01/28/2011
Wall Street Journal
Verizon Communications Inc. will pay $1.4 billion to acquire Terremark Worldwide Inc., an operator of data centers, in a move aimed at selling more computing services to business customers.
The deal, Verizon’s largest since its $6.8 billion purchase of MCI in 2005, comes as telecom operators are moving deeper into selling processing power, [...]
11/17/2010
GSMA Mobile Business Briefing
LIVE FROM THE GSMA MOBILE ASIA CONGRESS 2010: Peter Chou, CEO of fast-growing Taiwanese smartphone vendor HTC, used his keynote at Congress this morning to explain how the firm is embracing cloud computing as a way to expand the power and functionality of its smart devices. “Cloud computing will play a critical [...]
11/02/2010
Thomson Reuters – Hong Kong Bureau
Michael Dell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dell Inc, attends a forum at the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong November 2, 2010. Dell Inc, the world’s No.2 PC maker, expects to launch a significant number of tablet PC models next year, its chief executive said on Tuesday, [...]
12/22/2009
eWeek
IBM will ramp up its cloud computing efforts in the messaging and collaboration market in 2010, focusing on extending the security of on-premises solutions to its LotusLive SAAS offerings. From January through October, IBM launched LotusLive Engage, a broad social networking and collaboration platform; LotusLive Connections, a SAAS version of its social networking suite; and [...]
12/03/2009
Financial Times – San Francisco Bureau
Data centres are the modern version of the original mainframe computers, taking up vast amounts of space, with racks and racks of servers delivering high-performance computing.
As any engineer will tell you, a mobile phone now has more processing power than a room-filling mainframe of old, with its cost and [...]
11/20/2009
New York Times – San Francisco Bureau, The
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google began lifting the veil on its planned Chrome operating system on Thursday, but it said that computers powered by the software would not be available for a year.
In September, Sundar Pichai of Google discussed the Chrome operating system, which will not be [...]
