1. You will end up doing more work... Sitting on the couch at home, in the stands at the kids ball game, checking in from vacation... 2. You will be more productive. Even at work you will get more done while your PC is rebooting, roaming the building(s), during lunch... 3. With Citrix Receiver you will have access to all the apps you need to do work from anywhere.
CA has looked into its crystal ball and now realizes that it might have been a tad ambitious in forecasting earnings of $1.60-$1.71 this fiscal year, pushing Wall Street to expect $1.69. It'll probably come in on the low end of its guidance, it says, something Credit Suisse, for one, blames on expenses. So, apparently, does CA. Therefore, in the name of "profitable growth" and efficiency, it's going to terminate a thousand people, about 8% of its global workforce, to right-size for its new cloud computing strategy.
CA has looked into its crystal ball and now realizes that it might have been a tad ambitious in forecasting earnings of $1.60-$1.71 this fiscal year, pushing Wall Street to expect $1.69. It'll probably come in on the low end of its guidance, it says, something Credit Suisse, for one, blames on expenses. So, apparently, does CA. Therefore, in the name of "profitable growth" and efficiency, it's going to terminate a thousand people, about 8% of its global workforce, to right-size for its new cloud computing strategy.
Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday released updated Java and Web-based development tools for the BlackBerry platform. The BlackBerry Java Plug-In for Eclipse v1.1 and the BlackBerry Web Plug-in v2.0 offer new capabilities that make it even easier to create feature-rich applications. The BlackBerry Widget SDK (Software Development Kit) v1.0 and the BlackBerry Java SDK v5.0, which includes more than 20,000 APIs, provide unparalleled access to BlackBerry smartphone hardware features, native BlackBerry software applications and other unique system capabilities of the BlackBerry Application Platform. Using the new tools developers can quickly and easily build web-based BlackBerry Widgets or Java applications that leverage the unique benefits of the BlackBerry Application Platform to seamlessly share information across and interact with core BlackBerry applications or other third party applications. These are personalized and contextualized applications that can integrate with a BlackBerry smartphone's inbox, calendar, address book and other native BlackBerry applications to deliver a highly engaging user experience.
Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday released updated Java and Web-based development tools for the BlackBerry platform. The BlackBerry Java Plug-In for Eclipse v1.1 and the BlackBerry Web Plug-in v2.0 offer new capabilities that make it even easier to create feature-rich applications. The BlackBerry Widget SDK (Software Development Kit) v1.0 and the BlackBerry Java SDK v5.0, which includes more than 20,000 APIs, provide unparalleled access to BlackBerry smartphone hardware features, native BlackBerry software applications and other unique system capabilities of the BlackBerry Application Platform. Using the new tools developers can quickly and easily build web-based BlackBerry Widgets or Java applications that leverage the unique benefits of the BlackBerry Application Platform to seamlessly share information across and interact with core BlackBerry applications or other third party applications. These are personalized and contextualized applications that can integrate with a BlackBerry smartphone's inbox, calendar, address book and other native BlackBerry applications to deliver a highly engaging user experience.
Attensity Group has issued its analysis of public reaction in Twitter to the release of the Apple iPad. This analysis follows Attensity's previous report on sentiment around the iPad after its official launch announcement in late January. Over the weekend of April 3-4, Attensity evaluated the sentiment of 50,000 discussion-oriented messages, or "tweets," on the iPad using Attensity Analyze for VOC, part of Attensity's semantic analysis application suite.
Attensity Group has issued its analysis of public reaction in Twitter to the release of the Apple iPad. This analysis follows Attensity's previous report on sentiment around the iPad after its official launch announcement in late January. Over the weekend of April 3-4, Attensity evaluated the sentiment of 50,000 discussion-oriented messages, or "tweets," on the iPad using Attensity Analyze for VOC, part of Attensity's semantic analysis application suite.
Apple says it had sold upwards of 300,000 of its newfangled $499-$699 Wi-Fi-only iPads by Saturday midnight, the widget’s first day out, around half what some people thought but on par with the iPhone. The number includes pre-orders and the Wall Street Journal says the stores didn’t sell out. The new iPad owners, reportedly mostly the Apple faithful who already own Macs and iPods, immediately downloaded a million+ applications and some 250,000-odd eBooks (Apple now has a 60,000-strong eBook store called iBooks of course).
