the cloud

A Schmidtstorm and More: 2010 in Pictures Photoshops

John Paczkowski in Mobile on December 31, 2010 at 7:01 am PT

Looking back, 2010 “the year of” a lot of things–the tablet, the smartphone, the tweet and location. But it was also a year of complete silliness in tech. Because if you can’t laugh at Eric Schmidt telling critics of Google Street View to “just move,” Apple telling people that their grip–not the iPhone 4′s antenna–is faulty or Oracle’s “samurai CEO” Larry Ellison in a kimono, then, really, what’s the point?

Another One of These Cloud Computing Rants and You’ve Got Yourself a Stand-Up Routine, Larry

John Paczkowski in News on October 2, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

The passing of a year hasn’t much changed Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s opinion of cloud computing. Remarking on the industry’s sudden fascination with the concept at Oracle OpenWorld last September, Ellison reduced it to a thin sheen of windshield condensation. In conversation with former Sun CEO Ed Zander at a Churchill Club event a little over a year later, Ellison expanded on those remarks, suggesting that if the cloud is anything, it’s a cloud of BS.

In Browser Wars, The New Firefox Loses Some Edge

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on July 15, 2009 at 3:02 pm PT

In this round of the browser war, Mozilla’s product no longer stands out as clearly superior.

FiascO2, Redux

John Paczkowski in News on July 9, 2008 at 9:17 am PT

The best laid plans of mice and men “gang aft agley,” as they say. iPhone carriers as well, apparently. Because British wireless carrier O2 claims it was well prepared for the iPhone pre-order event that felled its Web site earlier this week. It just wasn’t well prepared enough. In an email to customers today, O2 apologized for the failure of its online ordering system this week, explaining there was little it could do to prepare for the 13,000 orders per second that overwhelmed it. That’s right: 13,000 orders per second. O2′s full statement follows.