post on cloud computing from Tech Confidential </a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/behind-the-money/blog/behind-the-money/the-profile-of-socalled-cloud.php">http://www.thedeal.com/techconfidential/behind-the-money/blog/behind-the-money/the-profile-of-socalled-cloud.php</a><br /><br />©Copyright 2008, The Deal, LLC. All rights reserved. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-80682775221371019602008-10-03T10:34:00.001-07:002008-10-03T10:46:27.216-07:00Stallman not the only Cloud Critic<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqx1hsQWx_wXOy3xKzAGbq0PnA5uqdTIwy699KUJIofX-P9Cl5-rns_z_gDMZuKlglApB0MV0u_xWXsXXk3OtHDNgZOxq7J0faSxNGux6qiGRrZWgGo_p0mHANccqgZGWLWJNN5FnJZoo/s1600-h/internet_logo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqx1hsQWx_wXOy3xKzAGbq0PnA5uqdTIwy699KUJIofX-P9Cl5-rns_z_gDMZuKlglApB0MV0u_xWXsXXk3OtHDNgZOxq7J0faSxNGux6qiGRrZWgGo_p0mHANccqgZGWLWJNN5FnJZoo/s320/internet_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252983945471436514" border="0" /></a><br />What Does 'Cloud Computing' Mean, Exactly?<br /><br />A lot of people aren't sure, but one thing is for certain: Dislike for the phrase has brought together some strange bedfellows.<br /><br />October 1, 2008<br />By <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/author.php/70903/Andy+Patrizio.htm">Andy Patrizio</a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3775346/What+Does+Cloud+Computing+Mean+Exactly.htm">http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3775346/What+Does+Cloud+Computing+Mean+Exactly.htm</a></span><br /><br />With so much talk about "cloud computing," it's easy to feel lost in the clouds. If you either don't understand the term, or don't see a reason for it, you're in good company.<br /><br />Take Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, for one. During his<a href="http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3774186/Ballmer+Current+Woes+Wont+Halt+Tech+Microsoft.htm"> recent Churchill Club appearance</a>, Ballmer dismissed the uniqueness of the concept by saying, "When people talk about cloud computing, they're talking just about taking some stuff, putting it outside the firewall, and perhaps putting it on servers that are also shared or storage systems."<br /><br />Oracle's always-quotable CEO Larry Ellison went one better, according the Wall Street Journal. Ellison declared during a recent analyst conference, "The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"<br /><br />According to Gartner, you can blame hardware and software vendors for the confusion -- and the apparent outrage it's spawning. David Smith, a vice president and research fellow at the analyst firm, said he agreed that "cloud computing" represents another take on well-worn concepts, brought about as vendors slap the latest buzzword on their products if they think it will help them sell.<br /><br />Full story at <a href="http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3775346/What+Does+Cloud+Computing+Mean+Exactly.htm" target="_blank"> InternetNews</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica;font-size:-2;" ><span style="font-family:verdana, arial, helvetica;font-size:-2;">Copyright 2008 Jupitermedia Corporation All Rights Reserved. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-90625976172872199972008-10-03T10:19:00.000-07:002008-10-03T10:30:19.350-07:00Gartner Says Contrasting Cloud Views Creating Confusion<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSrIkmVZY3UQc8osBoQO2Z4ualdfMtfuqb6eLMxWnXK2BFCKXwGD784IDFehw0eyLLiZfW5ehvpEHjZSAVJxe5yMP_C_FZsfHnaMip624Tuifw-n7Y0OoNBy5A_7E-5VbzbeoTI3ALzg/s1600-h/OnDemand-logo-RGB.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSrIkmVZY3UQc8osBoQO2Z4ualdfMtfuqb6eLMxWnXK2BFCKXwGD784IDFehw0eyLLiZfW5ehvpEHjZSAVJxe5yMP_C_FZsfHnaMip624Tuifw-n7Y0OoNBy5A_7E-5VbzbeoTI3ALzg/s320/OnDemand-logo-RGB.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252978962913569874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div id="myarticle"> <p>STAMFORD, Conn., Sept. 29 -- <span lang="EN-US">The term "cloud computing" is being loosely applied and defined differently, and it's creating a lot of confusion in the market, according to Gartner, Inc. Analysts say it is imperative to understand these different perspectives and set the proper expectations to obtain the anticipated benefits.</span></p> <p align="left"><span lang="EN-US">Gartner defines cloud computing as a style of computing in which massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided "as a service" using Internet technologies to multiple external customers. However, there have been different perceptions of what is included in cloud computing.</span></p> <p align="left"><span lang="EN-US">"The term cloud computing has come to mean two very different things: a broader use that focuses on 'cloud,' and a more-focused use on system infrastructure and virtualization," said David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner Fellow. "Mixing the discussion of 'cloud-enabling technologies' with 'cloud computing services' creates confusion."</span></p> <p align="left"><span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US">The two prevalent views of cloud computing are as follows:</span></p> <span lang="EN-US"></span><span lang="EN-US"> <ul><li> <div>The cloud is an idea that derives from the perspective of the Internet/Web/software as a service (SaaS). The focus is more on cloud than computing with the emphasis placed on access to services from elsewhere (that is, from the cloud). <span lang="EN-US">This cloud is a global-class phenomenon and a high-level concept that can refer to a range of services extending from system infrastructure (for example, compute services and storage services) through applications (for example, CRM) and business processes (for example, payroll services).</span> <span lang="EN-US">Gartner's definition is along these lines, with the off-premises nature of cloud services being the point of reference, and applicability to intraenterprise use as a secondary effect.</span></div></li><br /><br /><br><li> <div><span lang="EN-US">The second popular interpretation is a use of technologies, including virtualization and automation, that focuses more on the computing than on the cloud aspect, with emphasis placed on the technologies that enable the creation and delivery of service-based capabilities. This perspective is an extension of traditional data center approaches and can be applied to entirely internal enterprise systems with no use of external off-premises capabilities provided by a third party.</span></div> </li></ul> </span> <p align="left"><span lang="EN-US">"Although these perspectives are different, there is a connection between them. Any provider of cloud computing services must have an environment that includes an infrastructure to support their delivery. Virtualization often is used to implement this underlying infrastructure to support delivery of the cloud computing services," Smith said. "Cloud system infrastructure services are a subset of cloud computing, but not the entire picture."</span></p> <p align="left"><span lang="EN-US">Gartner recommends that users clearly separate the consideration of cloud computing and cloud computing services from the use of cloud computing-related concepts and technologies for the creation of internal systems.</span> <span lang="EN-US">Both perspectives (services and technologies) are valuable and should be pursued; however, they are two separate but related initiatives.</span></p> <p align="left"><span lang="EN-US">Gartner analysts will provide additional analysis on cloud computing during the upcoming Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2008, taking place Oct. 12-16 in Orlando, Fla. Gartner Symposium/ITxpo is the IT industry's largest and most strategic conference, providing business leaders with a look at the future of IT. More than 6,000 senior business and IT strategists will gather for the insights, tools and solutions they need to ensure their IT initiatives are key contributors to and drivers of their enterprise's success. Gartner's annual Symposium/ITxpo events are key components of attendees' annual planning efforts. They rely on Gartner Symposium/ITxpo to gain insight into how their organizations can use IT to address business challenges and improve operational efficiency. 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It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign." Photograph:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.stallman.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 86, 137);">www.stallman.org</a></span><br /><br />Web-based programs like Google's Gmail will force people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that will cost more and more over time, according to the free software campaigner<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:arial;font-size:16;" ><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:arial;font-size:14;" ><ul class="article-attributes" style="border-color: rgb(214, 29, 0); border-top: 1px solid rgb(214, 29, 0); border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(214, 29, 0); margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 2px 0px 12px; overflow: hidden; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; list-style-type: none; position: relative; min-height: 54px;"><li class="byline" style="border-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; display: block;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/bobbiejohnson" name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{Bobbie Johnson}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;">Bobbie Johnson</a>, technology correspondent</li><li class="publication" style="border-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline; font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 86, 137);">guardian.co.uk</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></li><li class="date" style="border-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; display: inline; font-weight: normal;">Monday September 29 2008 14:11 BST</li><li class="history" style="border-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); margin: 3px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: normal; display: block;"><a class="sendbyline" id="historylink-byline" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; cursor: pointer; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 86, 137);"><br /></a></li></ul></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19px; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;font-family:arial;font-size:14;" ><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The concept of using web-based programs like Google's Gmail is "worse than stupidity", according to a leading advocate of free software.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/25/computing.internet" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 86, 137);">Cloud computing</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– where IT power is delivered over the internet as you need it, rather than drawn from a desktop computer – has gained currency in recent years. Large internet and technology companies including Google, Microsoft and Amazon are pushing forward their plans to deliver information and software over the net.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">But Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and creator of the computer operating system GNU, said that cloud computing was simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more over time.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign," he told The Guardian.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"Somebody is saying this is inevitable – and whenever you hear somebody saying that, it's very likely to be a set of businesses campaigning to make it true."