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Where is the Shazam for Enterprise Mobile Apps?
By Quinton Wall on March 27, 2014
Music is a big part of my life. I own too many guitars for my own good, and love discovering new music. One of my favorite apps for discovery is Shazam. With so much focus on how to build amazing mobile apps it’s really hard to go past Shazam. As we see the demand for […]
Posted in Design, Enterprise, Featured Posts, Mobile | Tagged android, Enterprise, iOS, mobile, mobile app, operating system, Rdio, shazam, Spotify, warner music group

Lenovo X1 Carbon Touch :: Opening, Setup and Failure
By Adron Hall on July 5, 2013
Yesterday I received my X1 Carbon Touch from Amazon. First part of this whole adventure is that I sent it to my old address in one part of town so that led to a little sleuth action to track it down. After a short bike ride up the street I arrived and the office staff …
Posted in General, Product reviews | Tagged Apple, brick, broken, carbon, fail, great tech support, hardware, how-to, lenovo, linux, Microsoft Windows, My Updates, operating system, tech support, thinkpad, ubuntu, windows 8, x1

RackWare Aims to Power Cloud Mobility
By Ben Kepes on September 26, 2012
An interesting recent trend I’ve been seeing is that of new vendors differentiating their cloud service through giving customers ultimate flexibility around what they use on their cloud – rather than shoehorning them into a couple of OS options, or a few pre-defined server sizes and specs, these vendors provide
Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, CloudComputing, eucalyptus, openstack, operating system, organization, rightscale

Lesson in simplified storage shows how complexity fails
By Randy Bias on June 14, 2012
The default approach to most complex problems is to engineer a complex solution. We see this in IT, generally, and in cloud computing specifically. Experience has taught us, however, that large-scale systems belie this tendency: Simpler solutions are best for solving complex problems. When developers write code, they talk about “elegant code,” meaning they are […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Technology | Tagged cloud computing, File system, ISCSI, operating system, RAID, san, Scalability, storage, Storage area network

Did Apple finally get hitched?
By Martijn Linssen on October 25, 2011
[Image by Roberta F.] Thanks to Peter Hicks for inspiring me for this title Lately I’ve noticed quite a few complaints regarding the upgrade to Apple’s iOS5. A few examples of that: the upgrade itself failing to complete, having to restore factory settings and lose all apps and files, battery draining like mad, Twitter failing […]
Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Apple, application development, architecture, change, growth, iphone, iPod, itunes, maturity, Microsoft Windows, operating system, transactions, twitter

Twitter Malware loose tonight 9-18-2011
By Dan Morrill on September 18, 2011
I have been getting a lot of twitter malware links tonight that uses a pretty simple browser based exploit that is easily caught by just about any anti-virus. But tonight malware links are making the rounds, and unfortunately they are going everywhere. So far have about 3 accounts I follow in the comic book community […]
Posted in Security | Tagged antivirus, Cameroon, Malicious Software, malware, operating system, Techwag Basics, Viruses

OS (Open Source) Bridge Week in Review
By Adron Hall on June 24, 2011
This is the first time I’ve attended OS Bridge. I’d known about it before while living in PDX. I had seen numerous people sitting in Bailey’s, Backspace, and other places around town after the days of the conference in past years. This year I actually got to experience it myself and am stoked with the […]
Posted in Open Source | Tagged advocacy, articles, conferences, Directories, Free software community, los angeles, New Orleans, open source, open source bridge, opensource, operating system, os bridge, osbridge, portland, Portland Oregon, United States

Observations on Linux (Ubuntu Specifically)
By Adron Hall on April 20, 2011
It has been a long while since I’ve used a Linux + GUI. Ubuntu, I understand probably isn’t the most bleeding edge, but just out of the box it has all the candy of Windows 7 plus lots of 3rd party enhancements and drivers or OS-X with the same. I’m honestly amazed that the OS […]
Posted in Platforms | Tagged gui, linux, operating system, reviews, ubuntu, windows 7

The most important app on your phone
By Derek Pilling on January 6, 2010
The last couple of days have seen a flurry of activity in mobile. Apple announced its response to Google’s acquisition of AdMob by acquiring mobile ad network, Quattro. Google announced the much awaited Google phone, the Nexus One. The bulk of the discussion has been around the mobile application battle between Apple and Google. Henry Blodgett thinks […]
Posted in Mobile, Product reviews | Tagged AdMob, android, Apple, applications, browser, google, iphone, mobile, nexus one, operating system, Platforms, Quattro

Payments: A Day on the Inside
By Derek Pilling on October 23, 2009
Image by monty.metzger via Flickr Earlier this week, I participated in a truly special event, the Lydian Roundtable. Lydian is a gathering of the best and brightest in the electronic payment industry and is hosted by my friends at Market Platform Dynamics, David Evans and Karen Webster. Every year, they bring together 50 to 100 […]
Posted in Application Software | Tagged cloud, conferences, electronic payments, mobile, mobile payments, mobility, operating system, payments, social media, social payments

The Vista Movie
By Zoli Erdos on September 23, 2009
OK, I admit. The title over-promises, the post under-delivers. This won’t be an exciting thriller. In fact it’s outright boring. Like watching paint dry. But that’s exactly the point, Vista took a good minute to delete a single file ( I got bored after 18 seconds and stopped recording). Must be a giant file…. […]
Posted in General | Tagged microsoft, operating system, os, vista, vistasucks, windows, windows vista

Fifty Reasons Why the Vista Era Did Happen, Indeed
By Zoli Erdos on August 10, 2009
Harry McCracken lists the Sixteen Reasons the Windows Vista Era Never Quite Happened. I almost agree with him, except that I do have 50 reasons to remember the Vista Era: it is the Fifty bucks ransom I paid to get out of this nightmare called Vista. So, yes, it happened. But it won’t be missed. […]
Posted in Just for fun | Tagged microsoft, operating system, os, vista, vista era, vista final, vistasucks, win7, windows, windows 7, windows xp, winxp

Google Chrome OS: Pre-Announcement in Classic Microsoft-style
By Zoli Erdos on July 8, 2009
Image via Wikipedia There’s hardly anything to add to the actual announcement– the whole world is talking about it, and I don’t just mean TechMeme entirely taken over: when Reuters, The New York Times and just about all mainstream media reports it, you know there’s something big – but is it nuclear? We’ll have to […]
Posted in Analysis | Tagged chrome, chrome os, google, Google Chrome, linux, microsoft, netbooks, operating system, os, situational computing, situational device, situational hardware, web os, windows | 2 Responses
Google Chrome OS: Why? Why? Why?
By Krishnan Subramanian on July 7, 2009
Once upon a time, there was talk about Google developing a Linux based operating system. Then, they bought the company behind Android and released it as an Open Source OS targeting everything from mobile to netbooks to set-top boxes. The cacophony in the tech blogosphere died down eventually and everyone forgot about the idea of […]
Posted in Analysis | Tagged google, Google Chrome, google chrome os, operating system, os | 27 Responses

Your Ransom to Break Free of Vista: $50 Win7 Upgrade – Catch it While You Can
By Zoli Erdos on June 26, 2009
Fellow Windows Vista victims, there’s light at the end of the tunnel: we may soon set ourselves free and only have to pay a $50 ransom. I just did. It has been obvious for quite a while that Microsoft simply abandoned Vista and it’s users, and instead of releasing Vista SP3, or Vista Final, it […]
Posted in Analysis, Marketing | Tagged microsoft, operating system, os, vista, vista final, vistasucks, win7, windows, windows 7, windows upgrade, windows xp, winxp | 6 Responses