Have you been following the latest on Steve Jobs’ decision to restrict FLASH based apps on his Apple iPads, iPhones and such? Jobs’ take on it is that the user experience and overall quality is at risk by loading his devices with FLASH. He says it makes them unreliable and not as secure. The debate is heating up as several industry leaders recently weighed in on the discussion. Grant Kirkwood, CTO PacketExchange, a next generation IP and network services provider, commented about the use of FLASH on Apple’s devices, saying that although there are some technical challenges in doing so – they can be overcome. This makes for interesting conversation. Read below to see what other technology gurus, such as Adobe’s CEO, Shantanu Narayen are saying on the subject along with what’s to come in our technology future.

The full article can also be found here: http://www.von.com/articles/5-misconceptions-in-apple-v–flash.html

5 Misconceptions in Apple v. Flash

User Experience, Bugs ‘Thinly Veiled Excuses’

By: Richard Martin

05/07/2010

The fight between Adobe and Apple, over the lack of support for Flash applications on the iPhone and iPad, continued on May 6 with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch responding, at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco, toSteve Jobs’ anti-Flash screed on the Apple Web site.

Jobs’ refusal to allow Flash-based apps on Apple’s popular mobile devices “is totally counter to the Web,” Lynch declared, according to InformationWeek. “Apple is playing this strategy where they apparently want to create a walled garden about what applications people can use.”

Since this high-tech throwdown started, thousands of words have been written about Flash, the iPhone, and the future of mobile video. And thanks largely to the large megaphone owned by Steve Jobs, several misconceptions have arisen. Below, we examine five of those.

1. This is a quality of experience issue.

That’s what Steve Jobs would have you believe. In his blog post, he went on at length about how buggy Flash is, how it “has not performed well on mobile devices,” it’s “the number one reason Macs crash,” it drains batteries rapidly, and so on.

To be sure, Flash does have some security and reliability issues. But James R. Borck, former manager of the InfoWorld Test Center, concluded in a review for CIO Magazine that, “Technically, Flash is a solid and well-designed content delivery platform that has continuously evolved to keep stride with a rapidly maturing Web ecosystem.”

And make no mistake: Jobs’ primary concern here is not bugginess, or the fact that Flash was not designed to run on touchscreen devices. It’s money.

“There are legitimate technical reasons to block Flash applications on the iPhone and iPad,” acknowledged Grant Kirkwood, CTO at Packet Exchange, a provider of IP peering and interconnection services. “But those are very easily overcome.”

The fact is that Apple works with third-party developers all time, to adapt those applications to the iPhone platform so they work seamlessly. Shouting about how poorly Flash performs, Kirkwood stated, is “a thinly veiled excuse” to do what Jobs really wants to do, which is keep the iPad a closed, proprietary platform wherein every application is native to the device and every time a user pays for something, Apple gets a cut. If Flash were available on the iPhone, why would users buy an app when they could surf the Flash-based Web for free?

2. Adobe will give in and produce “Flash for the iPhone.”

If the comments of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen are any indication, Adobe is just as entrenched in this battle as Jobs’ Apple. And Adobe, which had $2.9 billion in revenues in 2009, makes only a fraction of its money on Flash.

“If Adobe Flash loses market share to alternative solutions, such as HTML5, which Jobs is promoting,” Avian Securities senior analyst Jeff Gaggin told VON/xchange in an email, “then Adobe could see risk to their Flash business. But it’s well less than 5 percent of total revenues for Adobe.”

Flash has been the lingua franca for Web-based video for many years. Adobe has little incentive to cave in to Jobs’ demands, and there’s no indication it will do so.

3. Apple is the new Microsoft.

Word that both the Dept. of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are looking into possible anti-trust inquiries related to Apple’s refusal to accept apps not based on its own developer tools came from a thinly sourced story in The New York Post, not exactly a bastion of authoritative tech news. And, let’s face it, Apple is hardly Microsoft, which generated a long, costly, and ultimately stalemated anti-trust battle that the federal government has little appetite to repeat.

And Microsoft controlled a far larger portion of the PC operating-system market than Apple controls of the smartphone market today. Although the iPhone was the fastest-growing smartphone in the first quarter of this year, it still ranks No. 3 in the world.

The iPhone’s share of the global smartphone market surged in the last year, according to a recent report from IDC. But it still represents only 16.1 percent in the first quarter of 2010.

Nokia controls almost 40 percent of the smartphone market. The iPhone is wildly popular, particularly with tech-savvy, fashion-conscious, affluent users. But it’s hardly a monopoly product.

4. This is about next-generation technology.

This is the crux of Jobs’ argument: Flash is yesterday’s technology, “created during the PC era – for PCs and mice.” The future belongs to HTML5, “the new Web standard that …lets web developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions without relying on third party browser plug-ins.”

