News Contegix Floats Self-Service Cloud Tiered by Hypervisor This week, St. Louis-based Contegix announced a new cloud platform called MiraCloud. What's interesting about this platform is that Contegix is tiering its service by the hypervisor used. For low-end customers, Contegix is offering the Convenience Class Cloud, which is based on KVM. The next tier, Business Class, is based on XenServer. The final… Joe Brockmeier View comments
Digital Humanities Meet the New Digital Public Library of America The Digital Public Library of America, an organization dedicated to building a large-scale digital public library that will make the cultural and scientific record available to all, held its first plenary meeting in Washington DC this morning and announced $5 million in funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Arcadia Fund. "What Carnegie… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Amazon Amazon Bets Big on HTML5 With its latest update to the Kindle e-book format, Amazon is pushing electronic books closer to the look and feel of Web pages. Kindle Format 8 is the file format that will be used by the Kindle Fire for displaying e-books when the tablet device ships next month. The new format moves away from the previous Mobi standard in favor of one that… John Paul Titlow View comments
Android Android Market Sees 37% Removal Rate In terms of pure volume, the Android Market is rapidly catching up with the Apple App Store. Android has also been a step behind Apple. The iPhone was released in 2007, Android made its mass market debut in 2008. Apple just released iOS 5 while Android just put out version 4.0. From the application perspective, Apple has long maintained a large… Mobile Dan Rowinski View comments
mobile Are QR Codes a Mobile Security Risk? Just as the use of QR codes slowly creeps toward mainstream adoption in the United States, someone has found a way to exploit them. But how serious is the threat? Some owners of Android-powered smartphones in Russia were surprised recently when they tried to download an ICQ chat app by scanning a 2D barcode. What they got instead was an… Mobile John Paul Titlow View comments