Tag Archives: cloud computing

Catching the Cloud

July 17, 2011 – 5:16 pm

TweetWhen it comes to contracting for a computer service, there is little choice but hoping for the best. Small or mid-size companies, especially those located outside the United States, are betting they’ll never have to go to court – usually one located 11,000km and thousands of dollars in legal fees away. Let’s face it: contracting [...]

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iCloud: How vs. What

June 12, 2011 – 7:19 pm

TweetOnce a year in San Francisco, Apple summons its third-party application engineers to the World Wide Developers Conference. Since Steve Jobs’ return to the company the event has grown in attendance and importance. One turning point was the 2002 introduction of OS X, a genuinely modern Mac OS, built on a Unix foundation. Then there [...]

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Google Apps: The Future or Yesterday’s War?

November 22, 2010 – 8:50 am

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée One must be at least a little skeptical of product reviews, and, even more so, product reviewers. They usually don’t spend their own money on the product and they’re under constant pressure to produce more newspaper columns, or blog post after blog post. There are exceptions: I trust Consumer Reports (they buy [...]

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Google OS: Chrome-Plated Linux or Microsoft 2.0?

July 12, 2009 – 7:39 pm

TweetHere’s what I think its taking place: Microsoft executives and Board members are no dummies: they know Cloud Computing threatens the Windows + Office + Exchange gold mine, the biggest in our industry’s history. They know the future is Office + Exchange running in dual-mode. From the Cloud when a Net connection is available; locally [...]

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