Feb 26 2010
I attended a very interesting webinar recently about Cloud Computing. It featured a case study about a Spanish company called Yoigo. It was claimed that Yoigo used a Cloud Computing backend to become operational in 150 days!
This is actually quite funny, because according to Yoigo the company had the license for the previous six years during which it was not used!
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Feb 22 2010
The Irish Times has an interesting article about popular iPhone applications: App-solutely fabulous.
I do not use an iPhone, so I do not know how usefule these applications really are :)
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Feb 19 2010
There has been a lot of media coverage of Nokia‘s MeeGo announcement this week. The best summary article I read was Nokia and Intel team up on Smartphone development.
I am quite surprised by this development! I would have thought that Nokia would have been better-off to adopt Android!
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Feb 13 2010
Google announced its latest offering during the week. It is called Buzz, and it represents Google’s entry in social networking (again).
More opinions of Buzz are contained in Google takes on Facebook and Twitter with network site and Google Buzz – Gmail mod for the Tweetbook set.
I think that it looks like a good idea, and it should certainly appeal to people who already use Google’s other services.
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Jan 31 2010
Hacker pilfers browser GPS location via router attack
Even if it is a month late :)
Oh – and Happy New Year while I am posting :D
Dec 19 2009
No – the term gigapixel is not a typing mistake!
I came across two interesting gigapixel photos this week:
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Dec 15 2009
Vodafone has updated its Irish website recently. The two changes that excite me the most are:
The timing of these changes is perfect for me to send all my Christmas greetings :)
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Dec 13 2009
I have almost completed my Christmas shopping for 2009. I did all of this online for the second year in a row! (Last year’s shopping is described in Online Christmas Shopping 2008.)
I did not buy a single item in Ireland this year, and this was mainly due to the ridiculously high costs. I understand that part of this is due to the higher VAT on items in Ireland (see Online Shopping just got Cheaper), but I also think that retailers are still ripping-off consumers. Indeed, the most expensive single item I bought was a piece of Japanese electronics. The Irish price was over 50% more expensive than the price I bought it for abroad!
While I am writing about shopping, I came across a very entertaining online shop – http://producten.hema.nl/ (You need sound, and a small amount of patience, for this :D )
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Dec 11 2009
I noticed that INEX had record traffic levels last Wednesday afternoon of approximately 8.7Gbits/s according to the INEX traffic statistics.
I assume that this record was due to people watching the Irish Minister for Finance announce the annual budget for 2010 online thanks to RTE.
Hourly Graph (aggregate/bits) (Copyright INEX)
I described the previous INEX records in Record Traffic For Irish Budget 2009 Announcement and Record Traffic For Second Irish Budget 2009.
Yearly Graph (aggregate/bits) (Copyright INEX)
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Dec 09 2009
A blog all about humorous Google auto-completes: Autocomplete Me.
While I am on this topic, Let me google that for you is also very funny :D
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