As we slide into the autumn months, a fresh October gives us time to pause and reflect. This month Icrontic will be investigating the cloud computing initiative to see what the hubbub is about, particularly for the end user.
- What does cloud computing mean to you?
- What do you want it to be?
- Do you use it?
This is your chance to talk back and tell us what cloud computing is so that we might talk back to industry leaders with a collected voice. If you’re interested, shoot a mail to ROBERT [AT] ICRONTIC [DOT] COM. We promise to do right by you.
In other news, today was a terrible day for the industry, but probability suggests that there are news junkies out there who (like us) cannot go a day without reading something. To all you information sponges, this bomb’s for you:
- The internet’s spam content was down for September, and pr0n spam tapers off at noon.
- Here are some great new ways to keep track of Twitter, especially with large followings.
- Yahoo, the brains behind the BOSS (build your own search) initiative is in trouble with SearchMe for using their likeness without their logo. Sort of.
- Google Spreadsheets has received a face lift that gives it even more features that desktop software once exclusively enjoyed.
- Losing the war to piracy in South Korea, Warner Brothers is preparing to release new DVDs online before on the shelf.
- Won’t someone think of the children? Election-year grandstanding rides high as the senate orders the FCC to investigate advanced filtering techniques to help parents be more lazy about their children online.
- In a honkin’ big security roundup for October 2008 on the Windows Server 2008 platform, big names like AntiVir, F-Secure and Kaspersky bomb the test.
- The LHC Computing Grid, also known as the world’s largest grid, has gone online. It boasts 140 computer centers in 33 countries crunching 15 million gigabytes of data per year.
- Of the millions of iPhone buyers in the US, a whopping 30% of them ditched existing carriers to go Apple.
- MySpace music claims that it has streamed one billion tunes in a matter of weeks, while it took five years for iTunes to hit five billion. Shady numbers?
- HD-DVD is dead. Long live HD-DVD! Get a Blu-Ray player for $199.96 shipped.
- The incredibly smexy HTC Touch HD went live in Germany, and they soiled their lederhosen over it.
- iPhone firmware 2.2 brings street view and some miscellaneous keyboard fixes.
- Real’s RealDVD program which ripped DVDs with content protection intact, has sent the MPAA running in circles. One world’s fastest injunction later, and the service is on the skids.
- As our IPv4 addresses dwindle and A-level network operators do little to push IPv6, some people are working hard to make the transition easier by helping them speak the same language.
- Coming exclusively to the consumer-oriented Blackberry Storm, the Blackberry app store is as lame as the Storm is.
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