Day: 10 August 2011
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Microsoft: Cloud Services fail
Well if there’s ever been an advertisement against cloud services, Microsoft is it. The recent spate of outages on Microsoft’s BPOS system continued this weekend past with a 7 hour outage at their Dublin data centre after an ‘act of God’ took out their power grid and backup generators. Microsoft said it would “proactively provide…
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Social media good and bad
Social media has played a huge part in the political and social world over the last year. Consider its links to uprisings in the Middle East and now riots in the UK. On the one hand we have idiots like Tottenham MP David Lammy calling for the suspension of RIM’s BBM service ( thanks David,…
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Apple’s security issues draw apologists
One of the reasons I was drawn to the Android stable as a mobile platform was it’s open nature. The fact that I can control the use of my own phone is important to me. Having someone else say what I can and can’t do with it, is not on. So it is that I’ve…
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UK Violence
Any kind of violence is a sad thing to see. We’ve seen our own share here in the south of Africa however, things have been tailing off for a number of years now while people get on with the business of living. Yes we have our issues, but for the most part things just go…
