News Archive - April 2010

Digital waste has grown exponentially over the last decade as storage of data — such as e-mails, pictures, audio and video files, etc. — has shifted to the online sphere. It takes a lot of power to keep the world's computers running.

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Service providers looking to add to their portfolios of managed services can now more easily enter the videoconferencing and telepresence sector by using a platform that overcomes two of the main barriers to widespread adoption — the interconnection of multiple videoconferencing providers and the traversal of enterprise firewalls.

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Amazon announced the availability of its cloud computing service in Asia by opening up its Singapore facilities to cloud customers.

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Hewlett-Packard will purchase Palm for $1.2 billion. This is somewhat surprising, given that Palm has not been very successful with all of the competition in the mobile space. Interesting, also, that HP is sporting a new logo on its front page that reminds us of Dell, whom also recently announced mobile phone plans.

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Google Android shows strong developer and customer growth, which has Apple and Microsoft increasingly worried and willing to take action.

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The mobile phone wars are getting more interesting as Microsoft publicly asserted for the first time that Google's Android operating system infringes on its intellectual property.

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Microsoft is firmly on the cloud-computing bandwagon and with good reason — it can make more money by doing so, even as it helps customers cut costs. Some 90% of Microsoft's engineering team will be working on cloud computing in some way within a couple of years.

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The battle to deliver your wireless phone calls once seemed to have all the makings of an epic showdown between cellphone carriers and mobile VoIP upstarts like Skype.

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Cisco Systems has finally managed to acquire videoconferencing vendor Tandberg.

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The great thing about cloud computing is that no matter where you are, your files are just there. It turns out they’re just there for law enforcement, too, as two Google Docs-using spammers recently found out.

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With the videoconferencing market growing and with Cisco jumping in with both feet and acquiring TANDBERG, Polycom is left looking for a buyer.

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To say the IMTC 2025 event was an impressive and successful undertaking is an understatement. Participants were connected from their offices, homes, or hotels. They connected with their PCs, Macs, standard H.323 endpoints or telephones. And they were all seeing each other, hearing each other, sharing presentations and interacting with each other.

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Cloud computing users are shifting their focus from what the cloud offers to what it lacks. What it offers is clear, such as the ability to rapidly scale and provision, but the list of what it's missing seems to be growing by the day.

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Rumors are swirling that Lenovo is interested in Palm. Whatever the case, Palm's stock shot up over 20% on speculation.

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just published a patent application from a division of Verizon Communications for a way to offer market-based spot pricing for cloud computing.

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Moving server software to the cloud has a lot of advantages. A company no longer has to worry about patches, deploying upgrades, and an number of other concerns.

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A new messaging feature called Amazon Simple Notification Service will let developers with Amazon Web Services accounts push out notifications to subscribers from their cloud-based applications.

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The FCC does not have the legal authority to slap net neutrality regulations on Internet providers, a federal appeals court ruled.

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