Technology

The hard working folks over at Phase2 Technology have been keeping it real in the independent city of Alexandria, Virginia since 2001. Phase2 delivers web application development services using open source technologies from strategy through implementation and beyond. Phase2 is internationally recognized for providing technology leadership on the web for publishing, public policy and ...

Open Shift PaaS by Red Hat Cloud embraces computing's New Wave, albeit without the day-glo colors and synthesizer riffs. We're talking about the cloud, people! OpenShift is a portfolio of free, portable cloud services for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. Currently there are two application deployment services offered as part of OpenShift; Express & Flex. Express is a f...

Aside from the scariness of what can show up on ChatRoulette, we are enthusiastic participants in the phenom known as real-time direct text-based communication. You know: chat. It's such a great way to have a quick conversation in the middle of the day without picking up the phone. Chat ID digs it, too, and is hoping businesses will jump on the chatwagon. ChatID creates new opportunitie...

Every so often we make stickers for people who do extreme activities...because they want to. Like swimming for miles or jumping out of airplanes or trying to change the world. And every time, we marvel at their bravery, wonder a little bit at their sanity, and usually feel just a bit oafish in comparison to such hardy souls. And then there's today's sticker. From what we can gather, the ...

The M-Cubed project? It stands for Michigan Multipurpose Minisat. As in a tiny satellite that does more than one thing that was developed by smart kids at the University of Michigan. In the summer of 2007, a small group of students took the opportunity to start a new project at the University of Michigan's Student Space Systems Fabrication Lab (S3FL). The objective of MCubed is to obtain a...

Well, hello there, cute lil blue guy! Where are you off to in such a hurry? Um, okay bye. Hmph. Don't be fooled by his cutie-pie blueberry appearance. Turns out, Volacci is all business: Volacci is committed to becoming the world leader in marketing profitable websites by turning customers into raving fans. Which is the short way of saying they make the website for a company like Zappos p...

Exploit Hub is "a marketplace for vulnerability testing." But before you start flashing back to angst-ridden dances in the gym during freshman year, they're talking computers, not wallflowers. The goal is to close the capabilities gap between the cyber-criminals and white hats, by enabling defenders to perform more comprehensive testing of their defenses. We have no idea what that means...

No joke: StickerGiant has breached the final frontier! One of the custom stickers we printed hitched a ride to the International Space Station in May 2011. And one of the kindly humans involved in STS-134 captured this image and the image somehow it made it to us. How cool is that? NASA EDGE takes a "unique look in and around the greatest space program on the planet" through a series of ...

When you visit the SendGrid website, they have a nifty counter that tracks how many emails have been sent using their services. Last time we looked, they were almost up to 13 BILLION (gollee, that sure is a lot!). SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability a...