CLOUD COMPUTING

Apple announced the release of iCloud last month at the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) in California.

Online retail giant Amazon has beefed up its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player storage plans, offering unlimited storage for music, free storage for all Amazon MP3 purchases.

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Amazon has stepped up its product offering in the frontier market of cloud services.

Internet telephone company 8x8 Inc said it entered into a partnership with Virtual Computing Environment Company to speed up deployment of its cloud computing services on a new platform, sending its shares up to an eight-year high.

Not a single day passes without a new rumor regarding the launch date of Apple's next generation iPhone. Apple fans are not exactly pleased at the long silence from Apple, but apparently the company is only safe-guarding its business interests. Since the sales of their existing iPhone isn't slowing down, it is logical to think that Apple would want to wait and get the most out of iPhone 4.

Competition in the technology sector is heating up as the biggest and most successful companies are expanding and stepping on each other's toes.

Microsoft takes the curtain off its latest software: Office 365.

In a bid to challenge Google's collection of online office productivity and communications programs called 'Google Apps', Microsoft starts selling Office 365, a cloud-based version of its Microsoft Office suite of desktop applications.

Microsoft Corp made its biggest move into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of cloud computing on Tuesday, taking the wraps off a revamped online version of its hugely profitable Office software suite.

Microsoft introduced its Office 365, a cloud-based service that offers Microsoft Office and Microsoft Server products. CEO Ballmer called it Microsoft Office meets the cloud.

Microsoft is announcing its Office 365 this morning. It's a cloud-based enterprise service that offers Microsoft Office and Microsoft Server products.

Google clearly thinks Google Apps is a better enterprise service than Microsoft Office 365, which Microsoft plans to launch on Tuesday.

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has announced a bonus 50GB of free cloud storage for its TouchPad buyers.

Top venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is considering creating a specialized fund that focuses on cloud-based technologies.

Federal regulators will hit Google with subpoenas, begin civil probe

Google has released an experimental extension of its Chrome browser which will help developers to scan their Web applications and flag code that may make them susceptible to online attacks.

Apple Inc. has joined the race in offering cloud computing services along with Google Inc., Amazon.com and Microsoft Corp. Apple's iCloud service are intended to be used by 76 percent of iPhone users, according to a RBC Capital Markets survey.

Technology giant Apple’s one-stop cloud-based photo, video, music and data back up and push out service iCloud has generated a lot of interest and Apple has even held back the launch of its new MacBook Air and other products so that it could bundle iCloud with all future product launches. But does iCloud have what it takes to beat Google Music Beta digital locker, Amazon Cloud Drive, Microsoft Sky Drive?

With the latest launch of iCloud, Apple has joined the race in offering cloud computing services along with Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

Microsoft’s cloud-based Windows Azure, is similar to cloud sky in many ways, according to reports of a test at the available production-level features in Microsoft's platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, but with some major differences