http://www.teknovis.eu/blog Technology - Newest on the Scene Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:34:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Happy Saint Patrick's Day! I was delighted to read that TerminalFour has won a contract to supply Aer Lingus with a new content management system for its web site. For more details about this read Aer Lingus invests in web content management system. Congratulations! http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/03/17/terminalfour-wins-aer-lingus-deal/ I was delighted to read yesterday that Openet has launched an expansion program for its operations in Dublin. This expansion consists of creating 35 new jobs. Perhaps more impressive is the fact that these jobs are being described as R&D type jobs! For more information about this read Openet's R&D ... http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/03/16/openet-expansion/ I want to buy a new laptop for myself. I need it! My old one is too big and heavy, the screen is losing its contrast, and the battery lasts for approximately 30 seconds :( In the past I tended to buy high-end laptops on the basis that they would last ... http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/03/14/virtualising-my-laptop/ Last week I installed the latest version of Skype on my Windows mobile PDA. The effect of this was that I upgraded from version 2.x to 3.0. My main motivation for doing this was that version 3.0 supports file transfers. I thought that this could be useful for when I ... http://www.teknovis.eu/blog/2010/03/11/skype-30-for-windows-mobile/ 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/