</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The 55-year-old New Yorker said that computer users should be keen to keep their information in their own hands, rather than hand it over to a third party.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">His comments echo those made last week by Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, who criticised the rash of cloud computing announcements as "fashion-driven" and "complete gibberish".</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do," he said. "The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?"</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The growing number of people storing information on internet-accessible servers rather than on their own machines, has become a core part of the rise of Web 2.0 applications. Millions of people now upload personal data such as emails, photographs and, increasingly, their work, to sites owned by companies such as Google.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=102279" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 86, 137);">Computer manufacturer Dell recently even tried to trademark the term "cloud computing",</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>although its application was refused.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">But there has been growing concern that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/aug/06/whengoogleownsyouyourdata" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 86, 137);">mainstream adoption of cloud computing could present a mixture of privacy and ownership issues</a>, with users potentially being locked out of their own files.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Stallman, who is a staunch privacy advocate, advised users to stay local and stick with their own computers.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 13px; padding: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat;">"One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control," he said. 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font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">22/ 9/2008</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A 13-YEAR-OLD boy has set up a search engine website that can help people save energy.</span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Andrew Davey, who lives in Knaphill, got the idea after reading a blog by Mark Ontkush, a green computing specialist based in Boston, USA.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mr Ontkush had calculated that an all-white web page used 74 watts of electricity to display, whereas an all-black screen uses only 59.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He said that on a website such as Google, which deals with approximately 200 million queries per day, the change from a white screen to a black one would save 15 watts each time it was displayed. That would add up to a significant amount of energy saved per day.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Andrew said: “After reading the article I thought it was quite amazing that it hasn’t been done already. It’s so simple but very effective.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The youngster set up his own energy-saving black web page alternative to Google called ecosmartsearch, which took him about a week to do.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He said: “It works with the Google search engine and gets the same results as Google. I’ve always been good at computers and I turned my talents to website design, not something easy at all.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“My friends really like it. I’m just trying to get them out of the habit of using Google. I showed a couple of teachers and they think it’s really good. They are really impressed and have started to use it.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Andrew had previously made a website for his dad’s medal business.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He said: “I wanted to make my own website in which I could gain some income and become better at website design. I decided to put the writing into green to associate it with energy-saving.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“I also wrote: ‘We are saving energy, now it’s your turn,’ on the home page, hoping that people will think about that light they left on and go and turn things off.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“I have a couple of ideas to make things that save energy. I would like to be an entrepreneur and have my own web design company.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Andrew has also been part of the green team at Woking High School.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He said: “We were looking at energy-saving issues. I think helping the environment is a great thing to start doing. Every little helps.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“I’m really proud of myself for what I’ve done as I don’t think many people of my age have made a proper website and got it on to the web.”</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To use Andrew’s search engine and save energy, go to </span><a href="http://www.ecosmartsearch.com/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(34, 175, 158); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">www.ecosmartsearch.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; 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COLOR: rgb(140,140,140)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/fdc/bios/new/andygreenberg.html">Andy Greenberg</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="mainartdate" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" ></span></span></span></em></span></div><h3 class="entry-title" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-family:verdana;" ><em style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(140,140,140)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="mainartdate" style="COLOR: rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">09.22.08, 6:00 AM ET</span></span></span></em></span></h3><h3 class="entry-title" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></span> </h3><h3 class="entry-title" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(51,51,51)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To fight an epidemic of malicious code, security software vendors are heading to the data center.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></h3><h3 class="entry-title" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/09/21/virus-clouds-security-tech-security-cx_ag_0922virus.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/09/21/virus-clouds-security-tech-security-cx_ag_0922virus.html</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></h3><h3 class="entry-title" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></span> </h3><h3 class="entry-title" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Anti-virus programs are notorious for acting suspiciously like the malicious software they're meant to eradicate, hijacking your PC and choking its resources by scanning files endlessly.</span><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">Now, security software vendors are hoping to solve that parasitic problem with the same information technology transformation meant to make all software cheaper, more efficient and less resource-intensive: the move to the "cloud."</span></h3><h3 class="entry-title" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px"><br /><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">In the past months, cybersecurity vendors including F-Secure, McAfee (nyse: </span><a class="maintkrlink" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=MFE"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">MFE</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;"> -</span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=MFE"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">news </span></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">- </span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=MFE"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">people </span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">), Symantec <span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(nasdaq:</span><a class="maintkrlink" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=SYMC"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">SYMC</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> - </span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=SYMC"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">news </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">- </span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=SYMC"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">people </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">) and Trend Micro have all released new versions of their software designed to move more of the work of identifying viruses, Trojans and other forms of "malware" off of desktop PCs and onto faraway servers connected by the Internet. Beyond lightening the load on their customers' machines by performing more analysis as a networked service, they also claim that cloud-based approach may be a more effective strategy for keeping up with the ever-faster flood of new malicious code.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">By all appearances, more desktop machines are becoming infected with malicious software than ever before. Over the past year, the number of PCs ensnared in botnets--herds of users' computers infected with malicious software that sends spam or performs click fraud--has more than quadrupled, according to cybersecurity researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:85%;">One element of the problem, says Trend Micro's vice president, Carol Carpenter, is the acceleration of malware's mutation into new, as-yet-undetected strains. "Three or four years ago, we saw 50 new threats a day. Now we see 50,000 threats a day," she says. "The order of magnitude has changed dramatically."</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">That means protecting users from newly discovered malware is no longer a matter of days or hours but seconds. Updating a customer's anti-virus software three times a day, as the 2008 version of Symantec's Norton software advertises, or even 10 times a day, as F-Secure boasts, is no longer enough.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The cloud-based solution announced by Trend Micro in June and implemented earlier this month by McAfee and F-Secure is designed to cut that vulnerable period to seconds. Rather than wait for a database of newly identified malware signatures to be downloaded to a PC, the upgraded software takes a "hash"--an identifying number that doesn't reveal the file's contents--of every new application running on a machine and compares that identifier to the software vendors' continuously updated database of threats on in-house servers. If the application doesn't match anything in the vendor's database of safe files, the software issues a warning to the user and performs a closer scan of the file for suspicious characteristics.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">That communication between the PC and the database over the Internet, say researchers at F-Secure and McAfee, takes as little as 100 milliseconds. And by pulling the process off the desktop and into the cloud, it uses just a fraction of the computing resources of a traditional anti-virus scan.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Software developers have different approaches to the cloud-based anti-malware system. F-Secure, for instance, scans every application, while McAfee uses an initial filter based on size and how hidden a file's source code is to determine whether it needs scanning in the cloud. Jon Oltsik, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, points out that Trend Micro was the first to announce the technology, but balks at picking which company's approach is most effective. "From a technology perspective, they're all pretty close," he says. "This is not a game of leapfrog. It's a change in the way we have to do things to keep up with the monumental growth in the number and sophistication of attacks."