Even worse, said Jobs, Flash is a “a cross platform development tool.” Oh, the horror!

Here Jobs inadvertently reveals his true motivation: to keep the iPhone garden walled. He’s right to say that HTML5, along with the video codec H.264, will eventually become the de facto standard for creating video, animation, and interactive apps for both mobile and laptop devices. The key term in that sentence is “eventually.” In fact, Flash remains a widely accepted, versatile tool for developers that happens to also support HTML5. Beta versions of Flash version 10.1 include support for touchscreen devices. Millions of developers are busy creating Flash-based applications that will run not only on non-Apple smartphones but on tablets and ultra-mobile computers as well.

“Flash support on Windows-based netbooks and tablets is another story,” pointed out Avi Greengart, mobile and wireless analyst at Current Analysis. “There it is just one of several huge differences between Apple’s vision of tablets and rivals’.”

5. This is a minor squabble between two prideful tech CEOs.

It’s not; it’s a debate over the future of the mobile Web. Going back to Lynch’s remarks this week, it’s clear that Apple, which has made billions with its genius for product design, intuitive user interfaces, and slick marketing, is every bit as wedded to a walled-garden vision of mobile devices as are the major U.S. carriers. That’s working grandly now, and Jobs is well aware that he can afford to continue to ban Flash on his mobile devices and keep the iPhone/iPad platform proprietary.

Eventually, though, as Jobs himself wrote in his anti-Flash manifesto, “open standards created in the mobile era … will win on mobile devices.”

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LITE SPEED TECHNOLOGIES HAS INTEGRATED CLOUDLINUX LVE TECHNOLOGY IN ITS FLAGSHIP PRODUCT- LITESPEED WEB SERVER

OFFERING INCREASED SERVER CONTROL AND STABILITY, LVE ADDS VALUE TO THE HOSTING SERVICE PROVIDER MARKET

Princeton, NJ, April 20, 2010 – CloudLinux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces today that Lite Speed Technologies, Inc., a software technology company, has integrated CloudLinux’s Lightweight Virtual Environment™ or LVE technology in its LiteSpeed Web Server product. Lite Speed Technologies chose to integrate LVE technology to take advantage of its ability to control server resources while achieving increased levels of server stability and utilization to give their customers a more powerful way to manage the server environment.

As its flagship product, LiteSpeed Web Server is quickly becoming the industry leader in the web server market for high performance, scalability and security. The release marks the first software vendor to integrate CloudLinux’s LVE technology directly within its software, and this milestone has been achieved within just 45 days of the LVE launch to the marketplace. The quick integration demonstrates not only the demand for the technology, but also how easy it is to integrate LVE into existing infrastructures.

“Integrating LVE into our LiteSpeed Web Server product suite gives us the ability to help customers maximize performance within their existing infrastructures without them having to add additional hardware,” states George Wang, President and founder of Lite Speed Technologies. For hosting service providers, LiteSpeed Web Server is a high performance replacement of Apache web server, and with LVE, the offering is more robust allowing resources to be limited to individual processes, achieving increased reliability and performance.

Working at the kernel level, LVE technology limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes on a server. LVE provides LiteSpeed Web Server with new capabilities for a stable server environment so that a single site cannot slow or take down a whole server, thereby improving overall server stability. CloudLinux LVE is backed by 24×7 technical support and is compatible with the major control panels for easy management and quick deployment.

“CloudLinux’s LVE technology is proud to be included in the LiteSpeed Web Server offering as they have one of the best web server products on the market,” states Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of CloudLinux. “LiteSpeed Web Server is used by many hosting providers who want to optimize the usage of their servers and shares our goal of leveraging innovations such as LVE to improve the hosting infrastructure and prepare for the more complex configurations and challenges of tomorrow.”

About Lite Speed Technologies

Based in New Jersey, Lite Speed Technologies is a U.S. company dedicated to software technologies that enables faster Internet content delivery and infrastructure cost reduction for large websites, service providers, and enterprise datacenters. LiteSpeed Web Server, the company’s flagship product, is quickly becoming the industry leader of the web server market in terms of performance, scalability and security.

About CloudLinux, Inc.

Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.

CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.

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Ray La Chance, CEO Lexent Metro Connect and Paul Schoenau, Manager of Systems Engineering, Ciena will discuss how lowlatency dark fiber networks coupled with Ciena’s optical networking platforms can help you stay ahead of the competition.

For more information and to register for the webinar please go to: www.lexent.net

Similar to “speed dating” for telecom business, JS&A has developed the Power Networking concept to provide JS&A clients and industry professionals with a well-managed setting through which to conduct targeted prospect and customer meetings. Attendees can begin scheduling meetings immediately after registering through an online meeting planning system, the DealCenter. All meetings will occur on-site, in 20-minute intervals, throughout the 3-hour event.

