http://www.cah-net.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The service is still in private beta, but you can get access to the trial (15 days free) at https://www.backblaze.com/webware. If you want a highly configurable backup solution, there are plenty of competitive options (Mozy, for instance, or Carbonite, which I use). Backblaze is the backup app ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/09/04/backblaze-possibly-worlds-easiest-online-backup/ To live up to that billing, I think we'd also need a few more: commentary Or what about Peter Fenton, David Skok, Kevin Harvey, Robin Vasan, and others who fund open source? Or other open-source CEOs who build viable businesses (Dave Rosenberg at MuleSource; John Powell at Alfresco; Javier Soltero at Hyperic; ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/08/29/linuxworld-names-its-top-open-source-business-lead/ We'll miss him. One of our tech journalism colleagues, Russell Shaw, passed away on Friday, March 14. He was on a reporting trip in San Jose, traveling from his home base of Portland, Ore. I knew Russell first as a blogger at ZDNet, where he covered broadband, VoIP, smartphones, and ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/08/24/well-miss-russell-shaw/ Do you find Windows Media Center's blue, remote controlled fa?ade easier to navigate than the cold red, white, and yellow world of Netflix? Then check out Andrew Park's new plug-in for the Vista version of Windows Media Center called MyNetflix. The plug-in lets users link to their Netflix account, search ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/08/23/windows-media-center-plug-in-puts-netflix-in-livin/ A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court accuses Google of deceiving its customers into paying for ads they didn't expressly request. A Google spokesman said: "We have not been served with the complaint and will have no comment until we have the chance to review it." "Ads on third-party sites ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/08/23/google-sued-over-advertising-program/ Is flying through outer space from the comfort of your living room enough to make you cry? My new boss, Dan Farber, correctly predicted that it was an updated version of the WorldWide Telescope program, a fact later confirmed by TechCrunch. Microsoft researcher Curtis Wong showed an early version of the ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/08/23/telescope-is-what-makes-scoble-cry/ One major area sorely in need of improvement is Intel's graphics tehcnology, currently built on outdated manufacturing equipment as a way of wringing productivity out of older factories. That is going to change, said Otellini, as Intel starts moving more and more of its chipset production to newer factories ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/08/23/intels-otellini-pledges-growth-from-places-new-an/ commentary I just saw the news that Zend has raised $7 million more, in its fifth (Series E) round of funding. Zend last raised $20 million in August 2006. Zend has raised so much money that it must be bought for a bazillion dollars for its investors to get a good ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/08/23/why-is-zend-raising-more-money/ McQuivey, a former professor at Boston University, tells record executives to cheer up because there are ways to rise from the ashes. He says first, the industry should quit fooling around with music subscriptions and ad-supported models. People want to own their music and downloads have won. Only 7 percent ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/08/23/analyst-music-industry-should-help-people-share-m/ (Credit: OLPC) Windows XP could soon be available on the XO. He said the laptop's open-source software had actually scared away potential adopters. In an interview with the Associated Press following the departure of the OLPC project's president, Nicholas Negroponte said the open-source Sugar software, developed expressly for the XO, could run ... http://www.cah-net.net/index.php/2010/08/23/xp-for-the-xo/