Vodafone is launching a cloud-based service designed for business people and consumers who are looking for a way to back up the data on their desktops, laptops and netbooks. The move is significant as Vodafone is making another move move beyond the mobile market and is using cloud-based services to get there.
Vodafone’s service is built upon Decho’s Mozy platform, the popular backup service, which consistently receives ringing endorsements. Mozy has been on a tear as of late, closing deals with China Telecomm and McAfee.
Vodafone will initially offer the service to its European customers. But considering that Vofafone does own 45 percent of Verizon, it would make sense that the service could roll out to the US market. The company has a presence in 70 countries… Read on at ReadWriteWeb.com
iPhone applications are becoming increasingly common — and convenient — ways for users to access their documents, photos and web services. The only real problem is that because the iPhone lacks a distinctly user-controllable file management system, accessing your existing documents from within those applications is often difficult, if not impossible.
Storage and collaboration service Box.net has just launched its OpenBox Mobile API, which offers developers the ability to integrate the Box.net platform into their apps.
What this means is that users will have the ability to access their content stored on Box.net within their favorite iPhone applications. So if you use the Quickoffice [iTunes link] application, you can access your documents stored on Box.net, make edits and then e-mail the new copy… Read on at mashable.com
GoogleGoogle keeps on adding and testing new features for its Chrome browser. Things like extensions and ChromeChrome for Mac are still missing, although available if you are adventurous and install Chromium, the open-source project for Google ChromeGoogle Chrome. Chromium has beta and development features that Google is testing before adding to the Chrome browswer. Chromium got a new feature, as it occassionally does, but this one definitely caught our eye. The Chromium team announced the addition of bookmark syncing in the developer’s build of Chromium. The new feature will let you keep the same set of bookmarks on multiple machines as well as store them in your Google Docs. This is not unlike the very popular Firefox extension Xmarks. Read on at mashable.com
Earlier this week I spoke with Erich Clementi, General Manager, Enterprise Initiatives (otherwise known as the head of IBM’s cloud computing efforts) about Big Blue’s cloud strategy. After we raked the computer and service provider over the coals earlier this year for talking about the cloud without offering substance, in June IBM finally unveiled part of its cloud plans. They revolve around providing workload-specific services via an IBM cloud, as a hosted cloud, or inside a company’s own data center. It kicked off its cloud rollout with a test and development service, and last month it announced an analytics offering. Clementi revealed that IBM won’t stop at workload-specific services, and will build a WebSphere platform-as-a-service offering for clients… Read on at gigaom.com
The term “cloud computing” is being bandied about a lot these days, mainly in context of the “future of the web.” But cloud computing’s potential doesn’t begin and end with the personal computer’s transformation into a thin client – the mobile platform is going to be heavily impacted by this technology as well. At least that’s the analysis being put forth by ABI Research. Their recent report, Mobile Cloud Computing, theorizes that the cloud will soon become a disruptive force in the mobile world, eventually becoming the dominant way mobile applications operate. You may be wondering: what does the term “mobile cloud computing” really mean? Basically, it refers to an infrastructure where both the data storage and the data processing happen outside of the mobile device. Today, there are already some good examples of mobile cloud computing applications including mobile GmailGmail, Google MapsGoogle Maps, and some navigation apps. However, the majority of applications today still do most of the data storage and processing on the mobile devices themselves and not in the cloud. In a few years, that could change… Read on at ReadWriteWeb.com
Within the next two weeks, GoogleGoogle will release a new development version of Google ChromeGoogle Chrome that will include the ability to sync bookmarks between different computers. As Tim Steele, a software engineer on the ChromeChrome team explained in a message to the Chrome developer group, the synchronization will be managed through a Google account. Changes in one install will be reflected in another Chrome instance in real time thanks to the Chrome team’s use of the Google Talkgoogle talk servers as the messaging backend for this service. For now, Google will only sync bookmarks. In the long run, the Chrome team also plans to sync other data types, including browser history. In the announcement, the Chrome team did not specify if passwords will be synced as well… Read on at ReadWriteWeb.com
Last week, GoogleGoogle announced some interface changes to their Google DocsGoogle Docs service that are designed to make finding your files easier. The changes are relatively minor – the “shared with” list has gone away, there’s a new “Sharing” menu, and you now have the ability to save your searches – but that hasn’t stopped some bloggers from theorizing that the shiny new UI is bringing us one step closer to the often theorized, yet never realized, “Google Drive” service, aka “your hard drive in the cloud.” Although we know this service exists in some form as an internal tool, Google has yet to release a version for public use. But with the latest announcements about the new ChromeChrome operating system, we wonder: will Google Drive finally become a reality thanks to Chrome OS? Read on at ReadWriteWeb.com
The new interface of Google DocsGoogle Docs, which is slowly rolled out to all users, brings the service one step closer to an online storage service. The “items by type” menu replaced “PDFs” with “Files”, suggesting that Google Docs will allow users to upload any type of files. Google Docs also added the advanced search options that are available in GmailGmail… Read on at googlesystem.blogspot.com
This is a big week for Microsoft when it comes to the cloud. First, the company debuted Office 2010, which made a move towards the browser with cloud-based versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel. Today, Microsoft is announcing the business model and launch timing for Azure, the company’s much hyped cloud operating system. Read on at TechCrunch…
It’s too early to say Microsoft has checkmated GoogleGoogle in online documents – the latest version of Office hasn’t shipped yet. But the sleeping giant in Redmond has clearly woken up to the Internet threat. Read on at bigtech…
Vodafone is launching a cloud-based service designed for business people and consumers who are looking for a way to back up the data on their desktops, laptops and netbooks. The move is significant as Vodafone is making another move move beyond the mobile market and is using cloud-based services to get there.
iPhone applications are becoming increasingly common — and convenient — ways for users to access their documents, photos and web services. The only real problem is that because the iPhone lacks a distinctly user-controllable file management system, accessing your existing documents from within those applications is often difficult, if not impossible.
Earlier this week I spoke with Erich Clementi, General Manager, Enterprise Initiatives (otherwise known as the head of IBM’s cloud computing efforts) about Big Blue’s cloud strategy. After we raked the computer and service provider over the coals earlier this year for talking about the cloud without offering substance, in June IBM finally unveiled part of its cloud plans. They revolve around providing workload-specific services via an IBM cloud, as a hosted cloud, or inside a company’s own data center. It kicked off its cloud rollout with a test and development service, and last month it announced an analytics offering. Clementi revealed that IBM won’t stop at workload-specific services, and will build a WebSphere platform-as-a-service offering for clients…