It would be understandable for people to view Microsoft Azure, the company’s enterprise cloud hosting service, as a direct competitive play. After all, the product was launched in February 2010, well after Microsoft’s fellow software giants Amazon and Google had positioned themselves in the cloud computing space with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google’s...
Image: Facebook Utah gunman Jason Valdezallegedly held a woman hostage in an Ogden motel room for 16 hours, before police burst in and he shot himself in the chest. According to ABC News, police were attempting to serve a felony drug warrant on Valdez when he barricaded himself in the room at the Western...
Image: Melissaclark via Flickr Venture Capitalist Mark Suster agrees with Fred Wilson. We’re in a “frothy” tech environment. And of course, he says, we’re in a bubble. How do VCs invest during frothy times? And how should entrepreneurs go about raising money? Suster lays out some guidelines in a 70-slide PowerPoint document. He says:...
Cloud services have a rosy future, but a long build-out industry cycle is expected as businesses are slow to adopt and accept virtual datacenters. This theme, along with a detailed view of what’s driving cloud computing adoption, comes from a survey that was released today at the GigaOM Structure conference in San Francisco. Presenting...
According to an official company blog post today, Google is increasing its investment into California’s Alta Wind Energy Center (AWEC) by $102 million, bringing its total investment in the renewable energy facility to $157 million. The AWEC is being developed by Terra-Gen Power, primarily. The first development within the massive facility is the Alta-Oak...
Vuclip a mobile video search engine that has quietly been growing in usage, especially outside of the U.S. Of course, Vuclip isn’t as large as YouTube in terms of views. For basis of comparison, YouTube mobile gets over 100 million views a day and VuClip is 330 million views per month. But Vuclip has...
Image: Reuters See Also: A Microsoft Horror Story: Newspaper Chain Is Switching 8,500 Employees To Google Apps Sorry, But Microsoft’s Dropbox Equivalent Is Still Insanely Frustrating Google Tries To Show Microsoft How The Cloud Should Work* Microsoft’s current competitor to Google Apps, known as BPOS, suffered a three-hour outage this morning. This isn’t the...
A new bill would require carriers to disclose hidden data caps on ‘unlimited’ accounts and compare ’4G’ speeds directly with competitors, reports Macworld. The Next Generation Wireless Disclosure Act was introduced in an effort to give consumers more accurate information about just what they’re paying for when they purchase wireless service. Currently many carriers...
WOW it really is jargon Wednesday-the news made a cheap joke XD As for my opinion-they know what they are doing… Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/bJxmEWDyPzc/
The popular collaborative revision control app GitHub is now available for the Mac. Largely regarded as one of the best ways for developers working on a project to keep track of changes to a repository. The web based version of Git now hosts over 2.3 million repositories, so the addition of a native Mac...