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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 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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Amazon now powers 1% of North American internet
Amazon's cloud service is now said to power 1% of all internet traffic in North America, with a third of all users visiting an Amazon cloud site at least once a day. 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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