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WikiLeaks row : why Amazon’s desertion has ominous implications for democracy - 13 décembre 2010
Amazon’s decision to abandon WikiLeaks sends out a clear message : you can publish what you like "“ as long as it meets with the government’s approval
One of the most interesting aspects of the WikiLeaks controversy is the light it has shed on the providers of cloud computing. One after another they have fallen over (...)
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Life in the cloud : The risks and benefits - 7 décembre 2010
Shifting traditional IT services to the cloud could save European businesses billions of pounds over the next five years, according to a study "“ but beware the potential pitfalls.
"˜Cloud computing’ sounds like a complicated idea, but if you use Flickr to store your photos, or Hotmail to keep in touch with friends (...)
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Le "cloud gaming" , un marché de 400 millions de dollars en 2014 - 1er décembre 2010
Jouer à des jeux comme Call of Duty ou World of Warcraft, en un clic, sans le moindre téléchargement ou la moindre installation"¦ C’est ce que promet Gaikai, un nouveau service de "cloud gaming" . Cette déclinaison du cloud computing (" informatique dans le nuage" ), permet d’exécuter des jeux sur des serveurs, avant de (...)
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Google porte plainte contre un ministère américain privilégiant Microsoft - 2 novembre 2010
Le groupe Internet Google a porté plainte contre un ministère américain, l’accusant d’avoir illégalement favorisé Microsoft dans une demande de devis pour une messagerie et divers services informatiques. Selon une plainte déposée vendredi devant le Tribunal des recours contre l’Etat fédéral, "malgré les efforts de Google (...)
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Google Claims U.S. Excluded It From Contract - 2 novembre 2010
Google is suing the Interior Department, claiming it considered only Microsoft products and not Google Apps when buying e-mail and collaboration software for its 88,000 employees.
The suit, filed Friday in the United States Court of Federal Claims by Google, contends that by considering only Microsoft products, (...)
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Cloud computing : will Microsoft and its rivals find a silver lining ? - 4 octobre 2010
Steve Ballmer will bound into a lecture hall at the London School of Economics on Tuesday in evangelical mood.
The chief executive of Microsoft is coming to the UK to explain the multi-billion dollar bet that the world’s biggest software company and a poster boy for corporate America is making.
The wager ? That (...)
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Amazon Introduces Kindle for the Web - 29 septembre 2010
Amazon is continuing its cover-all-the-bases approach to digital books online with the test launch of a new product called Kindle for the Web. It lets digital book buyers read books on the Web and also offers the ability to embed book samples on blogs or other Web sites, similar to the function offered with video (...)
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Google Apps Now Used By 30 Million Employees - 20 septembre 2010
Google Apps is making some serious inroads into businesses and other organizations. Today, Google announced that more than 3 million businesses, schools, and government agencies are using Google Apps. To put that in perspective, that gives Google more enterprise customers than Salesforce, which has about 2 (...)
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Cloud Computing Hits Snag in Europe - 20 septembre 2010
In the world of ideas, cloud computing has the potential to revolutionize the way people work.
By bundling the processing power of thousands of computer servers, a company, for example, could allow two employees from different countries who speak different languages to communicate directly by phone, using voice (...)
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Musique : Google prépare la grande offensive - 17 septembre 2010
La bataille qui s’annonce entre Google et Apple promet d’être sanglante. Cet été, les rumeurs allaient bon train : la firme de Mountain View serait en discussion avec des maisons de disque, pour concocter un service à disposition, entre autres, des smartphones Android. Une initiative visant clairement à contrer Apple et (...)
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Dell Raises Bid for 3PAR to $1.53 Billion - 26 août 2010
Dell Inc. raised its takever offer for 3PAR Inc. to about $1.53 billion in cash, slightly topping an offer made by rival Hewlett-Packard Co. earlier this week.
The new Dell bid, which was approved by 3PAR’s board, is $24.30 a share, compared with H-P’s offer of $24 a share. 3PAR’s board has deemed Dell’s proposal (...)
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3PAR accepte une nouvelle offre de Dell - 26 août 2010
Le fabricant d’ordinateurs américain Dell a affirmé, jeudi 26 août dans un communiqué, que 3PAR avait accepté une nouvelle offre de rachat relevée à 1,6 milliard de dollars (1,26 milliard d’euros). 3PAR, fournisseur international spécialisé dans le stockage dématérialisé, est aussi convoité par son concurrent (...)
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H.P.’s Bidding War With Dell Underscores the Demand for Data Storage - 24 août 2010
Data storage used to be one of the more mundane corners of the technology industry. Now it is where an increasing number of tech companies "” and Wall Street "” want to be.
On Monday, Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest technology company, started a bidding war against its rival Dell for the rights to 3Par, an (...)
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Hewlett-Packard outbids Dell for data-storage company - 24 août 2010
Wall Street sees Hewlett-Packard and Dell rival bids as indication that deal-making is back in vogue
Hewlett-Packard is making a bid for data storage provider 3PAR, just a week after Dell agreed to acquire the company. Photograph : Paul Sakuma/AP
The world’s two largest computer manufacturers, Hewlett-Packard and (...)
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HP et Dell s’affrontent pour le rachat de 3PAR - 24 août 2010
Hewlett-Packard (HP), numéro un mondial des ordinateurs, a surenchéri, lundi 23 août, en proposant 1,6 milliard de dollars (1,27 milliard d’euros) pour tenter de racheter le spécialiste des systèmes de stockage de données 3PAR. Il y a une semaine, son concurrent Dell avait annoncé qu’il avait passé un accord avec cette (...)
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CloudCrowd Raises $5.1 Million To Outsource Labor To The Cloud - 13 août 2010
Labor as a service startup CloudCrowd has just raised $5.1 million in funding, according to an recent SEC filing. We’ve confirmed the funding with the startup, which had previously raised $1.5 million in seed funding. This recent round of funding was led by DFJ with and the startup’s co-founder and CEO Alex (...)
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The Web Means the End of Forgetting - 22 juillet 2010
Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption "Drunken Pirate." After discovering the page, her supervisor (...)
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Rivalries and economy cloud Google expectations - 17 juillet 2010
Investors have muted expectations for Google’s second-quarter results, as economic clouds and shifts in the company’s strategy dampened hopes that it will beat Wall Street estimates.
At least three analysts have cut financial estimates for Google in the run up to its second-quarter earnings report due late (...)
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Three Cloud Music Companies to Watch - 28 juin 2010
Internet observers eagerly awaiting the arrival of "music in the cloud" "” services that store people’s music collections on the Web and stream their songs to any computer or mobile device "” tend to focus their attention on the plans of the big guys like Apple, Google and Amazon and the brand-name subscription (...)
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Video-games streaming service OnLive has launched in the United States - 20 juin 2010
OnLive, which eliminates the need for a Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 console by streaming popular video games to computer users via the internet, has launched in the United States.
Keen gamers can choose from more than 20 titles, including Batman : Arkham Asylum, and Assassin’s Creed 2. OnLive can be used on (...)
