All the stories tagged with: cloud computing
Cloud computing after death
09/13/2011, Now if there is one thing that our great grandparents need not worry about when they died was whether they had any digital data to pass down to their descendants – these days, with so many of us having our [...]
What’s Next for Cloud Computing? Find Out at Structure 2011.
05/31/2011, Ubergizmo community members register now and receive $100 off your ticket and a free report from GigaOM Pro on cloud and infrastructure. Structure will be held in San Francisco, June 22nd & 23rd. This year, we will be looking at the [...]
RIM purchases Tungle, looks set to lay calendar ghost to rest
04/28/2011, One of the major gripes of early reviews concerning the BlackBerry PlayBook would be the lack of a dedicated calendar, but it seems that Research In Motion (RIM) has decided to remedy that after picking up the cloud-based, cross-platform, calendar [...]
IBM has Microsoft Office in its crosshairs
01/31/2011, IBM has cast an envious glance at Microsoft’s multi–billion dollar Office franchise for some time already, and intends to cause a dent in the Redmond company’s portfolio with their hosted incarnation of its personal productivity suite that is built on [...]
Skype Preparing To Launch Web-based Service?
12/05/2010, Whispers are going around that Skype could be gearing up to come up with a web-based voice service, possibly one that integrates video and chat services too. According to job postings on Skype’s website, the company is looking to build [...]
Google Docs is even more mobile than ever
11/17/2010, Google Docs has proved that cloud computing is the future, and millions of people worldwide have already made good use of it, storing plenty of their work documents as well as other documents on Google’s servers, accessible from anywhere as [...]
Michael Dell has plans for cloud computing acquisition and tablet PCs
11/02/2010, Michael Dell recently stated at an event in Hong Kong of his plans for cloud computing acquisition and tablet PCs in order to help it keep up with its rivals including Apple. The number 2 PC maker in the world [...]
OnLive Cloud Gaming Service Does Away With Monthly Fees
10/05/2010, OnLive’s cloud gaming service has just become very much more appealing as it has been confirmed that the previous monthly fee will be scrapped and you won’t need to use your credit card unless you decide to purchase a 3-day, [...]
Google Calendar Outage
04/29/2010, Cloud services are really useful, but there is always the niggling worry that there might be an outage at the company that is hosting all your information. Google has been through outages before, notably with its Gmail service, and now [...]
Gaikai cloud-based gaming
03/16/2010, Gaikai is currently in beta mode, but it is already capable of letting gamers have a go at a wide range of games and software for free, including Eve Online, Mario Kart, World of Warcraft and Photoshop – all you [...]
Microsoft Azure Unveiled In India
03/11/2010, While most of us haven’t moved to a cloud computing operating system just yet, Microsoft has just made its cloud-based operating system, Windows Azure, available in India. In terms of dollars and cents, a cloud-based operating system hosted on Microsoft’s [...]
OnLive Game Service out this June 17
03/11/2010, Mark June 17 on your calendars as that would be when the OnLive ’Games-on-Demand’ service powered by cloud-servers arrives. Steve Perlman and Mike McGarvey, founders of OnLive, has taken the opportunity to announce the subscription plans for the service for both [...]
Google Acquires DocVerse
03/06/2010, Google has stepped up its war against Microsoft Office with the acquisition of DocVerse, a company that offers a rather useful plug-in for Microsoft Office, allowing users of the desktop software to collaborate on Office documents, despite the document being [...]
