We are entering  a period in Information Technology where the cloud computing and Infrastructure 2.0 movements are evolving beyond just buzzwords to become action items to evolve operations and processes.  This year is shaping up to be a big year of hybrid and private cloud growth as a higher number of IT organizations move from ...

All of the new mobile goodness that wasn’t introduced at the holiday season or debuted at CES is being dropped at the Mobile World Congress which is happening this week in Barcelona. One of the much anticipated announcements was that from Samsung and the introduction of its first device that would be running its new ...

After seeing the huge success of the iphone and the introduction of Android the Windows Mobile team decided to take a step back and approach building the next generation of Windows Mobile from the ground up from both an Operating System and User Experience perspective. After tagging their original Windows Mobile (WinMo) 7 release as ...

Interactive television (ITV) has been around for some years, for over a decade actually. Long has the industry had sites on providing their consumers with not only the wealth of video content they have been providing for years, but also delivery of polls, games, advanced advertising and commerce directly from the television. Over the years ...

We’re finally done with opening day for the public here at CES and lots of IPTV and Over The Top (OTT) stuff happening at the show.  Last night Microsoft as usual kicked things off with the first big keynote of the event.  Steve Ballmer led the way with some help from some Windows and Microsoft ...

As 2009 comes to an end and 2010 just around the corner there is no shortage of cloud new as usual.  The topic that tops lists for technology trends in the IT market is full steam ahead with ever increasing awareness from the buy side while incumbent vendors scramble to "cloudify" everything and managed service ...

Rackspace continues to advance their cloud offering today with announcing of support for Windows Servers images starting in 2010. The Rackspace team has a long history of Microsoft support in their traditional dedicated servers with around 80% of their existing Windows workloads running on Windows Server 2003.  This move should make a lot of those ...

Another full week of cloud news, this time from Amazon.  Last night CTO Werner Vogels dropped two announcements via twitter: #AWS is expanding into Asia! Multiple availability zones in Singapore first then AZs in other locations later in 2010 #AWS Completes SAS70 Type II Audit Amazon has had operations and what they refer to as ...

Samsung announced that they will be dropping Symbian from the OS lineup and launching their own OS efforts next year under the label Bada.  Along with the OS Samsung will also be launching an application store that is targeted to span 30 countries by the end of next year. In a time where competition for ...

This morning Mashable is reporting that Google has officially acquired mobile ad provider AdMob for $750 million.  It was only a matter of time before AdMob had to give up its independence and cash out.  The that Sequoia was the leading backer of the company as well as AdMob having several former Googlers on their ...