California-based BetterPlace announced a partnership with the state government of Hawaii to build an electric car charging network across the state. And actually, BetterPlace’s electric cars don’t look all that bad. I might even consider driving one. And besides, everything looks better with the backdrop of the Hawaiian islands. How else could one explain [...]
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One of the most frustrating things about developing software products is not being able to get enough QA testing coverage in before the product release, and having to make trade-offs in features because there isn’t enough time to test a particular browser or OS.
uTest.com offers an interesting solution: a full army of virtualized QA [...]
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The Microsoft SkyDrive service just got a boatload of new updates back in November. Included in this update was a bump from 5gb to 25gb of online storage, plus some other cool features:
More control over your online data You asked us to make it easier to organize and download your files, [...]
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Microsoft’s sales of Xbox 360 consoles beat Sony’s PlayStation 3 by a three-to-one margin during the Black Friday holiday shopping opener. Microsoft credited its low price point ($199.99 USD) and broad range of game titles as the reason for surge in Black Friday sales.
According to Microsoft:
Strong game sales rounded out a historic Black Friday [...]
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Good OS (or gOS if you’re hip) announced the release of Cloud, a micro Linux kernel that launches immediately into a fully functional web browser. Cloud also includes access to commonly used tools, such as Skype and Media Player.
According to a gOS press release:
“We are excited to preview the GIGABYTE Touch-Screen Netbook with Cloud [...]
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Zoho released CloudSQL today, allowing its customers to directly access data stored in Zoho services via SQL, including access via ODBC and JDBC. Data in Zoho’s services was previously available only via their APIs, but now with CloudSQL customers can write direct SQL queries to retrieve data.
(Credit: Zoho)
This could be quite useful [...]
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Intel and Hitachi announced in press releases today that they are partnering up to build Intel NAND flash-memory based solid-state drives (SSDs):
The combination of a leading Enterprise drive supplier with a NAND technology and manufacturing leader will produce world-class solutions in terms of reliability, performance and system compatibility. The two companies will work together exclusively [...]
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