Reporters’ Roundtable: ‘Dangers’ of cloud computing

This week we are covering the dangers of cloud computing. Get it? With the major loss of consumer data for the Sidekick smartphone users–the Sidekick is made by Danger, a Microsoft company–the whole idea of “cloud” safety has been brought front and center for consumers.
Businesses, likewise, are wondering if they are exposed to similar risks [...]

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Cloud interoperability on the horizon?

Arguments for and against the cloud are starting to calm down a bit, and most people agree that the cloud is somewhere in your future, if not in your present.
Instead of arguing semantics of application development and delivery, the discussion should really be around how to deal with a mix of on-premise and on-demand, a [...]

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Could the Cloud Spawn a Multi-Trillion Dollar Company?

Paraphrasing Einstein, the future will not be created at the same level of thinking which created the past and the present. In Hugh Macleod’s ‘The Cloud’s Best-Kept Secret’ he writes: “…Nobody’s saying that one day a single company may possibly emerge to dominate The Cloud, the way Google came to dominate Search, the way Microsoft [...]

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Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More

The Web has an interesting property that those building Web applications and online businesses usually encounter soon after they first launch: It has its own unique and unforgiving rules for success and failure.  Appreciating them requires a certain level of understanding of the intrinsic nature of the Web and how it works.  Actually leveraging those [...]

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