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Will Apple Buy a Carrier?
Jean-Louis Gassée now thinks it’s likely Apple will get into the carrier business, perhaps as a MVNO. I predicted something like it a while back. My reasoning is simple: 10 years down the road (or 5, or 20 if you like), do you really think that the oligopolic, infuriating carriers get to remain unchallenged in […]
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It’s Time To Abolish SSL Certificate Authorities
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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User-Centricity and Steve Jobs
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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From Stack to Cloudscape
Nico Popp shows us a new way to think about the “cloud technology stack”, over at the Verisign Infrablog (or should that now be the Symantic Infrablog?). Unlike the old stack diagram, this one causes one to think …
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Platform as a service and redundancy: Nagging questions | ZDNet
Larry Dignan at ZDNet makes similar points on the prospects of bolting PaaS to IaaS as I did in my piece on the EC2 outage and its implications on Amazon’s PaaS strategy.