|
The cloud storage scene has heated up recently, with a long-awaited entry by Google and a revamped SkyDrive from Microsoft. Dropbox has gone unchallenged by the major players for a long time, but that’s changed – both Google and Microsoft are now challenging Dropbox on its own turf, and all three services have their own compelling features. One thing’s for sure – Dropbox is no longer the one-size-fits-all solution. Why not store your Dropbox in your SkyDrive?
|
|
|
|
|
Last September, during the f8 Developers’ Conference, Facebook CTO Bret Taylor said that the company had no plans for a “central app repository” – an app store. Today, Facebook is changing its tune. The social giant has announced App Center, a section of Facebook dedicated to discovering and deploying high-quality apps on the company’s platform. The App Center will push apps to iPhone, Android and the mobile Web, giving Facebook its first true store for mobile app discovery. Face-what? Is that anything like The Google?
|
|
|
|
|
Microsoft just released seven security updates to fix 23 vulnerabilities in Windows and other products. In February, Apple released a massive update that covered 51 vulnerabilities and also introduced an embarrassing security flaw. The contrast is striking. Put it in a shiny silver case? Oh wait, that's the other way around.
|
|
|
|
|
H9RBS.js (v0.0001) is a flexible, dependency-free, lightweight, device-agnostic, modular, baked-in, component framework MVC library shoelacestrap to help you kickstart your responsive CSS-based app architecture backbone kitchensink tweetybirds. Be the future!
|
|
|
|
|
Amazon announced new managed database services and Elastic Beanstalk support targeting thousands upon thousands of Microsoft-centric developers. To the Cloud!
|
|
|
|
|
Sadly, I can't give Amazon Cloud my money. They handled the Wikileaks situation very poorly (they dropped support for Wikileaks). Particularly interesting is this, in which Amazon says "it is not credible that the extraordinary volume of 250,000 classified documents that WikiLeaks is publishing could have been carefully redacted". Evidently they didn't do their homework, as Wikileaks was incrementally releasing the documents, not all 250,000 at once (though, much later after Amazon dropped Wikileaks support, the rest of the documents were released in unredacted form due to human error).
Azure has not yet screwed over anything I care about yet, so I'm sticking with them.
|
|
|
|
|
I hear you: the WikiLeaks saga was full of cowardice and cheap moves by a lot of companies. Not sure if it matters to you (as it does to me), but Microsoft is still supporting the Heartland Institute[^].
Of course, I'm still cowardly enough to keep doing work for MSFT, so I guess it doesn't bug me that much. Not sure what my point is... Time to go home.
--------------
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
|
Indeed. It would be hard for me to boycott Microsoft. And I have reason to, considering their support of CISPA. However, when pretty much every company has a reason for me to boycott them, it becomes hard for me to find alternatives. Instead, I just choose the biggest offenders to boycott.
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote:
full of cowardice and cheap moves by a lot of companies.
Note the "a lot of companies" part. It's smart business wise to not annoy the highest buyer of your services. Governments tend to be big buyers, harassing them is never wise unless you can dictate terms. If a few big companies had independently decided to slam the USA government (which by supporting Wikileaks they would be doing), then best outcome they're going to lose customers. Worst outcome they're seen as unpatriotic and they lose enough customers to go out of business.
Kent Sharkey wrote:
Microsoft is still supporting the Heartland Institute
That one's easier, if MSFT decided to start discriminating about exactly which non-profits had access to their software then there would be a lawsuit in the courts tomorrow morning and a non-profit would be making a tidy profit this year. They're losing ground to Apple too, so being seen as even more evil is probably something they'd like to avoid.
|
|
|
|
|
Improving IT job market has employees feeling more confident and motivated -- but still considering new work opportunities And in other news, 82% of workers would like more money, and 29% would like more muffins in the breakroom
|
|
|
|
|
Blueseed, a conceptual floating island that plans to operate in international waters 12 miles off the coast of California, has sparked interest in 175 startups from all around the world. The island's close proximity to Silicon Valley is designed to make it easy for startups to attract venture capital funding without requiring a US work visa. Fifteen men on the dead man's chest...
|
|
|
|
|
Hmmmmm,
This brings a whole new meaning to the colloquialism 'This company is a sinking ship'. 
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
|
|
|
|
|
|
There are two things you can say for sure about human beings: our opposable thumbs make us great at using tools, and we are all big, fat liars. By age four, 90% of children have grasped the concept of lying, and it just gets worse from there. If you can believe them
|
|
|
|
|
Aren't 70% of statistics made up? 
|
|
|
|
|
A security researcher has found a potentially massive security hole in Windows 8 that would expose someone's contacts and other information from social networking services and email including Gmail, Facebook, Hotmail, LinkedIn, and Twitter, among others. It sounds serious, but there may be less to the security hole than meets the eye. No. Next question?
|
|
|
|
|
On any computer would be a similar thing, if someone has admin access to your pc your are screwed.. and that's it. 
Leonardo Paneque
|
|
|
|
|
In a massive leak, some 55,000 Twitter accounts have been compromised, leaving them open for abuse. According to AirDemon, accounts belonging to celebrities were attacked in the process. And now spammers are wasting 140 characters at a time (OK, no change)
|
|
|
|
|
Why cant hackers do something worthwhile and trash Al Qaeda web servers and the servers that provide hosting for host them?
|
|
|
|
|
They occasionally do[^]... a lot of these hackers are generally young though, so sometimes they target things that may just be popular or easy to attack.
|
|
|
|
|
Redmond is cutting the name "Azure" out of the branding for its cloud services on its billing portal. I guess that's one way to settle the "how do you pronounce it" question
|
|
|
|
|
Now all those "Windows Azure" books are useless. 
|
|
|
|
|
Oh, don't worry: this just gives them another reason to publish all new! versions. 
--------------
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
|
The charges against Object/Relational mapping (ORM) tools can be summarized in that they are complex, and provide only a leaky abstraction over a relational data store. Their complexity implies a grueling learning curve and often systems using an ORM perform badly - often due to naive interactions with the underlying database. But as you can tell, I want to push back a bit against this ORM hate - because I think a lot of it is unwarranted. If you outlaw ORM, only outlaws will use ORM
|
|
|
|
|
Heck, JSOP may already be using one.
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
