July 2011
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Want Thunderbird 5 to be more like Outlook? Try...
betanews - By Joe Cassels | Published July 30, 2011, 11:11 AM
Mozilla Thunderbird is a great cross platform email, newsgroup and RSS reader that’s very configurable and open source. It lacks very little in these areas, but anyone used to Microsoft Outlook might well want to add in task list management and calendar features. Lightning is a free, open-source plugin that provides these...
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Nintendo to Take a Loss on Each 3DS Sold
tomsguide - 9:00 PM - July 30, 2011 - By Jane McEntegart
Nintendo this week announced that it was cutting the price of its newest portable, the 3DS, by a whopping $80. While that certainly addresses the crowd who thinks Nintendo was crazy to charge $250 for the device in the first place, Bloomberg Japan reports that Nintendo will now be taking a loss on each 3DS is sells.
The price of the...
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My mother is getting a Chromebook
betanews - By Joe Wilcox | Published July 30, 2011
My mum turned 70 this month. It’s a big birthday worthy of a special present. But, whoa, this one is so unexpected. I’m sending her a Chromebook.
Initially, she’ll get the Google Cr-48 that Google sent in December for the Chrome OS pilot project. If that works out, I’ll then buy her a Samsung Series 5...
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STOCKS FALL AND BONDS GO WILD AHEAD OF WEEKEND...
businessinsider - Joe Weisenthal | Jul. 29, 2011, 4:00 PM
Sorry, it’s Friday, but the week isn’t over. It’s not even slowing down.
But first, the scoreboard:
Dow: -81.24 NASDAQ: -6.62 S&P 500: -6.25
And now, the top stories:
Well, it’s really all debt ceiling, debt ceiling, debt ceiling. What you need to know is that the House is soon to vote on a debt ceiling ...
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Google＋ プチ特集
Google+ が 1000万ユーザーと 10億アイテムを達成！ http://wp.me/pwo1E-37q
Google+ の Circles に取り込むべき、35人のソーシャル･パーソナリティ http://wp.me/pwo1E-384
Google+ の iPhone アプリが、わずか 1日でトップに立った！ http://wp.me/pwo1E-38Y
Google+ のために買収した Fridge には、Mitch Kapor らの名前が http://wp.me/pwo1E-398 Google+ のユーザー数は 1800万人に達したが、その伸びが鈍り始めている http://wp.me/pwo1E-38O Google+ が、すでにピークというのは ホント？ http://wp.me/pwo1E-3b9
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Alibaba to launch mobile OS for China
intomobile - BY: MARIN PEREZ, THURSDAY, JULY 28TH, 2011 AT 12:31 PM
The e-commerce giant Alibaba plans to have a mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets that will target Chinese consumers, according to a report from the Financial Times.
Alibaba will have a smartphone with its OS very soon and a tablet will land by the end of the year. With iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7,...
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Roundup: The Google Data Center Summit
datacenterknowledge - May 28th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Google hosted its second Data Center Efficiency Summit in a cinema theater in the SihlCity section of Zurich, Switzerland, Discussion focused on improving efficiency across the board, although cooling and power were frequently stressed as areas in need of improvement. Presenters and panelists included members of the Google data center...
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Google on Data Center Efficiency: ‘Just Do It’
datacenterknowledge -May 24th, 2011 : Rich Miller
ZURICH - The state of affairs inside one of Google’s network operating centers was “not very Googley.” Cool air from floor tiles was rushing past the equipment and cooling the upper areas of the data center. Exhaust heat from one rack was venting near the intake for the computer room air conditioner (CRAC), warming the return air and...
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Most Users Resist Warmer Data Centers - Google
datacenterknowledge - May 25th, 2011 : Rich Miller
ZURICH – Since 2008, the largest players in the data center industry have been advocating operating server rooms at warmer temperatures. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Facebook have all embraced the idea of raising the thermostat in their data centers, saying the benefits of reduced spending on cooling can be substantial, and the practice...
