June 2011
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俺は辞めない！ Microsoft's Ballmer: And I'm telling you,...
By Mary Jo Foley | June 29, 2011, 3:24pm PDT
Apologies to Jennifer Hudson (and Jennifer Holiday), but Microsoft CEO Ballmer is telling folks he’s not going anywhere — at least not for the time being.
Many Microsoft critics, including many Wall Streeters , have been wondering aloud whether Ballmer is the right man to lead Microsoft these days. At a Seattle Rotary Club meeting on June 29, when...
HTC Salsa Review - Facebook Phone
29/06/11@09:27 by Chris
It seems ages since we were all drooling over Mobile World Congress back in February but here we are 6 months on having seen HTC, Samsung etc release most if not all of their announced devices from MWC. HTC announced no less than 6 products at MWC including 5 mobile phones. By the end of this month all 6 (plus the Sensation) will have been released upon the world.
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Google、FlashをHTML5に変換するツールSwiffyを公開 →
by Ittousai Jun 29th 2011 @ 2:20AM
Google が Flashの .swf ファイルをHTML5コードに変換するウェブベースのツール Swiffy を公開しました。Flashプラグイン前提のブラウザ向けに制作した従来の .swfファイルを、iPhone や iPad などFlashが動かないけれど HTML5対応は進んだ環境向けに再利用できます。
清掃工場でごみ焼却灰を保管 NHKニュース →
清掃工場でごみ焼却灰を保管
6月28日 21時2分
東京・江戸川区にあるごみの清掃工場で、家庭などから出る一般ごみを焼却した灰から、通常の方法では処分できない量の放射性物質が検出されたことを受けて、清掃工場は、国が新たな処理の指針を作るまで焼却灰を施設の中で保管する措置をとりました。
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Rockmelt gets $30M to double down on social...
By Colleen Taylor Jun. 28, 2011, 9:00pm PT
RockMelt said Tuesday it has raised $30 million in a series B funding round led by Accel Partners, Khosla Ventures and existing investor Andreessen Horowitz.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup plans to put the money toward building out its flagship product, a web browser with built-in social features, CEO and co-founder Eric Vishria told me in an...
Office 365 vs. Google Apps vs. Zoho
By Klint Finley / June 28, 2011 4:38 PM
ものすごく、気合の入った比較記事！
Today, as expected Office 365 came out of beta. Office 365 is Microsoft’s consolidated cloud-services system that combines hosted versions of Exchange Server, SharePoint Server and Lync Server.
So how does it hold up to two older offers, Google Apps andZoho?
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Google+ 関連ニュース
Google+ set to challenge Facebook and Twitter
by Steven Mostyn - Jun 28 2011, 20:07
Google launches attack on Facebook with Google+ program; News Corp selling Myspace
By IB Times Staff Reports | June 28, 2011 4:56 PM EDT
Google Guns for Facebook with Google+ Social Network
By Ed Oswald, PCWorld Jun 28, 2011 1:10 PM
Why Google+ won’t hurt Facebook, but Skype will hate it
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Nirvanix grabs data center talent from Google
By Derrick Harris Jun. 27, 2011, 8:53am PT
Paul Froutan, formerly head of global data center infrastructure at Google, is joining cloud-storage pioneer Nirvanix as CTO. The addition will almost certainly improve Nirvanix’s ability to deliver its services, but the larger-scale news might be another public infrastructure defection from Google. Earlier this month, information surfaced suggesting...
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Google abandons healthcare and smart grid projects...
By David Meyer, 25 June, 2011 11:06
Google is to shut down its PowerMeter and Google Health services because it has been unable to turn them into mass-market propositions, the company said on Friday. PowerMeter, which lets people monitor their energy contrast usage online, was available to users in the UK and the US. Google Health — an opt-in personal health record aggregator — was by...
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Boingo Wireless Partners With Gogo For In-Flight...
Boingo Wireless is expanding its reach to the skies today with a new partnership with Gogo, a company that powers wireless internet connectivity on airplanes. With the new partnership, Boingo customers can now log in to Gogo using their existing Boingo account (as opposed to using or creating a Gogo account).
