The shortlist for the Cloud Computing World Forum awards for 2011 have been announced. The awards “celebrate the best of the best in the global industry. Award winners and shortlisted companies receive a mark of quality, innovation and leadership.” They will be announced at th3 2rd annual cloud computing world forum event next wee on [...]

Categories: Online Services

Office 365, Microsoft’s attempt to bring Office to the web as a subscription based service, has been available since 2010 for a select number of beta testers. Back then you were able to enter your email address to receive a notification once the service would enter public beta. That day has come and users from [...]

Categories: Microsoft, The Web

Windows 8 is the codename of Microsoft’s next desktop operating system. Information are sparse at this point in time, and information about Windows 8 are usually collected through indirect sources. One of the latest Windows 8 rumors is that Microsoft has plans to sync core operating system files in the cloud. This would have serious [...]

Categories: Windows

Microsoft have now announced a beta of their Office 365product suite for businesses.  The suite is the long anticipated hosted solution for exchange and sharepoint.  In itself these hosted services will save a great many companies from having to purchase and maintain their own server rooms, but Office 365 brings much more to the table [...]

Categories: Microsoft

Moving virus definitions and other core files into the cloud seems to be one of the latest trends in the security software industry. The benefit of this approach is that it is easier, faster and more reliable to update data for all users who use the product opposed to the old way which only updated [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Data storage in the cloud offers several advantages like being able to access the data from multiple computer systems. But there are also aspects of cloud computing that only become apparent recently like being unable to access the data if the service or some of their servers become unavailable or are terminated completely. Backup solutions [...]

Categories: Google

IBM recently announced they are pairing up with Cannonical and Red Hat to develop a Windows 7 alternative (see “IBM Client for Smart Work“). This pairing makes perfect sense as IBM has been a supporter of open source and Linux for some time now. Not only that but IBM released their office suite, Lotus Symphony, [...]

Categories: companies, Desktop Manager, Linux, Mobile Computing, Software

If you are a web junkie, or depend upon various web sites and services daily you know how quickly your browser can fill up with tabs. Wouldn’t it be nice if you can just use small web apps for these needs? And since that seems to be the way the computing is evolving, it only [...]

Categories: Browsing, Desktop Manager, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

I’m sure I’m not the only one who has found that logging onto the computer has become quite mundane and boring. Yes, I like Windows 7, and Snow Leopard isn’t looking too bad either, but its kind of frustrating because we haven’t had any major revolutionary ideas in the past three OS updates for both [...]

Categories: Operating Systems