The major update should bring improvements in scalability, performance tuning, support for iSCSI for EBS volumes, S3 Versioning and new administrative tools. The download is available on the website. To read more visit: http://www.eucalyptus.com/news/08-25-2010

” … The last decade was the decade of social networks – the next decade will be the decade of games …” An interesting video about how the internet might change within the next few years. Games are powerful, they are fun, they are motivating, they drive business – sometimes more than anything else could do. Watch this video for some inspiration about how making everything a game could change our all lifes …

In this Ted Talk by Steven Wolfram is in part to “Wolfram Alpha”, Mathematica, and other …
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica and Wolfram | Alpha, the author of A New Kind of Science, and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Full bio and more links

Yesterday announced the Bluetooth SIK that the development of Bluetooth 4.0 are almost completed. The specifications will be announced before 30 June 2010.

What began years ago with a joint venture of a few companies such as Toshiba, has now grown into a great community. The Bluetooth-SIK has today about 9000 members.

The basic advantage of Bluetooth 4.0 is to:
* Higher reach
* Energy-savings

The use in for example Vienna mobile devices e.g. Smartphones, laptops, headsets, but will take a little longer. It is estimated that will not come before the end of 2010 more likely to move to 2011, the first devices on the market

Here you can read the press release.

This is a number times 60,000 phones a day. Who would have expected to have been published as yet last year, on average “only” about 2000 Apps in the market in the month. They are about 22 million a year.  Now we are at about 9000 (March) and in April alone already 4955.
Reads more here.

In March 9000 new apps in the Android market have been published. The market success of the Android phone can not stay longer!

Here you will find some statistics for Android

Today, Apple released the new beta of the SDK from the iPhone. It is version 4.0.
In the iPhone DevCenter you will find this the download.
New in Version 4.0

• Multitasking
• IAd
• Over 1,500 new APIs
• …

What all is new, can be found here

The Zero Day Initiative announces the 4th Pwn2Own contest. They are searching exploits/vulnerabilities for browsers and mobiles … if you find one you can win some money. Total prize money is $100k.

Sounds like an interesting “job” … Read more here

Anyone who thinks an Android phone, you can not play games, should watch this video.
There are briefly shown 50 games in 9 minutes.

A list of all games and the publisher you can find here.