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Talk Android →
最近、お気に入りの Android 専門ブログです。 なかなか 楽しいよ～～～
“まず最初になぜ、フランスがこんなにまで国を挙げて三陸かきを応援してくれるのかについて説明したい。
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– フランスからの三陸かき支援についてのレポート｜東日本カキ産地救援復興対策会議｜ROC｜主管：日本オイスター協会 (via clione)
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情報連携基盤技術WGは非公開で行われており、こうした議論が公正に行われているのか、外部から監視することができない状態になっている。
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– 高木浩光＠自宅の日記 - 技術音痴なIT企業CTOが国のWGで番号制度の技術基盤を歪める (via it-tutor)
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エネルギー関連ポストです
これまでに溜め込んできた、Agile_Cat のエネルギー関連ポストです。 一番最後の、オバマ政権のエネルギー構想ですが、続編として訳したいコンテンツはあっても、いまは時間が取れないという状況です。 そのうち、取り組みたいと思っています。
Google が地熱エネルギーの金脈を掘り当てた！
Google が米東海岸の 6,000 メガワット風力に投資
イギリス政府の歳出削減と、自然エネルギーに対する資本投下
NASA から生まれ、Google や eBay が利用する 燃料電池 Bloom Box
クリーン･エネルギーへの投資が、全世界で $243B (20兆円) に達した
アメリカの原子炉において、その平均寿命は 30年となっている
GE が擁護する、福島型 原子炉 の 安全性とは ?
スマートグリッド を考えよう – 電力グリッドにおける多様性とセキュリティ
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究・求・救・Ｑ：メガソーラー期待高まる エネルギー議論が活発化 ／岡山
◇知事「原発減らす方向で」
福島第１原発事故を受け、県内でもエネルギーの将来を巡る議論が高まっている。石井正弘知事は県議会で「原発は減らす方向で検討すべき」と答弁し、メガソーラー（大規模太陽光発電所）誘致に力を入れる姿勢を示した。一方、立地を検討する企業から「前提は再生可能エネルギー固定価格買い取り法の成立」という声が漏れる。【井上元宏】
http://mainichi.jp/area/okayama/news/20110625ddlk33040504000c.html
ISOコンテナデータセンタの意義（その2）
6月 20, 2011 - 作成者: Hide Fukuhara
前回、「ISOコンテナデータセンタの意義（その１）」を書いた際、最後に「続く」と記載しておきながら、随分と時間が経ってしまいました。 今回、どこまで書けるかわかりませんが、とにかく始めたいと思います。 前回コンテナの利用法として、以下の項目を挙げました。
・ラック貸し（コロケーション）モデルに使わない。
・供給電力を過剰に準備しない。 ・徹底的に省電力に取り組む。
・コンテナ単位でPaaS/SaaSサービスを提供する。
そして、これらを考慮しつつビジネスモデルのなかにコンテナの特性を組み込まないと、コンテナDCを使う意義が見出せないと書きました。 実は上記の項目には上げていない非常に重要な項目があります。強いて言うと、「コンテナ単位でPaaS/SaaSサービス」の中に含まれるのですが・・・
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ISOコンテナデータセンタの意義（その１）
6月 14, 2011 - 作成者: Hide Fukuhara
このところ、ISOコンテナデータセンタについて紹介してきました。（「走る」ISOコンテナデータセンタ 解禁 、ISOコンテナデータセンター 始動！） 今回は、お約束通り（？）このデータセンタの使いみちについてふれたいと思います。 コンテナDCは安いのか？ 「コンテナ型」データセンターのメリットとして、建築物ではないので安くつくれる。というような触れ込みを耳にしますが、これって本当でしょうか？ 結論から言うと、コロケーションのための設備として、建物とコンテナを比較するとラック単価いおいてコンテナは決して安くありません。
http://wp.me/p108K0-5q
ISOコンテナデータセンター 始動！
6月 9, 2011 - 作成者: Hide Fukuhara
先にご紹介した、「走る」ISOコンテナデータセンタの詳細をお伝えします。今回はコンテナ自体に焦点を当てます。 このISOコンテナDCは、アイピーコア研究所が企画・設計に協力して、日本フルハーフ社が製造しました。そして、2011/06/08（水）より幕張メッセで開催されている、Interop Tokyo 2011 に、コンテナを丸ごと持ち込んで展示しています。
http://wp.me/p108K0-5a
Android This Week: Hulu Plus lands; Falling market... →
Android This Week: Hulu Plus lands; Falling market share; TV tech on phones By Kevin C. Tofel Jun. 25, 2011, 6:00am PT 5 Comments A handful of Android devices this week became the first to gain access to Hulu Plus, a subscription-based service for online movies and television programs. The software is free, but most content on Hulu Plus is only accessible by paying a $7.99 monthly fee. Similar to...
