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Tuesday, 27th March 2012

Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology

Autodesk CEO Pushes "Democratization" of Technology

Most people think of Autodesk as the maker of AutoCAD, the design software of choice for architects, engineers and other design professionals - typically running on high-powered workstations. So why is Autodesk CEO Carl Bass so hung up on the "democratization" of technology - spreading technology to the cloud computing platforms and mobile…

Infrastructure Fredric Paul comments

Cellphones, Police and One Court Case in a Sea of Change

Change. We think about this word a lot. Politicians and pundits, reporters and innovators, we are obsessed with this notion of change. How social media changed the Arab Spring. How the iPhone changed the very nature of telephony. The fact of the matter is that change is not some overnight phenomenon. Effective change, the type of change that…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

Keep Your Facebook Enemies Close

The adage says: "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer." And that's exactly what the creators of EnemyGraph had in mind. It's an application that allows users to list their "enemies," whether these are ideological enemies of your mind, Facebook friends, pages or even groups. Hate a politician? Name that person as an enemy on EnemyGraph…

Social Alicia Eler comments

Cloud Storage Competition Heats Up With RiakCS

Add Basho to the companies looking to take a chunk of the cloud storage space. Today, the company announced RiakCS, a "multi-tenant, distributed, S3-compatible cloud storage platform" that runs on top of the Riak-distributed database. The question isn't really whether Basho can cut into Amazon's business, but how much. According to J.P. Morgan…

Joe Brockmeier comments

Google+ Won't Fix the Comment Problem

Nancy Messieh at The Next Web reports that Google is planning to launch a commenting system for third-party sites using the Google+ platform. Blogs and other sites will be able to use Google+ threads for their on-site comments. It's a great scoop, but you can practically hear the collective "whoop-dee-do" of indifference about the news…

Jon Mitchell comments

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