links for 2007-06-29

• » 11 more reasons NOT to buy an iPhone (and that you haven’t thought of) | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband | ZDNet.com
  iPhone has no games?? How is that possible?
  (tags: mobile)
• Equinix colocation data centers -- like no others
  Interesting interview: 1,200 cameras, 5 levels of biometric scanners, no raised fllor - "none of this tile stuff" - all overhead cooling.
  (tags: datacenters)
• The healthy carbon diet | Sustainable IT | InfoWorld |
  Interesting. Ted compares buying carbon credits to outsourcing.
  (tags: greening)
• » SOA done right: the Amazon strategy | Storage Bits | ZDNet.com
  Holy cow! Every Amazon web page calls on at least 150 services!! Werner says RAID is obsolete. Even databases are dinosaurs.
  (tags: amazon SOA scalability)
• Jeff Barr’s Blog » Joe Miller of Linden Lab speaks at the Catalyst Conference
  Second Life sells as many items as 17 Walmarts. Operates 12K servers, averaging 12 Gbps xfer. Asset server = 55 TB. 350K user hours/day.
  (tags: secondlife stats)
• JavaScript-based Amazon Web Services Simple Monthly Calculator
  (tags: Amazon)
• » BlackBerry-maker announces FY 2008 1Q numbers: 9 mil+ users | The BlackBerry Beat | ZDNet.com
  RIM made $1B last quarter from 9M subscribers. Ambitious of Apple to sell 10M by next year?
  (tags: Blackberry)