I just came across this video tour in which CNET News.com’s Neha Tiwari reports on the massive data warehouse of Equinix.  Equinix serves companies like AT&T, MCI, Verizon, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google.  It blows my mind that there are over 200 networks in one of these data warehouses.
Equinix is sophisticated in what it offers, so [...]

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I am a fan of both Apache and Python.  I just came across this interesting visualization about developers committing to the code base of open source projects.  From the site:
This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits in a software project. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to the code or documents [...]

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Even though Firefox holds only 20% of the browser market it has been on a steady up-rise, second of course to Internet Explorer.  On June 17th Firefox will be officially released and Mozilla Corp is hoping to set a 1,000,000 downloads in one day record.  Rafe Needleman points out that Google actually foots the bill [...]

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This is great, being able to watch the WWDC Steve Jobs keynote in 60 seconds versus 1 hour and 47 minutes.  Don’t get me wrong, I think Steve is a very influential speaker, but there’s just something about getting it all in such a short span of time that appeals to me.

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Josh Davis from Wired Science takes a closer look into the world of high tech crime.  Very fascinating video.

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BBtv has a good episode on very simple Iphone Jailbreaking.  Damien Stolarz says “It started out very complicated, but these days uh… if you’ve ever heard of a script kiddie, uh… hacking your iphone has gotten to script kiddie simplicity”
It turns out that with the click of a mouse using an application on a computer [...]

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I always enjoy technology/gadget reviews that Joel Johnson produces for BBtv.  His review of the Iraq Voice Response Translator is priceless.

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I’m am super impressed by the built-in compass feature of Android, especially when combined with something like Google’s own street view.  Just watch the video to judge for yourself.

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This morning Adobe opened their beta for Acrobat.com which essentially offers a word processor “buzzword”, some file storage options, and they are integrating all of this into a Flash player environment.  If you already have an Adobe account you’re already signed up for the beta, you just need to log in at www.acrobat.com
The interface is [...]

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I’m impressed by this little device called the Yubikey which is the creation of a company called Yubico.  The Yubikey is a tiny form factor USB authentication device which produces a one time password for authentication purposes.  Essentially the Yubikey acts like a keyboard and auto enters passwords which are 32 characters in length (8 [...]

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