May 24, 2013

iOS 7: ‘Black, White, And Flat All Over’

9to5Mac has a lengthy article with information from unnamed sources about the new look for iOS 7. They say the design will be “black, white, and flat all over.” In other words, Apple will be dropping the shadows and highlights that currently dominate the OS, as well as getting rid

Joyent Drops Cloud Computing Prices to Match Amazon

Cloud computing provider Joyent is determined to catch up to industry leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). With that goal in mind, the company has introduced thirteen new server instance types that closely resemble those available from AWS. In addition, it has lowered prices so that they mirror Amazon’s as closely

The Problem with PaaS: Appropriate Abstraction

Amazon has shown that Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) can actually work, leaving all other IaaS players scrambling to compete. For its part, Salesforce.com has illustrated that Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can be similarly successful, and yes, the other players in the SaaS marketplace have been emulating Salesforce for years. But what about Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)?