October, 2012
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So What’s up with Windows 8?
After what seemed like a somewhat non-news launch of Microsoft Windows 8 a week ago tomorrow, the news and word on the street about the new operating system has seemed very quiet. Though there were several reports of Steve Ballmer, Microsoft ‘s CEO claiming four million upgrades of the OS in four days it seems [...]
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CompTia is changing the Face of IT with the “Advancing Women in IT” Community
One thing that most people would agree on is that the IT industry is an industry filled with men. Going to any IT event, community meeting, or tradeshow quickly proves this fact. CompTia, “The IT Industry Association” is helping to change this with the creation and fostering of one of the fastest growing new communities. [...]
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Hurricane Sandy has many Rethinking Cloud Strategy
Hurricane Sandy is hitting the east coast hard. Businesses are shut down and homes are threatened by the impending disaster. For years MSP and IT solution providers have been spreading the message to businesses to get ready for just such an event. Most of this preparedness has come in the backup and disaster recovery (BDR) [...]
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Tiny Bits: 60 Second Catch up for the Week of 10-22 to 10-26
Tiny Bits: Latest news from the tech world and looks cloudy summed up in 60 seconds or less. Brits Love the Microsoft Surface – Pre-orders of the Microsoft Surface sold out in the UK but was it a sellout or marketing hype? Pinterest, Foursquare, Reddit affected by latest Amazon Cloud Outage- Yet another major outage [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 72
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Many Web and Cloud Sites decided to take Friday Off Today is Outage Day
Many popular sites today are experiencing slowness, delays, and even complete outages. The blogging site Tumblr is completely down and many reports are coming in that there are issues across the web. www.downrightnow.com is reporting recent trouble with Gmail and Yahoo Mail as well as Service disruption with YouTube, Twitter, and possible issues with facebook. [...]
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iOutage Apple’s iMessage is leaving many unable to Communicate
Apple’s iMessage, the SMS texting alternative that most iPhone users currently rely on for most of their text messages is currently experiencing a widespread outage. News was reported of the issues on several blog sites yet there has not been any official word from Apple on this. Users began noticing the issues and hit the [...]
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Microsoft Launches Windows 8 to a Slow Clap, Will it build into a Thunderous Applause?
Today Microsoft launched its Windows 8 operating system and surface tablet with a live broadcast event from New York. The windows 8 launch, which consisited of a ton of name dropping, nervous banter, and awkward claps from the audience showed just how desperate the software giant is for people to accept this new era in [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 71
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Reviews are Pouring in on the Microsoft Surface RT and though Mixed “Outlook not so Good”
Today there have been droves of reviews hitting the internet on the new Microsoft Surface tablet with Windows 8 RT. So far things aren’t looking so good for the much-anticipated product. Though its not quite clear why there are so many reviews hitting the net today, it may be that a news release embargo has [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 70
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Apple bullies Google on the Playground and announces a bunch of new Products
Fight, fight, fight, fight… The latest Apple event had Apple calling out Google for a brawl of the tablets. With a rarely seen competitive stance, Apple compared its newly announced iPad mini tablet to the Google Nexus 7 Android device. Pointing out key differences such as the Nexus plastic body, smaller screen, and the “scaled [...]
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Pinterest, Foursquare, Reddit affected by latest Amazon Cloud Outage
Monday was a tough day for some popular web destinations. Websites across the Internet were affected by what seems to be a growing trend of outages from Amazon Web Services. The cloud giant hosts some of the most visited and well known sites, and experienced an outage that lasted most of the afternoon on Monday [...]
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Tales from the Cloud – Episode 69
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Brits Love the Microsoft Surface
Well at least that’s what Microsoft would like you to think. 32GB versions of the base model Microsoft Surface have sold out after a week on the pre-order market. This has some skeptics thinking that Microsoft is trying to pull a fast one with some marketing hype. Though there is no proof of this, it [...]
