We come from a hotel in Palo Alto CA. We just got done with the HP Road Show – Converged Infrastructure. This week on the 5 Tech Things:
- Large File Programs. Josh Lowensen looks at your options.
- OnLive puts gaming in the cloud
- William Shatner creates MyOuterSpace.com
- University of Wyoming studys in Video Games
- The Intel i7 – Why you should think about getting a 6 core processor
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No Comments » 1986 – It’s full name is Centrum der Büro- und Informationstechnik (Centre of Office and Information technology). CeBit actually was started in the 70’s with the Hanover fair. However, the two separated in 1986 when it was decided that together, the two were not doing too well. Since then, CeBit has grown to be a very important conference for all IT.
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- V-Chip technology becomes mandatory in televisions
- AOL buys Bebo
- Hulu launches in the US
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No Comments » 1997 – Although the MP3 player was technically been around since the 80’s, the first Digital Music Player was first introduced. Eiger Labs shows off the MPMan at CeBit. For $250, you get a 32 MB model to hold 8 of your favorite songs. The 1998 release was only shadowed by the Rio PMP300, which overshadowed Eiger Labs.
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No Comments » This is the live feed of the HP Converged Infrastructure Road Show in Palo Alto, CA. Andy McCaskey from SDR News and myself will be spending all day Thursday, March 11th, interviewing and recording video.
Show has concluded. Videos from event will be up shortly.
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No Comments » 1988 – Ignatius T. Foobar launches one of the more interesting and long-lasting Bulletin board systems in the Uncensored BBS. Of course, his name was really Art Cancro, but Ignatius used an Altos 586 running Citadel/UX software. This BBS is still running to this day, even though dial-up access has been discontinued since 2001.
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- Richard D Kenadek is sentenced in the Davy Jones Locker BBS case
- Gene Roddenberry’s ashes are launched into space
- Google releases Android 1.1
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No Comments » Welcome to Googlazine! Bring Fiber to Madison, WI
Heading to California to cover an event – Videos will be made. SXSW might be out of the question, unless I get a Sugar Mama. I also had a small run-in with a person at a Bar who didn’t think too much of my profession.
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I – S.U.N. (Straight Up News)
Betty White to Host SNL
Toyota Recall to Prius
EFF on iPhone Developers Agreement
Cisco Drop IPEX Over Counterfeit Processors
Windows 7 Good to go for IT
Mashable Google Wave Challenge
The New Hard Drive Revolution
QOTW – What is your take on the Cisco Router?
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Battery Trojan in the DUO
Cisco 322 Terrabyte Router
Facebook Foursquare Killer App
Leo Makes Lisa Tickled Pink: Social Experiment
iPad Commercial
Web Access a Fundamental Right
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1 Comment » 1993 – The PowerOpen Association is formed to conform to the PowerOpen environment, which is an open standard for running forms of Unix on PowerPC platforms. Apple, IBM, Motorola are all in on this group.
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- IBM 2260
- Four-millionth domain name
- Newscorp says no to counter offer on Yahoo
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Ultimately, wires will be involved with your wireless devices. Bloomberg reports Time-Warner wants to provide some of them:
Time Warner Cable Inc., the biggest pay-television provider in New York City, is pitching phone companies including AT&T and Verizon Wireless on a service that uses its underground cables to carry mobile calls and Web downloads — easing the congestion spurred by data-hungry users of smartphones like the iPhone.
The service, known in the industry as wireless backhaul, has become Time Warner Cable’s fastest-growing business after revenue tripled last year, said Craig Collins, senior vice president of business services. Across the cable industry, sales from wireless carriers may reach about $3.6 billion in 2012, according to researcher GeoResults Inc.
The story goes on to say, without quoting any statistics, that iPhones use twice the capacity of other smartphone (I wonder how an iPhone compares to my Android) and that backhaul may ease congestion from one cell tower to another, but won’t help between a tower and the phones in our pockets.
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No Comments » 1983 -IBM announces the IBM Personal Computer XT (eXtended Technology). It features a Intel 8088 processor, 10MB hard drive, 128 kB RAM, 40Kb ROM and double-sided 360 kB floppy drive. For $4995, it’s all yours.
The IBM PC XT was the successor to the IBM PC. It was developed until April 1987.
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- Sierra and Broderbund announce the merge to Sierra-Broderbund
- The first GHz processors begin to ship
- Sun sues Microsoft
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No Comments » 1933 – Charles Darrow creates the game Monopoly. There were a few other board games before Monopoly, like “The Landlord game”, which Monopoly was loosely derived from. The board is based on Atlantic City and the playing pieces were models from items around Charles Darrow’s’ house. Parker Brothers would pick the game up in 1935 and turn it into a household name.
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- Richard Wittman Jr. admits breaking into NASA
- Sony announces release of Linux development kit for Playstation 2
- Intel gives computers, internet to employees for free.
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No Comments » This last couple days was a pretty eventful one. Andy McCaskey called me and said – Hey, your going to California. Funny, I wasn’t shootin at no food.
The event is the HP Converged Infrastructure Road Show. It was a 2 day event in multiple cities that ends in San Fransisco – More specifically, Palo Alto – At the heart of IT. Unfortunately, it also happens opening weekend of SXSW, but ya know, it happens.
I am actually not only honored to go, but very excited. As an IT professional in the former life, I still love to keep my hands in the infrastructure and administration. That, and it’s the first time I get to go to the sunshine state. Not the Dairy state – That is my home.
Andy and I will be heading down with one goal in mind – Video. We will be interviewing multiple people in the HP IT world, including Dave Peterson, Bill Allen, Grant Jacobsen and many others in the HP line.
HP Road Show Contest
Oh yeah, once we finish the video, we’ll be having a contest. The prizes are not finalized just yet, but the main prize we were bopping around is something you might want in your arsenal.
If you want to follow via Twitter, the hashtag combo will be #hprs and #hpci. Streaming will be available if we have the bandwidth.
Topics covered:
Learning how to reduce your IT operations and maintenance resource costs
Remove trapped budget silos that are costly and underutilized
Transform your Data Center to operate more efficiently
See how the HP converged infrastructure architecture is breaking down technology silos to simplify IT and accelerate business results.Day 1 sessions will highlight the following:
- Bulletproofing your virtualization strategy
- Why Converged Infrastructure matters to your Data Center
- Control Aging Server Sprawl; New economics you can’t ignore
- Unleash Trapped Capacity with Virtual Storage Infrastructure
- Get out of the Sparc, IBM mainframe and legacy rut with Integrity optimized infrastructure
- Changing Networking to Unlock Business ValueDay 2 sessions will highlight the following:
- HP BladeSystem Matrix and Insight Software: Converged Infrastructure solution for delivering shared services
- Flex Fabric to dynamically connect resources
- Unified Storage for flexible, resilient scale-out storage
- BladeSystem with G6 processors for maximum performance and power efficiency
- Detailed technical teardown of competitive systems to see what’s really under the covers
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