ETech 2007 ETech: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on Building Web-Scale Computing Alex Iskold is reporting live from ETech 2007 Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon.com, took the ETech stage to discuss the challenges in building a large-scale, reliable web infrastructure. Amazon spent a decade and a whopping $2 billion dollars to build the world class technology that powers their web sites. Today Amazon makes available their… Alex Iskold View comments
Web Office A Glitch in the Web Office Matrix "Server Error We're sorry, but Gmail is temporarily unavailable. We're currently working to fix the problem -- please try logging in to your account in a few minutes." And 1 hour later... "Server Error We're sorry, but Gmail is temporarily unavailable. We're currently working to fix the problem -- please try logging in to your account in a… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Numenta - Has Artificial Intelligence Arrived? Jeff Hawkins made a name for himself in the tech industry as the founder of Palm Computing and inventor of the Palm Pilot. He later founded Handspring, where he invented the Treo. If you were a fan of his work then, you are going to love what Jeff is up to now. He is currently pursuing his life-long passions, neuroscience and intelligence… Alex Iskold View comments
web Snap Preview Anywhere Launches Localized Versions Later today Web previews product Snap is launching 8 new localized versions of their Snap Preview Anywhere product. They will support 9 languages in all: English (by Default) Japanese Korean Chinese - Simplified Chinese - Traditional French German Spanish Portuguese Web Previews - good or… Richard MacManus View comments
Microsoft Microsoft's Z Fetish: First Zune, Now ZenZui and its Zoomspace Microsoft today announced the launch of ZenZui, an independent Mobile Web company. ZenZui offers a patented (by Microsoft) "Zooming User Interface" for mobile phones. The technology was initially developed by the Microsoft Research lab in Redmond, then acquired by ZenZui - who also got venture capital funding from Microsoft IP Ventures to… Richard MacManus View comments