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Flash/Silverlight: How much business can you afford to turn away?
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Tim Anderson was asking about the future of Silverlight on Twitter today so here are my thoughts on the subject, in the context of earlier posts on the future…
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A word on the future of Europe (without the United Kingdom)
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It’s rare that I rant about politics but given the train wreck that we’ve woken up to here in Europe I thought I’d make the exception as this is…
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Infographic: Diffusion of Social Networks — Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Social networking market They say a picture’s worth a thousand words and much digital ink has been spilled recently on impressive sounding (yet relatively unimpressive) user counts, so here’s an…
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RIP Adobe Flash (1996-2011) – now let’s bury the dead
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Adobe kills mobile Flash, giving Steve Jobs the last laugh, reports The Guardian’s Charles Arthur following the late Steve Jobs’ epic Thoughts on Flash rant 18 months ago. It’s been…
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Facebook blocks entire “.co.uk” domain as “spammy or unsafe”
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Facebook have blocked “.co.uk” as “spammy or unsafe”: I was trying to post this article to my wall but get the same message when I try to post nothing…
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John McCarthy: Father of cloud computing dies
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it. If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone…
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VDI: Virtually Dead Idea?
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’ve been meaning to give my blog some attention (it’s been almost a year since my last post, and a busy one at that) and Simon Crosby’s (@simoncrosby) VDwhy? post…
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Citrix OpenCloud™ is neither Open nor Cloud
This content is 15 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.I’ve been busying myself recently establishing the Open Cloud Initiative which has been working with the community to establish a set of principles outlining what it means to be…
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Trend Micro abandons Intercloud™ trademark application
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Just when I thought we were going to be looking at another trademark debacle not unlike Dell’s attempt at “cloud computing” back in 2008 (see Dell cloud computing™ denied)…
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Introducing Planet Cloud: More signal, less noise.
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it. Update: PlanetCloud was retired after several years when news sources caught up with cloud coverage. As you are no doubt well aware there is a large and increasing…
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Face it Flash, your days are numbered.
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It’s no secret that I’m no fan of Adobe Flash: Why Adobe Flash penetration is more like 50% than 99% Towards a Flash free YouTube killer (was: Adobe Flash…
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HOWTO: Set up OpenVPN in a VPS
This content is 16 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.If, like me, you want to do any or all of the following things, you’ll want to tunnel your traffic over a VPN to a remote location: Access media…