SAN FRANCISCO–More than 8 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day, Facebook executive Mike Schroepfer said in a talk Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit here. Some 2 billion pieces of content are shared every week, and 2 billion photos are uploaded each month–1.2 million served per second on a “peak day,” he said. [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Storage pros worry about putting data in the cloud
Cloud storage platforms need to mature before they are enterprise-ready, particularly for customers in highly regulated industries, IT professionals attending Storage Networking World in Phoenix, Ariz. this week said. Security, legal issues and portability of data are potential roadblocks cited by customers. “It still has some maturity issues,” said Basant Agrawal, enterprise architect with APS, [...]
New Apple iMac is jaw-dropping yet incomplete
Apple’s new 27-inch iMac is so beautifully designed that it’s easy to look past its most glaring defects. Yes, there are other 27-inch displays out there, but I’ve yet to see one with the 2560×1440 resolution that Apple is offering. This approaches the resolution of 30-inch monitors like the Dell UltraSharp 3007WFP-HC, which lists for [...]
AT&T vs. Google: More than nuns or phone sex
AT&T raised the stakes last week in its recent dust-up with Google over an online voice service, accusing its rival of blocking phone calls to nuns. As you may know, Google Voice, the in-beta, Web-based calling service, has been blocking calls to some rural telephone exchanges with high access fees. The fact that Google is [...]
First public white spaces broadband network is alive in Virginia
The first public white spaces network officially launched on Wednesday in Claudville, Virginia. It is uses sensing technology from Spectrum Bridge with software and Web cams supplied by Microsoft and PCs supplied by Dell. The project was funded the TDF Foundation. White spaces are services that run in the unused portion of television spectrum, and [...]
Arm unveils chip to make smartphones faster, cooler
Arm Holdings has introduced a processor for smartphones and other devices that it says will be cheaper, and more powerful and energy-efficient than the two ARM processors it will supplant. The company expects that the new chip will also help it ward off incursions from Intel’s rival Atom chip. ARM announced the chip Wednesday at [...]
Microsoft Security Essentials praised by expert
A security researcher has said that Microsoft’s free anti-malware product is better than many paid-for security programs. Jerome Segura of of ParetoLogic said that he had tested Microsoft Security Essentials‘ ability to detect a “pretty common” Trojan that many security products don’t pick up. Security Essentials did detect the Trojan every time he tested it, [...]
Scientists Use Quake 2 To Study the Brains of Mice
“In this week’s issue of Nature, scientists from Princeton University trained mice to navigate around a virtual environment using a setup that resembles a combination of a giant trackball and a mini-iMax theater displaying a virtual world rendered using a modified version of the Quake 2 open source game engine. (Here’s the academic paper, subscription [...]
Finland makes 1Mb broadband access a legal right
Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications has made 1-megabit broadband Web access a legal right, YLE, the country’s national broadcasting company, reported on Wednesday. According to the report, every person in Finland (a little over 5 million people, according to a 2009 estimate) will have the right of access to a 1Mb broadband connection starting [...]