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Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Google App Engine: When will Microsoft field a competitor?

On April 7, Google took the wraps off of more than many had expected: Not just a hosted database platform, but an entire hosted Web app platform, known as Google App Engine. Google App Engine, which Google announced at its CampFire One developer event on April...

Tags: Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., RDBMS, BigTable, SimpleDB, SSDS, Databases, Web Services, Storage, Application Servers, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2008-04-07

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A 4 SSD array: Apricorn pt 2

Itching for bragging rights with the gamers next door? Want to edit uncompressed HD video without breaking the bank? I turbocharge Apricorn's internal PCI-e array card with 4 Intel X25-M SSDs. Yup, its fast! by Robin Harris

Tags: Apricorn, PCI, Games, Corporate Communications, Financial Services, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Marketing, Finance, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Hardware components

Another ideaThe KH family must look forward to Santa's arrival if those are your ideas of gifts!One I think worth considering is and external drive and a back up program. You know which friends need those. (Sorry Zack :- Well, those choices were...... different.Why the i7 extreme, when you can...

Tags: Games, Holiday Gift Guide 2009, Holiday Gift Guide, Holiday gift, hardware component, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Laptop computers

This year the laptop list was a tough assignment for several reasons. First, the emergence of a new class of ultra-thin laptops--spawned by lower-cost processors from Intel and AMD--has made things more complicated. Second, there's a fresh crop of Windows 7 laptops, and...

Tags: Processor, Hard Drive, Performance, Apple MacBook, Memory, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Intel Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Compaq CQ61z, Timeline 1810T, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows 7, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-11-01

Planning to install Windows 7 on your netbook, here's a couple tips

The problem with Windows on netbooksNetbooks need SSDs. I do not like very portable devices with a spinning disk, they are just not robust enough. Windows space requirements coupled with their poor performance so far on small, low end SSDs, makes Windows a poor choice.It seems that most of the...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Optical storage: RIP

Vintage Zip DriveI've actually got a Zip 100 SCSI drive sitting around with a ton of disks. Cost a ton when it was new, but now it's just an antique paperweight...Optical storage is not a dead endSSD drives are never going to catch on for some big things, like PC...

Tags: Games, SSD Drives, SSD, optical media, hard drive, CD, game, Cd/DVd, storage, Optical Storage

Discussion threads 2009-10-11

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

News to know: Verizon's Pre; Tornado; IDF; iPhone MMS; RedHat; Gmail outage

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. Sam Diaz: Report: Verizon says no to Palm Pre Andrew Mager: Tornado: The real-time web server from...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, MMS, Red Hat Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Microsoft Corp., Outage, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., E-mail Providers, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Smart Phones, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-09-25

Intel: SSDs are coming

A MisnomerThe term "solid-state" is actually slightly off, if the intent is to distinguish a unit with no moving parts from one with moving parts. The term "solid-state", although it can be used informally to mean "no-moving-parts", actually refers to lack of vacuum or gas-based tubes, thereby implying the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Visual Studio, Storage, Intel Corp., SSD

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?

RE: What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?The transfer speed will remain meaningless until SATA 10k and 15k RPM speeds become the norm. The speed of the data retrieval from the platters is the biggest factor in drive performance. The disk drive is and will remain the...

Tags: Performance management, Main Memory, OS/driver, Gbit SATA, disk

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all

Once heralded as the second coming of data storage, the sun has finally set on the optical drive as an effective vehicle for data storage and delivery. Optical drives are simply too small and too slow to be practical. Single layer discs hold 4.7GB while double layer discs can hold...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Storage, Optical Drive, MCE, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-09-16

News to know: Kanye West; Bing Visual Search; Quicken-Mint; Sprint; 802.11n, Intel

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. Oliver Marks: Kayne West Influences Enterprise Social Business Strategy Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Bing gets visual search; full...

Tags: Larry Dignan, IEEE 802.11n, Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, Sprint Communications, Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Wi-Fi, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Wireless And Mobility

Blog posts 2009-09-15

Pliant announces 'world's fastest enterprise SSDs'

In the latest salvo of the enterprise SSD speed wars, Pliant Technology on Monday unveiled its first family of enterprise-ready solid state drives. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: Enterprise, Pliant, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-14

Apricorn's 4 TB hard card: PCI RAID array pt. 1

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so the timing was good. You may recall the...

Tags: Card, Bandwidth, Disk, Apricorn, Video, PCI Express, Video Capture Card, MB/sec, PeDA, WD, Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro Video Capture Card, RAID, Corporate Communications, Storage, PCI, Hardware, Marketing, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-27

Hitachi now shipping 'world's first' 2TB, 7200RPM hard drive

Hitachi now shipping 'world's first' 2TB, 7200RPM hard driveMechanical hard drivesMoving parts = Failure old technology that needs to go awayNot the firstWestern Digital has the 2TB Green drive but it runs at 5,400rpm.Seagate has a 2TB drive that runs at both 5,400 and 5,900 rpm'sand then there's this...The Seagate...

Tags: Storage, Hitachi Ltd.

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

News to know: Microhoo; Multilingual spam; Apple; Verizon; Sprint

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. Larry Dignan: Microsoft-Yahoo search pact appears to be a win-win if smaller deal Boomtown: Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Struck-Will Be Announced...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Verizon Communications Inc., SPSS Inc., Apple Inc., Spam, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Web Browsers, Financial Planning, Channel Management, Internet, Finance, Marketing

Blog posts 2009-07-29

Intel's first 34nm SSDs hit by Bios flaw

Intel's first 34nm SSDs hit by Bios flaw That's rightPC users are still hobbled with 1970s BIOS technology.RE: Intel's first 34nm SSDs hit by Bios flaw Yea! A password scheme that really works!glad they caught it soon.i hope everyone is offereing full refunds and a guarantee for first delivery as...

Tags: PC Users, Bios flaw, BIOS, SSD, Intel Corp., flaw

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Laptop or desktop+netbook for back to school?

It's almost August, folks. We all know what that means, right? If you don't already have a computer for school, you need to get one, PDQ. For some of you in K-12, your school might have a 1:1 program and you'll take a laptop home with you...

Tags: Desktop, Laptop Computer, Netbook, Computer, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Productivity, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-27

News to know: Microsoft; Amazon, AT&T-iPhone; PayPal; Yahoo's board

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. Larry Dignan: Microsoft's client revenue skids; Blame netbooks, Windows 7 deferrals Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and the...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Board, Yahoo! Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., PayPal, Smart Phones, Data Centers, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-24