Apple says it had sold upwards of 300,000 of its newfangled $499-$699 Wi-Fi-only iPads by Saturday midnight, the widget’s first day out, around half what some people thought but on par with the iPhone. The number includes pre-orders and the Wall Street Journal says the stores didn’t sell out. The new iPad owners, reportedly mostly the Apple faithful who already own Macs and iPods, immediately downloaded a million+ applications and some 250,000-odd eBooks (Apple now has a 60,000-strong eBook store called iBooks of course).
On paper, there is nothing particularly special about the Apple iPad, which is scheduled to arrive in retail stores Saturday. Its performance and size are good but not revolutionary. By Apple’s own admission, it’s similar to a netbook — a downsized laptop whose purpose is to run browser-based or other light applications. Because it’s Apple, the iPad will be more compact, user friendly, stylish and come with a salty price tag. But here’s why the iPad is important: It’s the next step in human-computer interaction.
On paper, there is nothing particularly special about the Apple iPad, which is scheduled to arrive in retail stores Saturday. Its performance and size are good but not revolutionary. By Apple’s own admission, it’s similar to a netbook — a downsized laptop whose purpose is to run browser-based or other light applications. Because it’s Apple, the iPad will be more compact, user friendly, stylish and come with a salty price tag. But here’s why the iPad is important: It’s the next step in human-computer interaction.
RightScale says it’s got new enterprise features in its cloud management platform. It’s talking better authorization and permissioning control, cost-tracking, and overall management of running virtual servers in the cloud across large organizations with multiple users, departments and projects They support the creation of IT self-service and corporate governance strategies in the cloud that are supposed to match internal IT policies. RightScale also announced that it’s now launched a million servers into the cloud.
RightScale says it’s got new enterprise features in its cloud management platform. It’s talking better authorization and permissioning control, cost-tracking, and overall management of running virtual servers in the cloud across large organizations with multiple users, departments and projects They support the creation of IT self-service and corporate governance strategies in the cloud that are supposed to match internal IT policies. RightScale also announced that it’s now launched a million servers into the cloud.
XML co-creator Tim Bray has fled Sun and Oracle – where he says he could have stayed – for Google Android and the title developer advocate to stick it to iPhone, which he labels a closed “sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger. I hate it….Apple apparently thinks you can have the benefits of the Internet while at the same time controlling what programs can be run and what parts of the stack can be accessed and what developers can say to each other. I think they’re wrong and see this job as a chance to help prove it.” He’s staying in Canada.
XML co-creator Tim Bray has fled Sun and Oracle – where he says he could have stayed – for Google Android and the title developer advocate to stick it to iPhone, which he labels a closed “sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger. I hate it….Apple apparently thinks you can have the benefits of the Internet while at the same time controlling what programs can be run and what parts of the stack can be accessed and what developers can say to each other. I think they’re wrong and see this job as a chance to help prove it.” He’s staying in Canada.
In a clear case of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, it appears that Novell is going to start supporting KVM virtualization like Red Hat does with the Service Pack 1 release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 this summer. According to the HOpen blog it’ll handle guest systems for SLES 9-11, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, XP, Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4-5. Host systems can run 32- or 64-bit guests and support up to 16 virtual CPUs, 512GB of RAM and eight network interfaces. Like Red Hat, Novell will support both Xen and KVM – at least in the short term – even preferring Xen for the moment –but where Citrix and its Xen alliance with Novell wind up remain to be seen.
In a clear case of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, it appears that Novell is going to start supporting KVM virtualization like Red Hat does with the Service Pack 1 release of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 this summer. According to the HOpen blog it’ll handle guest systems for SLES 9-11, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, XP, Vista and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4-5. Host systems can run 32- or 64-bit guests and support up to 16 virtual CPUs, 512GB of RAM and eight network interfaces. Like Red Hat, Novell will support both Xen and KVM – at least in the short term – even preferring Xen for the moment –but where Citrix and its Xen alliance with Novell wind up remain to be seen.
