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How the Netbook Will Convert the Anti-Cloud Computing Crowd

Via Mashable 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 … Continue reading

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Microsoft Office Embraces The Browser (Thank You Google)

Via Tech Crunch 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 … Continue reading

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Zimbra Heads To The Cloud For Academic Institutions

Via Tech Crunch 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 … Continue reading

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Microsoft Plans ‘Cloud’ Operating System

Via The New York Times 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 … Continue reading

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Washington DC latest to drop Microsoft for web apps

Via ARS Technica 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 … Continue reading

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Big Blue goes social with Bluehouse collaboration platform

Via ARS Technica   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 … Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Windows Cloud Smells Funny

Via Mashable 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 … Continue reading

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Why Stallman is wrong when he calls cloud computing stupid

Via ARS Technica 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 … Continue reading

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If Web Apps are Evil, Why Do We Use Them?

Via Mashable 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 … Continue reading

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Cloud + Client

Via Tech Crunch 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 … Continue reading

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