</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Security offerings in the cloud aren't strictly new. The security firm Postini, for instance, offered to scrub e-mail for spam and viruses as early as 1999, filtering e-mail before it reached a user's computer without any software on his or her desktop. In July of 2007, the firm was purchased by Google (nasdaq: </span><a class="maintkrlink" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/CIAtAGlance.jsp?tkr=GOOG"><span style="font-size:85%;">GOOG</span></a><span style="font-size:85%;"> - </span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.forbes.com/markets/company_news.jhtml?ticker=GOOG"><span style="font-size:85%;">news </span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">- </span><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.forbes.com/peopletracker/results.jhtml?startRow=0&name=&ticker=GOOG"><span style="font-size:85%;">people </span></a><span style="font-size:85%;">) to be integrated into the search giant's software-as-a-service applications.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">In fact, none of the major software vendors implementing malware-detection in the cloud are offering "cloud computing" in that pure form: Each application still involves installing software on the desktop to more easily scan a client's machine and also to detect threats that come from sources other than the Internet, such as a USB drive.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Still, that incomplete move to the cloud holds the potential to act as a kind of collective intelligence, says Oltsik. A software vendor like Symantec, for instance, asks its users to opt in to what it calls the Norton Insight system, which currently assembles data from 17 million customers and uses it to better understand when a new strain of malicious code has appeared. Security researchers liken that approach to a "neighborhood watch" strategy.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Even so, cybersecurity isn't likely to overtake the extraordinary evolution of malware, says Rich Mogull, a security consultant and blogger. Even with malware detection performed over the Internet and piped out at faster speeds than ever before to client computers, no company offers anything beyond "signature-based" filtering, or filtering by characteristics in the program's code, says Mogull. In other words, new malicious files can only be detected after they've been found elsewhere in a company's anti-malware network.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Because malware will appear in forms that even a company's Internet-hosted database doesn't recognize, outbreaks will still occur even among "protected" computers, he says. Given that some cybercriminals are now writing custom malware targeted at single organizations, that's not enough, he says. "No matter how fast we react in this cloud-based scenario, it's still reactive," he says.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">But the next generations of anti-malware software may go beyond signature-based detection. Researchers have been working for years on "behavior-based" malware detection, watching what applications do rather than looking at their characteristics to determine their intent.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Symantec's vice president of research and technology, Carey Nachenberg, says its software, possibly in the next year, will try a "reputation-based" approach. He declines to share details of the new strategy but says that one simple element of reputation is simply how many times an application has been seen before--newer, unique applications will be automatically less trusted than common, tested ones. He says the system is closer to Google's Web page ranking algorithm than traditional anti-virus programs.</span></p><p style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-size:85%;">"Right now, our fingerprinting is faster than ever before," Nachenberg says. 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We were surprised ourselves about the software issues. The delay was caused by a software bug in the graphics core of the processor. We started a joint project with Freescale and got the graphics core issue resolved. It is fixed now. We are doing final testing right now.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"We expect to start shipping the C100 in early October."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Here at CherryPal for Everyone we have been very patient waiting, hoping, and learning about cloud computing, green computing, and the competitive space. Stay tuned to <a href="http://cherrypal.blogspot.com/">http://cherrypal.blogspot.com</a> to get first tastes!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/cherrypal-for-everyone.html">http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/cherrypal-for-everyone.html</a><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-58648974175977930512008-09-17T22:09:00.000-07:002008-09-17T22:13:48.127-07:00Everything’s Gone Green<a href="http://infochat.wordpress.com/">INFOCHAT</a><a href="http://infochat.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/everythings-gone-green/"><br />The Information Center of the I.T. Industry</a><br /><br /><a href="http://infochat.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/everythings-gone-green/">http://infochat.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/everythings-gone-green/</a><br /><br /><a title="Permanent Link to Everything’s Gone Green" href="http://infochat.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/everythings-gone-green/" rel="bookmark">Everything’s Gone Green</a><br />Posted by <a href="http://infochat.wordpress.com/">Admin</a> on September 16, 2008<br /><br />Users Are Confused About the Issues and Solutions Surrounding Green IT - Gartner<br />by: Jerry Liao<br /><br />Nowadays, most computer companies are talking about virtualization, VoIP, cloud computing, mobility, SaaS, and Green I.T. But it seems the industry made a mistake as somewhere in terms of explaining to users what these technologies is all about. Particularly, Green Computing. What is it really? In general, green computing relates to the use of computing resources in conjunction with minimizing environmental impact, maximizing economic viability and ensuring social duties. But how many I.T. users actually understand what green computing is all about?<br /><br />As pointed out in a recent study by Gartner Inc, IT users are unsure of the implications of green IT and where to invest their technology budgets. Gartner analyst said this confusion will continue for some years to come in what is a rapidly changing segment of the industry.“The IT industry is saturated with green IT talk,” said Rakesh Kumar, research vice president at Gartner. “Conferences, presentations and consultants are springing up to provide guidance and advice on a range of issues that are being codified under the generic term of green IT. Unfortunately, with so much hype, users are left with a sense of confusion about where and when they should invest their time and money.”<br /><br />There is a great deal of uncertainty about which green technologies and products are actually available today and which may become available in the future. The future “productization” of technologies will not just depend on the maturity of the design but also on the prevailing market conditions and the possibility of future legislation.<br /><br />However, Gartner research shows that the spectrum of green technologies, services and legislation that users need to focus on can be broken down into short-term (immediate), midterm and long-term activities. The immediate issues affect the next 24 months and need to yield a quick return on investment while the midterm category covers the next five years. The long-term category covers products and activities that are, by nature, rather esoteric and may never become mainstream.<br /><br />Immediate Green IT Issues for Users to Focus OnImmediate Green IT issues center around power, cooling and floor space problems in data centers and office environments. With this in mind, Gartner has identified eight important areas for users to focus on during the next 24 months:<br /><br />- Modern data center facilities’ design concepts<br />- Advanced cooling technologies<br />- Use of modeling and monitoring software<br />- Virtualization technologies for server consolidation<br />- Processor design and server efficiency<br />- Energy management for the office environment<br />- Integrated energy management for the software environment<br />- Combined heat and power<br /><br />Midterm Green IT Issues for Users to Focus OnDuring the next two to five years, many green technologies will mature and become important to IT groups looking to develop greener IT organizations. However, much of the planning and assessing of the appropriateness and cost of using these new products needs to be examined earlier and in the context of an overall IT strategy. This is especially the case where government legislation (affecting building design, for example) may come into force. Gartner highlights eight areas in this category:<br /><br />-Green IT procurement<br />-Green asset life cycle programs<br />-Environmental labeling of servers and other devices<br />-Videoconferencing<br />-Changing people’s behaviors<br />-Green accounting in IT<br />-Green legislation in data centers<br />-Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and IT programs<br /><br />Long-Term Green IT Issues for Users to Focus OnThere are many green IT technologies, services and projects that will span the next five to 20 years. Much of the industry hype (or “greenwash”) sits in this area and is causing confusion for users. They are unclear about whether carbon-trading programs will become the norm, or whether it will be possible to recycle energy from data centers in a simple and cost-effective way. Gartner has identified the following seven areas to focus on:<br /><br />-Carbon offsetting and carbon trading<br />-Data center heat recycling<br />-Alternative energy sources<br />-Software efficiency<br />-Green building design<br />-Green legislation<br />-Green chargeback<br /><br />I am just wondering if the I.T. companies themselves understand what green computing is all about. There are some vendors who would sell products and/or solutions to consumers without knowing what the product is all about and how it would benefit their clients. For the nth time, vendors should realize that the word marketing is not just about selling, its about establishing relationship / partnership with your clients. Earn their trust and be sincere, and you don’t have to do any selling anymore.<br /><br />Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)<br /><a href="http://angelicerin17.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/my-plan-for-continual-learning-about-technologies/" rel="related">My Plan for Continual Learning about Technologies</a><br /><a href="http://theeriver.wordpress.com/2008/04/05/have-you-tried-turning-it-off-and-on-again/" rel="related">Have you tried turning it off, and on again.</a><br /><a href="http://sarc600.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/global-green/" rel="related">Global Green USA</a><br /><br />This entry was posted on September 16, 2008 at 8:48 pm and is filed under <a title="View all posts in Digital Citizens" href="http://wordpress.com/tag/digital-citizens/" rel="category tag">Digital Citizens</a>. . You can follow any responses to this entry through the <a href="http://infochat.