Today Rackspace and NASA announced OpenStack as a coordinated open development project with 28 participating partner companies and growing. NASA contributed source code from its NOVA project for running a large scale computing platform called Nebula. Rackspace contributed source code for its Object Store, used to host the Cloud Files web storage service. The API [...]

You might think that if you want faster internet performance, you can simply get a connection to the internet that has higher bandwidth. When you get a “faster” internet connection you may observe faster downloads. But it’s less frequently the additional bandwidth, and more frequently reduced latency that actually produces increased interactive web performance. This [...]

Have you ever wanted to surf the web from your laptop using the internet connection on your cell phone without connecting any wires, and with no hassle goofing around with software? Well guess what, for you happiness is close at hand!
Today Sagem Orga made a press release that raised my eyebrows. They have a new [...]