cloud computing

Several places on the net are reporting on a couple of cases where people with Apple computers are finding that Apple Repair will not take care of problems due to the users being smokers.
As someone that has worked on several dozen computers used daily by smokers, I can say that it is not a fun [...]

Not simply a way to keep your PC free from nastiness, but also an easily demonstrated show of the effectiveness of remote accessed computing, Panda Cloud Antivirus gets ready to make the case for many to use remote services for things once thought almost inseparable from the local machine.
One of the Download Squad got a [...]

It’s official, but I said it long ago. (Perhaps I am somewhat like Nostradamus.) It will take on more weight now that the industry big shots are speaking out – cloud computing is a bad name. It always was.
The Information Week article speaks out on the bad name, and other things-
Sure, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd [...]

This morning, I have read several articles about the announcement of Google’s Chrome OS yesterday. Everyone who has written something has an opinion about  the effects of it on the computing landscape, and how it will affect Microsoft.
After absorbing much of those given opinions, and trying to synthesize one of my own, i have been [...]

Along with the center in Texas, two new data centers will be brought online during the month of July.  It makes another two points of entry to the nebulous cloud spoken of so often.
Microsoft’s data center expansion continues as two new such facilities are scheduled to ‘open up shop’ in the near future. The Dublin [...]

Larry Dignan seems to be unusually on top of this story, as he gives more insight to the Oracle buyout of Sun.
Stating that Oracle might have valued the hardware division at zero makes many wonder how all that Sun hardware will continue on. Will it be a third party picking up the pieces, or will [...]

On Tom’s Hardware, the question was asked about Microsoft. Although I did not respond then, as I was very bleary from being up too long, I now have a few things I would change to make things better ( and hopefully, more profitable – though that’s hardly needed)
There’s no disputing that Microsoft is a highly [...]

You might want to try it first. Microsoft is allowing you to do just that if you are a business user. Fortunately, there appear to be no limits on business size, so proprietors are included, for now.
At the CeBIT computer fair in Hannover, Germany, Microsoft unveiled its first commercial version of its Business Productivity Online [...]

Bill Thompson, argues that the skies are becoming dark for cloud computing, and makes several assertions why this is so. In his article on BBC News, the point that rings truest to me is the possibility of the need of information and the impossibility of access due to any of a hundred different reasons.
Infrastructure [...]

The business of news is a forward thinking one, where reporting on current events brings eyes and mind on the events of the future.
The New York Times has always had an eye on the past as well, by maintaining a very careful inventory of all the output of the past. Just last month, the fully [...]