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Google’s offering a cool $100,000 for startups to use its cloud
Google Inc. is seeking to temp entrepreunerial startups with a cool $100,000 in credit so long as they power their apps using its cloud platform rather than their rivals. The new program is called Google Cloud Platform for Startups, and was announced last Friday at its Google for Entrepreneurs Partner Summit. “This offer supports our ...
The ‘Cosmos’ browser wants to surf the web via SMS messages
A new project has emerged that’s hoping to deliver Internet access to the developing world via text messages (SMSs) alone. The idea probably sounds a little absurd to those of us in the developed world who’re more concerned with streaming movies on our iPhones. But while mobile phones are common pretty much everywhere these days, ...
The exClone Project: Now even you can become immortal
“There is no such thing as death. People die only if we forget.” Immortality has long been a dream of humankind; even since before Juan Ponce de Leon sought the legendary “Fountain of Youth,” the ancients pondered everlasting life. These days, some optimists sign up to have their bodies cryogenically frozen after ‘death’ in the hope ...
HP gobbles up Eucalyptus to strengthen cloud biz
In a shock announcement this morning Hewlett-Packard Company has revealed it’s buying up Eucalyptus, the open-source hybrid cloud software maker that’s been such a hit with customers of Amazon Web Services. HP has acquired Eucalyptus ostensibly to bolster its Helion Cloud offerings, but what that means for Eucalyptus software remains to be seen. Terms of ...
EMC denies it’s planning to sell off VMware
EMC Corp. has reportedly denied that it plans to offload its stake in VMware Inc., just hours after rumors of an impending sale re-emerged via the New York Post. Whispers of this news have been bubbling just under the surface for several weeks now, ever since activist investor Elliot Management picked up a sizeable stake ...
Seagate lights up the data center with new Cloud Systems and Solutions
Seagate Technology PLC has just created a new “Cloud Systems and Solutions group” that it says will lead to a raft of new storage arrays, enterprise disk drives and more importantly, storage rigs for cloud operators. The company is justifying the move with the old “explosion of unstructured data line”, and says the group is ...
Clear skies ahead: Half of Europe’s enterprises dismiss the cloud
What with all the hype surrounding the cloud, it would be a shock to discover that the majority of businesses still tend to shy away from it. Yet that’s exactly what’s happening in Europe, according to a new survey from analysts IDC which shows most European IT departments aren’t yet ready to embrace a cloudy future. ...
Minecraft’s 55 million users makes perfect sense for Microsoft
The massively popular Minecraft game could soon be gobbled up by none other than Microsoft Corp., and it could happen as early as this week. That’s if you believe The Wall Street Journal anyhow, which says the Redmond firm is close to acquiring Mojang AB, the publisher of Minecraft, for more than $2 billion. The WSJ ...
HGST makes full-frontal assault on disk & Flash
In an oddly timed bit of scheduling, HGST Inc., (formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) rolled out a bevy of new products during Apple’s iPhone 6 reveal and Intel’s IDF keynote. One might suspect HGST’s message to be drowned out, but the company had an ace up its sleeve – the world’s first 10TB ...
CloudKit transforms document access & storage in iOS 8
Just hours away from the expected launch of Apple’s iPhone 6 and not surprisingly all the talk is centered on the actual device. Few doubt that Apple’s CEO Tim Cook will have something pretty cool to show off when he walks onto the stage at today’s event, but for developers and business users alike, it ...