When Microsoft unveiled its Surface tablet earlier this year, it looked impressive, but left us with few details. This week, Microsoft invited a select group of tech writers for a closer look behind the curtain, and began taking pre-orders for the device that will be available as of October 26. As anxious as some are to get a hold of the new Windows RT tablet, though, there are a few good reasons businesses might think twice.
Amazon Cloud Costs Scrutinized By Startup
New analytics player Newvem applies a rules engine to Amazon cloud pricing to help AWS customers find savings.
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11 Cool Tools NASA Curiosity Brought To Mars
As it rolls along the surface of Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover has begun putting its Swiss Army knife of scientific instruments to work. The six-wheeled vehicle is using nearly a dozen high-tech instruments to touch, scoop, sift, clean, and analyze rocks and dirt on its mission.
NASA recently said Curiosity had found “surprises” in the chemical makeup of a rock–dubbed Jake Matijevic by NASA scientists–that it probed. The rock’s chemical composition resembled that of igneous rocks from the Earth’s interior.
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Keep Old Apps Private, Make New Apps Public
Just because you slip a hypervisor under an application doesn’t make it equally suited to private and public clouds. Know the differences to get the most from your application deployments.
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Microsoft Surface RT pricing walks a risky line
It’s not the pricing I had hoped for. But, at the same time the price options for the Surface RT tablet are not ridiculous. The pricing of the Surface RT tablet is competitive—not high enough to be dead on arrival, and not low enough to be a slam dunk.
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Cisco Launches Own Version Of OpenStack Cloud Software
The Cisco Edition of OpenStack aims to simplify private cloud deployments and offers an open-source alternative to VMware’s cloud software.
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Why an iPad Mini might be the right tablet for you
So, rumor has it that Apple will host an event on the imminent horizon—give or take two weeks—to announce a smaller iPad model. The “Apple iPad Mini” as it’s been dubbed by the rumor mill, is expected to be a 7 or 8-inch sibling of the iPad, designed to compete with smaller tablet rivals like the Google Nexus 7, or the Amazon Kindle Fire HD.
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Apigee, Layer 7 Simplify API Development
API management firms give developers access to services that may bring in new customers or dynamically configure software-defined networks.
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Browsing Like It’s 1990
Mobile computing has to rely on old tricks to keep up with websites built for screaming-fast home and office broadband.
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Wireless for Beginners Part 1: RF and Waves
In the first of a three-part introduction to essential wireless concepts, this post covers the basics of the radio frequencies used in wireless networks and the phenomenon of attenuation.
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