Johannes Ernst on August 31st, 2011

Rackspace has a cool video:

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Johannes Ernst on August 30th, 2011

Yet another case this week where unsuspecting users were compromised because a certificate authority that they had never heard of screwed up. In case you hadn’t heard, they issued a certificate for google.com (Google!) to somebody other than Google, and apparently that certificate was in fact used to compromise users in Iran. This is not [...]

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Johannes Ernst on August 28th, 2011

Take the iPhone, but replace the screen with a 40 inch HDTV screen and put it in your living room. What do you get? a TV a high-quality speakerphone bypassing the telcos a live window to grandma (“HDTV videoconferencing in your living room”) a stereo a movie rental kiosk a game console Now, next time [...]

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Johannes Ernst on August 24th, 2011

Without Steve Jobs, this industry already feels like it has lost something. Something important. A key vibe, philosophy, point of view, … I was struggling with figuring out what until I discussed school work with my kid tween today. He has to write some essay, and we were discussing how he was going to type [...]

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Johannes Ernst on August 18th, 2011

@parislemon neatly summarized today’s news about H-P getting out of the PC business: HP To Apple: You Win. I hope he meant more than tablets, because the victory of the Apple model is much broader. Just a few days ago, Google caused a major earthquake with the announcement that it would acquire Motorola, one of [...]

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