ワインハウスのアルバム購入呼び掛けたマイクロソフト、批判受け謝罪
afp - 2011年07月27日 10:59
【7月27日 AFP】急死した英歌手エイミー・ワインハウス（Amy Winehouse）さんをしのぶため楽曲を購入しようとツイッター（Twitter）で呼び掛け、激しい非難を浴びたマイクロソフト（Microsoft）の英国法人は25日、この件について謝罪した。「我々のツイートが単なるビジネスの手段だと思われていたとすれば、すべての人に謝罪します。そのような意図は全くありません」 マイクロソフトはワインハウスさんの急死を受け、同社の携帯端末向けウェブサイトでワインハウスさんのアルバム「バック・トゥ・ブラック（Back to Black）」を購入し、その死をしのぼうとツイッターで呼び掛けた。しかしこのツイートに対し、「鈍い」、「卑劣だ」などのメッセージが相次いでいた。(c)AFP
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SATELLITE PHOTOS: The Busiest Airports In The...
businessinsider - Leah Goldman | Jul. 25, 2011, 5:42 PM
羽田もある。 おもしろい～～～
The world’s busiest airports transport millions of passengers every year, and have tons of runways so planes can take off often.
The intersecting runways create some crazy patterns that only satellite photos can show.
Check out the bird’s eye view of the world’s busiest...
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10 iPhone Features That Android Phones Had First
businessinsider - Steve Kovach | Jul. 26, 2011, 1:16 PM
iPhone では時間がかかったけど、Android は最初から・・・という機能 There’s no question that the iPhone was the first device to reinvent the smartphone market. Every non-Apple touchscreen smartphone since the first iPhone has been a variation of the original.
(And there are all those lawsuits to prove it.)
But competition helps spur innovation. And Android...
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The 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To...
businessinsider - Alyson Shontell | Jul. 26, 2011, 2:01 PM
これは、なかなか面白い企画 ・・・ We hit accelerators, spoke with VCs, and met with entrepreneurs to find hidden gems startups in Silicon Valley.
We selected 20 startups that are on track to become the next big thing.
They’re startups you probably haven’t heard of yet, but we expect you’ll hear a lot from them in the...
PHOTOS: The Stark Communist Architecture Of...
businessinsider - Julie Zeveloff | Jul. 26, 2011, 11:24 AM
面白い建造物の写真がイッパイ・・・ Slovenian professor Roman Bezjak spent the last five years traveling around Eastern Europe, seeking out examples of socialist modernism in architecture.
The resulting collection of images, which includes hotels, shops, and public buildings, has been compiled in a book called Socialist Modernism and is the subject of an...
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メガソーラーの使いみち
fhide - 7月 26, 2011 投稿者 Hide Fukuhara
メガソーラーブーム？
3.11以降、あれこれの理由からメガソーラー発電があちこちでニュースとなっているようです。だたし、この流れは実は結構以前から始まっていて、マスコミで取り上げられて目につき始めたのが、3.11以降であるというのが、当事者の意識ではないでしょうか？ 例えば、国東半島のメガソーラーは、「九州メガソーラー株式会社」という組織が昨年（２０１０年）3月に発足して、１０MWの「国東市メガソーラー発電所」の建設を発表していますし（2010年8月30日 大分県発表）、新潟県では、昭和シェル石油と共同で、２０１０年８月３１日に１MWのメガソーラー発電を稼働開始しています。 （北陸地方だと、北陸電力も管内４カ所に各１MWの発電所計節計画を、２００９年５月２７日に発表しています。）
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The Firefox People Are Building A Mobile OS
おぉぉぉ～～～
businessinsider - Matt Rosoff | Jul. 25, 2011, 6:59 PM
Mozilla — the organization behind the Firefox Web browser — plans to build a “complete, stand-alone operating system for the Web” called Boot to Gecko, or B2G. It is being designed for mobile devices.
Why? Because the foundation wants to make sure that developers can build Web apps — particularly...
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Intel to Acquire Fulcrum Microsystems
Intel Newsroom > News Stories > 2011 > July > 19
James Hamilton 先生が、めずらしく買収話を Perspective に ・・・・
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 19, 2011 – Intel Corporation today announced it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fulcrum Microsystems Inc., a privately held fabless semiconductor company that designs Ethernet switch silicon for data center network providers.
“Intel is transforming...
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Facebook sides with Tilera in the server...
低電力＋ Many Core ＋ KVS の時代が到来？
gigaom - By Stacey Higginbotham Jul. 25, 2011, 5:00am PT
Facebook engineers have tested a 64-core specialty chip from Tilera and found it more efficient for grabbing data quickly from key value stores. This test and others performed across the industry on alternatives to x86 chips may galvanize the creation of new benchmarks for the server industry as the debate...
Google+ Off to a Fast Start with 20 Million...
