Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts, FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud.
We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.
Jan. 8, 2012 11:38 AM EST
The US State Department on Monday said that it has ordered some non-essential US embassy officials in Damascus and all embassy dependents to leave Syria because of the "uncertainty and volatility" in the country. As of this morning, and since July 2010, my abducted daughter Sofia Kirca...
The day after my last tweet regarding the lack of any new information about my abducted daughter Sofia since March 4, I received an updated letter on Thursday, April 7, 2011, from the State Department on Sofia's welfare in Syria. Sofia was abducted by her mother from the United States ...
Wednesday morning I received new photographs of Sofia from the State Department in Washington, DC. Sofia remains in Syria since being abducted in July 2010. The day after my last tweet regarding the lack of any new information about my abducted daughter Sofia since March 4, I received ...
Diane Macedo of Fox News worked on Sofia's story for more than a month, studying documents, interviewing more than a dozen people, and fact-checking before publishing her news story on Monday and airing our interview. On Monday, she also published a detailed article on Sofia that was p...
Diane Macedo of Fox News worked on Sofia's story for more than a month, studying documents, interviewing more than a dozen people, and fact-checking before publishing her news story on Monday and airing our interview. Here is the link to the Fox News on-camera interview and the link to...
Yesterday (Sunday) AP reported that "State Dept. issued travel warning on Syria" and this morning (Monday) Reuters filed a follow-up report that "US offers free flights out for employees in Syria." As of this morning, and since July 2010, my abducted daughter Sofia Kircaali, a US citiz...
The monetizing MPEG-LA patent consortium has whistled up anybody who
thinks they have patent dibs on the royalty-free open source VP8/WebM
video codec that Google bought to replace the technically superior, royalty-
bearing H.264 standard in HTML 5.
MPEG-LA, which controls H.264 ...
Cloud Expo, Inc. announced on Thursday that Cloud Expo 2011 New York, the 8th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo, will take place June 6-9, 2011, at the Javits Center in New York City. The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world’s leading Cloud-...
Apple's App Store has done so well - seven billion downloads - and the Mac is now doing so well - the Mac would be #110 of a Fortune 500 list if it was spun out - that Apple figured why not give Mac its very own App Store?
So a Mac App Store should be up and running by mid-January. ...
SYS-CON Events announced today that the 8th International Cloud Expo will take place June 6-9, 2011, in New York City.
The International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held three times a year, in New York, Silicon Valley and ...
Skype, now 70% controlled by private equity house Silver Lake which valued the joint at $2.7 billion when it bought in, wants to go public and raise $100 million. The Internet phone service has 8.1 million customers who pay to make calls to conventional or mobile phones, up from 6.6 mi...
Adobe should cut its losses with Apple and target its flagship Flash Player at telecoms carriers, independent analyst Ovum has claimed in a new report*.
With the spat over Apple's refusal to support the Adobe Flash technology on its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices continuing to ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The night belonged to first-time winners and fan-favorite Carrie Underwood, who took home two wins at this year's CMT MUSIC AWARDS. Underwood took top honors for VIDEO OF THE YEAR ("Cowboy Casanova") and CMT PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR ("Temporary ...
Apple said Monday that it has sold over two million iPads in less than two months.
It began shipping the dingus, which only launched April 3, in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK over the weekend. Reuters says Japanese and Australian buy...
Google fired a shot across Apple’s bow Wednesday and considering the way things have been going Apple will probably seek to return fire in the not-too-distant future with an armor-piercing lawsuit.
The latest fray started when Google got up at the Google I/O developers conference – li...
blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today launched a public beta version of its world-class product that is specifically designed for mobile access at http://m.blinkx.com/.
Starting Wednesday, consumers can access the blinkx Mobile Video Search beta s...
Google said Tuesday that it means to buy Norway's publicly traded VoIP codec house Global IP Solutions Holding AB (GIPS) for $68.2 million cash, a move that could put it in contention with Skype not to mention the telecom companies that are selling its phones.
The deal, which repres...
The PowerBuilder community will be partnering with Sybase to bring you a series of webinars called PowerBuilderTV.
Sessions will include new features and tips and tricks to using PowerBuilder and companion products. Presenters are notable figures from the PB community, including Dav...
Kyte, the online, mobile and social video platform for live and on-demand content, today announced an SDK for developing Kyte-powered iPad apps for distribution through the Apple iTunes App Store, as well as web-based support for the iPad through a new, universal embed code that output...
