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Paraphrasing Einstein, the future will not be created at the same level of thinking which created the past and the present. In Hugh Macleod's 'The Cloud's Best-Kept Secret' he writes: "...Nobody's saying that one day a single company may possibly emerge to dominate The Cloud, the way Google came to dominate Search, the way Microsoft came to dominate Software."read more

I have been known to have loaded so many extensions on my browser that I've crashed my Operating System (yes, it is apparently possible to do that... :). But now...

Just as people begin to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise "Ops-Free" computing. Because it's easy, scalable, available and disposable, the cloud is well on its way to becoming "technology's next big thing." However, with recent outages from Amazon and Google Apps, the question of the cloud's competence, security and reliability have come into play. read more

IBM has sued one of its top executives, a guy who knows all its secrets, to stop him from going to work for Apple and sharing those secrets with Steve Jobs. It has asked a New York federal court to enforce the non-compete signed by 26-year IBM veteran Mark Papermaster, the guy IBM calls its top Power expert, the guy who also ran its x86 blade development unit, so he can't go to work for Apple for a year. According to IBM Papermaster is a walking security risk because he was one of the 300 senior managers who make up what IBM calls its "elite" Integration & Values Team. read more

Marco Folio posted a list of the most popular Design blogs out there and these are definitely some of the best of the best. If you're not reading these sites,...

There is a giveaway on Web Teacher for Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Classroom in a Book. If you live in the United States and would like a copy of this book,...