Archive for the “Wired Tech Biz” CategoryArticles from Wired Tech Biz. Meet Etcher, an iPad case styled after the iconic children’s toy Etch A Sketch. The bright-red plastic case comes with two very familiar-looking knobs used for drawing horizontal and vertical lines, and the system interfaces with an iOS app that replicates the toy’s drawing experience.
A company called BioTeam has taught Siri — the talking iPhone assistant — to run life science experiments in the proverbial cloud. This intriguing little demo is part of a larger movement across the life science field to harness the power of the cloud computing.
May
09
2012
 
Hands On: HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE Impresses With Speed, Sharp DisplayPosted by: wiredtechbiz in Wired Tech BizIn our limited time with the Incredible 4G LTE, we found the phone’s performance to be fast. It launched apps, loaded websites, and played video with ease on Verizon’s 4G network from within New Orleans’ Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
How A/B testing, the practice of performing real-time experiments on a site?s live traffic, came to rule the web. And why it’s seeping into ever-greater swaths of modern life.
May
08
2012
What Is a Virtual Network? It’s Not What You Think It IsPosted by: wiredtechbiz in Wired Tech BizSteve Herrod envisions a world where we create entire data centers using nothing but software. His dream isn’t unexpected. Steve Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMWare. For more than a decade, VMware has helped the world’s businesses move their computing applications onto virtual servers, machines that exist only as software, and now, Herrod and company are working to expand the world of virtual computing, so that applications run atop not only virtual servers but completely virtual networks.
In order to compete with PC manufacturers selling inexpensive Windows ultrabooks, Apple is primed to release a lower-priced, $800 MacBook Air in Q3 — immediately begging the question, ‘What will you actually get for your low cost of entry?’
May
07
2012
Hatch Some Grand Schemes With the GeekDad/Schemer Glorious Board Game GiveawayPosted by: wiredtechbiz in Wired Tech BizOur favorite new social site for discovering and remember all the fun things we want to do, Schemer, has finally emerged from beta. Even better, to celebrate the fact, and thank GeekDad and GeekMom for being early partners, they’re featuring our Schemer sites today:
Users howled when Microsoft tried to lock down Windows. Now Apple is upping its own security — and everyone loves it.
The more you rely on cloud-based services, the more important good backups become. If you’re using Gmail, Gmvault makes it a snap to back up your account, ensuring you have a copy of your data even if the Gmail cloud someday blows away.
The more you rely on cloud-based services, the more important good backups become. If you’re using Gmail Gmvault makes it a snap to backup your account, ensuring you have a copy of your data even if the Gmail cloud someday blows away.
May
07
2012
In Oracle v Google, Judge Holds Fate of Java APIsPosted by: wiredtechbiz in Wired Tech BizOn Monday, a jury is set to decide whether Google infringed Oracle’s copyrights in cloning the Java APIs on its Android mobile operating system. But that’s not the big decision. The big one comes later. Even if the jury decides that Google ran afoul of the law in building a new version of Oracle’s Java platform, this won’t settle the broader question everyone is waiting for: Can you actually copyright an API?
Users howled when Microsoft tried to lock down Windows. Now Apple is upping its own security ? and everyone loves it. When Microsoft announced its Trustworthy Computing Initiative in 2002, the response was immediate and consistent. Developers, users, press, and pundits alike decried the effort as an Orwellian attempt to limit freedom on what was then …
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