Sat lonely in my office, I remembered about a website that did everything that ‘Dan the Mexican’ could do and more, a site that pushed our message out to a bespoke and targeted audience, a site that supplied me with just as valuable information as ‘Dan the Mexican’ would give me during a working day and more importantly Ulitzer would not go on holiday for two weeks to Thailand. Ulitzer 1 : 0 Dan the Mexican
Sat lonely in my office, I remembered about a website that did everything that ‘Dan the Mexican’ could do and more, a site that pushed our message out to a bespoke and targeted audience, a site that supplied me with just as valuable information as ‘Dan the Mexican’ would give me during a working day and more importantly Ulitzer would not go on holiday for two weeks to Thailand. Ulitzer 1 : 0 Dan the Mexican
President Nicholas Sarkozy of France has signed into law new legislation that outlaws use of the term “2.0” in France and all of its holdings around the world. “This imbecilic term led so many people, in the business and consumer sectors, to hold a false impression of the truth of the world,” Sarkozy said in an official statement. “It was proven without doubt in 2001 that there is no such thing as a new economy; today we can say without contradiction there exists no possibility of applying the term ‘2.0’ to anything that is viable or comprehensible.” Sarkozy added, “This vacuous term led to the global economic meltdown in 2008-09.” The legislation itself notes that “the idea of ‘2.0 thinking’ led to overconfidence among entrepreneurs building a so-called New Economy 10 years ago. “Then, after the dot-com bubbleburst (éclat de soufflé in French) the term returned immediately, being used ubiquitously to justify risk in financial instruments and machinations that proved to be untenable and catastrophic.”
President Nicholas Sarkozy of France has signed into law new legislation that outlaws use of the term “2.0” in France and all of its holdings around the world. “This imbecilic term led so many people, in the business and consumer sectors, to hold a false impression of the truth of the world,” Sarkozy said in an official statement. “It was proven without doubt in 2001 that there is no such thing as a new economy; today we can say without contradiction there exists no possibility of applying the term ‘2.0’ to anything that is viable or comprehensible.” Sarkozy added, “This vacuous term led to the global economic meltdown in 2008-09.” The legislation itself notes that “the idea of ‘2.0 thinking’ led to overconfidence among entrepreneurs building a so-called New Economy 10 years ago. “Then, after the dot-com bubbleburst (éclat de soufflé in French) the term returned immediately, being used ubiquitously to justify risk in financial instruments and machinations that proved to be untenable and catastrophic.”
iPad - T minus 2 days... Wake the Crew and Strap Them In, its going to be a great ride! Oh come on, as if the potential iPad owners can sleep... I think they will be like kids at Christmas time, waiting anxiously.... So close but still so far ;-) I imagine a cross section of iPhone users will become iPad users as well. They already run their Mobile Lifestyle with iPhone in hand, but long for something to complement in addition, not replace, but extend...with the same innovative design & UI. Then there will be the new users that WILL already see what they can achieve with a device like the iPad.
iPad - T minus 2 days... Wake the Crew and Strap Them In, its going to be a great ride! Oh come on, as if the potential iPad owners can sleep... I think they will be like kids at Christmas time, waiting anxiously.... So close but still so far ;-) I imagine a cross section of iPhone users will become iPad users as well. They already run their Mobile Lifestyle with iPhone in hand, but long for something to complement in addition, not replace, but extend...with the same innovative design & UI. Then there will be the new users that WILL already see what they can achieve with a device like the iPad.
If public, private, hybrid, cumulus, stratus wasn’t enough, the ‘Inter-Cloud’ concept came up again at the Cloud Connect gathering in San Jose last week. According to the Wikipedia entry, it was first introduced in 2007 by Kevin Kelly, both Lori MacVittie and Greg Ness wrote about the Intercloud last June and many reference James [...]
If public, private, hybrid, cumulus, stratus wasn’t enough, the ‘Inter-Cloud’ concept came up again at the Cloud Connect gathering in San Jose last week. According to the Wikipedia entry, it was first introduced in 2007 by Kevin Kelly, both Lori MacVittie and Greg Ness wrote about the Intercloud last June and many reference James [...]