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Sun unveils JavaFX apps, Photo Flocker, Movie Cloud

Sun Microsystems demos two new JavaFX-powered applications, Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud, at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice president of software, shows attendees Photo Flocker, an app that allows users to search for photos by tags and display the photos...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Photograph, Photo Flocker, Movie Cloud, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems, Movie

Videos 2008-05-06

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News to know: Google, IBM; AMD; Apple

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Earnings wrap: Sam Diaz: Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring Larry Dignan: IBM...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Mary Jo Foley, Apple Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, IBM Corp., E-books, Desktops, Networking, Personal Technology, Hardware

Blog posts 2009-10-16

What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Which is more reliable, the client or the cloud

Well . . .Well . . .-If Google's stuff goes down, all I can do is wait.-If my stuff goes down, I can fix it myself. My parents can take it to a repair shop.-My drives? Haven't had an issue in over a year. Maybe two? I forget when I...

Tags: Performance management, Scripting languages, Backups, cloud computing, Microsoft ASP, performance, backup

Discussion threads 2009-09-25

3D football, anyone? Intel offers peek at 21st Century television

TV isn't TV anymore. It's out of the box. It's off the wall and it's not going back anytime soon. That was the opening line of the final keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, delivered by Intel exec Justin Rattner, who took to the stage to talk...

Tags: 3D, Intel Corp., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-24

Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all

I agreeusb flash drive would be betterBut, why are you asking the question about the Beatles?Minor CorrectionDL DVDs hold 8.4GB and not 5.4In regards to the article I think Optical Media is a media that is slowly phasing out but the cost of the media for most purposes is still...

Tags: Flash memory, Consumer electronics, optical media, USB flash drive, DVD, optical drive

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

OTOY's Jules Urbach: Cloud computing 'threatens' game consoles, Blu-ray, PCs [interview]

Cloud computing can't possibly handle streaming a Blu-ray movie or Adobe Photoshop, can it? Jules Urbach says it's not only possible, but scalable as a business. Urbach, founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based OTOY, is working with AMD to pair that company's supercomputers with...

Tags: Cloud Computing, Console, PC, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Game Console, Blu-ray, OTOY, Jules Urbach, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-11

AMD's Charlie Boswell: With cloud computing, 'follow the money' [interview]

Cloud computing can't possibly handle streaming a first-person shooter or a feature-length film, can it? Ask AMD's Charlie Boswell, and he'll not only tell you it's possible, but he'll nearly leap with excitement about it. Boswell, AMD's director of digital...

Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cloud, GPU, OTOY, Fusion Render Cloud, Jules, Games, Cloud Computing, Internet, Virtualization, Personal Technology, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-11

How the Web OS has begun to reshape IT and business

What a BS conclusion ...Are you serious or just plain delusional???Using a server is not using cloud computing. In fact, any decent professional company would never even think about anything "cloud" except for basic web hosting.Let me just give you the top two most logical reasons why real companies...

Tags: Games, information technology, game, HTTP, crowdsourcing, Web, cloud computing

Discussion threads 2009-09-06

Red Hat: Microsoft taking cloud back to the 80s

Red Hat should feel right at home then because using their software is like using something out of the 80's. I'll prefer a modern company like Microsoft instead of a company based on 30 year old technology such as Red Hat. My theory is that Red Hat is...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, NT-kernel, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., Linux, Unix

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...

Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Behind the failure of OpenSourceWorld

And yet..if the place was full you would be singing the praises of how popular and good OSS is. Surely even the OSS crowd could have got together for 1 day of the year to help generate the buzz around the software - a bit similar to seeing long lines...

Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, operating system, OSS, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-08-14

Layer 7 Technologies Security in the Cloud

Paul Rochester, CEO, and Scott Morrison, VP Engineering and Chief Architect, of Layer 7 Technologies, dropped by virtually to introduce me to their company's technology and the philosophy behind their products. After a while, I was able to understand the approach they were taking and how extensible and flexible it...

Tags: Layer 7 Technologies Inc., XML, Security, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-30

News to know: Microsoft, Yahoo; AMD; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Who will get the Windows 7 bits and when? Microsoft's fiscal 2010 game plan: Seven must-see...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., SOA, Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-22

Kingston debuts world's first 256GB USB thumb drive

Kingston debuts world's first 256GB USB thumb driveWe're getting thereAdd an encryption scheme on it, make it reasonably priced, and we'll be loving the future.God... I wish I had one... ntntStorage increases as the thumb drive becomes irrelevantWith ubiquitous and often free access to online storage, the thumb drive is...

Tags: Flash memory, storage, USB thumb Drive, Kingston Technology Corp., online storage, USB

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Another "death of the PC post" - but I think it's true

Another "death of the PC post" - but I think it's trueThe PC as originally designed is already dead...... we just changed the meaning. When PC were first designed, they were stand-alone entities. Now if you were to ask 100 random PC users if they are connected to the internet,...

Tags: Desktops, Corporate communications, PC, video

Discussion threads 2009-07-16

Rosso pitches Pirate Bay to Hollywood - and the cloud

Last week, Sweden-based Global Gaming Factory announced it would buy bad-boy torrent site The Pirate Bay. Now, the company has hired Wayne Rosso, former prez of Grokster and founder of Mashboxx, News.com reports. His job includes negotiating with music and movie execs and cutting distribution deals for a company once...

Tags: Movie, RIAA, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-16

What does the Chrome OS mean for education?

Well, at the moment, nothing. As Larry Dignan pointed out in his post this morning, "...the Chrome OS announcement is largely a preannouncement. There won’t be anything to see for a year." That being said, an interesting response to my post, "Windows 7 is the same as Ubuntu,"...

Tags: Education, Desktop, Student, Eclipse, Web Browser, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Web Browsers, Hardware, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Google Chrome OS is a game changer

Google Chrome OS is a game changerthis is just another silly ideadon't you understand that people want more than web-surfing on computers? be it netbook, notebook, desktop or what ever.if google means business then it means my smartphone offers more capabilities than this so called web OS calle google chrome...

Tags: Operating systems, Games, operating system, Google Chrome OS, Google Inc., Chrome OS, Google Chrome, game, Chrome, game changer, Web, Linux

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20