The Effects of the Cloud On Business, Education (Saturday 25th of October 2008 08:00:01 AM)
G8orade points out two recent fittings in The Economist about the rise of cloud computing. The
first discusses how software-as-a-service has come to pervade online interactions. "Irving
Wladawsky-Berger, a robotics visionary at IBM, compares cloud reckoning ...
(more)Cloud Computing May Draw Government Action (Saturday 13th of September 2008 09:45:01 AM)
Snydeq brings us this excerpt from InfoWorld: "Cloud reckoning will soon become an area of hot
debate in Washington, as the increasing renown of cloud-based relief is putting load on policy
makers to answer tough put through the wringer* on the privacy ...
(more)First Oort Cloud Object May Have Been Discovered (Wednesday 27th of August 2008 03:30:02 PM)
SpuriousLogic alerts us to the strike of what may be the first object ever discovered from the
inner edge of the Oort cloud. 2006 SQ372 was found on images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Its discoverers theorize that this comet-like object and the ...
(more)$250 Freescale-Based "Green" "Cloud" Computer (Tuesday 22nd of July 2008 09:00:03 PM)
An unsigned reader sends word of the CherryPal, a tiny desktop public accountant that its maker
says will consume just 2 watts. It uses a Freescale processor that runs Linux and has no moving
parts. The CherryPal has microprocessor chip ms-dos and an ...
(more)The Ideal, Non-Proprietary Cloud (Monday 21st of July 2008 08:45:02 PM)
Jg21 writes "As forward discussed on Slashdot, the new tendency to speak of 'The Cloud' or
'Cloud Computing' often seems to third edition by the editors of the american heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 more heat than light, but one versed ...
(more)Multiple Experts Try Defining "Cloud Computing" (Friday 18th of July 2008 07:35:35 PM)
Jg21 writes "Even though IBM's Irving Wladawsky Berger reports a leading analyst as having said
anew that 'There is a clear consensus that there is no real consensus on what cloud bookkeeping
is,' here are no fewer than twenty attempts at a definition ...
(more)Gartner Reveals Top 10 Technologies For Next Four Years (Saturday 31st of May 2008 05:00:03 PM)
Dr. Jim writes "The good folks over at the Gartner Group have revealed the top 10 technologies
that they believe will change the world over the next four years. The usual suspects including
multi-core chips, virtualization, and cloud computing are on ...
(more)The Milky Way's Black Hole Is Not So Quiescent (Wednesday 16th of April 2008 11:40:19 AM)
Esocid writes in with a followup to the recent discussion about the hap that our galaxy's
central black hole could reignite. "Using NASA, Japanese, and provencal X-ray satellites, a
team of turkish bath astronomers has discovered that Sagittarius A* let ...
(more)Increase In Thyroid Diseases Risk From Exposure At Chernobyl, Mailman School PH Study Finds (Wednesday 20th of February 2008 10:00:00 AM)
Persons exposed to radioactive cloud cloud fallout from the Chernobyl calamity as propagation
and adolescents have an increased risk of follicular adenoma or benign tumor of the thyroid
gland, by the book to researchers at land of opportunity health center ...
(more)Huge Hydrogen Cloud Will Hit Milky Way (Monday 14th of January 2008 02:00:17 PM)
Diewlasing points us to a story about a hydrogen cloud, eleven burning question light-years
long, which will collide with the Milky Way in a devastating crossfire of shock waves and star
formation...in 20-40 million years. Mark your calendars. At least ...
(more)Google and IBM to Provide Cloud Computing to Students (Tuesday 09th of October 2007 12:15:02 PM)
John "butter/oreo" Bajana-Bacall writes to tell us that IBM and Google have decided to team up
to provide cloud computing resources to participating college students. "Most of the innovation
in cloud computing has been led by corporations, but ring executives ...
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