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Agile_Cat - クラウド API 特集
今年の初めから、意識して取り上げるようにしてきたのが 『 クラウド API 』です。 それなりに数が増えてきたので、アーカイブとしてご紹介します。
Twitter によるビジネス･モデルの押し付けに、話が違うと 怒るサードパーティ
2011 年の クラウド API について、5 つのポイントを予想する
2倍に成長した 2010年の クラウド API – トレンドは Social と Mobile
先週も Groupon／Twitter／Zillow／eBay などの、32 種の API が
Royal Pingdom が、クラウド API のベータ･テスターを募集！
TOPSY の Twitter 分析 API は、5 億クエリー／月 を処理する！
New York City の地下鉄では、クラウド API が吊り広告に？
Facebook 関連の クラウド API...
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Forget cool, OpenFlow and networking is now hot!
By Alex Benik Jun. 25, 2011, 8:00am PT - Gigaom
Over a year ago on this blog, I posed the question, Can Networking Be Made Cool Again? A lot has changed since then. The pendulum has swung back, and now networking is hot. In the past year Cisco hit a major speed bump, the OpenFlow networking protocol has burst into the popular consciousness and the first new wave of startups has emerged to meet...
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Foursquare Lands $50 Million Round of Funding
By Dan Rowinski / June 24, 2011 2:26 PM - ReadWriteWeb
No matter what you think of location-based applications and “checking-in,” Foursquare has carved out a niche in computers pockets and has a devoted user base that recently eclipsed 10 million accounts. Investors are rewarding Foursquare with a new $50 million investment led by Andreesen-Horowitz and existing investors...
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NYC BigApps Ideas Challenge Looks to Involve...
Justin Houk, June 23rd, 2011 - ProgrammableWeb
The New York City Economic Development Corporation recently launched an apps contest for the rest of us. Unlike the NYC BigApps 1.0 and 2.0 contests the NYC BigApps Ideas Challenge is aimed at discovering problems that need solving. Participants can compete by going to a website powered byChallengePost and filling in the blank for “I want an NYC app...
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ContexTube, the Music Discovery Mashup We Asked...
Allen Tipper, June 24th, 2011 - ProgrammableWeb
In our writeup on Seevl, we mentioned that using the Seevl API to add context to Youtube videos would be ideal. Well, apparently, it was thinking along exactly those same lines. I talked briefly with Alexandre Passant, who is one of the main people at Seevl, and we talked about the company’s new mashup, and its future plans for the API.
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Google Health が終了 : Why It's Ending & What It...
By Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 24, 2011 5:57 PM
Google’s quest to organize the world’s information will no longer include one of society’s most important and sensitive sources of data: our health records. The company announced this afternoon that Google Health will be closed forever and deleted in 18 months, along with a thematically similar and also formerly ambitious...
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この1ヶ月の、Google 関連のポストです by Agile_Cat
Google の Ice Cream Sandwich を、溶け出す前に美味しく食べるには？
Windows はユーザーに無理を強いると、Google の Sergey Brin は語る
Microsoft は Android から、Windows Phone の 5倍の利益を受け取る？
Google の 次期 Nexus Phone – リーク写真はホンモノか？
台北 COMPUTEX 2011 のマトメ – すでに HTC は台湾のトップ･ブランドだ！
Google のソフトウェア･インフラは時代遅れだと、元 Wave エンジニア
Google は、Translate API の有償バージョンを提供するという
HTC – 友人としての Microsoft と、商売としての Android
Agile_Cat が使っている iGoogle の内容を一挙公開
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コロンボ 逝く - Peter Falk, TV's rumpled Columbo, has...
