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AppFog Founder and CEO Lucas Carlson isn’t shy about touting platform-as-a-service as the ideal way for developers to access cloud computing resources, but he isn’t blind either. Although PaaS has been around for a couple years now and has already spurred hundreds of millions in M&A spending, Carlson knows it’s nowhere near the mainstream yet. Carlson lays out his version of the evolution of cloud computing in the infographic below. Right now, API-based infrastructure-as-a-service offerings like that …

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fJapanese operator eAccess isn’t deploying any old LTE network. It’s going for broke, pushing the upper limits of the technology to launch a network that could theoretically support downlink speeds of 300 Mbps, according to TeleGeography. That makes Verizon’s(s vz)(s vod) LTE network, which can breach 25 Mbps on a good day, seem pokey. Theoretical speeds are just that, theoretical. Just as T-Mobile’s 21 Mbps and 42 Mbps HSPA+ systems could never actually deliver those peak speeds in real world …

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As I reported last month, Tesla will unveil the Model X — its third car and an electric SUV — at an event on February 9th in Southern California. While Tesla has been a pioneer of the electric sports car (with the Roadster) and an electric sedan (with its Model S), this will be one of the first times anyone will attempt to tackle the soccer-mom set with an electric car. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said before that he thinks the Model X will be “cooler” than any SUV or minivan on the market. Tesla …