Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the maker of the most popular desktop Linux alternative to Microsoft Corp.’s …
Ubuntu 9.10 Linux creator calls Windows 7 'excellent release'
Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd., the maker of the most popular desktop Linux alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s …
Mozilla releases Raindrop, a prototype messaging tool
Mozilla has launched a software project designed to let people better manage the voluminous stream of messages coming from sources …
Mozilla releases Raindrop, a prototype messaging tool
Mozilla has launched a software project designed to let people better manage the voluminous stream of messages coming from sources …
Google turns 11 with an eye on Microsoft
Eleven years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. with a search engine and a plan. Now their …
Google Docs 'widely used' at 1-in-5 workplaces, reports survey
The near total dominance of Microsoft Office in the workplace may be getting a serious challenge from Google Docs, according …
Researchers find a new way to attack the cloud
Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products …
VMware cloud initiative raises vendor lock-in concerns
VMware talks a good game about interoperability, but its cloud initiative threatens to introduce a type of vendor lock-in that …
Savvis unveils cloud-based service
Savvis will announce a next-generation cloud computing platform that it claims is the first fully virtualized private data center offering …
How to get Windows 7 on the cheap
The launch of Windows 7 may be more than two months away, but the buzz, already building, is starting to …
Nine data storage companies to watch
Building a data storage start-up in this economy is quite a challenge, but there is room for innovation in an …
VC industry hasn't hit bottom yet, says longtime VC
It may seem like the worst of times for tech companies trying to secure investments from venture capital firms, but …
Cloud computing confusion reigns in U.S. government
Federal officials predict that cloud computing will play a big role in future government IT initiatives, but are still confused …
MS & Google moves show how Cloud is transforming IT
Two announcements last week, one from Microsoft and one from Google, demonstrate how cloud computing is transforming IT. Actually, transforming …
Enter the cloud
The economic and social motivation for the cloud is high, the business need for speed and agility is like never …
Twitter/Google Apps hack raises questions about cloud security
Questions about cloud security and the feasibility of storing critical information in Web-based services are being raised in the wake …
Microsoft details Windows Azure pricing, availability
Microsoft revealed pricing and more details about how it will sell its Windows Azure cloud-computing infrastructure, making it free for …
Consumers in the Cloud
John Chunta had spent four and a half years writing his doctoral dissertation when, two weeks before its expected completion, …
Smartphone OS smackdown
Two and a half years ago, Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone and said that its software was five years …
Busting the nine myths of cloud computing
Wherever you turn, someone's ready to tell (or sell) you something related to cloud computing. Cutting through the myths is …