Spoon – Delivering Apps On the Web
November 18, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
There’s proliferation of more and more accessible Internet connectivity, expanding bandwidth availability and movement of more services to the "cloud". Being connected everywhere makes the desire to be able to have "your" stuff everywhere more of a reality.
The Spoon website and service provides the ability to access and deliver applications instantly with no downloads, installs, or hassles. [On a side note, this seems a little odd because you do have to install a the Spoon plug-in for everything to work.]
Spoon specializes in app virtualization and delivery technology, a family of sophisticated techniques that decouple apps from the underlying operating …read more
How long until video hardware is obsolete?
November 3, 2009 by Robin Parrish
Filed under Electronics
VHS has gone the way of the dinosaur. DVD is on its way out. Blu-ray is the flavor of the month, but how long will that month last?
Netflix and iTunes already offer streaming movie rentals to computers and game consoles, and more and more DVD and Blu-ray players are coming equipped with the ability to stream video from online services. Today, Best Buy announced that it’s adding CinemaNow’s DVD streaming service to “every Web-connected device” the retail chain sells.
So I have to ask the inevitable question: How long will it be until physical media goes away forever, in favor of …read more
Amazon on Relational Databases
October 30, 2009 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Amazon has been at the forefront of cloud computing for the longest time and they have offered various cloud computing products like storage services & database services to the enterprise.
Another additional product on the Amazon web services is the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) which Amazon feels would help streamline processes of settings up, scaling and operating relational data over the internet.
Amazon vice president of web services, Adam Selipsky, have noted that they have been working on the relational database for the last two years since many of their Amazon web service customers have given feedback that they require relational …read more
Ozzie and His Phone, PC & TV Vision
May 24, 2009 by Milo Riano
Filed under Computers
Ray Ozzie who is Microsoft’s chief software architect answered questions related to Microsoft’s business and technical side from financial analysts at J.P. Morgan Technology and the media.
According to the Microsoft executive, the software giant’s overall vision is the “Software + Service” business model where their software business would work together with their hosted solutions.
The most significant cloud offering from Microsoft is the Exchange Online and SharePoint Online services. Also, Microsoft is seeing itself as focusing on the screens that integrate well with the cloud – Phone, PC and TV.
I don’t think Microsoft is building the cloud …read more




