HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education. The goal of the initiative is to promote open collaboration among industry, academia and governments by removing the financial and logistical barriers to research in data-intensive, Internet-scale computing.
Read MoreApple has set up an apologetic blog devoted to solving the problems of its recently launched MobileMe service.The MobileMe service launched two weeks ago at the same time that the firm rolled out its 3G iPhone.
It is Apple's answer to the new phenomenon of "cloud computing", in which information is stored on a remote server and updated via any device that is hooked into the cloud.
Read MoreAdobe released Adobe Lightroom 2 today. The software allows you to manage, adjust and present large volumes of digital photographs. The new release comes with enhancements such as
dual-monitor support, advances in non-destructive localized
image correction, and streamlined search capabilities.
According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged. The company has declined to expressly deny the allegations. At a meeting with representatives of ISPs and the Austrian regulator on lawful interception of IP based services held on 25th June, high-ranking officials at the Austrian interior ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on Skype conversations.
Read MoreThe Google/Digg acquisition negotiations were in full swing as of last Tuesday, had passed the term sheet stage and the two companies were in final negotiations in the $200 million range. But sometime this last week Google decided to walk from the deal.
Read MoreFour former Google employees have launched a new search engine. The new search engine has a bigger index then Google and Microsoft. The company behind the search engine is founded by Tom Costello (creator of a prototype of Web Fountain for IBM), Anna Peterson (creator of Google's Teragoogle-index), Russel Power (one of the people that worked on Google spam filters and rankings) and Louis Monier (co-developer of Altavista, Babelfish and the new eBay search engine).
After months of searching for ways to defend its oft-maligned Windows operating system, Microsoft may just have found its best weapon: Vista's skeptics.
Read MoreAt the OSCON open source conference in Portland, Oregon, Microsoft announced that it had become a Platinum sponsor ($100,000 a year) of the Apache Software Foundation, like Google and Yahoo. The move is probably connected with Apache's on-going efforts to support Microsoft Office's new standard Open XML file formats via the Apache POI project.
Read MoreA leaked e-mail from Ballmer gives an insight in Microsoft's Strategy. We'll pick a few important parts of his e-mail: "With FY08 complete, I want to discuss my priorities for the year ahead and share my thoughts about the key strategic topics that are on everybody's mind, including Windows, competition with Apple and Google, our software plus services strategy, and Yahoo."
Read MoreThe first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, the company has seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even their search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when their systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
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