BBC News - EU launches antitrust probe into alleged Google abuses

BBC News - EU launches antitrust probe into alleged Google abuses:

"The European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position.

The EC will examine whether the world's largest search engine penalised competing services in its results.

The probe follows complaints by firms including price comparison site Foundem and legal search engine ejustice.fr."

Security by an away the primary concern with the Cloud

Mission Critical Data Not Getting Backed Up, Slowing the Move to the Cloud:

"Managing Failovers
While security is still the principal concern for two-thirds of companies putting applications in the cloud, over half of companies said that their biggest problem with cloud computing deployments was how to control failovers and to ensure that the effected data could still be made available.

Cloud deployment concerns"

Rober1236 Jua the Cyber Trekker of Second Life

Funny self reference in Wikipedia

Click on the image above and wait till you get the joke.

Facebook and MySpace to Make Joint Announcement on Thursday

Facebook and MySpace to Make Joint Announcement on Thursday:

"Our best clue as to what the two companies will announce is that Facebook’s VP for Platform Marketing will be making the joint announcement on behalf of Facebook. If we had to guess, we’d say the announcement will be related to MySpace using the Facebook Platform or Facebook Connect."

Models of different workload patterns for the Cloud

The following graph was shown as part of "Microsoft’s PaaS Solution: The Windows Azure Platform" presentation at UP 2010. These are the usage patterns I guess any service will likely see. In developing a sizing solution for SharePoint you need to make an educated assumption about which one it will be, and provision your sizing or Cloud services for that. With SharePoint the growing Fast solution is very common, and you must be prepared for rapid take up.

Looking inside the machine that runs the Cloud

 

Microsoft's Azure Cloud Datacenter in Chicago

This is the Machine behind the Matrix. Just looking at these images lets you know the power of Cloud over local hosted web solutions. Clearly the future is in the Cloud.


 
 

The Tweether Report: Find the present density of geo tweets anywhere in the world

The Tweether Report: Find the present density of geo tweets anywhere in the world

Fabasoft Folio Cloud

Fabasoft Folio Cloud offers a cloud based niche direct competition to SharePoint Office 365.

You can test Fabasoft Folio Cloud for free by registering for an account. Give it a try at https://folio.fabasoft.com The site has the advantage of being free up to 1 GB of free storage so you can give it a try to see if it works for you. I will be playing with this and see how it compares to Google Docs. I have been a Google Docs users for about 4 years now ad have a love/hate relationship with the product. So it will be interesting to see how Fabasoft.

Warning, Fabasoft has a lurker site called Fabsoft. Make sure you type in FABASOFT and not FABSOFT. Even the url folio.fabsoft.com will take you to another companies site.

And it works with my iPad, which is a major plus. Though I do already use the SharePlusLite iPad app for connection to SharePoint sites.

Web 3.0: The Next Phase of the Net

This animation illustrates how we see the web moving from a boring work tool to a social enabling tool linked to the real world and mobile.

The Tweether Report: Find the present density of geo tweets anywhere in the world

The Tweether Report: Find the present density of geo tweets anywhere in the world

Tweether is a measure of the local level of tweeting for a given area.

The Tablet war, a war I saw coming a year ago

Today, the Android and iPad products

MSNBC writes about how the Samsung Tablet gets a war going between Apples iPad product and Google Android based alternative.

Galaxy Tab vs. iPad: The tablet war begins now - Technology & science - Wireless - msnbc.com

In January of this year, before the iPad was even launched I wrote a small piece about how I saw this coming war shaking out

A year ago, my outline of how the battle was like to work out, still waiting for the Microsoft relaunch.

Share the Point: The war for the Slate Space

So far the Apple and Android products have taken the hand held in to the tablet space, or slate as I was calling them at the time. Microsoft past efforts to make a tablet have been ongoing and frustrating. This, I feel, is because of Microsoft inability to part with the concept of "Windows". Windows is the idea that has made the company. With the rise of web 3.0 it is time to stop looking at windows.

BBC News - Yahoo shares rise 5% amid rumours of private equity bid

Yahoo shares have risen sharply amid rumours that it is about to be bought.

Its shares jumped almost 6% to $17.60 at the start of trading in New York, before dropping back to end 2.2% ahead.

Unconfirmed media reports have claimed that a number of investment firms are preparing a deal that would take Yahoo private.

E-commerce firm Alibaba declined to comment on reports that its chairman had been approached to head a takeover of Yahoo.

Meanwhile, the New York Post said that private equity giant KKR was interested in either taking Yahoo private or helping to finance a deal.

And AOL is also reported to be among the firms eyeing the possibility of buying Yahoo

BBC News - Yahoo shares rise 5% amid rumours of private equity bid

Long story short, this may be the last chance you ever have to make, and most likely lose, money on Yahoo.