No, It's Not a Scottish Flag... It's the New Windows 8 Logo!
18 Feb 2012 12:36am GMT It will take some getting used to. Okay, I take that back: No, it won't. The official explanation from Microsoft this afternoon for its design choice for the new Windows 8 logo - a white cross on a tilted blue rectangle - is that the logo wanted to return to its origins and stop being a flag. Sponsor "If you look back to the origins of the logo you see that it really was meant to be a window," writes Microsoft user experience director Sam Moreau this afternoon. " "'Windows' really is a...
Trippy Fluid Simulation in WebGL
18 Feb 2012 12:00am GMT One of the reasons Google makes its Chrome browser is to push the Web forward relentlessly. Google engineers aren't afraid to do things like invent new formats for Web images or build WebGL-powered 3D maps of the world, even if most of our systems aren't ready for it. But in the interest of a faster, more capable Web, Google builds it anyway, and it encourages developers to contribute. It hosts a gallery of Chrome Experiments (with the tagline "Not your mother's JavaScript.") where it...
Everybody is Lying to Me and I Don't Care
17 Feb 2012 11:45pm GMT Why do I feel like everybody is lying to me all the time? I cannot get around the idea that every technology company with a major platform is doing everything it possibly can to get as much data from me as it possibly can through any means necessary. No barriers go un-trampled in the quest to track me, cookie me and use my personal information to obtain the greatest level of profit ... from me. Google gets a lot of blame for its tracking behaviors in relation to advertising and cookies. I...
IBM VP Anjul Bhambri on the Era of the Data Scientist
17 Feb 2012 11:30pm GMT Just a few short years ago, the problem of database size scaling to colossal capacities that exceeded the scope of entire network storage units, seemed insurmountable. Today, it's practically under control, with a wealth of open source technology emerging not from database engineers but rather from Internet architects. Hadoop has transformed the very nature of transformation, becoming one of the most readily adopted technologies in the history of the data center. But is it mature? And will...
A Look at DeltaCloud: The Multi-Cloud API
17 Feb 2012 11:03pm GMT Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, CloudStack, VMware... Developers have no shortage of IaaS offerings to support. And, lucky them, no shortage of different APIs to deal with, either. DeltaCloud, a top-level Apache project, is designed to help developers cut through the complexity and work with everything from EC2 to Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (RHEV-M). DeltaCloud works with 11 different compute APIs (ranging from EC2 to vSphere) and five different storage APIs (including S3,...