How Google and Amazon’s Clouds will kill Data Centers worldwide

The Elephant in the Room: Google
Google has been using the cloud as one of its strategies to poach in areas that Microsoft has traditionally owned. Gmail and Google Apps are quietly pecking away at Microsoft Office, and no one seems to mind – or even notice – that these are cloud-based applications.
Of course, these are [...]

Search for a Search Engine: Forget Bing, whatever happened to Cuil?

We have been focusing too much on Bing but I was curious about this start-up which really knew [back then] that they could really hit Google between the legs.
This firm was started by two ex-Google employees and got a lot of reviews when it got started. I was just wondering where is it right now. [...]

Google: Web Browsers will be the new Operating System

Web browsers will replace operating systems as the fundamental software used for computing, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Google envisages new, more powerful web browsers that will do everything that operating systems such as Microsoft Windows currently do. This development will usher in the era of cloud computing, it says, where data such as photos, [...]

Google wave launches in the Cloud: Unified Communication and Collaboration

In the wake of the imminent announcement that HP and Microsoft that is coming soon and the announcement they made on the joint effort on May 19th, Google launched it’s timely Communications and Collaboration stuff they call a ..well Wave.
So what’s a wave?

A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work [...]

Forget Desktop, ThinkFree in the Cloud: Office productivity suite on Google Android!

Santa Clara, Calif. (May 29, 2009) – ThinkFree, Inc., a leader in next-generation office productivity solutions, today announced ThinkFree Mobile for Android, the first complete office productivity suite offering for Android-based mobile devices. A demo can be seen at the upcoming COMPUTEX trade show taking place June 2-6 in Taipei, Taiwan where ThinkFree will be [...]

Google: System Integrators are dinosaurs and don’t get Cloud Computing

The fact that System Integrators across the world have to wake up and listen to what Clayton has been saying all the time about not trying to fix an innovation glitch (read: Cloud) with some sloppy job by light functional teams, is not a thing of the past. If you look at the Cloud FPI [...]

Google unleashes O3D; ready to empower the clouds like never before!

But both fundamentally challenge the idea that Web apps necessarily are stripped-down, feeble counterparts to the software that runs natively on a personal computer, and they come from a company that has engineering skill, a yen for moving activity to the Internet, and search-ad profits that can fund projects that don’t immediately or directly make [...]

Backing up Google Apps in the Cloud

This is a neat solution!

Google Docs Backup allows users to download their documents to a local directory, while maintaining the folder structure used in Docs. With Google Docs Backup, documents and presentations can be accessed during internet downtime, shared with those who don’t use Google Docs, and archived for later retrieval.
Features

Command line and GUI version [...]

The man behind Google’s Cloud Platform: The Chrome/V8 story

Interesting story this and also eerie as to how cleverly Google is turning into the mega company for the next 10 years of so. Google is signing about 3000 small businesses on a daily basis!!! That is a staggering number indeed. A couple of days back I had Scott Granneman’s publisher offer to send me [...]

Edison Awards for innovation 2009: Apple iPhone and Google Android are nominated

I got an invite but too bad that I live across the pond so unfortunately I won’t make it.
Electronics & Computers
In addition to his extraordinary accomplishments in applied science, Thomas Edison is credited with several basic science breakthroughs. One in particular, called “The Edison Effect,” came about as Edison was undertaking experiments on the early [...]