VMware to launch Go: a free web management service for ESXi: ”

This Friday Forbes unveiled the upcoming launch of vCloud Express, a VMware initiative to accelerate the adoption of vSphere a cloud computing platform.
Now it’s the eWEEK’s turn to ruin another VMworld surprise: VMware Go, a free web management service for ESXi.
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The Web-based service automates the installation and configuration of VMware’s freely downloadable ESXi hypervisor, VMware ESXi.
VMware Go will enable SMB customers to ‘fly through the ESXi setup process with just a few mouse clicks,’ Bogomil Balkansky, VMwares vice president …

Analyst says iPhone to go to multiple U.S. carriers in 2010: “Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster looks in his crystal ball and sees the iPhone available through multiple U.S. carriers starting next summer.”
(Via Macworld.)

Photo of the Day, August 31, 2009: Points Converge: “

Elliot Haney got a great night shot of Huntington Ave. as seen from Mass. Ave. The vanishing point and light streaks are excellent and give a good flow to the picture. The processing is also inviting and not overdone. It appears that Elliot has just recently moved to Boston so hopefully we’ll be seeing more great images from him.

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(Via Bostonist.)

Google Apps & salesforce.com – Your Future is in the Cloud Webcast: “

Google Apps & salesforce.com – Your Future is in the Cloud Webcast

Hear salesforce.com and Google Apps representatives, as well as customers Justgiving and Erith Group discuss Cloud Computing, and how it has helped their businesses become more agile and competitive in todays economic climate

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(Via YouTube – GoogleApps’s Channel.)

Review: Novell software easiest yet at building Linux appliances: “Novell’s new SUSE Studio web-based service for creating software appliances on SUSE Linux has been favorably reviewed by eWEEK. While SUSE Studio does not offer the breadth of features of rPath’s rBuilder, Novell’s product is much easier at appliance creation, says the review.”
(Via DesktopLinux.com.)

Security vs. Usability: “
Good essay: ‘When Security Gets in the Way.’
The numerous incidents of defeating security measures prompts my cynical slogan: The more secure you make something, the less secure it becomes. Why? Because when security gets in the way, sensible, well-meaning, dedicated people develop hacks and workarounds that defeat the security. Hence the prevalence of doors propped open by bricks and wastebaskets, of passwords pasted on the fronts of monitors or hidden under the keyboard or in the drawer, of home keys hidden under the mat or above the …

7 iPhone Apps to Save Your Energy Bills: “

A mere 13 percent of people say they would want to manage home energy consumption via a mobile device, according to Clint Wheelock of Pike Research (via GigaOM Pro — subscription required). But it looks like no one told iPhone developers that — a growing number of iPhone apps are actually available or under development that offer users ways to both automatically and manually manage home energy use. The upside is they’re cheap to build, slick to look at, easy to use …

This Week in Google Dissects the Cloud [Announcements]: “
Our very own Gina Trapani has just launched a podcast called This Week in Google (or TWiG) with tech guy Leo Laporte and journalist Jeff Jarvis. The weekly episodes promise to deliver intelligent discussion about cloud computing and general Google-focused tips, tricks, and news. You can find the links to each episode on the TWiG homepage, or just subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

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(Via Lifehacker.)

Rules for Conquering Risk: ”
In How the Wise Decide, authors Bryn Zeckhauser and Aaron Sandoski cite a study by Princeton psychologist Daniel Kahneman. The study finds that ‘our brains are programmed to worry substantially about the possibility of loss, and not enough about the size of the loss relative to the gain. We don’t like to lose period.’ It’s called risk aversion. It means that we put a far greater weight on losing than on winning.
The authors say the problem arises …