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Amazon VPC trojan horse finds its mark: Private Cloud
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.Now we’ve all had a chance to digest the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud announcement and the dust has settled I’m joining the fray with a “scoop of interpretation“. Positioned
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Crystal ball: Data-only carriers to destroy the telco industry RSN
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.This is one of those random thoughts that fits in a tweet but deserves a little more explanation. Like most I currently pay around €100 a month for a
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Twitter Retries Registering Retweet
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.Hopefully you’re not sick of hearing about Twitter, Inc’s trademark woes (and yet another alliteration) because yes, they’ve been at it again. Conceding that the USPTO has successfully torpedoed
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“Twitter” Trademark in Trouble Too
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.Yesterday I apparently struck a nerve in revealing Twitter’s “Tweet” Trademark Torpedoed. The follow up commentary both on this blog and on Twitter itself was interesting and insightful, revealing
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Twitter’s “Tweet” Trademark Torpedoed
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.Last month Twitter founder Biz Stone announced in a blog post (May The Tweets Be With You) that they “have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached
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An obituary for Infrastructure as a Product (IaaP)
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.There’s been an interesting discussion in the Cloud Computing Use Cases group this week following a few people airing grievances about the increasingly problematic term “private cloud”. I thought
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NewsFlash: Trend Micro trademarks the Intercloud™
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of TrendMicro‘s InterCloud Security Service product when it was announced as a beta back on 25 September 2006 (for general availability in 2007):
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Gartner: VMware the next Novell? Cloud to save the world?
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.There’s been two more-interesting-than-usual posts over at the Gartner blogs today: Just a Thought; Will VMware become the next Novell? “VMware owns the market, well above 90%, and continues
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Organising the Internet with Web Categories
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.In order to scratch an itch relating to the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) I submitted my first Internet-Draft to the IETF this week: Web Categories (draft-johnston-http-category-header). The idea’s
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The browser is the OS (thanks to Firefox 3.5, Chrome 2, Safari 4)
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Almost a year ago I wrote about Google Chrome: Cloud Operating Environment and [re]wrote the Google Chrome Wikipedia article, discussing the ways in which Google was changing the game
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An open letter to the CAcert.org board and members
This content is 17 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.This is an open letter to the CAcert.org board and membership (including my fellow 20-30 official “Association Members” (copied) as well as the 150,000 or so account holders we
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CloudBurst Trademarked?
This content is 17 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 “CloudBurst” is one of my least favourite cloud computing buzzwords. Its intended meaning is something like when you run out of room in your own