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/everythings-gone-green/feed/">RSS 2.0</a> feed. 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More than half of online Americans use Webmail services like Microsoft's Hotmail, Google's Gmail and Yahoo e-mail in addition to storing photos, videos and data in the cloud. While privacy and security issues are a concern, Internet users are flocking to cloud computing because it is easy and convenient, Pew says.</strong><br /><br /><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">WASHINGTON—Whether they know it or not, American Internet users' heads are in the clouds. According to a new Pew Internet & American Life survey, almost 70 percent of Americans with Internet access use Webmail services, store data, photos and videos online, or use software programs such as word processing and spreadsheet applications with functionality located on the Web.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">"Webmail is the starter drug, so to speak," John Horrigan, Pew's associate director of research, said at a Sept. 12 conference at Google's Washington headquarters here. "A lot people said they value the cloud for the ease of sharing information with others, so that social nature of the Internet really informs the use of cloud applications."</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">Users also value their privacy. Despite the rapidly escalating use of <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Hey-Hey-You-YouGet-on-My-Cloud/#" target="_blank" itxtdid="6618267" style="font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 100% !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(31, 90, 150); text-decoration: none; ">cloud computing</a> by consumers, Horrigan said the Pew survey found that 68 percent of people using cloud services would be "very concerned" if companies like Google, Microsoft or Yahoo used their stored data to match their interests with advertising or shared or made public their online files.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">"People are very obviously making trade-offs in privacy when they engage in these behaviors. That means that people are weighing the pluses and minuses, often in very situational and subtle ways," Horrigan said.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">Horrigan stressed that the survey was not intended to be a comprehensive overview of cloud computing but a snapshot of a select set of activities of typical PC users. The activities included using Webmail, <a class="iAs" classname="iAs" href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Hey-Hey-You-YouGet-on-My-Cloud/#" target="_blank" itxtdid="6284345" style="font-weight: normal !important; font-size: 100% !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 100, 0) !important; border-bottom-width: 0.075em !important; border-bottom-style: solid !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; background-color: transparent !important; color: rgb(31, 90, 150); text-decoration: none; ">online storage</a> of data, photos and videos, use of online apps such as Google Docs or Adobe Photoshop, and online backup storage.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">Overall, the study found that 69 percent of users have either stored data online or used a Web-based application. Webmail services dominated the responses (56 percent), followed by online storage of photos (34 percent), online apps (29 percent), video storage (7 percent), paid storage (5 percent) and hard drive backup services (5 percent).</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">Predicting that cloud computing will become "as important as the Web was 15 years ago," Mike Nelson, a visiting professor at Georgetown University and a former technology policy advisor for President Bill Clinton, said, "Cloud computing is going to transform computing, and not in 10 years but four or five years."</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">The rapid move to cloud computing, Nelson said, raises important policy questions.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">"We have to start thinking right now about how organizations and individuals adopt this technology and how policymakers and, perhaps, outdated policies, meet a new reality," Nelson said.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">A starting point for policy discussions might be the Pew survey. The results show 90 percent of respondents would be "very concerned" if a cloud computing company sold files to others without express permission. Other strong concerns included using photos and other information in marketing campaigns (80 percent) and analyzing stored data for unwanted targeted advertising (68 percent).</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">Survey respondents also had concerns about companies keeping copies of online files even after consumers delete the files (63 percent) and the ability of law enforcement officials to access the files (49 percent).</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">"Consumers expect their information will be treated the same on the cloud as it is if it were stored at home on their own computers," said Ari Schwartz, vice president and chief operating officer of the Center for Democracy & Technology. "That seems to be a tall order to ask, but that is what they expect."</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">That would, indeed, be a very tall order for Washington, Nelson said.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; ">"I do think government has an almost infinite ability to screw up things when they can't see the future," he said. "We have to have leadership that believes in empowering users and empowering citizens."</p><p style="text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:verdana;font-size:10px;">Copyright ©1996-2008 <a href="http://www.ziffdavisenterprise.com/" title="Ziff Davis Enterprise Holdings Inc." class="Footer_ZD" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">Ziff Davis Enterprise Holdings Inc.</a> All Rights Reserved.</span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="12px" style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Hey-Hey-You-YouGet-on-My-Cloud/">http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/Hey-Hey-You-YouGet-on-My-Cloud/</a><br /></span></p></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-88923923993349090752008-09-12T21:03:00.000-07:002008-09-12T21:09:25.736-07:00Cloud Computing Expo - NComputing & its Disruptive $70 PC<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV__uj2PTHmJYQu9pzW_lPtW8g2IBjLXAVw15-_HKATtV28ecozYJuYKaDpgAHgXTx4lc4514hEbdjZmB5OTW6KEDATfXCtQeWFJ15iJ_XvedQRQGCWaAlSy85Ub9xXApuquXeKPA-zvE/s1600-h/ajaxworld.gif"><img style="float:left; 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color: rgb(114, 132, 141); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div class="storyminortitle" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(114, 132, 141); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">NComputing claims to be "revolutionizing computing"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 48px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "></span></span></span></div><div class="storyminortitle" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(114, 132, 141); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 48px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">By: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><a href="http://ajax.sys-con.com/author/2390" style="text-decoration: none; ">Maureen O'Gara</a></span></span></span></div><div class="storyminortitle" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(114, 132, 141); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 48px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Sep. 12, 2008 02:00 PM</span></span></span><br /></div><div class="storyminortitle" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(114, 132, 141); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">IDC doesn't recognize the company that claims to be the leading thin client house on the planet as a through and through thin client company.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">Seems two-thirds of it doesn't fit IDC's standard definition of what a thin client should be.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">However, that quirky little factoid hasn't stopped NComputing from seeing over a million of its widgets deployed in the 20 months since it came to market and becoming, by all accounts, the fastest-growing desktop virtualization outfit around.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">NComputing claims to be "revolutionizing computing."</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">Okay, all the boys say that but NComputing's appeal, particularly in emerging markets, home to the so-called "next five billion," is its promise of a $70 PC, a price point that has so far eluded such competitors as One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">For instance, it was NComputing - not OLPC - that captured the first 1:1 country-wide education deployment, which happened to be in Macedonia, whose 180,000 student seats now constitute the largest known thin client deployment ever. It is also the largest known desktop Linux deployment ever even though NComputing's virtualization solution is built on Windows.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">NComputing reportedly came in at half the next lowest bid and that includes all the hardware, the transportation, setup, training and maintenance.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">What had to have pushed Macedonia over the edge is the fact that NComputing's proposition is sustainable: its users only consume an eco-friendly watt of power and the widgetry will never be obsolete.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">NComputing's siren song has attracted commercial accounts like FedEx, CSC, Lear, the World Trade Organization, Carrefour, Cigna, Remax and Flextronics among its user base of 20,000 organizations in 90 countries.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">The start-up now boasts an annualized run rate of over a million units. It says it's expecting orders of 10,000 units a clip starting this fall and is expecting to fulfill 7% of all K-12 public school purchases in the US this year, pretty good for a new arrival with only two rounds and a $100 million valuation to its name.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">Its siren song also attracted Will Poole, the co-head of Microsoft's Unlimited Potential and former boss of Microsoft's Windows Client Business, whose enviable position gave him the pick of the litter.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">Poole, who created Windows Starter - now at seven million sold in emerging markets - and championed détente with OLPC - the Windows version of its XO will be out any minute now - is retiring from Microsoft at the end of the month and says he wants to give something back.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">He wants a shot at saving the world by resolving some of the global development issues. And he's going to use NComputing, where he will be non-executive co-chairman and ambassador to developing countries, as a platform while he figures out what he wants to do next.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">Poole, by the way, has some money in the company.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">What NComputing does is take a bog-standard PC and hang terminals off of it. It figures PCs are so powerful today that most applications only use a fraction of their capacity.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">It taps that under-utilized capacity and can put, say, 10 users on a $500 Dell Inspiron reportedly with no discernable latency.