A recent article on Wired.com discusses the rumored and whispered details surrounding an upcoming Google music service. This sound very much like the rumor surrounding Apple’s acquisition of Lala.com last year which later ended up with Apple simply shuttering Lala services in May. If this is true, then Apple and Google once again go head [...]

According to Steve Balmer, Microsoft has bet the company on Windows Azure and cloud computing:   Microsoft is “all in” and Balmer goes on to say that the majority of Microsoft Employees , about 70%, are working in the cloud, either cloud based or cloud inspired. That number will grow to 90% in the next [...]

In the last dozen years working in IT, I have heard the concept of cloud computing tossed around as a "neat and interesting” concept, maybe good for hosting a service or two (such as Saleforce.com or a company web server), and for small businesses that could not afford network and server infrastructure, but not really [...]

I was recently reading the comments on a post from Gizmodo showing the incredible growth of Google since 1996, summed up by the following graph (which is just an excerpt of this infographic): Gizmodo via Computer School Not only is the growth amazing, so is their ability to keep up with that growth. Clearly, Google [...]