Giuseppe Taibi’s Techlog

Luckily, I made the cut :) 
Companies that I am currently affiliated with:

SmartWorlds - iPhone Apps Artisans - custom iPhone apps development
Whagaa - iPhone Fitness and Sports Apps - 6 apps live on App Store since its launch
OpenSpime - Internet of Things - open-source protocol and platform

MassTLC Innovation 2008 unConference Home Page
Attendees List
Wiki
Eventvue Page
unConference on Wikipedia

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Amazon has announced the availability of Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server on its popular Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). 
Read commentary on New York Times.

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With a blog post, Google discloses some data about their data centers. Unfortunately, the post does not provide details, but just a streamlined chart and a link to the company’s vision for energy efficiency. I, for one, would love to know if Google has deployed any virtualization technology.

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Today Apple has announced to drop the NDA for released iPhone software. This is the full text of the Apple announcement as posted on the Developer Connection website:
 

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations [...]

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This is below pathetic…

I can see the smiling faces at 1 Infinte Loop…Sorry BillG, your team is not up to the challenge, yet.

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Via: UK’s ElectricPig
Now I know what to ask for my birthday
More INSANE Gadgets at electrojoe.co.uk

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After getting frustrated with Gateway customer (booo) service, I resorted to seeking help from the ‘local guys’ at Microcenter Cambridge. The young customer (kick-ass) service associate was super-helpful and EXCHANGED the dead-after-90-days Gateway monitor with a monitor of my choice (rejoyce!). I went on and picked a HP w2207h, only paid the $30 difference with [...]

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This…

…should beat  THIS ?!?!?

C’mon, Bill….Sad, Sad, Sad

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Update: Kudos To Microcenter Cambridge

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05 Sep 2008 11:26:22 AM
“monitor won’t switch on” was submitted by Giuseppe Taibi to the problem analysis engine.

05 Sep 2008 11:26:22 AM
Phone Number set to xxx-xxx-xxxx | xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.

05 Sep 2008 11:26:22 AM
E-mail set to xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

05 Sep 2008 11:26:22 AM
Serial # set to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

05 Sep 2008 11:26:22 AM
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iPhoneLive 2008 is a 1-day conference that will be held for the first time in San Jose, CA on November 18 2008. Early registration price through October 14 is $625, while on-site price is $850. All details on the official website.

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