こうしてみると、日本ってノンビリしているのかなぁ・・・ と。 それと、台湾がスゴイ！
comscore - By Andrew Lipsman - July 22, 2011
Google’s new social product Google+ launched to great fanfare a few weeks ago, and since then many have been speculating about how quickly the site has grown and whether or not it’s the fastest growing site in history. It’s fair to say the initial market response has been very positive overall, with...
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Is the online tech crowd really THAT dominated by...
女性に愛される Tech 系 Web サイトとは？
pingdom - May 31st, 2011
Tech is generally thought of as a male-dominated field, so it’s not surprising to see that visitors to tech blogs are predominantly male. What you might find a bit sad is just how massively the men outweigh the women.
To find out what the balance looked like, we picked out a group of popular tech blogs (and a couple of tech blog...
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Mashup Merges Twitter and O’Reilly Books to Win...
ナイスな企画！
programmableweb - Romin Irani, June 3rd, 2011
Earlier this year, we covered the O’Reilly Writable API Contest, which invited developers to create applications on top of O’Reilly Books and Author information using the FluidDB API from FluidInfo. The contest was unique since applications could tap into the O’Reilly FluidInfo Objects and augment the information, visualize it in different...
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Microsoft Evangelist To Donate $1000 If Web-Celebs...
techie-buzz - by Manan Kakkar | Monday, 25th Jul 2011
あまり、笑える話にも、おぉ～～～という話にも、聞こえないのですが。。。
Here’s something you don’t come across often. Microsoft developer evangelist Brandon Watson has decided to put a $1000 on the line if Internet-celebrities give Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 a try. In a challenge that seems to be his idea, Watson is going after users who’ve had problems with Android and are...
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Facebook’s iPad App Is Hidden Inside Of Their...
techcrunch - 2011/07/25
Android が Google＋ ネイティブになるのなら、Facebook と Apple が連携するのも、当然のなりゆかかと・・・
There are things out there all around us that we often miss because we’re just not looking. This is perhaps most true in the tech world, where thousands of secrets are out there in the wild, hidden in code. If you know where to look, or if you can read the code, you can find those secrets. It’s how so...
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Google buys firm that specializes in facial...
intomobile - BY: STEFAN CONSTANTINESCU, MONDAY, JULY 25TH, 2011 AT 5:07 AM
なにをするのだろう？ フロント･カメラで本人確認をしてくれるのは、とても安心だけど、プライバシーとのバランスは、どこに？
Google’s a company that can best be described as an engineer’s wet dream. It was founded by engineers, it’s run by engineers, and unless you’ve got hard data to support any of your statements during a meeting, you will be ignored. That being said, the...
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Back Numbers - July 25th
データセンターにおける電力消費に対して、クラウドは回答となり得るのか？
Obama 政権が公表した、スマート･グリッドを構築するための具体策とは？
OpenFlow により、ネットワーク業界は HOT になるのか？
Microsoft Research は Azure のために、Dryad 以外の Hadoop 対抗をリリースする
さぁ来い Apple！ 特許問題で HTC は徹底抗戦のかまえ
iPad のシェアが、PC 全体の 11% にまで伸びてきた
Google+ のユーザー数は 1800万人に達したが、その伸びが鈍り始めている
Amazon S3 にストアされるオブジェクトは、4490 億を数える
Google+ の iPhone アプリが、わずか 1日でトップに立った！
Microsoft の好調な決算と、Windows Phone 7 の不在
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あなたが寝た後にこっそりAndroidのメディアプレーヤーをオフにしてくれる『Sleep...
takachan:
Android：『Sleep Timer』は、設定した時間になると自動的にAndroidのメディアプレーヤーを停止してくれるツールです。音楽やポッドキャストを聞きながら寝ても、翌朝バッテリーがない、プレイリストが空…といった状態になることがありません。 http://j.mp/rsM0oW Lifehacker 日本版
いいですね、コレ。 さっそく使い始めました。
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Microsoft: The Cloud is the ‘Utility of the...
Quincy の ２nd Phase。 例のカスタム･コンテナが12本？
datacenterknowledge - May 26th, 2011 : Rich Miller
When it comes to data center design, Christian Belady isn’t afraid to shake things up. Back in 2008, Belady and his Microsoft colleague Sean James put a rack of servers in a pup tent for eight months, with 100 percent uptime.
That experiment helped the data center industry rethink assumptions about...