Badges, Passports, the Creator, the Founder, the Mayor, getting a Pin, picking up a raccoon..This is the language of the newest phenomenon to hit the location-enabled social media marketing world.
I am talking about Social Networking Games. No longer only for geeks and geocachers, t...
Ulitzer.com, the first revolutionary "new media" platform in the world, announced today that a new Ulitzer topic site, Apple Tablet (http://tablet.ulitzer.com), was launched today to provide the most comprehensive breaking news and blog coverage of Apple Tablet.
Launch time authors...
Citrix Online’s strategy addresses the strong growth potential for high definition and affordable audio conferencing services. According to Wainhouse Research, an independent firm that provides insight on the global markets for this sector, Citrix Online is well-positioned to meet the ...
The power of Location allows information (including advertising) to be delivered to consumers most-able to act upon this information, based on their real-time proximity to the physical locations where transactions occur. Location is changing the very nature of advertising and mobile Lo...
Like many people in the industry I have been watching the evolution of these phones and thinking they will pretty quickly get to the point that they could be fully realized digital signage playback devices. This one is capable of playing out 720P HD, the report says. However, the quest...
PacketVideo (PV) announced today that new versions of its market-leading TwonkyMedia family of connected home solutions are now available and will be on display at CES in North Hall room N213. TwonkyMedia solutions break down digital walls and enable seamless media sharing on connected...
Ulitzer.com, the first revolutionary "new-media" platform in the world, launched today "CES 2010" topic (http://ces2010.ulitzer.com) to provide the most comprehensive breaking news covergae of the annual consumer electronics show. The International CES is produced by the Consumer Elect...
Light Touch incorporates LBO’s proprietary holographic laser projection technology (HLP), creating bright, high-quality WVGA resolution video images that are always in focus. HLP enables extremely wide throw angles, resulting in large images being created at close proximity to the proj...
Version 2.0 of award-winning Mediaroom TV platform enables subscription TV providers to deliver more entertainment content to more types of screens, using a single cloud-based infrastructure.
Dailymotion, one of the largest Web video sites in the world, announced interactive advertising formats for Dailymotion’s broadband TV and IPTV channels. The announcement follows the successful launch of Dailymotion’s iPhone app and expands Dailymotion’s successful ad-supported content...
Hours before Google was due to trot out its Nexus One Google Phone Tuesday, Apple sent out a statement saying that more than three billion apps have been downloaded in the roughly 18 months that its iTunes App Store has been open.
Reminding Google who’s king of the hill, Apple CEO ...
As the first decade of the millennium comes to a close, Vidyo believes that change is on the horizon in the videoconferencing market as we enter 2010. Vidyo’s predictions for the coming year: 2010 will be the first year when corporate funded, large-scale desktop solutions will be the l...
Google will be acquiring AdMob, a network for ads on mobile gadgets for $750 million broadening its advertising reach to include mobile segments. Omar Hamoui, CEO of Admob launched the company 4 year ago and has been a pioneer in the way he has maneuvered the controls imposed by wirele...
CEO Oleg Tscheltzoff explains the secret to Fotolia’s success: “Sourcing photos, vectors, and videos that are legal for commercial and promotional use from the most talented artists around the world has enabled Fotolia to provide incredible value. Designers, marketing, and creative pro...
IBM today announced that Digicable, a cable and broadband distribution player in India, has signed a US $83 million, 10-year strategic outsourcing agreement with IBM. As part of this agreement, IBM will support the integration of Digicable's digital media content delivery and value add...
On the third anniversary of its launch, Youku.com, China's leading Internet video website, today announced that it has closed US$40 million in private equity funding in a first tranche of a growth financing round. The round was led by Chengwei Ventures and the first closing was raised ...
Amazon Web Services announced, on Wednesday, streaming media delivery for Amazon CloudFront, the content delivery service from AWS. This new feature enables streaming delivery of audio and video content, providing an alternative to progressive download where end users download a full ...
Yeah, it's this time of the year. Again. Making predictions is so tempting... This year I'll cover just the iPhone. Apple will let Flash Player on iPhone no later than October ’10. They don’t have a choice, if they want to stay competitive. Enough of a crippled Web browser already. Act...
Having been the lone male in my house for a long time, I get outvoted on many things, but especially the TV. Luckily I am proud to say that I am a tech/gadget geek as well, as an admirer and part-time developer for iPhone, so I sometimes retire to my study in the evenings to investigat...
