Monday, July 23, 2012

Cloud control is key to the future of the internet

Cloud control is key to the future of the internet
The Guardian
And thirdly, that providers of cloud computing will inherit the Earth, because all mobile devices are essentially windows on to the cloud. So, clearly, the future's mobile. The only question is whether it's also bleak. To find out we'll have to wait for Ofcom's 19th ...

The Guardian

Augmented reality and cloud computing may be made for each other
QR Code Press
A new report from Mind Commerce, an independent research organization, suggests that augmented reality and cloud computing could go hand-in-hand. The report, titled Augmented Reality in the Cloud, details a number of uses for the technologies and ...

QR Code Press

Embrace 'The Cloud' securely
Seacoastonline.com
That's a very good thing. Cloud services have also been a very good thing, but also not without their risks. First it was a massive password breach at LinkedIn and more recently Yahoo Mail. Now the very popular Cloud file sharing service Dropbox is reporting ...

Emerging Markets Ready to Adopt Paid Cloud Services, BSA Survey Finds
ag-IP-news Agency
WASHINGTON, DC - Emerging economies are ripe markets for cloud computing services — including paid services — but users in those markets are likely to share log-in credentials, a potential avenue for license abuse, the Business Software Alliance ...

Beyond Dropbox: Security is Only Part of the Cloud's Problem
PCWorld (blog)
Top 15 Cloud Storage Tips and Tasks. Just a year ago, Dropbox introduced a bug that for four hours allowed users to log into other users' accounts with any password. ... “The complexity and uncertainty of the legal framework for cloud services providers means that they often issue complex contracts...or agreements with extensive disclaimers," the EC said in the paper, obtained by Reuters. According to Reuters, regulators claim cloud vendors are not forthcoming enough about what they will do for the customers ...

Windows 8 Turns Microsoft Focus to Cloud – Why Aggressive Pricing Makes ...
Mobile & Apps
Microsoft is making significant efforts towards curing a leadership position as a cloud-computing services provider, and the company's announcement of Office 2013 is a key milestone. The new version of the popular Office productivity suite will be tightly combined with the company's SkyDrive cloud-storage service, which in turn is a key built-in feature of Windows 8. Microsoft has not announced pricing yet for the new Office, but Windows 8 Pro upgrades cost only $40 provided users upgrade online directly from ...

Mobile & Apps

Dell's cloud plans slip behind schedule
ITworld.com
July 20, 2012, 5:39 PM — Dell announced an aggressive schedule last year to roll out cloud-based application services, but it now looks like the schedule was a little too aggressive. Dell said last August that it planned to ... Dell does offer some cloud services today, including an infrastructure-as-a-service offering. It also offers hosted Salesforce.com .... The White Paper IDG Tech Dossier: Converged Storage ~ Utility Storage: The Ideal Platform for Virtual and Cloud Computing was viewed. The White Paper Intelligent ...

Firm offers cloud service to SMEs
Sun.Star
INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY management service provider DataOne Asia Philippines is offeringcloud computing to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Cebu through Bayan Telecommunications Inc. (BayanTel). DataOne Asia Philippines chief executive officer Cyril Rocke said in an interview ... According DataOne, cloud services simplify computing by moving systems and data to secure datacenters and making it accessible from anywhere. With the cloud, companies have access to powerful computing ...

Cloud computing, Audience Mobile, Productivité & Twitter... [Lu sur la blogosphère]
Webmarketing & co'm
Cloud computing, Audience Mobile, Productivité & Twitter… [Lu sur la blogosphère] · Blogosphère — 22 juillet 2012 — Aucun commentaire. Cloud computing, Audience Mobile, Productivité & Twitter… [Lu sur la blogosphère]. Cette semaine, en parallèle aux ...

New rules may let IRD 'fish' overseas
New Zealand Herald
The tax department is developing guidelines with cloud computing providers to ensure it can gain access to New Zealand companies' information stored in overseas data centres. "The IRD are trying to get their head around the cloud and tax evasion at the ...

Security standard could be boost for mobile cloud
Rethink Wireless
REST (Representational State Transfer) is a web service architecture which has become dominant in modern web and cloud services because of its relative simplicity. As more and more types of mobile devices communicate with it, security will become a ...

Greenpeace vs. Apple Cloud: Commitment to the Green Cloud
CloudTimes
Cloud Computing Health Care Market Worth $5 Billion by 2017 · ssd cloud storage Cloud Storage Facilitates Recovery of Data - TwinStrata Study · hollywood-sign- ... apple 300x219 Greenpeace vs. Apple Cloud: Commitment to the Green Cloud IT giant Apple has recently come under fire for failing to fulfill its commitment to promote green practices in cloud computing, judging by the company's decision to stop submitting their products to the Electronic Product Environment Assessment Tool (EPEAT) for certification.

Top 10 Reasons why Startups should Consider Cloud
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
While the Silicon Valley startups are the biggest adopters of the Cloud, it may not be the case in India and other parts of Asia. I am prompted to ... As a passionate speaker, he has chaired the Cloud Computing track at premier events in India. Janakiram has ...

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

Amazon.com To Launch SSD Servers
StocksandShares.TV
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced that its division Amazon.com Web Services is offering SSD rentable servers in an effort to attract app developers to its cloud storage. The High I/O Quadruple Extra Large EC2 (Elastic Cloud Compute) includes 2TB ...

The Americans are Coming
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
Then GigaOM's cloud computing event, Structure, hits Amsterdam on 16-17 October. I've attended both in the States (see disclaimer), and look forward to seeing how each sets about fusing the best elements of a successful American event with local speakers...

SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

Cellcom Lowest Signals Need for New Markets: Israel Overnight
Businessweek
Israel's mobile phone market has grown enough to ensure sufficient competition in the industry and the government is encouraging companies to enter the fixed- line and cloud computing markets to augment revenue. Cellcom Israel Ltd. (CEL) (CEL), Partner ...

The advantages of Dell's distributed architecture
Philippine Star
Second, the adoption of virtual computing (and its extension, cloud computing) has resulted in much higher server-to-server traffic flow than before. Third, enterprises now have vastly larger volumes of data to process, store, and analyze than previously.

Fear Of A Slick Apple TV Has Smart TV Manufacturers Forming Alliances
SmartHouse
Chinese TV brand Changhong who are a major supplier of TV's to Harvey Norman has moved to form a TV industry alliance claiming that within three years cloud computingwill be at the heart of their TV offering. Also forming a TV alliance is TPV Technology ...

SmartHouse

IBM PureSystems Helps ValeCard Meet Demands of Business Expansion
R & D Magazine
“IBM PureSystems gives us freedom to grow, increase our availability, allow the creation of a hot environment for Disaster Recovery and puts the company in the right direction by using new technologies such as Cloud Computing.” ValeCard anticipates that ...

Leading researcher boosts CSRI's strength
The Borneo Post
His research work in the field of bioinformatics, ontology, data integration, data mining and cloud computing have resulted in over 50 publications which have been cited more than 250 times to date. He is also currently an executive committee member of the ...

New Office Has Compelling Enhancements but Also Big Holes
PCWorld
Other cloud enhancements include tighter integration with the company's SkyDrive cloud-storageservice, which will let Office users save files online, making them accessible from multiple devices. Office will also save settings and preferences to the cloud, ...

MySMS the Cross-Platform SMS App for All
Bright Side of News*
The MySMS model of cloud computing is one that we find extremely interesting, because it is somewhat of a hybrid application enabling both locally and cloud stored data and doesn't interfere with pre-installed SMS applications that are already part of the ...

Inudstry Perspectives: SEPATON, MTM, Crossbeam, Visual Data
Data Center Knowledge
How Cloud Has Shifted Engineering Hiring Demands: Part I – With the introduction of cloud computing, distributed data center environments and new technologies, IT professionals are being challenged on a personal level, with different and increased people ...

Legislation threatens progress on agency-industry partnerships
Federal Times
Public-private collaboration is a mainstay of the federal information technology community in everything from cloud computing and cybersecurity to mobility and shared services. Partnerships are building the nation's new energy infrastructure through the ...

Top 10 Business Phone Apps
Ventures Africa
Cloud computing is the future, saving on the costs and risks of associated with computer and mobile hardware. Dropbox has been the market leader here for some time, though Kenyan-developed Ionacloud offers a distinctively African – but as yet untested ...

Ventures Africa

EPSON XP-400 Printer is $100 Dollars Well Spent [Review]
Chip Chick
The XP-400 also features Epson Connect, which includes support for printing directly from smartphones or tablets, along with support for AirPrint and Google Cloud Print. Finally, the XP-400 packs in a built-in SD card slot and it can connect directly to a camera for instant printing. ... Lastly, Epson connect turns this printer into a printing machine for your mobile devices and cloud services without a hitch. The Epson Expression Home XP-400 is currently on sale at Amazon for as low as $69.99. So if you have been on the ...
 
Chip Chick

16-university consortium expands free, online IT course offerings
ZDNet (blog)
Related Stories. 'Simplicity' high risk, high reward for consumer tech · IDC blames carbon tax for PC market drop · Warning: Don't forget about meeting tomorrow (fake e-mail) · Why cloud computingwon't make its Olympic debut – yet ...

Jury's still out on whether upgrading Microsoft Office makes sense
Indianapolis Star
Rivals such as Google are pushing cloud-computing alternatives to Office. Fueled by the popularity of tablets and smartphones, often at the expense of regular PCs, touch computing is fast gaining equal billing with the mouse and keyboard. The "customer ...

Thad McIlroy – Future Of Publishing » Cloud Computing and the ...
By Thad McIlroy
Last winter The Green Sheet, a printing industry newsletter, published my contrarian look at the hype surrounding cloud computing. The topic continues to spread across all industries as ever-increasingly the software we use moves from ...
Thad McIlroy - Future Of Publishing

Business agility, fighter pilot style — Cloud Computing News
By Dave Roberts, ServiceMesh
In the late 1950s, John Boyd had a standing bet with any pilot who arrived at the Air Force Fighter Weapons School outside Las Vegas: meet Boyd, a school instructor, in the air at 30000 feet, get on Boyd's “six,” and in forty seconds or less, ...
GigaOM

Cloud Computing: Apple Told to Deny Samsung Copied iPad | .NET ...
Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server ...
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Amazing Cloud Spending Numbers - Do You Believe Any of Them ...
By pgillin
Here's a list of 10 forecasts of cloud spending trends assembled by an outfit called Channelnomics. They include... | 3 replies | SaaS and Cloud Computing.
Spiceworks Community

Exporting excel in cloud computing - Virtualization & Cloud ...
How to export data in excel while working with cloud and java. As cloud does not support Apache poi what we have to use?
www.virtualization.net/.../exporting-excel-cloud-computing-1...

Nonprofits and Cloud Computing Series: Infrastructure in the - NTEN
Tags: cloud computing eshleman Infrastructure matrux nptech nten shimamoto ... In this third session focusing on cloud services, we will examine the concrete ...
www.nten.org/.../nonprofits-and-cloud-computing-series-infra...



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