Beijing: China is building a world class R&D centre for cloud computing in the capital, which officials hope would bring about USD 7.9 billion investment. The centre is being built in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (BDA), local authorities said. Cloud computing industry - that provides web storage services besides that of computation and data access, is expected to grow significantly in the future and China is planning to offer...
12:04 PM, Dec 13, 2011
San Francisco: Dropbox, the company behind the popular virtual file cabinet, is branching out to small and medium-sized businesses with the new service "Dropbox for Teams." The San Francisco-based company allows people to access documents, photos and videos from several different places such as laptops, smartphones and computers provided they have downloaded Dropbox on each device. A certain amount of storage is free though the company charges a user for...
06:06 PM, Oct 27, 2011
Taipei: Acer Inc, the world's No.2 PC maker, will buy US based cloud computing firm iGware Inc for $320 million, looking to move into the potentially lucrative cloud market and add value to its main hardware business. Acer also said on Thursday it will pay a further $75 million in a performance based payout, it said. "This (the acquisition) is the right direction for Acer," said Tracy Tsai, analyst at...
01:13 PM, Jul 21, 2011
Bangalore: As the next technology wave, cloud computing by enterprises has the potential to create about 100,000 new jobs in India, a study said Tuesday. "Of the projected $4.5-billion total cloud computing market in India by 2015, private cloud will account for $3.5 billion, generate about 100,000 additional jobs and save about 50 percent of cost of IT operations for Indian enterprises," the study "Private Cloud Landscape in India", by...
01:33 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Seattle: Microsoft Corp is making its biggest move into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of cloud computing this week, as it takes the wraps off a revamped online version of its hugely profitable Office software suite. The world's largest software company is heaving its two-decade old set of applications - including Outlook email, Excel spreadsheets and SharePoint collaboration tools - into an online format so that customers can use them on...
09:04 AM, Jun 28, 2011
San Francisco: Apple Inc Chief Executive Steve Jobs returns on Monday to the stage at San Francisco's Moscone center to take the wraps off what investors hope will be the next source of growth for the world's most valuable technology company. Jobs, who has been on medical leave for months and last took the stage in March to present the iPad 2, will unveil the iCloud, a Web-based service that...
02:36 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Taipei: The recent high-profile hacking of Google's Gmail service and Sony's Playstation gaming network is threatening to slow the take-off of the next big thing in the computing space - the cloud. Computer companies will need to collaborate to work on addressing security issues to boost confidence in cloud computing, where data and software is stored on servers and accessed via the Internet, especially in the corporate space where the...
12:34 PM, Jun 04, 2011
New York: Even before Apple launches iCloud later this week, the Cupertino-based company has signed deals with major records labels for the new music service. Warner Music Group, EMI Music Group, Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are among those which reportedly inked the deals Thursday, according to bloggers. Apple boss Steve Jobs will unveil iCloud at the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Monday. Bloggers say...
12:40 PM, Jun 03, 2011
San Francisco: Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs leaps back into the spotlight next week to showcase the iPad maker's latest software and is widely expected to unveil an online music storage and streaming service. Apple shares rose 3 per cent on news that Jobs, along with a team of executives, will deliver the keynote speech at a June 6 conference showcasing the iPad-maker's latest software and products. But it was...
07:48 AM, Jun 01, 2011
Los Angeles: Apple Inc. is close to securing deals with all four major recording companies on a music service that will allow users to stream songs stored on remote computer servers, presumably to an array of portable Apple-made devices, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. Such a service would give users a wide array of music on-the-go, without having to worry about limited storage space and the need...
10:48 AM, May 21, 2011
New York: The Sony data breach that compromised the personal data of more than 100 million customers of the Japanese electronics conglomerate may claim yet another victim - the cloud computing industry. Some businesses are rethinking plans to move to cloud-based computer systems located at remote data centers that can be accessed over the web. Shares of companies that specialise in cloud computing have been some of top-performing stocks over...
07:34 AM, May 07, 2011
New York: Amazon.com Inc is thinking long-term when it spends heavily on "the cloud," but investors may see a little more short-term rain when the online retailer reports its earnings on Tuesday. The company has been willing to sacrifice some profitability to win customers and build its new businesses. It has invested heavily in areas such as "cloud computing" - which allows companies to store data on its servers -...
12:09 PM, Apr 26, 2011
New York: Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music efforts have stalled, according to several people familiar with both companies' plans. Apple's plans will allow iTunes customers to store their songs on a remote server, and then access them from wherever they have an Internet connection, said two of these people who asked...
06:27 AM, Apr 22, 2011
Park City: If you can't beat 'em, YouTube, join 'em. Long since video-sharing website YouTube became an Internet sensation, media watchers have wondered how it can take users' appetite for two or three minute videos and transform it into a hunger for full-length film and TV-style content. On Thursday, Sundance Film Festival audiences got a first taste. To be sure, YouTube's full-length movie 'Life in A day' is nowhere near...
09:35 AM, Jan 29, 2011
Washington: Google Inc won a small battle in its larger war to make inroads into government contracting when a federal judge ordered the US Interior Department to rethink a proposed bid for a contract for email services. Judge Susan Braden of the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington, DC issued a preliminary injunction that ordered the Interior Department to put on hold a request for a bid to upgrade...
11:20 AM, Jan 06, 2011
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