“Telecom One-on-One is an innovative approach to networking, bringing industry thought leaders together to conduct business,” states Lauren Sauer, Manager of Events & Webinars for JS&A. “Scheduling meetings prior to the event increases business objectives and goals, ultimately making networking more efficient and focused.”

“Additionally, JS&A clients will have the opportunity to participate in a media match-up before the event, to meet with industry press and analysts to share their latest news and company developments,” continues Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, CEO of Jaymie Scotto & Associates and DealCenter. “Telecom One-on-One is another way in which we help our clients and the telecom community develop new business relationships and expand their market reach. We anticipate a successful event packed with effective networking.”

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About Jaymie Scotto & Associates, LLC

JS&A is a full-service public relations and marketing firm with proven experience in delivering strategic branding, design and communications for the emerging technology and telecommunications industries.

JS&A professionals have a proven track record of establishing recognizable corporate brands and deploying sensible marketing strategies that positions its customers as leaders in the industry. These brands and strategies are then amplified within news announcements, promotions, events and collateral, adding increased corporate value and increased time to market. For more information, please visit www.jaymiescotto.com.

Global wholesale services are in demand and Tinet, with the help of Hibernia Atlantic is delivering them in a big way.  Hibernia recently announced delivering multiple 10 Gig Wavelengths to augment Tinet’s existing network in order to fulfill increased customer demand for a variety of robust network services including, Ethernet Private lines, IP Transit and VPLS services.  The diverse wavelengths will cover routes to and from Toronto, New York, Dublin, London and Frankfurt.  Hibernia is known for ‘security through diversity’ stemming from the design of its transAtlantic undersea cables which bypass single points of failure.  The new 10 Gig wavelengths will allow Tinet to further deliver high quality, secure network services to its growing global client base of wholesale providers.  To read the full announcement, see below:

Tinet Selects Hibernia Atlantic for additional 10G WaveLengths To Further Increase Its North American and European Capacity

This Network Expansion is the Result of Higher Demand for

Wholesale, High-Performance IP and Ethernet Services

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- March 16, 2010- Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, announces it has been selected by Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group and the only global carrier exclusively committed to the IP and Ethernet wholesale market, to deliver multiple 10 Gbps wavelengths of capacity to and from Toronto, New York, Dublin, London, Frankfurt and other major metro areas on Hibernia’s private network.

With this additional capacity increase, Tinet can further offer its global wholesale customers greater redundancy, diverse routing, and access, thereby further enhancing its IP and Ethernet service performance. This capacity increase is the result of rising customer demand for wholesale services, such as Ethernet Private Lines, VPLS and IP Transit. This increase is also in line with Tinet’s previously announced expansion plans, whereas the company is further investing its network, including deploying a third Network Operations Center (NOC) in the U.S.

Tinet has selected Hibernia Atlantic, a long-time network partner of the company, as Hibernia offers additional security through diversity routing. Hibernia operates the only undersea cable crossing directly from Ireland to Canada and the US, thereby avoiding single points of failures, landing point and backhaul routes, such as the UK’s Bude, Bristol and Whitesands areas, and the waterways near London and New York.

“As we further expand our network within the US and globally, we have chosen to collaborate with companies like Hibernia Atlantic who share our common vision for the highest level of customer support and quality transport services,” states Maurizio Binello, COO of Tinet. “We are pleased with the security and flexibility that Hibernia provides and we look forward to passing on this high quality performance to our customers.”

“Hibernia Atlantic is an attractive option for global companies like Tinet requiring broad reach, innovative services and high-level operational and network performance,” continues Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic. “Hibernia offers Tinet a diverse cable connection to Europe and North America, which is flexible enough to grow and support Tinet and its customers’ increasing bandwidth demands.”

For the complete Hibernia Atlantic global network map and service offerings, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

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About Hibernia Atlantic:

Hibernia Atlantic is the only American-owned, diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider.  Hibernia is a subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC).  It is a TransAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial fiber network that offers over 100 redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network.  Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet, DTM and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. For more information on Hibernia Atlantic’s cutting-edge network or to view their corporate video, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

For Hibernia Atlantic business inquiries, please contact Melissa Butler at 908-988-1990 or melissa.butler@hiberniaatlantic.com.

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About Tinet:

Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, is the only global carrier exclusively committed to the IP and Ethernet wholesale market. With network presence and customers in EMEA, Americas and APAC, Tinet provides global IP Transit and Ethernet connectivity to Carriers, Service and Content Providers worldwide, within 7 working days. The carrier guarantees customers proactive management of SLAs and protection from DDoS attacks. Established in 2002, Tinet’s unique business model, based on focus and simplicity, assures the delivery of the highest standard of service. Tinet has grown to become one of the top 10 global IPv4 backbones and the number one IPv6 network worldwide.

