http://www.teknovis.eu/blog Technology - Newest on the Scene Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:29:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I read an interesting article in The Irish Times recently about Microsoft's view on cloud computing data centres in Ireland. The article covers comments by John Vassallo who is Microsoft's Vice-President of EU Affairs, and it can be read online at Data centres may attract 20,000 firms. It is a short (and ... http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/03/06/cloud-computing-data-centres-in-ireland/ I attended a very interesting webinar recently about Cloud Computing. It featured a case study about a Spanish company called Yoigo. It was claimed that Yoigo used a Cloud Computing backend to become operational in 150 days! This is actually quite funny, because according to Yoigo the company had the license for ... http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/02/26/yoigos-backend-infrastructure/ The Irish Times has an interesting article about popular iPhone applications: App-solutely fabulous. I do not use an iPhone, so I do not know how usefule these applications really are :) http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/02/22/favourite-iphone-applications/ There has been a lot of media coverage of Nokia's MeeGo announcement this week. The best summary article I read was Nokia and Intel team up on Smartphone development. I am quite surprised by this development! I would have thought that Nokia would have been better-off to adopt Android! http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/02/19/meego/ Google announced its latest offering during the week. It is called Buzz, and it represents Google's entry in social networking (again). More opinions of Buzz are contained in Google takes on Facebook and Twitter with network site and Google Buzz - Gmail mod for the Tweetbook set. I think that it looks like ... http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/02/13/google-buzz/ Hacker pilfers browser GPS location via router attack Even if it is a month late :) Oh - and Happy New Year while I am posting :D http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/01/31/interesting-gps-article/ No - the term gigapixel is not a typing mistake! I came across two interesting gigapixel photos this week: Prague from the TV Tower - 18 Gigapixel Panoramic Photo Gigapixel-Dresden.de http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2009/12/19/gigapixel-photos/ Vodafone has updated its Irish website recently. The two changes that excite me the most are: I can now send 600 free SMS messages every month! I send the majority of my SMS messages online! I can now send SMS messages to mobile phones in other countries. The timing of these changes is ... http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2009/12/15/updated-vodafone-ireland-website/ I have almost completed my Christmas shopping for 2009. I did all of this online for the second year in a row! (Last year's shopping is described in Online Christmas Shopping 2008.) I did not buy a single item in Ireland this year, and this was mainly due to the ridiculously ... http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2009/12/13/online-christmas-shopping-2009/ I noticed that INEX had record traffic levels last Wednesday afternoon of approximately 8.7Gbits/s according to the INEX traffic statistics. I assume that this record was due to people watching the Irish Minister for Finance announce the annual budget for 2010 online thanks to RTE. [caption id="attachment_1036" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Hourly Graph (aggregate/bits) ... http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2009/12/11/record-traffic-for-irish-budget-2010-announcement/