Unisys, the IT services company, today became the latest with a set of products aimed at helping customers create their own internal clouds. And in a month it will offer a true Infrastructure-as-a-Service product that will deliver computing and storage on demand and on a per-instance basis. Like many of the traditional IT vendors, Unisys […]
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Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is rethinking his earlier disdain for software as a service and all things cloud, according to a report today in The Wall Street Journal. Maybe a dismal economy and a drop in Oracle sales are forcing him to change his position. The Journal quotes comments made on Oracle’s earnings call yesterday, […]
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This week’s news of a chip designer leaving Sun to work for Microsoft could be a sign that the Redmond giant is trying to build a closer relationship between its software and others’ hardware as a way to boost performance of applications and use the underlying chips more efficiently. It may be trying to optimize […]

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As expected, Google today announced that it has added Java support to its App Engine service. It was announced at a Google Campfire this evening as part of a major upgrade for the Google App Engine that includes release of database importer tools, secure data connectors and other such features that are critical to web […]

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Microsoft’s Steve Martin, senior director of developer platform management at the Redmond giant, posted an inflammatory blog post last night about the creation of open standards for the cloud. In it, he touts Microsoft’s openness, proposes a wiki for the creation of open standards in the cloud, and points to a shadowy cabal of tech companies that are developing […]

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Google will soon announce comprehensive support for the Java programming language on its Google App Engine (GAE) offering. We are trying to get more details. Rumors of such a development emerged last year, but we can now confirm that it is going to happen. We have have confirmed the news and expect the announcement later […]

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OK, so the entire Internet is already in the box on your desk, and possibly most of it fits inside your phone, but Sun’s partnership with The Internet Archive means that 3 petaflops of archived web pages is also stored in a shipping container. Yes, I have this thing for data centers in a box, […]

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It’s been about three years since Amazon made its risky bet on delivering computing and storage via the cloud. It started by offering commitment-free, pay-as-you-go storage, enabling startups to start scaling their businesses without significant investment in capital equipment. It later added compute cycles to its services and today has a host of other offerings, […]

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In April 2008, I reviewed C2Call, a Java-based VoIP application that lets you make web-based P2P VoIP phone calls direct from your browser whether you’re using Linux, Windows, or an Apple Mac. The company that developed C2Call claims their new FriendCaller, also a Java-based VoIP app works on the iPhone. Funny, last I checked the iPhone doesn’t support Java unless you jailbreak it.

According to their website, “FriendCaller works instantly with every popular operating system and browser without installation. And, of course with the iPhone™ and iPod™ touch.” It then says, “Send your friends call-me links directly from your iPhone™ or iPod™ touch. FriendCaller is instant browser based Voice, your friends don’t have to install software or register with FriendCaller before talking to you through their browsers. They just click-to-call and you are connected and see each other online status.”

So it sounds like you have to send people you want to call a special hyperlink, which they have to click to then initiate an outbound call back to you. I’m guessing they embed your iPhone’s regular GSM phone number into the click-to-call link which gets passed to the Java applet. Then the person you are trying to reach clicks the click-to-call link launching the Java app on their browser and automatically initiating an outbound call to your iPhone. The call is routed as voice over IP from the remote caller’s PC/Mac to C2Call’s termination network (for low cost VoIP routing) and then terminates to your iPhone. This is speculation on my part based on the info I read and the technical limitations of the iPhone (no Java), but it’s the only explanation I can come up with on how it works.

So it isn’t truly end-to-end VoIP and it isn’t even an outbound VoIP call. It’s more like an inbound VoIP-to-GSM/PSTN call.

Anywhere, here’s the features:

• Free calls to anybody on the Internet over WiFi
• Instant messaging and Call-me links in WiFi and mobile data
• Full access to your iPhone™ contacts from FriendCaller
• Friend List with online status
• Low cost calls to phone numbers including mobiles over WiFi
• Call-me links work instantly on Windows XP/Vista, MAC OS-X and Linux

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This morning’s Wall Street Journal reports that IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion in cash. The deal makes sense given Sun’s distressed share price, and because both companies appear to be pursuing cloud computing — the next big computing opportunity — in a similar manner. Let’s see how each plans […]

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Sun Microsystems, as has been widely expected in the technology world, has finally announced its own cloud computing platform. Sun will offer raw compute power as well as storage through its Sun Cloud Storage Service and Sun Cloud Compute Service. The services, while being announced today, will not be generally available until this summer.
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Aster Data Systems, which makes software that allows companies to build massively scalable databases on commodity hardware, has raised an additional $5 million as part of its Series B round of funding from Institutional Venture Partners. Aster had originally closed $12 million back in January, but CEO Mayank Bawa says the company extended the round […]

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On Friday I wrote about the rise of specialty computing clouds and AMD’s efforts to build a supercomputer that will essentially be a graphics rendering cloud. Today, insideHPC points me to a post from Josh Simons over at Sun Microsystems about his  trip to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (home of the Jaguar supercomputer) and the […]

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Yesterday AMD announced that it was building a specialty supercomputer to deliver gaming through a computing cloud. Aside from the coolness of being able to play your video games on an iPhone, pause them, and pick them up at home, the news bolsters the cloud business model — taking it beyond storage and run-of-the mill […]

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Yesterday, Skype announced the availability of two new beta clients for mobile phones: Skype for Windows Mobile 2.5 beta and a renamed Skype for Mobile, now called Skype Lite. While the new beta version of Skype for Windows Mobile basically provides improved call quality and stability for those with Windows Mobile smartphones, Skype Lite opens […]

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Dave Douglas, SVP Cloud Computing
In a call today outlining Sun Microsystem’s cloud computing efforts, David Douglas, SVP of Sun’s cloud computing business  and Lew Tucker, Sun’s CTO, said the server and software vendor believes that there will be multiple clouds tailored to specific industries, and that more than one or two vendors will provide the […]

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For the first time ever, a supercomputer using Nvidia chips has achieved a spot on the Top 500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The Nvidia-containing machine is ranked No. 29 on the list that was released late Friday; it’s a cluster built by NEC and Sun Microsystems that uses chips from Nvidia, Intel and AMD. As Nvidia and AMD, which bought graphics chipmaker ATI in 2005, push graphics processors for scientific computing, this is a big milestone. The rest of the list was pretty anticlimactic, with IBM’s Roadrunner computer narrowly beating Cray’s Jaguar computer to stay on top of the twice-annual Top 500 list. Both machines are petaflop computers, meaning they can achieve a quadrillion floating point operations a second — a record that was broken by Roadrunner back in June.

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Sun Microsystems plans to lay off about 350 employees at the start of next year, according to a letter filed under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. The computer systems maker said in its letter that it would lay off 352 people across the U.S between Jan. 5 and Jan. 25, citing a “need to reduce overall spending” in fiscal 2009. Late last month, Sun reported a $1.7 billion loss for the first quarter of its fiscal 2009 year.

Since May, Sun has laid off about 1,500 employees, according to its filings with the SEC. As of the end of June, the company employed about 34,900 people. In addition to Sun, Freescale Semiconductor also filed a WARN letter saying it plans to lay off 138 employees in Austin, Texas, while hosting provider Verio said it plans to lay off 71 people in Dallas.

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I have to hand it to Intel. The company that brought us the brilliant marketing of Intel Inside (remember the stuffed guy in a bunny suit?) says Facebook has chosen its Xeon chips to power the social network. But because Intel is aware that server chips are commodities, the chip maker is also working directly […]

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