Aug 10
You read that right. Over 1.75 million companies have moved their email, scheduling, and document creation software into the cloud with Google Apps. Every day, more and more IT departments decide to leave email hosting and software upgrade cycles behind in favor of “Going Google”. Google Apps is a web-based collection of email, communication, and …
Aug 04
This week McAfee announced its definitive agreement to acquire MX Logic, Inc., leading provider of software as a service (SaaS) for email, web security, archiving and business continuity. We have written about the increasing movement to SaaS in the past, and this latest news from McAfee further proves the trend. MX Logic’s filtering, email archiving …
Jul 14
This week, the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference is going on in New Orleans. This the premiere Microsoft event of the year,with keynote addresses from top Microsoft executives and partners from around the world. There are a lot of news stories coming out of the conference, but I thought I would summarize some of the highlights …
Jul 08
Late last night, Google posted a new blog entry announcing their plans to develop a Google Chrome Operating System. A natural progression following their successful Chrome Browser, the Google Chrome OS will be their attempt to re-invent what an operating system should be. Their aim is to create a lightweight, open source OS that is …
Jul 01
Despite being one of the world’s most profitable companies, Microsoft is about to report its first decline in annual revenue in its 23 year public history. One could argue that this decline in sales revenue comes as a result of the slumping economy. While it’s true that many companies are putting off software purchases and …
Jun 23
I first heard about Apple’s new MobileMe features last week, with the official release of the new iPhone OS 3.0 firmware update. Your new upgraded iPhone 3.0 software includes incredible features like locating your lost phone on a map in real time , displaying a message on a lost phone, and remotely deleting all of …
Mar 27
This week, Tom Sullivan of InfoWorld interviewed Nicholas Carr, author of the much talked about Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter“. This article, written in 2003, outlines an argument for the inevitable transition of IT from proprietary technologies to a more utility-like function, similar to telephone or electricity. If you’ve never read this article, …
Mar 26
Yesterday, a San Francisco start-up called OnLive revealed its new video game streaming service that has been 7 years in the making. According to a CNET article, OnLive is trying to do for video games what iTunes has done for music: remove the content from the restrictions of physical media. Basically OnLive will be harnessing …
Mar 18
A public interest group called the Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) has filed a 15-page plea with the FTC to investigate the cloud computing services provided by Google. These services, including Gmail, Google Docs and Picasa, have been under fire recently for sercurity flaws. Most notably was the breach of data in Google Docs earlier …
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