One of the coolest features that you can get from Google is the capability to see on a map and time it the time it will take to get to a destination either by walking, bike, car or mass transit based on traffic conditions. It quickly gained popularity when Google began offering the service last March. Today, […]
Posted on October 5th, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is the kind of service that Amazon Web Services (AWS) does so well. It automates the manual task of adding email to apps so developers can focus on doing what they do best. Today, AWS added a new way to simulate in Amazon SES what it is like to send […]
Posted on October 4th, 2012 by admin
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The x86 chip, the processor for millions of servers around the globe, is an Intel crown jewel. But now it appears that software has invaded the land of hardware yet again with the news that a group of Russian developers is building an emulation capability to run x86 programs on ARM-based servers. It’s a noteworthy development […]
Posted on October 4th, 2012 by admin
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These days, it seems like every city and township in North America has its own startup accelerator and is on its way to creating a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. While these apparent symptoms of an “accelerator bubble” are sure to make a few eyes roll, if cities and firms lay the foundations with the right goals […]
Posted on October 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Oracle made a gesture to developers today with a new platform play it unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld. But a closer look shows Oracle is lumping developer services with every possible “cloud” offering you can imagine that the company sells. It’s all of course still on the Oracle cloud, a beast of sorts – part cloud, part […]
Posted on October 3rd, 2012 by admin
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Sharing a document online has never been easier, but maintaining control over that document once it’s left home, so to speak, is something different altogether. In the enterprise, that potential loss of control — who can view it, edit it or even print it — is a big deal. Therefore, making it easy for businesses […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2012 by admin
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We don’t often try to get the word out about conferences put on by other blogs here at TechCrunch, but we’re about to. Because reasons. Namely: 1) We, as TechCrunch, will probably never ever ever, ever ever host a European cloud-computing conference and someone sure as heck needs to. 2) The folks at GigaOm are […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2012 by admin
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Amazon has nothing to worry about. Oracle will never win the cloud without developers. No matter what Larry Ellison says on stage at Oracle Open World, Oracle will never match Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) first-class treatment of the developer community. Nor will Oracle even try: it’s a vertical iron machine that Ellison believes has the power […]
Posted on October 1st, 2012 by admin
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Open source fear mongering is still a reality. But in today’s world, it is nuanced with the belief that an open enterprise means open APIs. They are not the same and should not be confused. The issue surfaces more now that RESTful APIs have become the chosen way to exchange information through applications. They turn […]
Posted on October 1st, 2012 by admin
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