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">NComputing CEO and co-chair Stephen Dukker, the fast-talking, golden-tongued founder of eMachines, who's been down this disruptive, low-cost road before, says the company's widgetry, stored in a black box that has no CPU, memory or moving parts, doesn't try to eliminate the latency, it compensates for it.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">The mojo was developed in Germany by an outlet called HydraPark that was determined to make Citrix eat its dust. NComputing, which got started in 2003, bought the Citrix-killer and from that its vSpace desktop virtualization software and User eXtension Protocol (UXP) were born.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">NComputing offers two species of its technology: the X-series and L-series run on Windows Server. (Warning: NComputing won't be as cheap for commercial accounts as for education given Microsoft's licenses.)</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">The X-series is the cheaper, your basic 70 bucks a head on a one-watt-per-user budget. It uses a direct 10m connection between host and user, which limits it to no more than seven users per PC on X300.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">In this case the host - which needs a special card - which is why the X-series doesn't qualify as a thin client as far as IDC is concerned - can be something as simple as a $350 Dell Vostro 200 with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo chip, 1GB of RAM and a 80GB HDD.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">It offers Internet access, full multimedia, office productivity and presentations.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">The pricier L-series uses an Ethernet connection so it has no distance limitations and can service up to 30 users per desktop PC. It runs $140 per user and demands five watts per seat to run.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">Figure a $499 Inspiron 530 with a 2.4GHz quad core, 3GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive. Now imagine it simultaneously running four videos off the Media Player, four IE sessions, two IE sessions with streaming video, four Excel sessions, three Word sessions, three Acrobat Reader sessions and nine PowerPoint sessions.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">Dukker says two-thirds of his customers are using the X-series, the rest are on the L-series; 60% are running Windows, the rest Linux.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">Dukker figures where OLPC made its mistake was in expecting the user to fend for himself once the XO arrived.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">NComputing's business model, a job creator at least in the third world, is 100% channel. The reseller gets a 30% margin but is required to deliver the goods, set up the site, support the darn thing and train the users. Dell is part of the channel.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">NComputing, which has 150 people worldwide, now has offices in 14 countries including India, Brazil, Korea and Mexico and roughly 50% of its business comes from emerging markets.</p><p style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; ">NComputing, by the way, calculates that if the 850 million PC worldwide were replaced by its gismo energy use would decline by over 120 billion kilowatt-hours, the equivalent of planting 460 million trees.</p><div class="storyfooter" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; ">Published Sep. 12, 2008— Reads 168 <br />Copyright © 2008 SYS-CON Media. 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Like Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales' new Wikia Green can be edited by anyone, but Wikia's built to attract people passionate about a topic rather than provide general reference. For example, the Wikipedia entry on 'Green Computing' takes a broad overview of carbon emissions from IT, while Wikia Green's entry offers tips for individuals, such as buying laptops instead of desktops. We chatted with Jimmy to get the inside track on Wikia Green.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Why do Wikia Green now? There are so many green blogs and guides all over the internet, and they've had a head start on this project. Aren't people feeling over-saturated with 'green'?</b><br />Wales: No, this is a growing area. What we're doing is actually complementary to blogs in the sense that what blogs do is update you on a day-to-day basis. Also, blogs are engaged in political or other types of analysis, whereas a wiki becomes a touchpoint for the community, a place where people meet up and work on whatever the consensus is about a certain topic.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; ">We're hoping that a lot of bloggers will find it useful to send their readers (there) and also to collaboratively work on background information. The blogger doesn't really enjoy explaining something over and over. But if I want to tell you about biodiesel, and if you don't know about biodiesel, I can say, "Read this article first."</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Were you seeing maybe an increased interest in green topics on Wikipedia? What sparked your interest in launching this? </b><br />Wales: One of the funny things about Wikipedia is I have no idea what the traffic is. We don't even track those kinds of numbers... This was sparked initially by a conversation with Al Gore last year just before he won the Nobel Prize. He said there should be a green wiki...We discussed it some and I decided hey, this is a good idea.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">How do you hope to get contributors flowing in? Are you doing any publicity efforts aimed at green blogs, for instance? </b><br />Wales: We're doing a lot of outreach. I've been holding a series of green dinners where people educate me...I met Zem Joaquin and we're working with her on (her blog) ecofabulous, and we're gonna be powering their eco lingo column. We're trying to build relationships and to learn from this community: what's missing? What do you need?</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Will this integrate Web 2.0-type features, videos, maps, and other tools at some point? </b><br />Wales: We have the ability for people to do videos and some mapping stuff. The initial focus is on encyclopaedic content and magazine-style articles...The software is the same platform we use across all the wikis.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">How do you prevent companies from stacking the entries with what some environmental activists call greenwashing? How will the community regulate this? </b><br />Wales: My view is that's virtually impossible in a wiki context, particularly a green wiki...The community monitors things as they come in. It's not a voting-style system that can be gamed. It's really an open discussion, dialog, and debate system. This is one of the great strengths of a wiki: it's a great counter to astroturfing and other types of campaigns.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">What personal interest do you have in green topics and sustainability? Are you measuring your carbon footprint and trying to offset it? </b><br />Wales: Yes, I'm doing some things like that...At Wikia we're going through a process of trying to be certified as a green company...I come to this as an outsider. I'm part of that broad general public saying there's something really important and I want to learn more. It's time to wake up and do something. I'm finding it hard to get educated because the information is so disparate. I saw a need where people could come together and really clarifying and documenting all this kind of information.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Do you use any green servers, for instance, on the back-end are there efficiency features in terms of the hardware used to support all this? </b><br />Wales: No, we're looking into those kinds of things. On the server side of things the single greatest thing we've done is hire our new CTO, Artur Bergman, because he's an optimisation genius and has doubled the efficiency of our servers.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Where do you see this in 5 to 10 years? What do you hope will develop? </b><br />Wales: Obviously we want this to be a large and successful community. I don't have milestones or targets...As long as there's a healthy community and people are having fun and producing something of value, I'm satisfied.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; "><i style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><a title="" target="" href="http://green.wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_Green" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(0, 153, 204); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">Wikia Green</a> is live now. </i><br /></p></div><div id="main-story-posted" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; ">Posted: <a href="http://www.smartplanet.com/aboutus/index-of-stories/sep-2008.htm" class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 153, 204); ">09 September 2008</a>, 10:48am by <a href="http://www.smartplanet.com/aboutus/stories-by-author/10000008/elsa-wenzel.htm" class="author" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 204); ">Elsa Wenzel</a></div><div id="main-story-posted" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; ">Based on: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10035622-54.html" class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 153, 204); ">Wikipedia's Wales launches Wikia Green</a></div><div id="main-story-posted" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal bold 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; ">Related Links</h3><a href="http://www.smartplanet.com/news/tech/10001654/google-s-schmidt-talks-oil-green-jobs-and-plug-in-hybrids.htm" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 153, 204); ">Google's Schmidt talks oil, green jobs and plug-in hybrids</a><br /><a href="http://www.smartplanet.com/news/tech/10001646/hands-on-solar-case-for-iphone-3g.htm" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 153, 204); ">Hands-on: Solar case for iPhone 3G</a><br /><a href="http://www.smartplanet.com/news/tech/10001644/obama-attracts-green-technology-cheerleaders.htm" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 153, 204); ">Obama attracts green technology cheerleaders</a></span><br /></div><div id="main-story-posted" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal 'Lucida Grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Copyright ©1995-2008 CNET Networks, Inc. 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Taub" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: none; ">ERIC A. TAUB</a></div></nyt_byline><div class="timestamp" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="80%" style=" font-weight: normal; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); ">Published: September 7, 2008</div><div class="timestamp" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="80%" style=" font-weight: normal; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><br /></div><div class="timestamp" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 80%; "><br /></div><div class="timestamp" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 80%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 22px; font-family:Georgia;font-size:15px;"><nyt_text><p>CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. It also figures in the dreams of newspaper publishers struggling with rising production and delivery costs, lower circulation and decreased ad revenue from their paper product.</p><div id="articleInline" class="inlineLeft" style="display: block; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; float: left; margin-right: 15px !important; "><div id="inlineBox" style="width: 190px; "><div id="sidebarArticles" style="background-image: url(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/global/borders/aColumnHorizontalBorder.