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Updated: Openstack.org – A Rackspace Hailmary Pass?

August 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Last week, Clouderati Twitter stream was full of back and forth arguments on possible dumping of Amazon API by Openstack. It all started with a recent Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group meetup on Openstack. One of the takeaways from the meeting is th…

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Openstack iPad App Is Coming To A Store Near You

August 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

After

Openstack was launched

with much fanfare during OSCON, there has been a flurry of activity on the development community with thousands of contribution from hundreds of developers. Even though the main contribution is towards compute and sto…

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Ubuntu Is Ready For A Multi-Touch Future

August 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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As more and more touch based devices flood the market, open source community is looking for support to such devices in the Linux distros. Ubuntu is almost ready to take on the proliferation of such devices in their upcoming Ubuntu 10.10.10 (Maverick Meercat Release) in October of this year. In a mail sent to Multi-Touch [...]

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Some Observations On Google’s Mobile Strategy

August 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Today, Techmeme is full of news coming from Google’s Mobile press event. The two interesting announcement from Google areA way to instantly send links, maps, etc. to Android phones from desktops. It is a clever interplay between three Google properties…

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Innovating Around Restrictions – PlayOn Story

August 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

When talking about the capping of data for iPad by AT&T, I argued that such restrictions presents opportunity for others in the market to innovateWhen AT&T unexpectedly announced its plan to kill the unlimited plan with a spin on the savings …

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