5 billion mobile subscribers! Employers, are you listening?
Updated: 2010-08-31 16:38:28
Mobile adoption worldwide is growing faster than we can keep up. In fact, back in July, it was report by both Ericsson and Wireless Intelligence that mobile connections worldwide finally surpassed the 5 billion mark. If you have been following mobile trends then you’ll likely agree that this is big news. Very big. With mobile [...]

Interested in Prophecy 10 or VoiceObjects 10 training? We still have some space to offer in the following classes:
Training Center Orlando
Voxeo VoiceObjects Overview (FREE training): Oct 25-26
Developing Voice Applications using VoiceObjects Desktop (FREE training): Oct 27-29
Voxeo Prophecy Overview (FREE training): Dec 6-7
Prophecy Installation and Administration: Dec 8-9
Training Center Cologne
Voxeo VoiceObjects Overview (FREE training): Oct 4-5
Developing [...]
We’ll be on the road in September evangelizing the Rackspace Cloud and would love to meet you. If you’re in one of the cities where we’ll be, drop us a line and we’ll schedule a time to meet up.
Tech In The Middle
Sep 11th – Chicago, IL
A one day conference designed for Developers, Entrepreneurs and Enterprise [...]
Mike Mayo is the mobile apps developer for the Rackspace Cloud and OpenStack.
Since OpenStack was announced, we’ve seen a flurry of activity in the developer community. Hundreds of people have made over a thousand contributions and we couldn’t be more excited.
Today I’d like to share one of the more unconventional contributions with you. Most [...]
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One of the major benefits of utilizing Rackspace Cloud Files is having the opportunity to deliver content to your users around the globe at blazing speeds over the Limelight Network’s content delivery network (CDN). To learn more about how this CDN experience can excel your web presence, we invite you to join us for a free [...]
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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new addition to the Visual Studio family that helps you quickly create professional-quality business applications, regardless of your development skills. Learn more and download the beta.
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866 578-6127 Products Overview Explorer Enterprise Resources White Papers Data Sheets Webinars How-To Videos Analyst Reports Company About CloudSwitch Management Team Board of Directors Investors Careers Contact Us Blog Partners Technology Partners Consulting Partners News Events Media Coverage Events Press Releases Awards Blog Subscribe Customer Login Enterprise Cloud Computing Blog New Features from CloudSwitch Make it Even Easier to Use the Cloud Posted by John Considine on Aug 23, 2010 at 7:45 AM Digg Reddit Delicious StumbleUpon Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Buzz By John Considine We've been hard at work over the past two years building the underlying infrastructure for our CloudSwitch software , with the design goal of innovating rapidly on top of this architecture . nbsp The latest
Approximately 20 passionate programmers participated in Tropo and Socrata’s open government 24-hour Tinkerstorm (or Hack-a-thon) in conjunction with Chris Pirillo’s GnomeDex 2010. We are currently at the half-way point of the competition. Bill Schrier (Seattle’s CTO) stopped by to check on the status of the projects and provide additional inspiration. Max Ogden and Reid Beels [...]
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This weekend a number of the Tropo crew have descended upon Seattle for Gnomedex and Seattle Geek Week. We’re hosting the final geek week event, Gnomedex’s Tinkerstorm: an open government themed hackathon.
A group of developers will descend upon the Edgewater Hotel right next to the Gnomedex venue and build apps to help our fellow [...]
Every year, Rackspace gets heavily involved in SXSW and this year will be no different. It’s an event that brings some of the brightest minds in the tech industry into one vibrant city, right up the road from our headquarters.
With SXSW 2011 being right around the corner, now is the time to pick the SXSW [...]
Customer feedback is what drives the decisions made here at Rackspace. We’re always listening to customers whether over email, on the phone, or in person and it’s the feedback received that drives our development efforts. We just launched a new way for you to offer your feedback as well as see what others are suggesting. [...]
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Have you wanted a T-shirt, hat or mug to help promote the IETF and your support of the organization? Now you can buy one, courtesy of a new online store the Internet Society has opened up:
http://www.cafepress.com/ietf
I think it’s very cool to see because many people who attend IETF meetings have wanted to help promote the great [...]
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rPath will be leading a webinar panel discussion, State of the Cloud II: Enterprise Patterns Emerge. Our own John Engates, Rackspace CTO, will be part of the panel.
Last year, the cloud cognoscenti set out to clarify definitions—what is cloud? What isn’t cloud? What does it mean for the present and the future?
This year, the focus [...]
This post was written and contributed by Chris Nagele, Management & Strategy for Wildbit, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. Wildbit has created web products like Beanstalk, Postmark and Newsberry.
I’ll start this off with a simple question. If your application or site sends email, how many of those emails are actually reaching the inbox? According to a [...]
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: : , skip to main skip to sidebar OakLeaf Systems OakLeaf Systems is a Northern California software consulting organization specializing in developing and writing about Windows Azure , SQL Azure Database , SQL Azure Data Sync , Windows Azure Platform Appliance WAPA LINQ , ADO.NET Entity Framework , OData and WCF Data Services formerly Astoria Microsoft Synchronization Framework , SQL Server 2005+ , SQL Server CE , NET database , and Web services projects . TIP : Click the latest item's title below to speed . loading Monday , August 09, 2010 Windows Azure-Compatible NoSQL Databases : GraphDB , RavenDB and MongoDB I’m guessing that the properties of these three NoSQL database are what the original SQL Server Data Services SSDS and later SQL Data Services SDS teams had in mind when they
We’re ready to take the Beta label off of Cloud Servers for Windows and open the doors for business. When we initially released the Cloud Servers for Windows Beta, we wanted to ensure that we had the right features in place backed by an industry leading SLA before releasing it into production. We’ve had a [...]
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