24th May 2008 Archive

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For truth about Europe, read The Reg

Bruce Sterling educates America

The Reg has a new favorite cyberpunk sci-fi writer/ubiquitous tech pundit of the future. And a new favorite blog for professional excellence in public speaking, speech-writing, and executive communications. Yesterday, at a future-happy tech conference in San Diego, cyberpunker Bruce Sterling did the podcast thing with a blog …

Music and Media 24 May 2008, 00:19
Google and Microsoft have nothing on - drum roll - the SuperNAP

Exclusive A $350m data center giant in the desert

$500m. That's the going rate for a data smelter these days. You know, a facility run by a company such as Google or Microsoft that moves bits around and consumes more power than old-school metal processing plants. Most companies in need of such horsepower go out of their way to build the computing centers in cities with cheap …

Servers 24 May 2008, 00:57
Welcome to Las Vegas - Home of the technology superpower you've never heard of

Exclusive Rob Roy seizes Enron's busted dream

Drive a couple of blocks past the Loose Caboose and the Carburetor Shop on E. Sahara Avenue in Las Vegas, and you'll find one of the world's leading technology companies. The name of the company - Switch Communications - will go unrecognized by almost all of you. That's because it has operated in near total secrecy for the last …

Servers 24 May 2008, 01:00
OMTP publishes standard, but what is it really securing?

At least the Home Secretary is pleased

The Open Mobile Terminal Platform group has finally published the security documents it outlined last year, and got the UK home secretary to say what a good thing that is. The OMTP is just an operator talking shop really, no-one is under any obligation to implement the standards they propose, but the operators will look …

Mobile 24 May 2008, 09:02