Practical Technology

Who couldn’t love the idea of the new Amazon Cloud Drive? You get at least 5GBs of free cloud-based storage, and its trivial to get 20GBs of free storage on Amazon Cloud Drive. Used in concert with the Amazon Cloud Player you get a fine cloud-based music player that can be used either from a [...]

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Color me surprised. I knew that Linux, while still only a niche player on the desktop, was continuing to do well on the server and was doing even better than ever on the cloud. What I hadn’t realized was just how much better Linux, and in particular, Canonical’s Ubuntu, was doing on in the market [...]

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I have no doubt that Linux-based tablets will eventually be winners. I’ve been unimpressed though at how slowly the Linux tablet OEMs have been about getting their products to market. Those that have made it tp store shelves, like the Augen GenTouch78, haven’t been much good. Things are about to change. The forthcoming Nook Color [...]

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I’m underwhelmed by the new Apple TV, and I’m not the only one who finds the new Apple TV less than inspiring, but when you look into TV’s future, it looks like it’s going to be all Internet all the time from here on out. Seriously, the new Apple TV is kind of cute, but [...]

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BOSTON, Mass. — Novell was to have announced at LinuxCon that users will be able to run their own customized instances of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 and 11 on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. While the announcement was pulled at the last minute, I’m told that the marriage of SLES and AWS [...]

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