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mapping-babel

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June 14, 2011 (15y ago)
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Technology journalist. Python fiddler. Lover of maps, data and - bizarrely - datacentres.
  1. Military uses virtualisation to ease maintenance and increase IT flexibility (zdnet.com)

    I interviewed a member of the royal navy (and now military IT consultant). Fairly interesting stuff. Shift toward private clouds based on standardised appliances with templates for specific needs (mail server / GIS…

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  2. Amazon Web Services: Rise of the utility cloud (zdnet.co.uk)
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  3. With Autonomy tech, HP could add Augmented Reality tech to printed images (zdnet.co.uk)
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  4. Iceland's open source shift hampered by Oracle installs (reddit.com)

    I rang up the person running Iceland's open source pilot project and he gave some details on some of the problems the scheme faces, specifically with migrating away from Oracle.

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  5. Vogels: Amazon wants "1,000 platforms to bloom" (zdnet.co.uk)

    No plans to become a major PaaS vendor, instead AWS wants to be the enabling layer for services like Heroku, EngineYard, and so on.

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  6. Calxeda and HP unleash ARM server tech (zdnet.co.uk)

    Calxeda reveal Cortex-A9-based system-on-chip and HP announces evaluation server and product plans.

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  7. Dell prepares to walk the tightrope (zdnet.co.uk)

    Dell aims to be like IBM but with consumer hardware as well. No other recent company has succeeded in this strategy.

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  8. Facebook, Google: Welcome to the new feudalism (zdnet.co.uk)

    What does the rise of Google and Facebook mean for data sovereignty on the web?

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  9. Primer on Graphene, a form of carbon that may replace Silicon (zdnet.co.uk)

    Broad introduction to graphene, a 1-atom-thick allotrope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotrope) of carbon that looks set to succeed Silicon. Multiple articles written by a journalist with a background in physics.…

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