Friday - May 2, 2008
Two technology industry heavyweight CEOs -- Google's Eric Schmidt and IBM's Sam Palmisano -- took the stage together at IBM's PartnerWorld conference in Los Angeles Thursday to talk up their companies' cloud computing efforts, first publicly introduced last fall, which they say are still going strong. The pair come from companies that share a common vision, they said, of a future where most devices will be connected to "the cloud" -- the Internet -- where applications and services are all delivered from a worldwide network of computers.
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Monday - April 28, 2008
Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking. The college sophomore doesn't have a MySpace page and, while she's on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can. "I don't want to have to worry about all the different online scandals and problems," says Brown, an education major at St. Joseph College in Connecticut.
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Thursday - April 24, 2008
Mike Meehan at SearchSOA.com has done some homework on the use of Web Oriented Architecture, and the IT folks in the field are fed up. Enough with the labels, they seem to be saying. And they raise excellent points. I for one am by no means wed to the "WOA" nomenclature.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
IBM on Wednesday unveiled a new category of server designed specifically for cloud computing and Web 2.0 applications. The iDataPlex system builds upon IBM's blade server background and more than doubles the number of systems that can run in a single IBM rack. It also uses 40 percent less power while quintupling the amount of computing that can be done.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
Microsoft unveiled a new service Tuesday that will take the software maker into the realm of cloud computing. Currently available as an invite-only beta, Live Mesh will initially enable users to share files and synchronize folders across multiple PCs. Support for Windows Mobile and Mac OS X is coming later in the year, the company said.
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Wednesday - April 23, 2008
Web application vulnerabilities put critical business applications and back-end databases at risk from attack, theft and fraud. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which recognizes the threat Web application vulnerabilities pose to credit card data, allows organizations to choose between two mitigation techniques.
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Tuesday - April 22, 2008
The big CRM news of the week was Salesforce.com's tie-up with Google to embed its CRM application in the search engine provider's productivity suite. Plenty in the industry were wowed by the development -- not all, though. Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu can be counted among the latter.
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Monday - April 21, 2008
Etelos has released a limited beta that provides access to offline data -- a chief requirement for any on-demand vendor. The feature, called "Apps on a Plane," allows any browser-based application from the Etelos Marketplace to exchange data with any other AOP-enabled app.
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Monday - April 21, 2008
Voice over Internet protocol service provider Skype announced new and expanded calling plans Monday. The new offerings will enable subscribers to make calls to more than one-third of the world's population for a single monthly flat rate, the company said. The three new subscription plans come with no long-term contracts and provide users with up to 10,000 minutes, or five hours a day, of calling each month to 34 countries.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Google has released a new version of its Google Earth application, updating it to version 4.3 by adding a more realistic, immersive set of features intended to make the virtual planet feel more like home. In addition to features like the ability to control the sun, Google Earth 4.3 also comes with a lot more real-world data, new photos and cities ready for 3-D exploring.
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Monday - April 14, 2008
Salesforce.com and Google have announced the rollout of Salesforce for Google Apps, a product that combines Google's budding suite of productivity applications with the ubiquitous on-demand customer relationship management application. The two are already collaborators on Salesforce Group Edition featuring Google Adwords.
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