Friday, September 1, 2006 at 8:21AM Mac Mojo : Common misconceptions from a former misconceiver
This is a Microsoft blog with contributions from the Microsoft Mac Business Unit team. Makes for a really interesting read!Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 11:43PM This has got to be creating heartburn in Redmond. In a late announcement (at least on the east coast), Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt is joining Apple's Board of Directors. Now let's see. The most popular search engine on the planet now will have some influence on the company that has so far dominated digital music (and soon movies as well). And oh, by the way, the CEO of that company happens to be the largest shareholder in Disney/ABC/ESPN as well. Suddenly, having a monopoly on corporate desktops doesn't seem quite so, well, so much a ticket to world domination. Oh my.
Blackfriars' Marketing: Apple and Google: The board is set and the pieces are moving....
Carl Howe pretty much nails it!technorati tags:Apple, Eric Schmidt, Google
Sunday, August 27, 2006 at 3:55PM The blog is getting hammered by blog spam so I've had to switch on the mechanism whereby you need to register to leave a comment. Sorry :-(
Friday, August 25, 2006 at 3:56PM Here’s the best part I was told. The stores have the full capability to perform build-to-order Mac Pro’s in house. That means if you want three hard drives, you can get three hard drives. Want 16GB of RAM - Fantastic. There is no need to order online and wait for shipping.
My first experience on a Mac Pro - The Apple Blog
And you thought Apple made the Mac Pro super easy to upgrade for the customers benefit - Nah.. Extra disk and memory Sir?.... Pull lever, remove side panel, pick up extra drive already mounted in disk caddy, slam in Mac Pro, slam in extra memory, side panel on, power up, test - Done in say 5 minutes - no tools required! Here you go Sir..... Kerr ching! Next.......technorati tags:macpro, upgrades, apple, applestore
Thursday, August 24, 2006 at 1:16PM Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) - Limited Beta
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.Just as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) enables storage in the cloud, Amazon EC2 enables "compute" in the cloud.
Amazon EC2's simple web service interface allows you to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction. It provides you with complete control of your computing resources and lets you run on Amazon's proven computing environment.
Amazon EC2 reduces the time required to obtain and boot new server instances to minutes, allowing you to quickly scale capacity, both up and down, as your computing requirements change. Amazon EC2 changes the economics of computing by allowing you to pay only for capacity that you actually use.Amazon EC2
Functionality
Amazon EC2 presents a true virtual computing environment, allowing you to use web service interfaces to requisition machines for use, load them with your custom application environment, manage your network's access permissions, and run your image using as many or few systems as you desire.
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Store: Amazon EC2 / Amazon Web Services
Wow! This looks the bees kneez! I don't think I'm under NDA or anything but I got an invite to this a short while ago and I jumped across and signed up.
Truly groundbreaking stuff! This is what you call "Utility Computing"!
technorati tags:EC2, Amazon, Webservices, utilitycomputing