cloud

The Los Angeles City Council has voted to go with Google for their email needs and also to use Google Apps. and more. L.A. will be the first major U.S. city to use Google over other rivals like Microsoft. This has been a hard fought win for the search giant, and if successful, could entice [...]

Google is now looking at opening what they call ‘Google Edition’ in which they will be offering from 400,000 to 600,000 eBooks in the first half of 2010. You will not need to be connected to the Internet to read a book after it has been accessed once. This cloud of books will not be [...]

I support Google and the services they offer, including their mail service known as Gmail. But yesterday the system suffered another outage which according to their official web site was caused by an under estimate of usage. Which made me start to think. Is Google going to be able to handle the load in the [...]

For years Linux has tried to become a viable operating system, but has garnered less than 1% of the market place. Though Mac users proclaim the simplicity of the Apple operating system, the high price of their hardware has kept many of us from making the switch. Microsoft with their Windows system still has a [...]

The Google outage of last week will go down in history for several reasons. Besides the annoyance for people not being able to use their email it also demonstrated how quickly an Internet company can respond to an outage. I’m not talking about the software or hardware fix, I’m talking about how Google let us [...]

If you are a Google Gmail user, the search giant now has a new application that can round up all of your contacts and import them into the cloud. Called Google Contact Manager, the software can round up your contacts from popular email programs and other email systems such as Hotmail and bring them all [...]

gOS  is offering what they describe as an operating system that uses a browser. gOS is calling their new system Cloud and it uses a browser which resembles Google Chrome. The new operating system boots in seconds and propels the user onto the Internet via the browser. The option than allows the user to open [...]

They call it ‘Lala’, a music service, they has not fared very well in the market place. But now Lala is going to try a different approach and head for the clouds. They will also be offering DRM free music for about 90 cents a song. Their site looks similar to the popular Apple iTunes [...]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has stated that they are currently developing a new ‘Windows Cloud’ OS, which will be separate from Windows 7. Mr. Ballmer states that the new OS will make it easier for developers to write applications that will be used in future cloud computing, similar to what Google and others are offering. [...]

There is an interesting article concerning cloud computing being a trap that should be avoided, since we would get locked into a system which takes away our ability to control. Richard Stallman takes it a step further calling cloud computing hype and just plain stupid. In the article he also mentions that:
But Richard Stallman, founder [...]

Most of us will agree that the new Netbooks will make lugging that laptop through airports and while traveling easier than their heavier laptop cousins. But I read an article that seems to indicate that Netbooks are limited. The author states that without Internet access, the Netbooks are nothing more than scratch pads. But is [...]

It sure didn’t take long for the media to make the new browser from Google called Chrome an entry into the browser wars. I found several articles that were titled:
Google launches web browser in battle with rival Microsoft
Google takes on Microsoft with browser
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake [...]

For the past few months I have been looking around for a new laptop system to supplement my full sized laptop system. I had also previously mentioned my fondness for the old IBM Z50 which I really enjoyed using. So when I saw the Asus Eee PC yesterday, I was immediately drawn to it. So [...]