Day: 5 Agustus 2014

Google spiffs up Compute Engine with new zones but not new regions

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Gigaom

Google Compute Engine (s goog)  has added one new zone each in its central U.S. and eastern Asia regions, bringing total zones in each region to three, according to the Google Cloud Platform blog. 

Those additions add redundancy to expedite the running of MongoDB-type workloads that require high availability but they don’t address the concern of some cloud pundits who say Google needs more than three overall cloud regions. Right now Google fields cloud-related data centers in Taiwan, the central U.S. and Belgium.

Location of cloud data centers is becoming a battle ground — many customers have concerns about latency which increases with distance and there are also data sovereignty issues — exacerbated by Edward Snowden’s revelations about data spying — that are driving more businesses to want their data in a specific country and prohibit its transmission elsewhere.

Battery Ventures Technical Fellow Adrian Cockcroft has made quite a study of this. As…

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Motorola exec confirms: Moto X to get Android L software update

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Gigaom

Good news for folks (like me) who bought a Moto X handset: Android Central notes the phone will be upgraded to Android L after Google(s goog) releases the next major software version. Android L is currently available in a developer preview for Nexus 5 and 7 devices, and is expected to debut publicly later this year.

Moto X Colors

Motorola previously said its budget Moto E handset would get the next major Android upgrade but hasn’t clarified its position on the Moto G and X phones. Confirmation of Android L for the Moto X came from Motorola’s Punit Soni on Google+, responding to the question about Android L for the Moto X with a simple “Yup” statement.

Given that the budget Moto E and its relatively lowly specs are getting Android L, surely the more powerful Moto X is capable of running Google’s newest Android software. Look at the long history of Android updates for…

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“Writers don’t need tricks or gimmicks.”

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The Daily Post

If you write for an audience — be it millions of strangers or your mom — you inevitably think about how your words appear to others. Very often, this self-consciousness results in overstuffed prose and too-clever storytelling. Here to remind us of the virtue of simplicity in writing is Raymond Carver, a master of narrative and linguistic economy:

“I hate tricks. At the first sign of a trick or gimmick in a piece of fiction, a cheap trick or even an elaborate trick, I tend to look for cover. Tricks are ultimately boring, and I get bored easily, which may go along with my not having much of an attention span. But extremely clever chi-chi writing, or just plain tomfoolery writing, puts me to sleep. Writers don’t need tricks or gimmicks or even necessarily need to be the smartest fellows on the block. At the risk of appearing foolish, a writer…

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