OpenWeb 12/24/2011 (a.m.)

• How Google Apps works when actual people use it | TechRepublic

  Use case for Google Apps described.  This is very interesting stuff and for sure i need to take a much closer look at how others are using Google Apps.  The integration with MailChimp is very interesting.  Good stuff.  As i read through this, i found myself wondering about using Google Apps Document templates in MSOffice 11???

  Tags: Google-Apps, Productivity, Cloud-Productivity-Platform

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 12/23/2011 (a.m.)

• Hover - domain name and email management made simple

  Many are joining the boycott against SOPA, and need an alternative to domain host and registrar GoDaddy.com.  Hover.com has been suggested as a good replacement.   The SOPA list of crony capitalist and fascist supporters can be found at http://goo.gl/udScr.

  Tags: SOPA, GoDaddy, SOPA-Boycott

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 12/21/2011 (p.m.)

• Firefox Add-On Bypasses SOPA DNS Blocking | TorrentFreak

  Tags: censorship, OpenWeb, SOPA, DNS Blocking

  • The pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continues to inspire opponents to come up with creative solutions to circumvent it.

    A new anti-SOPA add-on for Firefox, titled “DeSopa,” is such a counter measure.

    When installed, users can click a single button to resolve a blocked domain via foreign DNS servers, bypassing all domestic DNS blockades and allowing the user to browse the site though the bare IP-address (if supported).

  • “It could be that a few members of congress are just not tech savvy and don’t understand that it is technically not going to work, at all. So here’s some proof that I hope will help them err on the side of reason and vote SOPA down,” he adds.
  • If browsing a site through a single IP address is not supported, this other anti-SOPA plugin provides an alternative.

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OpenWeb 12/20/2011 (p.m.)

• AT&T Ends $39 Billion Bid for T-Mobile - NYTimes.com

  Tags: AT&T, T-Mobile, antitrust, mergers, spectrum, wireless networking

• BT sues over hyperlink claim | Networking | ZDNet UK

  Tags: software patents, hyperlink patent, BT, Prodigy, lawsuit

  • The lawsuit, filed against Prodigy Communications Wednesday in a New York federal court, follows BT's claim in June that it owns the intellectual property rights to hyperlinks. BT says the patent, discovered in a routine trawl through its own patents three years ago, also covers a basic technology necessary for connecting computer users to the Internet.

    The telco aims to require all ISPs who use hyperlinks -- a fundamental Web technology -- to pay BT a licence fee.

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Future of the Web 12/20/2011 (p.m.)

• AT&T Ends $39 Billion Bid for T-Mobile - NYTimes.com

  Tags: AT&T, T-Mobile, antitrust, mergers, spectrum, wireless networking

  • AT&T said on Monday afternoon that it had withdrawn its $39 billion takeover bid for T-Mobile USA, acknowledging that it could not overcome opposition from the Obama administration to creating the nation’s biggest cellphone service provider.

    The company said in a statement that it would continue to invest in wireless spectrum, but could not overcome resistance from both the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission.

  • Under the terms of the deal, AT&T will pay Deutsche Telekom $4 billion in cash and wireless spectrum as a break-up fee, and the two companies will begin a seven-year roaming agreement that will expand T-Mobile’s national coverage.

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OpenWeb 12/12/2011 (p.m.)

• World’s first programmable quantum photonic chip | ExtremeTech

  Tags: quantum computing, qubit

  • A team of engineering geniuses from the University of Bristol, England has developed the world’s first re-programmable, multi-purpose quantum photonic computer chip that relies on quantum entanglement to perform calculations.

    With multiple waveguide channels (made from standard silicon dioxide), and eight electrodes (see image above), the silicon chip is capable of repeatedly entangling photons. Depending on how the electrodes are programmed, different quantum states can be produced. The end result is two qubits that can be used to perform quantum computing — and unlike D-Wave’s 128-qubit processor (well, depending on who you ask) this is real quantum computing.

  • We know that entanglement can be used for very effective encryption, but beyond that it’s mostly guesswork. There’s general agreement that qubits should allow for faster computation of very complex numbers — think biological processes and weather systems — and early work by Google suggests that pattern recognition might also be a strength of qubits.

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OpenWeb 12/08/2011 (p.m.)

• This 32-Year-Old Entrepreneur Is Bent On Beating One Of Microsoft's Largest Businesses

  Good in depth article about Huddle, and their challenge to Microsoft SharePoint.  We met these guys at the 2006 and 2007 Office 2.0 conference in San Fran.  Lengthy conversations about the Windows Productivity Environment and how Microsoft built that platform.  Need to take a closer look at how far they have come.  The Cloud is a greaqt opportunity for a new Productivity Platform.

  Tags: Huddle

  • - By Gary Edwards

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OpenWeb 12/06/2011 (a.m.)

• Survey: Companies Adopt the Cloud to Use Tablets, End Up Saving Less - ReadWriteCloud

  Tags: no_tag

  • Contrast this with an astounding 92% of Brazil-based firms, and 70% of Australia-based firms, reporting some degree of cost savings.
    • - By Gary Edwards
  • Only 10% of respondents claimed cost reduction as the key driver for their cloud adoption campaign.
    • - By Gary Edwards
  • 46% of U.S.-based businesses, said it was mainly to give employees greater options for accessing resources, including from tablets and smartphones.

• Mobile banking pioneer mFoundry nabs $18M from MasterCard, Intel Capital and others

  Good stuff. The Internet-payment sector is really heating up: Square, PayPal, mFoundry, Simple, and my favorite - DWOLLA. The credit-card-payment-industry is still in control, but you can see from the heavy investments they are making in Web based systems, that the mobility phenomenon has them concerned. Dwolla is my favorite because of the innovative way they connect direct to the bank accounts of users, cutting the transaction and reconciliation cost from credit card standard 2.75% o a FLAT $0.25 cents!!!! Outstanding. Could prove very disruptive.

  Tags: PayPal, Credit-Card-Payment-Industry, Dwolla, Web-Money, Internet-money, Internet-Transcaction-Payments

  • - By Gary Edwards
  • - By Gary Edwards

• I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore

  Precious stuff! And funny too:Summary statement:Abstract Valley Girl 2.0 Acronymitis Using Meaningless ExpressionsThis is when you combine the four diseases above. So you get phrases like, "You should meet this guy with the SIO. He's sort of this kind of social entrepreneur thinking outside of the box in the sustainability space and working on these ideas around sort of web-based social media, and he's in a round two capital raise in the VP space with the people at SVNP." How many times have you heard what you now recall to be precisely this sentence?This would all be funny if it weren't true. People just don't make sense anymore. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble if you internalize this. Observe it, deconstruct it, and appreciate just how ridiculous most business conversation has become.

  Tags: business-management, business-consulting, brain-jammer-language, valley-girl

  • - By Gary Edwards

• TripLingo | Mandarin for China

  TripLingo provides mobile Language assistance applications for the iOS and Android.  Assists with local idoms and prhasing for commonly used conversations and questions.  Geared to help world travelors.  Lots of languages to choose from!

  Tags: TripLingo, languages, translations

  • - By Gary Edwards

• 11 Groundbreaking Inventions Of 2011

  Extraordinary stuff. A few items in particular stood out for me: The Army Research Office's "Vibrating Belt"; TripLingo; DiDO, and the skin cell printer. Amazing stuff.

  Tags: groundbreaking-inventions

  • - By Gary Edwards

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