Entries by Kirill Bensonoff

RIM May Split into Two

What do you do when your company has sales in the toilet, struggling to innovate, and losing throngs of customers to biggest, faster companies? Why, you panic and do whatever it takes. RIM, or Research In Motion, is doing just that. They’ve hired experts to come in and examine ways the company can stay alive […]

Giant In The Clouds: AWS

If you use the internet, you almost certainly use Amazon Web Services. The cloud computing arm of the dot-com dynamo is such a large presence online that an in-depth analysis by DeepField Networks this spring found that more than 1 percent of consumer online traffic goes through Amazon services, and a third of internet users […]

Ebay Makes Some Green

Ebay announced that it will expand the usage of Bloom Energy Cells at their Utah data center.  The increase to thirty fuel cells will allow the green tech to become the facilities primary power source with the standard electric grid as its backup.  Bloom Energy Fuel Cells use a solid oxide ceramic material as an […]

Scratching the Surface

Microsoft recently announced the release of the ‘Surface’, a laptop-tablet hybrid this Summer.  The Surface will come out with two distinct versions: one will run Windows RT which is optimized for tablet features and battery life, the other model will run a full version of Windows 8.  It’s the software giant’s first major foray into […]

100% Telecommute: Treehouse

In our age of telecommunications, businesses have the opportunity to be increasingly decentralized.  Nowhere is this more prominent than at Treehouse.  Founded by Ryan Carson, the company specializes in online training from IT development to Java.  What sets it apart, besides making over 3 million a month, is that it’s completely virtual.  That means there’s […]

Rumor Mill: Sprint to Challenge Google Wallet

To round out this week’s trip to the rumor mill, we should talk about Sprint’s rumored move to create its own app called Touch to replace Google Wallet.  The site Android Central managed to obtain supposed slides about the product.  They detail how Sprint may have made business alliances with companies like McDonald’s and Starbucks.  […]

The Rumor Mill: WWDC

All the nerds and IT support consultants on Earth will be moving their eyes to WWDC, Apple’s tradeshow for their upcoming products, on Monday.  Though I won’t be there in person, I will be watching and listening to any bomb shell announcements.  Since the last WWDC, rumors have been swirling around about what’s to come and […]

Looking for Free Internet in All the Wrong Places

Our information infrastructure is woefully under developed.  Case in point, throttling: the practice of when cellphone companies choke off access to data to stave off overloading the system.  Company after company is getting rid their unlimited plans.  The new plans that are being rolled out include penalties for going over a certain amount of data.  […]

LinkedIn Password Breach

Six and a half million users of the ubiquitous business networking site LinkedIn have apparently had their passwords stolen. Online security experts say site members should change their passwords right away. As of this morning, PC World reported, only a minority of the passwords appeared to have actually been exposed. A file containing the 6.5 […]