Cisco backs up its big cloud talk

From InfoWorld: Cisco made announcements this week that demonstrate its commitment to more aggressively pursue its cloud vision. Clearly, the company is not aspiring to be a cloud provider like Amazon or Google. Rather, it aims to provide the groundwork for converged data centers...

Amazon's Cloud Drive Riles Music Industry

From PC World: On Monday night, Amazon announced a new cloud-based music service that lets people store their music in "the cloud" and access it from anywhere.

We've recently heard rumors that Google is testing (internally) a similar service, but has been running into legal troubles...

Google Talk Guru turns IM into a search tool

From CNET News.com: Always looking for new ways to deliver its search results, Google has rolled out a new app that combines instant messaging with search.

Launched today as the lastest experiment in the Google Labs playground, Google Talk Guru offers you a chat session through...

Google readies 'better ads' system for Gmail

From CNET News.com: Google is getting ready to present "better ads" in messages delivered via its e-mail service.

The Web giant announced today that it intends to serve up fewer but more relevant and useful ads by better predicting which topics appear to be important to each user...

Microsoft Looking For Testers to Try Updated Xbox 360 Disc Format

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. reportedly plans to implement a new "disc format" for Xbox 360 game console along with the next release of the system update for the system. At present the details are scarce, but since the software giant is looking for "multiple thousands of...

HP to Partners: Demand Itanium-Supporting Software from Oracle

From X-bit Labs: A high-ranking executive from Hewlett Packard advised the company's channel partners to demand Oracle to continue supporting Intel Corp.'s Itanium-based mission-critical servers with new software. HP claims that Oracle may change its mind once it hears feedback from...

EnterpriseDB looks to poach Oracle customers after Itanium move

From InfoWorld: Oracle's announcement last week that it will stop developing software for Intel's Itanium processor has database startup EnterpriseDB looking to capitalize.

Hewlett-Packard's Integrity servers are based on Itanium chips and run its HP-UX OS. PostgreSQL, the open...

iPhone 5 Delay Rumors: Will Apple Hold Out Until After WWDC?

From PC World: Apple emphasized that this year's WWDC 2011 conference in June will be all about the future of iOS and Mac, giving tech pundits reason to believe we won't see a new iPhone 5 announced during the event. With the rumor mill in full swing, speculation suggests that the...

Firefox for Android reaches 'full' status

From CNET News.com: For Android devotees, Mozilla's issuance of Firefox for Android has been a long wait. Sure, the browser-maker added it to the Android Market in beta form months ago, and made the release candidate (RC) available last week.

However, today marks the first that the...

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