Cloud Computing Reddit Went Down: Blame Amazon, the Cloud or Both? Reddit went down for a period of six hours early Friday morning, making it look as bad as any service does when its millions of visitors suddenly can't get to their beloved community. It's not a good thing. But according to one former Reddit employee, who left Reddit for Hipmunk last week, the problem has been going on for months with Amazon… Alex Williams View comments
Reviews SMB Tech Roundup: Twitter Grows Among Businesses, Plus a A Few New Productivity Tools Keeping up with every tech headline is hard enough for anybody, let alone busy professionals. To help, ReadWriteBiz rounds up the week's most important tech news and insights for small- and medium-sized businesses. As tablet adoption grows, so too does the amount of sensitive data people transmit using the devices. Almost half (48%) of tablet… Reviews John Paul Titlow View comments
Crowdsourcing Crowdsourcing U.S. War Papers The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has joined forces with crowdsourcing document outfit Scripto , open source document transcription tool, to transcribe and share a piece of U.S. history thought to be lost. The project "Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800" seeks to transcribe and digitize copies of papers from a… Curt Hopkins View comments
Cloud Providers CPUsage, a Grid Computing Infrastructure-as-a-Service CPUsage provides developers with a SETI@home-style grid computing platform. CPUsage offers computer owners rewards in exchange for access to their unused CPU resources. It then licenses those resources to customers for CPU intensive applications such as scientific analysis and graphic rendering. All the data stored on users' computers is… Klint Finley View comments
mobile iPad for Business Round-Up: WebEx for iPad2 and More This week Cisco released one of the first business apps designed specifically for the iPad 2: WebEx for iPad 2. Also, Smartsheet launched its first iPad app and VMware released yet another app for the iPad. But is the iPad really a good business productivity tool? Read on. Enterprise Klint Finley View comments