Apple enthusiasts across the world are having a big week as Apple releases the long awaited iOS5 update, and the iCloud service in one go. Apple also released a fairly bulky Mac OS X upgrade, which in addition to iCloud support also includes a few other improvements, like the ability to rearrange spaces in Mission Control, and bigger icons in Launchpad. Both iOS5 and the iCloud are major milestones for Apple. In addition to the iCloud support the iOS5 brings with it over 200 new features, most popular of which Read More

Virtualization technology was initially embraced by large enterprises.  These large IT shops had the resources to invest in the hardware, software, consulting, and training necessary to take advantage of virtualization technology.  These early adopters paid the price in terms of high costs for virtualization software and early blade servers, and also in terms of dealing with the inevitable bugs that accompany any new technology.  On the other hand, these early adopters also benefited significantly from the reduced TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) which is made possible by virtualization.  They saw Read More

One of the novelties coming with Windows 8 is support for Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) secure boot protocol which, when enabled, requires the boot loader of an operating system to provide a certified signing key in order to be allowed to boot. In fact, Microsoft made enabling secure boot by default a requirement for vendors who participate in the Windows 8 logo program, meaning that all PCs coming with Windows 8 pre-installed or branded as Windows 8 ready will come with secure boot enabled by default. The reasoning behind Read More

Last week Microsoft blessed us with the most detailed presentation of Windows 8 in a keynote that was a part of its BUILD developer conference. Attendees were given a free Samsung preview tablet with Windows 8 pre-installed, and everyone else was offered a free download of the Windows 8 Developer Preview from Microsoft Developer Network site. As many have said, and as is pretty obvious, Windows 8 is a pretty dramatic shift for Windows since it adds an entirely new user interface on top of Windows we’ve become used to. Read More

The trend of new processors increasing performance while decreasing power consumption continues unabated, and Intel just presented just one of the latest examples. On its Intel Developers Conference they demonstrated the new Haswell architecture, to become available in 2013, which will consume so little power that it would allow a notebook based on it to run for 24h on a single charge in use, and whopping 10 days on connected standby. In fact, the power consumption is so low that the notebook could remain connected to Wi-Fi and fetch updates, Read More

According to a study done by Science Express reliable and constant access to online information is affecting how we use our memory. Instead of remembering facts ourselves we remember where we can find those facts. This phenomenon was observed even before the age of the internet when people operating in groups know that they can get some information they need from specific persons in that group (someone that may be an expert on a given field). Instead of bothering to remember said information, they just remember the person from which Read More

Koopik has just launched their new daily deal service nationwide.  The new service aggregates daily deals from thirty-five different sources, so you visit one web site instead of dozens.  Even better, you can subscribe and have Koopik pick (or “pik”) deals for you and send them to you via one daily email. Koopik’s core strength is filtering out the deals you don’t want to see and filtering in the deals that you do want to see.  The first filtering is by location.  Once you set your location, you only see Read More

I am going to go against the conventional wisdom and predict that, not only will Google+ succeed, but that it will succeed BIG.  Here’s why. Adaptability Google has learned from its mistakes. Orkut was too kludgy to appeal to most users and lacked necessary support from the Google executive team — you can’t win at social on a small scale. Wave was too complex to explain to anyone outside the Googleplex – the elevator pitch for Wave was a slide deck.  Buzz was too tightly tied to Gmail and only Read More