Jonathan Hensley | The Blog

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Dell and Facebook prepping ’significant’ announcement
  Two of the biggest names in tech are teaming up on a cloud computing project that they plan to announce at a special event next week.

  Facebook amasses billions of photos, friend connections, and status updates and stores them up in "the cloud," and Dell is working on being one of the main providers of the infrastructure–servers–that makes the cloud possible.

• Almost one mobile phone for every South Korean
  Tech-savvy South Korea now has 45 million mobile phones, equivalent to 91 percent of the total population, the Korea Communications Commission said Wednesday.

  The data means each of the country's 15.8 million households has almost three mobiles on average, it said.

• 24 Ways to Make and Save Money With Your Computer
  You probably rely on your computer to accomplish a lot of things (and waste some time), but do you realize that computers and the Internet are some of the most powerful tools you can have in your financial toolbox? There are many ways that your computer can help you make and save money that weren’t available just a few years ago.
• We’re running out of IPv4 addresses. Time for IPv6. Really.
  Unless something unexpected happens, we'll be out of IPv4 addresses at some point in the neighborhood of 2012. So when the next Olympics come around, it's very possible that some of us will have to watch them online over IPv6. (Actually the official website of the 2008 Olympics is already available over IPv6.)