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Originally posted 2009-07-03 21:11:54. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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A hypothetical discussion between a cloud consultant and his client that is just too good not be posted on this late Tuesday night. Just be forewarned – this is NSFW.

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No one is spared by “the consultant”:
“No one knows what is going on. Not even Gartner. Especially Gartner.”

“CloudCamp is just a bunch of vendors getting pissed, [...]

Samsung’s latest viral ad shows a Ryu wannabe attempting to destroy a car with his bare hands. According to the company, everything was wrecked and filmed with a Samsung H106 SSD camcorder. Video after the break.
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Originally posted 2009-06-11 12:33:37. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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Unlike the gripping back and forth of the fight over Yahoogle last year, the approval process for the search and online advertising partnership of Microsoft and Yahoo is chugging along slowly but surely as the Justice Department has deepened its investigation by reaching out to a broad range of publishers, advertisers, public interest groups and [...]

I can’t say enough about how cool the Wii remote is as a controller. Not only is it innovative, and provides whole new ways to think about controlling video games like Wii Sports, it’s also a much more comfortable controller to use for traditional games like Zelda. Being able to sit with your shoulders spread [...]

Microsoft will offer an application marketplace within Sharepoint 2010 that will integrate with third-party applications from its partner network. No date has been set for the marketplace lauch but it will evolve from “The Gallery” a feature that provides Sharepoint 2010 users access to templates.
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In an interview we did at Enterprise 2.0, Christian Finn said [...]

Israeli startup Soluto has closed a healthy $6.2 million second round of financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners. This is on top of the $1.6 million round the company raised a year ago from Giza Venture Capital, bringing the total amount of capital invested in the company close to $8 million.
The company, which [...]

IBM announced today a set of cloud services that will allow developers to develop and test cloud applications. In addition, IBM is offering free compute and storage for developers using the IBM platform.
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IBM Smart Business Development and Test on IBM Cloud is designed to remove burdens from developers who spend a lot of time setting [...]

According to Liveleak user “xmas_one”, this block of ice is glowing red hot due to conductive impurities. Unfortunately, no other information was provided, but if you’ve got more to add, please leave a comment. Continue reading for the video.
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Originally posted 2009-10-20 01:16:55. Republished by Old Post Promoter

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Computerworld – Microsoft today issued 10 security updates that patched a record 31 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Excel, Word, Windows Search and other programs, including 18 bugs marked “critical.”
Of the 10 bulletins, six patched some part of Windows, while three patched an Office application or component, and one fixed a flaw in [...]