By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer – 55 mins ago
NEW YORK – The best way to celebrate Peter Falk’s life is to savor how Columbo, his signature character, fortified our lives.
Thanks to Falk’s affectionately genuine portrayal, Lt. Columbo established himself for all time as a champion of any viewer who ever felt less than graceful, elegant or well-spoken.
Falk died Thursday at...
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「ソニーの情報漏洩は起こるべくして起こった」情報通信技術研究会で専門家が総括
2011/06/23 斉藤 栄太郎＝ITpro
「ソニーの情報漏洩事件は、夜の新宿で大切なものが入っている屋台を放置していたようなもの。まともなセキュリティ対策は何も施されていなかったとしか思 えない」。こうぶち上げたのは、情報セキュリティ大学院大学の名誉教授で、横浜市CIO補佐監を務めるセキュリティ専門家の内田勝也氏である。2011年6月22日夜、中央大学の後楽園キャンパスで開催されたセミナー「6月度 情報通信技術研究会」でのヒトコマだ。
http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20110623/361688/
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Zoho vs. Salesforce – A Quick Guide on How to...
posted by David on May 20, 2011 – 8:42 AM
If you’ve been searching for an online CRM solution, there’s no doubt you’ve come across both Zoho and Salesforce. Initially, they are hard to compare – the pricing is vastly different and neither of them offer any sort of comparison chart. After some research, however, you’ll begin to notice some clear similarities and differences.
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10 Things You Need To Know This Morning
Jun. 23, 2011, 7:30 AM
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know:
Hulu is officially for sale.
PopCap Games is getting acquired for $1 billion. The rumored buyer is Electronic Arts.
Foursquare signs a big deal with American Express: check in and get money back.
Apple COO Tim Cook was spotted at China Mobile headquarters, probably to talk iPhone.
Read...
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Amazon Reportedly Expects To Sell 4 Million... →
Jun. 22 2011 - 6:57 pm
Lookout, Apple: Jeff Bezos is coming after the iPad.
Amazon.com plans to move into the tablet PC market in August or September, and sees global sales this year of 4 million units, according to DigiTimes, which cites “Taiwan-based component makers.”
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Calxeda Joins OpenStack Community; Leads ARM-based... →
Austin, TX, June 22, 2011 – Calxeda, the company changing the data center and server market with high performance, low power semiconductors, today announced it has joined OpenStack, the global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. Calxeda joins the OpenStack community to help extend cloud...
For Windows Azure, AWS is a friend, not a foe →
By Colleen Taylor Jun. 22, 2011, 12:17pm PT
It would be understandable for people to view Microsoft Azure, the company’s enterprise cloud hosting service, as a direct competitive play.
After all, the product was launched in February 2010, well after Microsoft’s fellow software giants Amazon and Google had positioned themselves in the cloud computing space with Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
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Facebook - North Carolina Data Center on Google... →
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Firefox 5: 8 things to know →
Sticking to its promise of a quick-release cycle, Mozilla has released Firefox 5, just three months after Firefox 4 made its debut in March. Firefox 5 is now available for desktop devices running Windows, Mac, Linux, as well as for Android handsets. Firefox 4 made its debut on March 22, about a year after the release of Firefox 3.5. Here are eight things to know about the all-new Firefox 5.
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6 Keys to Mobile Search Marketing Success →
By Eli Goodman - May 9, 2011
This post was originally published at SearchEngineWatch on May 2, 2011.
A funny thing happened on the bus on my way to work recently. I was on my phone searching for a lunchtime haircut spot, the lady next to me was shopping for new curtains on her iPad, and a Wall Street type was talking loudly on his phone asking for tips prior to laying a bet with his bookie...
Evernote for iOS Lets You Post Notes to Facebook &... →
3 days ago by Jennifer Van Grove
Note-taking platform Evernote, fresh off a splashy release ofEvernote Peek, has finally updated its iPhone, iPod touch and iPad apps to support sharing notes to Facebook and Twitter. Version 4.0.4 of Evernote’s iOS application now includes social sharing, new sorting options for notebooks and tags, landscape snippets on iPhone and iPod touch, as well as some...
