Celebrate Independence Day with a fully (legally) unbricked smart phone. Starting July 4th, OpenMoko will begin selling it’s Neo FreeRunner for $399. The software is 100% free and open source. For an additional $99 you can get the Debug Board and really get up in its guts. VGA touchscreen, 500MHz, 128M RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, AGPS, [...]

We hope you have a fun and safe 4th of July weekend! HyperLINKS will be taking a break tomorrow but we will be back on Monday. Now, here are today’s top stories:
Mozilla has broken the Guinness World Records for its record number of downloads. The official number of downloads stands at 8,002,530 [...]

Another very cloudy news day. Here are today’s top picks:
Big news to start off HyperLINKS. Microsoft has announced that it has bought semantic search engine, Powerset
Tom Kaneshige of InfoWorld writes about Google’s long road to the enterprise through its Google Apps
According to a new Gartner study, email will move to the [...]

Happy first day of July!  Here are Tuesday’s tidbits:
Stacey Higginbotham lists ten reasons why Enterprises are not quite ready to trust the cloud (Security and reliability are two reasons listed)
Brian Krebs of the Washington Post blogs on a recent cloud “dilemma” about the number of spam emails he received in his inbox that surprisingly came [...]

HyperLINKS have been going strong for officially one month now and we hope you have enjoyed reading them! Now, without further ado here are today’s top stories:
In his wrap-up from last week’s Structure Conference, Dennis Barker writes about cloud computing, and mentions Hyperic’s CloudStatus as one of the best management tools around to help [...]

TGIF! As another week comes to a close, here our today’s HyperLINKS:
Hyperic OEM partner, SpringSource, receives $15 million in funding from Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital
Gartner claims that cloud computing will be as influential as when the internet was being leveraged for e-business
Upon Yahoo’s creation of their “Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure Group,” many [...]

Nicholas Negroponte gives a TED talk about the first two years of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.

Even in it’s infancy it has created and made use of some truly amazing innovations:

runs on less than 2W of manually rechargeable power
powerful mesh networking capabilities
dual mode display (works in direct sunlight)
open source Flash player
addictive/intuitive UI (easy [...]

Hyperic Launches CloudStatus
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Clouds Are No Substitute For Competence
Hyperic CEO, Javier Soltero explains the cloudy nature of distributed computing during his Velocity keynote. When there’s an outage, and there will be, is [...]

Cloud computing continues to dominate attention, some noteworthy news:

Yahoo announced today that it has created a Cloud Computing & Data Infrastructure group
From the better-late-than-never department, Microsoft (finally) releases its Hyper-V hypervisor to compete with VMware and Citrix
At the Red Hat Summit, Jim Whitehurst encouraged users of open source to stop hoarding for themselves and give [...]

GigaOm’s Structure Conference took center stage today and lots of interesting stories are coming down the pipeline. Here are today’s top picks:
While participating on a panel at Structure titled “Working the Cloud: NetGen Infrastructure for New Entrepreneurs ,” Google’s Christophe Bisciglia, was forced by several other panelists to defend the openness of BigTable, Google’s [...]