A recent article on Wired.com discusses the rumored and whispered details surrounding an upcoming Google music service. This sound very much like the rumor surrounding Apple’s acquisition of Lala.com last year which later ended up with Apple simply shuttering Lala services in May. If this is true, then Apple and Google once again go head [...]

Now this looks interesting: Apparently the design has been around for at least ten years, but later this year, Dell is releasing a notebook/tablet pc that runs Windows 7 on a dual-core Atom N550 processor. Its most striking feature is the ability to transform from a netbook to a tablet via its swivel screen. Not [...]

According to Steve Balmer, Microsoft has bet the company on Windows Azure and cloud computing:   Microsoft is “all in” and Balmer goes on to say that the majority of Microsoft Employees , about 70%, are working in the cloud, either cloud based or cloud inspired. That number will grow to 90% in the next [...]

In the last dozen years working in IT, I have heard the concept of cloud computing tossed around as a "neat and interesting” concept, maybe good for hosting a service or two (such as Saleforce.com or a company web server), and for small businesses that could not afford network and server infrastructure, but not really [...]

Picture this scenario: You have a SharePoint farm and its associated Active Directory domain (Domain Controller A) in a traditional perimeter network, sandwiched between an external and internal firewall. Similar to the following diagram”   However, you want to authenticate against the SharePoint web server (which is a member of domain A) using your internal [...]