Posts Tagged ‘cloud computing’

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November 1, 2008 - 8:11 am PDT - by Paul Glazowski

Don’t think cloud computing is a wonderful thing? Wait until everyone and their mother has a netbook in hand.
Yeah, you know, those small Wi-Fi-happy machines sporting 8-13” screens, flash-based storage drives, Intel Atom central processors, etcetera, etcetera.
For a large [...]

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by Michael Arrington on October 28, 2008

Microsoft made a major announcement today - they will be offering “lightweight” versions of Office applications - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote - through the browser. Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari will be supported. Users will be able to read and edit documents from the browser.
We had [...]

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by Jason Kincaid on October 28, 2008
Zimbra, the collaborative webmail and calendar company that was acquired by Yahoo in 2007, has launched a new product for academic institutions called Zimbra Hosted that will allow schools to run their webmail portals from the “cloud”. Previously schools would have to run Zimbra’s service onsite or [...]

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By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: October 27, 2008
LOS ANGELES — Looking for growth in new markets where it is increasingly being bypassed, Microsoft said Monday that late next year it would begin offering a new “cloud” operating system that would manage the relationship between software inside the computer and on the Web, where [...]

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By David Chartier | Published: October 12, 2008 - 09:10PM CT
Washington D.C. has joined 500,000+ businesses and organizations in moving its communication and productivity tools into the cloud. Vivek Kundra, CTO for the District, signed an agreement with Google to migrate the organization’s 38,000 employees to Google Apps, the search giant’s web-based offering [...]

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By David Chartier | Published: October 07, 2008 - 05:12AM CT

IBM is apparently tired of its customers complaining that employees are playing movie quizzes on Facebook and blogging at MySpace all day. The company opened up a beta of Bluehouse Monday, its new SaaS (Software as a Service) that combines web-based productivity and meeting tools with social [...]

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October 2, 2008 - 3:45 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder

I’m not a big fan of reaching for conclusions and unjustified criticism when it comes to tech journalism, because I see it way too often. But although I have no solid data to confirm it, I can’t help the feeling that Steve Ballmer’s announcement of [...]

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By Ryan Paul  | Published: September 30, 2008 - 09:35AM CT
Free Software Foundation founder Richard Stallman spent yesterday condemning cloud computing and is calling for users to reject popular web applications. He insists that reliance on web-based software poses a serious risk to freedom and privacy. Cloud computing is just a “hype campaign” [...]

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September 29, 2008 - 1:20 pm PDT - by Stan Schroeder  
StallmanRichard Stallman is going berserk over cloud computing. In an interview with the Guardian, he claims that the whole thing is “stupidity.” He claims that “you should not use web applications to do your computing,” because it’s “just as bad as using a [...]

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by Steve Gillmor on September 29, 2008
This week two giants spoke to the technology wave known as cloud computing. Larry Ellison called it a new label on what everyone is doing already. He acknowledged he was going along with it to keep his marketing and sales guys happy, but basically he called bullshit [...]