Cloud collaboration is a pretty new method of using cloud computing to share and co-author files.  Users can upload documents to the cloud where they can be accessed and altered by others, fostering a sense of collaboration and team work that used to be limited to the office and conference rooms.  With cloud collaboration users ...

As technology is gaining traction in the everyday lives of billions of people worldwide, the globe is quickly shrinking.  With people travelling further and further away and others moving to entirely new countries for new opportunities, the language barrier is now the greatest hurdle that needs to be overcome in order to fully integrate this ...

Smartphones have revolutionized the way that people use the internet, with phone manufacturers creating web browsers such as Safari for mobile devices.  Ina Fried of allthingsd reports that mobile devices make up nearly 20 percent of all web traffic in the US and Canada and this number is only going to increase as smartphones become ...

In what has shaped up to be the techie trial of the decade, the suit brought on by Oracle against Google for infringement upon their Java patents for use in the Android platform has reached its crescendo and is nearing the endpoint.  The CEO’s of both Oracle and Google have taken the stand, with Oracle’s ...

When PayPal debuted in cyberspace in 1998 it was a novel move towards a globally connected e-commerce society by allowing business and users to make and send payments directly through the internet.  PayPal radically changed the way business was done, no longer did you have to purchase money orders or write checks and worry about ...

The EMC World Conference in Las Vegas saw another exciting week with its continued support for the cloud, as this is the year of the cloud,  and its call for businesses to embrace the new technology as being a vital resource.  The cloud was not the only exciting news though, with Jeff Kelly and Dave ...

hBase Con2012 was the first industry conference for Apache hBase users, application developers, contributors and administrators, offering participants the ability to network, learn and train.  Charles Zedlewski is Cloudera’s Vice President, and is responsible for the strategy, design and road map of Cloudera’s products: CDH and Cloudera Enterprise.   At hBase, Zedlewski spoke with Christophe Bisciglia, who ...

On Friday China gave its approval for Google’s acquisition of Motorola with the stipulation that Android OS remain free and open for five years, as reported by CNET.  The Android OS is the world’s number one mobile operating system largely due to the fact that Google has kept it free.  Google’s CEO, Larry Page during ...

Day 1 at EMC World was an exciting one, with an embracing of the independent analysis and the collaboration of independent media companies reporting on the happenings over the course of the day. Day 1 was all about the cloud and getting to the real cloud solution.  EMC is doing its very best to drive ...

The music industry is a quickly changing one with smartphone applications allowing users to turn their phones into streaming radios.  Pandora, Spotify, Rdio, and now Music Unlimited by Sony are revolutionizing the way that users enjoy music.  Sony’s Music Unlimited streaming has now been released as an app for the iPhone, increasing the availability of ...