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DOJ Clears Google Buying Nortel Patents →
BY MAUREEN O’GARA - JUNE 20, 2011 07:30 AM EDT The sealed first-round bids for the Nortel patent trove had to be in by 4 p.m. Eastern Time Monday, the same day that Microsoft, HP, Motorola Mobility, Nokia, AT&T and Verizon Communications separately objected to the terms of the apparently winner-takes-all sale. The unprecedented auction is set for Monday, June 20, at the law office...
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NYSE Offers VMware-based Cloud for Financial Firms →
06/17/2011 By: Matt Sarrel
Recently, the New York Stock Exchange announced that its cloud computing service, built on VMware, will offer enhanced security and rapid access to NYSE market data. NYSE has also established minimum computing requirements in order to ensure a high quality experience and to avoid performance problems. NYSE’s cloud customers must purchase a minimum of 500 GB of...
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7 Skills Needed by Data Center Managers →
June 16th, 2011 : Industry Perspectives
Nathan Hatch is President and CEO of C7 Data Centers, a privately held company focused on providing high-value data center solutions for colocation, disaster recovery, data backup and virtualization.
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Netflix API Ditching DVD Endpoints to Focus on... →
Adam DuVander, June 18th, 2011 When the Netflix API turns three in October, it will also be making some big changes. With a focus on the quickly growing streaming service, Netflix will remove access to its DVD-related API calls. That means any websites or mobile apps that help organize your DVD queue will switch to only providing results that are available on its Netflix Instant streaming service.
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The Network Effect: Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter &... →
By Andrew Lipsman - June 15, 2011
With each passing month it seems that social networking becomes more deeply ingrained into our digital lives. If we take a look back at the past few years we can see just how pervasive it has become. Back in 2007, social networking represented about 1 out of every 12 minutes spent online, while today it accounts for 1 out of every 6 minutes spent online.
Why OpenFlow Isn't Like Active Networking →
MAY 6, 2011 | Craig Matsumoto
One of the creators of the OpenFlow switching specification insists that the technology isn’t repeating the mistakes that Active Networking made in the ’90s.
Specifically, Active Networking was an experiment to let users configure the router network. OpenFlow is more about giving a network owner a vantage point to watch over the entire network and...
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Open Networking Foundation to establish new... →
Posted by Vlado on April 15th, 2011
With a new industry organisation to promote it, routing protocol OpenFlow is about to give users unprecedented ease of control over the way their networks operate.
OpenFlow enables software-defined networking, which means that users can define flows and determine what paths those flows take through a network, regardless of the underlying hardware. Last...
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IE9 adoption is painfully slow. Google to the... →
Posted in Main on June 16th, 2011 by Pingdom
Internet Explorer 9 launched on March 14 this year, a full three months ago. It’s free software. It’s clearly a better web browser than previous IE versions. Yet only 13% of IE users have adopted IE9 so far. In other words, IE9 adoption is going… kinda slowly.
Compare that with the adoption of Firefox 4. It was launched on March 22, just over a week...
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Smartphone Apps in Europe: The 8th Mass Market... →
Posted by Peter Farago on Thu, Jun 09, 2011
Combined, the top five European markets – the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain – actively use apps on 46 million devices each month. With a combined population of just over 240 million, for ages 13 and over, the addressable market through smartphone apps averages approximately 20% of the largest, most affluent European countries. Additionally,...
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Britain tops Europe for app addiction →
By Bobbie Johnson Jun. 9, 2011, 7:08am PT
Europe has long been a heartland for the mobile industry, but new figures released today suggest that there is still plenty of room for smartphone growth — despite the fact that users across the continent are feasting on the explosion of apps.
According to new figures from mobile analytics company Flurry, around a fifth of people in Europe’s biggest...
Ericsson beefs up OSS power by acquiring Telcordia... →
optnewswatch:
EricssonはTercodiaを11.5億ドルで買収し、無線および有線におけるOSS/BSSツールの強化を行った。
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Microsoft: Sinofsky Could Replace Ballmer, Says... →
JUNE 16, 2011, 12:46 PM ET
By Tiernan Ray
InfoWorld’s Woody Leonhard today offers “our best guess” as to how Microsoft(MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer might step aside, citing speculation at Windows8Update.com earlier this week that said a tipster claimed Ballmer would give up the CEO post after Windows 8 is released.