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Princeton, NJ, March 15, 2010 – CloudLinux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, will present at the WebhostingDay Conference in Brühl, Germany on March 17-19. CloudLinux will share the benefits of its CloudLinux OS, a new Linux distribution designed for a multi-tenant hosting environment.

CloudLinux Founder and CEO, Igor Seletskiy will participate in a panel discussion titled “Command Your Data” on Thursday, March 18 addressing how hosting service providers can squeeze more efficiency from their infrastructure, while simultaneously increase profit margins and new revenue opportunities. The discussion will also explore the rise of Open Source software within the Software as a Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing markets, and ways for hosters, telcos, carriers and ISPs to integrate high- value SaaS offerings. In addition to the panel discussion, CloudLinux will participate in the hosting.FAIR held at the main exhibit hall.

In its 6^th year of being hosted in Germany, WebhostingDay is the largest web-hosting event worldwide. The event offers participants the chance to experience concentrated industry knowledge and first-hand news from web hosting industry experts.

CloudLinux was founded by Igor Seletskiy who has a 13-year, successful track record of delivering innovative new products to the hosting industry, including: H-Sphere, the first multi-server, commercially available control panel; FreeVPS, a container-based virtualization product; CP+, a simple, single server control panel; WebShell, a web-based file manager and SiteStudio, a browser-based website building tool. CloudLinux OS builds on Mr. Seletskiy’s extensive understanding of the unique needs of hosting service providers and is now available for download at http://www.cloudlinux.com/download.html.

To schedule a meeting with Mr. Seletskiy at the WebhostingDay event please contact pr@jaymiescotto.com.

About CloudLinux, Inc.

Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.

CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density; stability and performance helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.

For more information, please visit www.cloudlinux.com.

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Ilissa is tops in social media, as well. She and Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, CEO of Jaymie Scotto & Associates were recently interviewed for a Web 2.0 Expo webinar titled Social Media for Event Exhibitors where their ideas on effective uses of Facebook, Twitter, and blogging were incorporated into the presentation. Social media efforts, public relations initiatives, and events are greatly enhanced by the ideas shared.

Find out the latest on telecom public relations, technology, and social media on the award winning JSA Telecom News Now Blog.

Many challenges face the demanding financial community – fragmentation, Exchange consolidation, high cost of multiple deployments to trading venues – all of these dynamics prove difficult to manage in a rapidly changing environment. When you can’t afford to loose valuable time and money Switch and Data’s GeoReach program coupled with Hibernia’s Global Financial Network (GFN) are something to consider. Recently Hibernia Atlantic expanded its Global Financial Network (GFN) into Switch & Data’s financial EcoCenter in North Bergen, NJ, which is one of the hubs for its GeoReach program, allowing financial firms to consolidate from a central location, more effectively use their resources, as well as offer them the speed to reach regional liquidity providers.

Hibernia’s GFN is a natural fit for the GeoReach program as it was specifically engineered to meet the demanding needs of the high-frequency trading community marked by high performance, low latency, and industry leading rapid deployments – just 5 days from signature to service. The GFN provides secure and redundant dedicated fiber connectivity to not only EcoCenter/GeoReach sites but also to key exchanges, broker dealers, hedge funds, market data providers and global banks – all across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. One single point of connectivity to the GFN can unite multiple facilities in strategic locations all across the global financial community. Streamline your trading strategy and regain control – check out Hibernia’s GFN.

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As Lexent has been aggressively expanding its network, such as the recent fiber expansion into Telx at 60 Hudson Street in New York and 300 Boulevard East in New Jersey, there are now even more choices for enterprise, carriers and financial clients. The expansion significantly increased its capacity in order to meet growing demands for direct interconnection, along with storage, replication and data back-up requirements of its clients. With providers such as Lexent low-latency private dark fiber connectivity is now more affordable than ever, and has become a critical component in addressing the varied needs of enterprise and financial firms.

To read the Lexent / Telx expansion release in its entirety please click here.

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1. Diversify! Social media is one of the top marketing initiatives for companies but many don’t know how to go about it. To get started remember to DIVERSIFY. Focus on several quality sites to create an awareness and buzz about your company or product.

• LinkedIn: I recommend to start by building a company profile, as well as establishing a company group on LinkedIn. This is a professional way to state facts about your company as well as post news, press releases, open discussions, and share presentations through its many tools and applications.

• Facebook: Establish a corporate presence using your company logo for the page picture. You can also create a Facebook group and send ‘Become a Fan’ invitations to clients, partners and friends to join. Treat your fans as VIPS by giving them updates, latest news and promotions/specials first. Click here for an example.

More to come tomorrow!