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; padding-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 10px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-position: 0% 0%; "><h4 style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 1px; font-size: 95%; font-weight: normal; ">Related</h4><h2 style="color: black; margin-top: 6px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 80%; line-height: 1.4em; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Esquire-Electronic-Ink.html?ref=technology" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); line-height: 1.4em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 100%; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; text-decoration: none; ">Esquire Unveils Cover With Electronic Ink</a> (September 8, 2008)</h2></div></div></div><a name="secondParagraph" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline; "></a><p>While the dream device remains on the drawing board, Plastic Logic will introduce publicly on Monday its version of an electronic newspaper reader: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look — but not the feel — of a printed newspaper.</p><p>The device, which is unnamed, uses the same technology as the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/sony_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about SONY Corporation" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline; ">Sony</a> eReader and <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/amazon_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Amazon.com Inc" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline; ">Amazon.com</a>’s Kindle, a highly legible black-and-white display developed by the E Ink Corporation. While both of those devices are intended primarily as book readers, Plastic Logic’s device, which will be shown at an emerging technology trade show in San Diego, has a screen more than twice as large. The size of a piece of copier paper, it can be continually updated via a wireless link, and can store and display hundreds of pages of newspapers, books and documents.</p><p>Richard Archuleta, the chief executive of Plastic Logic, said the display was big enough to provide a newspaperlike layout. “Even though we have positioned this for business documents, newspapers is what everyone asks for,” Mr. Archuleta said.</p><p>The reader will go on sale in the first half of next year. Plastic Logic will not announce which news organization will display its articles on it until the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, when it will also reveal the price.</p><p>Kenneth A. Bronfin, president of Hearst Interactive Media, said, “We are hopeful that we will be able to distribute our newspaper content on a new generation of larger devices sometime next year.” While he would not say what device the company’s papers would use, he said, “we have a very strong interest in e-newspapers. We’re very anxious to get involved.”</p><p>The Hearst Corporation, the parent of Hearst Interactive Media, owns 16 daily newspapers, including The Houston Chronicle, The San Antonio Express and The San Francisco Chronicle, and was an early investor in <a href="http://www.eink.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline; ">E Ink</a>. The company already distributes electronic versions of some papers on the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/amazon_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about Amazon.com Inc." style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline; ">Amazon</a> Kindle.</p><p>Newspaper companies have watched the technology closely for years. The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQpMT_iL9U" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline; ">ideal format</a>, a flexible display that could be rolled or folded like a newspaper, is still years off, says E Ink. But it foresees color displays with moving images and interactive clickable advertising coming in only a few more years, according to Sriram K. Peruvemba, vice president for marketing for E Ink.</p><p>E Ink expects that within the next few years it will be able to create technology that allows users to write on the screen and view videos. At a recent demonstration at E Ink’s headquarters here, the company showed prototypes of flexible displays that can create rudimentary colors and animated images. “By 2010, we will have a production version of a display that offers newspaperlike color,” Mr. Peruvemba said.</p><p>If e-newspapers take off, the savings could be hefty. At the The San Francisco Chronicle, for example, print and delivery amount to 65 percent of the paper’s fixed expenses, Mr. Bronfin said.</p><p>With electronic readers, publishers would also learn more about its readers. With paper copy subscriptions, newspapers know what address has received a copy and not much else. About those customers picking up a copy on the newsstand, they know nothing.</p><p>As an electronic device, newspapers can determine who is reading their paper, and even which articles are being read. Advertisers would be able to understand their audience and direct advertising to its likeliest customers.</p><p>While this raises privacy concerns, “these are future possibilities which we will explore,” said Hans Brons, chief executive of iRex Technologies in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.</p><p>IRex markets the iLiad, an 8.5 by 6.1-inch electronic reader that can be used to receive electronic versions of the newspaper Les Echos in France and NRC Handelsblad in the Netherlands.</p><p>The iRex, Kindle and eReader prove the technology works. The big question for newspaper companies is how much people will pay for a device and the newspaper subscription for it.</p><p>Papers face a tough competitor: their own Web sites, where the information is free. And they have trained a generation of new readers to expect free news. In Holland, the iLiad comes with a one-year subscription for 599 euros ($855). The cost of each additional year of the paper is 189 euros ($270). NRC offers just one electronic edition of the paper a day, while Les Echos updates its iRex version 10 times a day.</p><p>A number of newspapers, including The New York Times, offer electronic versions through the Kindle device; The Times on the Kindle costs $14 a month, similar to the cost of other papers. “The New York Times Web site started as a replica of print, but it has now evolved,” said Michael Zimbalist, vice president for research and development operations at The <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/new_york_times_company/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More information about New York Times Co" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline; ">New York Times Company</a>. “We expect to experiment on all of these platforms. When devices start approximating the look and feel of a newspaper, we’ll be there as well,” Mr. Zimbalist said.</p><p>Most electronic reading devices use E Ink’s technology to create an image. Unlike liquid-crystal display of computer monitors and televisions, electronic paper technology does not need a backlight, remains displayed even when the power source runs down, and looks brighter, not dimmer, in strong light. It also draws little power from the device’s battery.</p><p>Plastic Logic’s first display, while offering a screen size that is 2.5 times larger than the Kindle, weighs just two ounces more and is about one-third the Kindle’s thickness.</p><p>It uses a flexible, lightweight plastic, rather than glass, a technology first developed at<a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/cambridge_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Cambridge University" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); text-decoration: underline; ">Cambridge University</a> in England. Plastic Logic, based in Mountain View, Calif., was spun off from that project.</p></nyt_text><div class="nextArticleLink clearfix" style="margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; "><a title="Designers of High Fashion Enter the Age of High Tech" onclick="s_code_linktrack('Article-NextArticleBottom');" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/technology/08trend.html" style="color: rgb(0, 66, 118); margin-top: 4px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 0px; clear: both; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; float: right; ">Next Article in Technology (6 of 7) »</a><span style="color: rgb(170, 170, 170); float: left; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.4em; margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 350px; font-size:83.3%;">A version of this article appeared in print on September 8, 2008, on page C5 of the New York edition.</span><span style="color: rgb(170, 170, 170); 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiibgk4DP3cB1djeTQZnjWtkQisWlT8IxNlqTlarGlkP9JTsnP2FAdbUldNzpNgc73YSdRALahrqCdWk7SUR-2FTLJ3c3fRcgrumH1sStl2DmjwEneaz-DYmj73lp2rDXqDKA1Khd2_S_g/s320/cornelius_d.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243862923259284322" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:13px;"><div class="titlewrapper"><h1 class="title" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 30px; line-height: 1.2em; font: normal normal bold 200%/normal 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://kmspace.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">KM Space</span></a></h1></div><div class="descriptionwrapper"><p class="description" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 30px; line-height: 1.5em; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Law Firm Knowledge Management Blog, with postings on knowledge management, enterprise 2.0, legal technology and the practice of law</span></span></p><p class="description" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 30px; line-height: 1.5em; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 2px; line-height: 21px; text-transform: uppercase; font-size:11px;">TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2008</span></span></p><p class="description" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 30px; line-height: 1.5em; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">By Doug Cornelius </span><a href="http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-on-cloud-computing-for-law-firms.html"></a></p><p class="description" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 30px; line-height: 1.5em; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><a href="http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-on-cloud-computing-for-law-firms.html">http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-on-cloud-computing-for-law-firms.html</a><br /></p><p class="description" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 30px; line-height: 1.5em; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 18px; ">Cloud computing has been in my mind lately. Either there are more conversations going on or I am just noticing them more. I ran across this post by <a href="http://socialmediagroup.ca/about/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Maggie Fox</a> of <a href="http://socialmediagroup.ca/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Social Media Group</a>: <a href="http://socialmediagroup.ca/2008/09/08/you-store-your-money-in-the-cloud-why-not-your-data/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">You store your money in the cloud - why not your data?