Things I still need to do.

Financier Dermot Desmond and venture firm Kernel Capital are among investors to have pumped €22m into Dublin-based telecoms equipment supplier Intune Networks, it was announced today.The investment was secured by the company in its most recent funding round and is the largest private equity investment in the global telecoms optical equipment sector in 2009. It is also the largest private equity investment round in the European telecoms equipment sector and the third largest in the European IT sector this year.

via €22m investment for telecoms firm Intune | BreakingNews.ie.

So here’s the deal with Wave: If you deal in technology, and you get this one wrong, you’ll miss the boat. And it’s a big boat. If, on the other hand, you get this one right, you have the potential to do some incredible innovation.

In a nutshell, this is the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture. Maybe the first truly revolutionary leap since HTTP itself.

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while, but first I wanted to read fully thru and digest the specs and available code. I haven’t done any posts about XMPP for quite a while, but you’re going to start hearing a whole lot about it, and not just from me.

via Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this. – Jason Kolb re: the Future of the Internet.

Spreadsheets keep their functions and charts, Powerpoint delivered over the web, with extra functionality if SilverLight is installed though it’s not a requirement.

Office Web Apps will be delivered throught Windows Live Workspace.

Click below for a video demo from Chris Bryant.

Office Web Apps : Demo of the Office Web Apps.

In the coming months, Microsoft will unveil a Google Docs like product that will let users create and edit Office documents in the browser itself without requiring a copy of Microsoft Office software.

The product, known as “Office Web Apps”, will include online versions of Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. Like Google Docs, Office Web Apps will be available for free and you can use it from all popular browsers on Mac or Windows PC even without the Silverlight plug-in.

How to get Microsoft Office Web Apps

Microsoft is expected to ship Office Web Apps alongside Microsoft Office 2010 sometime next year but here’s a simple hack that will help you access the preview version of Office Web Apps right now…

via Get Access to Web-based Microsoft Office Apps Now!.

“Cloud computing plays a key role in the President’s initiative to modernize Information Technology IT by identifying enterprise -wide common services and solutions and adopting a new cloud-computing business model. The Federal CIO Council under the guidance of the Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Federal Chief Information Officer CIO, Vivek Kundra, established the Cloud Computing Initiative to fulfill the President’s objectives for cloud computing.”

via Apps.gov brings cloud computing to the Federal government | CTOvision.com.

I will start of with Larry Ellison, the oracle of software industry. Most opinionated and mostly correct, as history has proven, sometimes a few years later. Did I mention he is funny too?.

via What the Hell is Cloud Computing? | Strategies for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC), Open Source| PrudentCloud.

Household names like Google, Amazon and Microsoft are racing each other to create rival global platforms for the storage and manipulation of data. They have sent their marketers out amongst us to proclaim the Good News- Cloud Computing will reduce costs and improve service when compared to the traditional self-built and run server rooms most significant organisations are used to.

via McGarr Solicitors – Dublin Solicitors Ireland | Cloud Computing: European Data Protection Dangers.

Snapshot for September 2009

Of the 500k sites analyzed, these are the results for the IaaS providers tracked:

via State of the Cloud – September 2009 :: Jack of all Clouds.

“If gaming from the cloud is as big as gaming on console via DVD then it will be bigger than the music industry in revenue terms before long. Imagine the upgrades and re-versioning that could happen then, nightly builds or hourly builds or mid game code updates! And if the game is in the cloud not the console then the IP is closer to the owner and the not duplicated millions of times to plastic. Game on. ” says Brian Greene who is so not a gamer you would not believe it!

[www.gamasutra.com reports] OnLive Opens Beta For Cloud Computing Game Service. Onlive, which announced its cloud computing gaming service at GDC 2009, revealed today that it has entered open beta.

The service allows gamers to play PC titles through their own PCs or television sets, without needing to render the game on their own hardware — rather, it is rendered remotely and sent frame-by-frame back to the local display device.

In a blog post, OnLive CEO Steve Perlman described the unique challenges of the beta rollout.

“One of the key challenges that OnLive technology addresses is providing a high-quality, fast-response gaming experience over a wide range of situations: different speeds/locations/types of broadband services, a variety of different PC and Mac configurations, several kinds of input and display devices, etc,” he said. “So, a major focus of OnLive Beta is to test as many of these different situations as we can.”

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