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Microsoft gives hints on future cloud-based Xbox 360 features

In a speech at a China-based game developer conference, a Microsoft rep hinted that more cloud-based features will be added to its Xbox 360 game console in the near future. Read more...

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Microsoft could buy a company like Netflix in 2012, says IDC

A new report about the growth of cloud computing by IDC predicts that in 2012 Microsoft could buy a streaming content company, naming Netflx as a possible example. Read more...

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Microsoft: 14 million jobs to be made via cloud computing

In a new editorial and infographic, Microsoft tries to make the case that the cloud computing industry will generate nearly 14 million new jobs worldwide by the year 2015. Read more...

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HP Pathway to the Cloud road show announced

Do you want to learn how to implement cloud within your company's data center? If so, you might want to attend HP's free event that helps IT professionals learn more about this hot topic. Read more...

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HP plans to launch business-themed cloud server service

HP plans to launch a business-themed cloud server service in the near future that would compete with Microsoft's Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services with more personalized service. Read more...

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Gartner: Personal cloud to become center of digital life by 2014

The research firm Gartner has predicted in a new paper that online personal cloud services will replace the PC as the center of a user's digital life by the year 2014. Read more...

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Greenpeace blasts Microsoft and Apple over 'dirty' cloud energy

Greenpeace has issued a new report that is critical of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and others for the types of energy used to power their various cloud server services. Read more...

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Greenpeace gets very public with protest of Microsoft

Greenpeace members placed an 800 square foot banner on the side of Amazon's office building in Seattle today to protest Amazon and Microsoft's energy policies for running cloud servers. Read more...

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NVIDIA announces VGX cloud-based PC graphics solution

NVIDIA has announced its plans to launch VGX, a new cloud-based PC graphics technology that it claims will bring higher end graphics and software to low end PCs. Read more...

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HP Discover: Final wrap-up

HP Discover is over and, as expected, we had a heavy dose of Big Data, BYOD, and Cloud computing. Find out what our impressions were and what we learned from our time at the conference. Read more...

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Nature's clouds prove more powerful than Amazon's

Heavy storms in north Virginia have knocked out power and disrupted access to Amazon's cloud. Is the cloud concept so unstable that a single storm can knock out access to Netflix, Instagram, and more?...

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Amazon offers details on last weekend's cloud server outage

Amazon has offered a detailed explanation on why its cloud servers went down for a number of hours this past weekend, which affected services such as Netflix and Instagram. Read more...

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The Woz thinks the cloud computing trend will be "horrendous"

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak doesn't care too much for the current trend in cloud computing, telling an audience this week, "I think it's going to be horrendous."Read more...

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Google granted patent for its “Cloud OS”

The USPTO accepted Google's application for its network-based “operating system”, ie that Chrome OS that has been pretty unsuccessful thus far. Read more...

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Oracle OpenWorld: Oracle and Infosys Keynote

Join us at 2:45pm PT (5:45pm ET) for a liveblog of Larry Ellison's keynote. He'll be joined by Infosys CEO S. D. Shibulal, and they will be discussing the cloud and built-in BI, social, and mobile....

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Dropbox to bring document preview options in coming months

Dropbox is to bring some big changes in coming months, with a greater emphasis on image sharing and file previews. Gone are the days of structured folders; the future seems to be document previews!Read...

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Microsoft Management Summit: desktop, datacenter, and cloud

What does Microsoft have planned for the enterprise environment? We'll be traveling to Las Vegas next week to talk with company leaders to find out their vision for the corporate world. Read more...

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More details on how the Xbox One will use cloud computing

Microsoft said that the new Xbox One console will be able to use cloud computing for intensive tasks and we finally have more info on how this will actually work and what it means for users. Read more...

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Above us only sky... Microsoft tells us about its roofless datacenters

One of the interesting tidbits we heard this week was the fact that Microsoft has been building datacenters in parking lots. Even more interesting? They don't put a roof on the datacenter. Read more...

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Apple's data centre development, NC

This week, news regarding Apple's plans to build a billion dollar data center in North Carolina has become something of a talking point. The incentive was initially announced by the company back in...

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HP Software Universe 2009, in Hamburg

From December 16-18, 2009, HP invited a few bloggers, including our own Max Majewski, to Hamburg to be able to get a chance and experience the full extent of HP. HP Software Universe was a... Read more...

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EU to fund $21m research project on cloud storage

The European Union aren’t shy when it comes to technology issues, they are the one who asked Microsoft for the web browser ballot screen. More recently, they have been diving into technology again and...

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Microsoft: Cloud computing could create 20,000 jobs in Ireland

According to a report released by Microsoft in Ireland today, the company believes that cloud based computing could end up creating around 8,600 jobs in the country by the end of 2014. The report,...

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Yahoo!'sorry' for deleting Flickr account containing 4000 images [Updated]

With everyone touting the benefits of cloud computing, most people don’t think about the danger that this presents. Mirco Wilhelm, a German photographer, has learned firsthand the dangers involved as...

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Apple hires engineers to build "the future of cloud services"

A new job opportunity, working for Apple in Santa Clara Valley, has become available. According to Apple Insider, the position is for a "Cloud Systems Software Engineer". The job description explains...

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Microsoft targets Google Docs

Microsoft made their Office 365 cloud-based document service publicly available on April 18th. What might not have been expected is that Microsoft is already targeting Google Docs, having created a...

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Apple signs deal with a third music label for iTunes cloud service

Apple's iTunes music service is still the leader in the downloadable music space but now it wants in on the ever growing cloud computing business. Before it does that with iTunes, however, it needs...

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Microsoft: Patriot Act can access data, even outside US

Microsoft's UK managing director, Gordon Frazer, admitted that cloud data stored online, even in Europe, is not protected against the 'Patriot Act' in the United States of America. As ZDNet reports,...

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OnLive to launch cloud-based web browser this summer

The web browser wars will be getting a new combatant later this summer and it comes from a familiar company. OnLive is planning to release its own web browser using the cloud-based streaming technology...

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Microsoft to launch Windows Azure tool kit for social game makers

Social gaming continues to be a growing trend in the game industry and now Microsoft is preparing to help game developers in that genre get their projects up and running via its Windows Azure cloud......

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Gaikai secures $30 million in more funding

The trend to offering PC games via cloud-based broadband streaming services appears to be gaining steam, at least as far as investors are concerned. This week one of the two leading streaming game...

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Microsoft wants to use the cloud to heat your house

Microsoft has had some interesting products over the years, but we haven't seen them going for household utilities yet. In a paper that's recently shown up on Microsoft's Research site, the company...

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Microsoft files patent for fast booting OS

Microsoft has filed for a patent that should allow for a fast booting PC operating system using a cloud computing design. Read more...

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Microsoft offers Office 365 customers 25 percent credit for down time

Microsoft is offering customers of its Office 365 cloud-based office software suite a 25 percent credit because of its down time earlier this week, Read more...

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Hard drive shortages could affect the Internet itself

The current hard drive shortages due to the flooding in Thailand could affect the infrastructure of the Internet as companies like Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple and others could be impacted. Read...

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Microsoft exec: The cloud won't replace local hardware for next Xbox console

Microsoft Xbox executive Phil Spencer stated in a Twitter exchange this weekend he doesn't believe the next Xbox console will be based on cloud servers and that local hardware will still be needed....

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Nadella, Gates tout importance of mobile devices, cloud computing for...

New Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and company co-founder Bill Gates have said Microsoft will put increased emphasis on mobile devices and cloud computing as the company moves forward. Read more...

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