</a><br /><br />Maggie writes:<br /><blockquote style="margin-top: 0.75em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; margin-left: 0px; border-top-style: dotted; border-right-style: dotted; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-left-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-right-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-bottom-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 15px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 15px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">"You already store your money in the cloud. Your employer does not give you a bag of gold ingots on payday. They electronically transfer funds to a third party. Most of us are so comfortable with this that we don’t even think about it. . ."</blockquote>So why should we so uncomfortable with keeping our documents and enterprise information in the cloud. Maggie points out that there needs a more robust competitive environment for providers and government regulations need to be in place to make it viable. The recent mistake on Google Chrome's Terms of Service [<i>See:</i> <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/making-terms-of-service-clearer.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Making Terms of Service Clearer</a> from the <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Official Google Blog</a>.] One sided terms of service with no liability for a loss of data will not be acceptable for a business to embrace cloud computing.<br /><br />The challenge will be determining the value of lost data. If the bank looses your $100 deposit, they owe you a $100. If the cloud computing provider loses 100GB data, how much is that data worth?<br /><br />Of course the enterprise is just as capable of wiping out its own data on sources inside firewall. <br /><br />Yesterday, I posted on knowledge management in the cloud through Practical Law: <a href="http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/knowledge-management-and-practical-law.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Knowledge Management and Practical Law Company</a>. Sunday, I posted about the <a href="http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/xconomys-cloud-computing-extravaganza.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Xconomy cloud computing conference</a>. Both of which came from my <a href="http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/cloud-computing-and-law-firms.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">Cloud Computing and Law Firms</a> post last week.</span><br /></p><p class="description" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 30px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 30px; line-height: 1.5em; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-on-cloud-computing-for-law-firms.html">http://kmspace.blogspot.com/2008/09/more-on-cloud-computing-for-law-firms.html</a></span></p></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-13248490663023188312008-09-08T18:19:00.001-07:002008-09-08T18:33:01.298-07:00Eco friendly CDs and Green printing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.citeman.com/index.php/eco-friendly-cds-and-green-printing/"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIlFzV3UUyfD5e0o3NtaPOnBIaZoH9QNYZqvQisQriVtB35sV_Np-KKa_oURHNpqmzPPWZe8iqMswG_FxUvKac40XQTPPo1GPmRW2vdzP9ymSqoZoot6lBKllD8XGOwU7kyE5tr3RqtkI/s320/citeman.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243825297105483442" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(117, 117, 117); line-height: 23px; font-family:verdana;font-size:12px;"><div class="date" style="float: left; "><img src="http://www.citeman.com/wp-content/themes/citeman_new/images/date.gif" border="0" alt="Date Posted on" class="left" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /> Sep 7, 2008 </div><div class="cat" style="float: left; "><img src="http://www.citeman.com/wp-content/themes/citeman_new/images/category.gif" border="0" alt="Category" class="left" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; " /> <a href="http://www.citeman.com/index.php/category/operations/" title="View all posts in Operations Management" rel="category tag" style="color: rgb(117, 117, 117); text-decoration: none; ">Operations Management</a> </div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.citeman.com/index.php/eco-friendly-cds-and-green-printing/">http://www.citeman.com/index.php/eco-friendly-cds-and-green-printing/</a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family:verdana;font-size:12px;"><p>It’s impossible to even think of computing without CD’s. Be it loading program on a lap top or watching a movie or storing backups of all your stuff CD’s are built to last. But that is where the problems raise. They are built to last longer than you might need them, so when you throw it away, it just adds to what has been labeled as e-junk foiling up a landfill in some part of the city. Multiply this by the sheer amount of people who use them. And you would probably have enough shiny discs to make a small mountain. There is an awful lot of plastic that goes into a CD. And the problem is that it lasts and lasts much like an unwanted house guest.</p><p>But there are ways to get around this from buying CD’s that have less plastic to ones that have a label which says they are environmentally friendly, to even buying them without the extra plastic packaging . A lot of people are catching onto this new trend.</p><p>Although there seems to be no alternative to using polycarbonate plastic in the production of CDs, the first green option is to reduce the number of CDs that are used. For starter use a blank DVD that can pack in a lot of information and you would not need an armload of them.</p><p>Unless you are using a rewriteable CD, you can only write information onto a CD once. So why not buy a pen drive with flash memory? They cost more, but you can use them over and over again.</p><p>The next time you head out to buy blank CDs, buy them on spindles on bulk and not in the individual plastic cases that each one comes with. You don’t need the jewel cases.</p><p>A lot of CD’s these days are made from packaging that is recycled. Right down to the inks that are used in the inlay and cover printing. For example the inks that are used in eco-friendly CDs are made from vegetables oil (linseed oil being an industry preference here) that are mild and ecologically sensitive</p><p>Look for CDs that have labels on them that state this. Look for CDs that come in cardboard or paper cases. Now you might think that this is an odd idea, as paper comes from trees and our forests are shrinking. However, between two options this is a better this is a better idea as using trees is better than using plastic. Trees are a renewable resource. Forests can, and are being re-planted while plastics made from petroleum which, as we all know is not only a non-renewable resource, but is the cause of many wars in the world.</p><p>It might cost a tad more to purchase new technology, but it is always cheaper in the long run for us, and the environment. The all pervasive nature of technology draws heavily from both environment and precious energy resources. An average PC wastes nearly half its power and the server consumes nearly one third. In addition, poor practices in disposal and recycling of technology products pose a hazard to the environment. However, technology is now gradually stepping up its green awareness and some of the biggest names in technology are leading this environmental push.</p><p>A simpler option, one should try Green Print that is <a href="http://www.printgreener.com/">www.printgreener.com</a>. This is a tiny application that sifts through web pages and filters out the unwanted content before going to print.</p><p>As soon as the Green Print is installed the user will find two new entries in his printer list. The first one is called Green Print, which is the virtual printer that culls out waste pages. Basically, this application wedges itself between web browser (Internet Explorer or Fire fox) and printer, thus turning it self into a virtual printer. This means that instead of firing printouts to regular printer, it turns them over to Green Print. It will then checks for waste pages, cut them from the print list, and hand them over to the actual printer. Green Print also allows to save pages as a PDF file.</p><p><a href="http://www.citeman.com/index.php/eco-friendly-cds-and-green-printing/">http://www.citeman.com/index.php/eco-friendly-cds-and-green-printing/</a><br /></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">© Copyright 2008 by Citeman Network. All Rights Reserved.</span></span><br /></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-65540284017064846342008-09-07T20:30:00.000-07:002008-09-08T18:18:51.538-07:00Cloud Computing - New Buzz Word To Describe New Trend<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.impactlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/impactlab-logo-short.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://www.impactlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/impactlab-logo-short.jpg" border="0" alt="" /><br /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;"><a href="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/">http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/</a></span><br /></span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" Trebuchet MS";font-family:";font-size:9.0pt;color:black;">September 7th, 2008 at 11:42 am</span></span><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" Trebuchet MS";font-family:";font-size:10.5pt;color:black;">Computer geeks do so love using weird and oddly poetic buzz words to describe new trends. From these formidable minds, we mere mortals were handed such gems as “phishing”, “blog”, “spam”, “digg” and “cookies”. Yes, cookies.</span></span></p></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.impactlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cloud-question-mark-cloud-computing.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;" src="http://www.impactlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/cloud-question-mark-cloud-computing.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;"><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; ">Here’s another one that you’ve probably heard being mentioned in your travels on the <span style="font-weight: normal; position: static; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;"><span class="kLink" style="font-weight: normal; position: static; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom- padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;color:initial;">internet</span></span>: cloud computing.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; ">It does sound a bit up in the air, so I’m going to try and describe it in as simple a way as I can.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; ">At its most basic level, cloud computing is an internet-based service that you can use - without having to understand the technology behind it - to satisfy whatever computer need you may have.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; ">In other words, its using software available “in the clouds” of the internet, so to speak. You do whatever you want done via the internet, with software installed on a “virtual” <span style="color: rgb(138, 2, 2) !important; font-weight: normal; position: static; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;color:#8a0202;"><span class="kLink" style=" font-weight: normal; position: static; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color:black !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color:black !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color:black !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color:black padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color:black; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background- width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; background-position: initial initial; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;color:transparent;">computer</span></span>.