October 2, 2013
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October 1st was the day. The US government may have shutdown, but despite the best efforts of Tea Party Republicans, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s centerpiece — the state and Federal health exchanges where people can shop for insurance coverage — is open for business.
Sort of. Some if the sites — including the federal flagship Website Healthcare.gov — were mired with problems on the first day.
October 1, 2013
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If you believe NetMarketshare figures, Internet Explorer (IE) wasn’t just leading the Web browser popularity contest in September 2013, with 51.09 percent, it’s actually widening its lead. But, ZDNet’s tens-of-millions of monthly readers have a different favorite: Chrome.
October 1, 2013
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Still using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x? Red Hat hasn’t forgotten about you. The Raleigh, NC-based open-source company has just released RHEL 5.10, the latest minor release of the mature RHEL 5 operating system.
Red Hat releases upgrade to older Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHEL 5.10. More>
September 30, 2013
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Once upon a time, 2007 to be exact, if you wanted to use the Web on your phone, you had access to only a limited subset of it via Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) (PDF). Then along came the iPhone and 4G, bringing us smartphones and broadband, and six years later, 21 percent of smartphone users use their phones, not their PCs or tablets, as their main way to access the Internet.
Things have changed.
September 30, 2013
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Are there too many cloud services? Not really, but it can pretty darn confusing.
I have no problem with the three fundamental cloud services: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS); and Software as a Service (SaaS). Each of them has its role. There’s some crossover between them but not enough to confuse anyone who’s bothered to spend some time learning their cloud 101. Unfortunately, it seems like every company with a cloud service wants to have it own unique kind of cloud, fill-in-the-blank as a Service – and that’s confusing.
If you look closely at them you’ll find that most of these are variations on SaaS, but, alas, it’s not that easy.
September 29, 2013
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Don’t we all want faster broadband? Don’t we all envy Google Fibre users? Isn’t happiness caused by good, fast 4G? Not necessarily.
According to the Pew Research Center’s internet and American Life Project survey, 15 percent of Americans, approximately one in seven, don’t have Internet access. More surprisingly, the May 2013 survey revealed that 34 percent of that group isn’t interested in using it.