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Cloud Computing and the Hype Cycle
イマココ って、誰か教えてくれないかぁ・・・
cloudcomputing.sys-con
BY MARIO MEIR-HUBER MAY 26, 2011 12:15 PM EDT
I had the opportunity to talk to Mark Raskino, Vice President at Gartner, at the “UT Messa” in Reykjavik (Iceland). Mark is one of the authors of the book Mastering the Gartner Hype-Cycle. At the conference, Mark gave the keynote, and I presented a talk on Cloud Computing. This...
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Chiller-less Data Center is Google’s Top Performer
なんという迫力・・・
datacenterknowledge - May 26th, 2011 : Rich Miller
When Google built a data center without any chillers, it was entering uncharted territory. Chillers, which are used to refrigerate water, are widely used in data center cooling systems but require a large amount of electricity to operate. By building in a cool location – in this case, St. Ghislain, Belgium – Google expected to...
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Why email is crucial to Google, Microsoft and...
pingdom の面白そうな調査 ・・・ 誰か訳してくれないかぁ・・・
May 24th, 2011 by Pingdom
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. These three companies rule webmail with Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, the three largest email services on the Internet.
What might escape a lot of people, though, is just how important email services are for the online presence of those companies (yes, even for Google). To give you an idea, let’s...
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Startup MapR Underpins EMC’s Hadoop Effort
これも、訳したかったけど・・・
gigaom - By Derrick Harris May. 25, 2011, 8:39am
San Jose, Calif.-based storage startupMapR, which provides a high-performance alternative for the Hadoop Distributed File System, will serve as the storage component for EMC’s forthcoming Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition Hadoop distribution. This alliance helps differentiate EMC from other Hadoop vendors, and adds immediate...
Internet users per time zone (chart)
インターネット･タイムゾーンと人口の話し。
pingdom - May 19th, 2011 by Pingdom
We know that there are approximately two billion Internet users in the world, but how are they distributed? More specifically, how are they spread over the world’s time zones? The world population isn’t spread evenly, and neither is the Internet population.
We couldn’t find this information anywhere, so we collected the data ourselves...
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Apache Hadoop takes top prize at Media Guardian...
WikiLeaks や iPad を抑えて、Hadoop が MediaGuardian Innovation Awards を受賞したという話。 訳したかったけど、残念・・・
guardian.co.uk, Friday 25 March 2011 11.41
The Apache Hadoop open source software project won the top prize at Thursday night’s 2011 MediaGuardian Innovation Awards, the Megas.
Described by the judging panel as a “Swiss army knife of the 21st century”, Apache Hadoop picked up...
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TweetDeck and the Holy Grail - Twitter Acquisition...
TweetDeck 買収の舞台裏。 訳せなかった、、、残念、、、
readwriteweb - By Richard MacManus / May 9, 2011
TweetDeck, the leading third party Twitter client, has been acquired by Twitter - according to Techcrunch. As of writing, neither Twitter or TweetDeck have confirmed the deal. If it does go through, it will spell the end of TweetDeck’s grand plan to become the central hub for social networks. In other...
Sources Confirm Location of Twitter’s Utah Data...
もう、一年前の話ですが、Twitter の Utah データセンターの話し・・・
It’s pretty much confirmed at the moment. Twitter, according to just about every employee at SEO.com and the people running lines to the building, is building their Salt Lake City-based hosting facility in the old Linux Networks offices right next to SEO.com in Bluffdale.
Shortly after my last post about the new job opening in Salt Lake listed by one...
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WordPress.com が 2000万ブログ･サイトに到達！ でも、Tumblr が迫っている！
ちょっと古い情報ですが・・・・
そして、尋常ではない勢いで Tumblr が急成長し、ほとんど WordPress.com に追いついてきた。つまり、ブログ･シーンで対比すべき、新しい勢力が台頭してきている。 この両者の差は、わずか 150万のブログ･サイトであり、それは急速に接近している。
それは、WordPress.com を賞賛する人々にとって、なおさら印象的な現象である。 Automattic のサービスは、去年同時期と比較して、およそ 2倍のブログをホストするに至っている。 1 年間で、1000万のブログから、2000万のブログに到達したことに驚嘆すべきだが、Tumblr も猛烈に成長している。
http://wp.me/pwo1E-2Uh
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これが、IPCORE のコンテナ･データセンターだ！
ISOコンテナデータセンター 始動！
ISOコンテナデータセンタの意義（その１）
ISOコンテナデータセンタの意義（その2）
IPCORE デザインのコンテナ型データセンターとは？