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; ">An obvious example is web-based <span style="font-weight: normal; position: static; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;"><span class="kLink" style="font-weight: normal; position: static; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom- padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;color:initial;">email </span><span class="kLink" style="font-weight: normal; position: static; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: black; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: black; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom- padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;color:initial;">services</span></span>, such as Yahoo, Hotmail, and Gmail. You can send, receive and store email on the internet, without having to install any software on your machine.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; ">Another example is Google’s document service where you can open any document on the internet, change it, and save it again. You don’t need to buy any software, or install any software on your computer. If you have the file and an <span style="color: rgb(138, 2, 2) !important; font-weight: normal; position: static; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;color:#8a0202;"><span class="kLink" style="font-weight: normal; position: static; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: black; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color: black; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; float: none !important; display: inline !important; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">internet</span></span><span class="kLink" style=" font-weight: normal; position: static; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color:black; !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color:black; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color:black; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background- width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; background-position: initial initial; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;color:transparent;"> </span><span class="kLink" style=" font-weight: normal; position: static; border-top-width: 0px !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-color: initial !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-color:black; padding-top: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; color:black; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background- width: auto !important; float: none !important; display: inline !important; background-position: initial initial; font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:14px;color:black;">connection</span></span>, you can open it and change it.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; ">Of course, this is a very slimmed down definition of cloud computing. The term actually includes a broad spectrum of technologies. </p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; ">Full article: Via <a href="http://technology.iafrica.com/swissarmy/1127960.htm" style="color:black; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">iafrica.com</a></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 12px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 12px; "><a href="http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/">http://www.impactlab.com/2008/09/07/cloud-computing-new-buzz-word-to-describe-new-trend/</a><br /></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-50259233021213459602008-09-07T20:09:00.000-07:002008-09-07T20:21:30.569-07:00Google Chrome goes portable: Carry it on a USB Flash drive<img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAwwBdPMFB74XhbYIF11ZyWvA3KNeO39Pf7fA0R_SeQnVbGQPnnhbRevriVusvnAdP_WDH5ddJLBaTxovcDu0LcNl91YS8vbtV3iHs4jWwSddauCpGtXtnRuK66ubapbqvhIygmSGyMcM/s400/downloadsquad.png" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243483307819788146" /><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvbRI88B5tWK3bhTBCDV75gs2gZxm_IiZUiqNONMHP65AP8x6mYX8Ay_AA4a1BlQH1rzOB6nEhJD-1eEr7mIXNDStIOzKYnUNKNBgwFxX57H7yY8ToYRgw2auD2P9KNxqfHXVftFwq5nc/s400/chromeportableusb.png" style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243484770889582114" /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18px; font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;">Posted Sep 4th 2008 3:00PM by <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/bloggers/brad-linder" style="color: rgb(115, 172, 17); text-decoration: none; ">Brad Linder</a></span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18px;font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;"><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/04/google-chrome-goes-portable-carry-it-on-a-usb-flash-drive/">http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/04/google-chrome-goes-portable-carry-it-on-a-usb-flash-drive/</a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18px;font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); line-height: 18px;font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:12px;"><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Want to take Google's new web browser <a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/tag/google-Chrome/" style="color: rgb(115, 172, 17); text-decoration: none; ">Chrome</a> for a spin, but don't want to install anything on your computer? While Google hasn't officially released a portable version, the browser is open source. So just a few days after the launch of <a href="http://www.google.com/chrome" style="color: rgb(115, 172, 17); text-decoration: none; ">Google Chrome</a>, an independent developer has released <a href="http://stadt-bremerhaven.de/2008/09/03/portable-chrome-021510/" style="color: rgb(115, 172, 17); text-decoration: none; ">Portable Chrome.</a></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Portable Chrome comes as an 11MB self extracting file. When you run the executable, all the files you need to run Chrome will be loaded to the directory of your choice. Just click on ChromeLoader.exe to launch Google Chrome. And that's pretty much it. The browser includes all the same features you'll find in the original version of Chrome, including a super fast JavaScript engine, incognito mode, and the ability to run tabs as separate process.<br /></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[via <a href="http://www.labnol.org/software/download-portable-google-chrome-for-usb-drive/4406/" style="color: rgb(115, 172, 17); text-decoration: none; ">Digital Inspiration</a>]</div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; ">All contents copyright © 2003-2008, <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/" style="color: rgb(115, 172, 17); text-decoration: none; ">Weblogs, Inc.</a> All rights reserved</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0.25em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/04/google-chrome-goes-portable-carry-it-on-a-usb-flash-drive/" style="color: rgb(115, 172, 17); text-decoration: none; ">Download Squad</a> is a member of the <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/" style="color: rgb(115, 172, 17); text-decoration: none; ">Weblogs, Inc. Network</a>.</p></span></div></span></span></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2293401056377093963.post-59517188933505463062008-09-05T09:33:00.000-07:002008-09-05T11:59:26.086-07:00Google’s Top 10 Cloud Computing List<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuSTQSPL_g_MECHIWDm7b1kUevoH-FiWkwfqD34SEwIey8hKvmQC_kES5wB93a8qG8aq8Fb24hhjGUNucVi2gCuPCj0rmN2WeVnq558UaA1lqG8LGYqHLXPB-fActar9NAE2s9xsPWYfM/s1600-h/zdnet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuSTQSPL_g_MECHIWDm7b1kUevoH-FiWkwfqD34SEwIey8hKvmQC_kES5wB93a8qG8aq8Fb24hhjGUNucVi2gCuPCj0rmN2WeVnq558UaA1lqG8LGYqHLXPB-fActar9NAE2s9xsPWYfM/s400/zdnet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242576226651808754" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 5px;"> <span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(137, 137, 137); font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; ">Posted by Sam Diaz @ 11:16 am</span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0pt 0pt 5px;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:85%;"><b>Sam Diaz:</b> At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco Google delivers a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprise that many of the tasks on this list revolve around the search giant's cloud offerings. </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:78%;"><a rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(10, 134, 250);" target="_blank" href="http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=70997848-9deeb30cab4845c251993d8fdc3170c0-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5">READ FULL STORY</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; "></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:78%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:16px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Also read:</span> <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=138" target="_blank">Office 2.0 day one coverage</a></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">10. <strike>Anything</strike> Everything on the go</span><br /></p> <p><strong>9. Search through ALL my mail</strong></p><strong>8. Chat with customers and partners in any language</strong> <p><strong>7. Collaborate simply and securely on projects with Sites and Docs</strong></p><p><strong>6. Organize all my business travel with email</strong></p> <p><strong>5. Easily collect data from co-workers and customers in <a href="http://documents.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=87809" target="_blank">Forms</a></strong></p> <p><strong>4. Build any scalable business application on the cloud platform</strong></p> <p><strong>3. Use online templates for documents, spreadsheets and presos</strong></p> <p><strong>2. Run FAST, secure, and stable web apps</strong></p> <p>And finally, the No. 1 thing I can do in the cloud that I couldn’t do a year ago…</p> <p><strong>1. Securely share Video in Apps</strong></p> <p>OK, maybe some of these things were around a year ago. But the overall theme is that the cloud offers more flexibility today than it did a year ago. What are you doing in the cloud today that you weren’t do a year ago? Glotzbach said his original list had 30-40 items but he cut it down. As for myself, via Facebook, I’m reconnecting with people that I drifted away from and staying connected with people who otherwise might vanish from my day-to-day life. And I can stay connected regardless of where I am or which device I use.</p> <p>What would you add to the list?</p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; line-height: 18px; "><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=70997848-9deeb30cab4845c251993d8fdc3170c0-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; ">READ FULL STORY</a></span><br /></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 68); font-family: tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "></span></p><p style="line-height: 140%; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 1em; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 78%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; "><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Also read:</span> <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=138" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 153, 34); background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; ">Office 2.0 day one coverage</a></span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9898&tag=nl.e539">http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9898&tag=nl.e539</a><br /></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 12px; font-family:Verdana;font-size:11px;">© 2008 CNET Networks, Inc., a CBS Company. 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