CLOUD COMPUTING

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Little-known cloud startups attract venture interest

Venture capitalists are increasingly looking to invest in start-up companies that provide complementary services for the Internet cloud, hoping to get in on the ground floor of a trend that the world's biggest tech companies are pushing.
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AMD introduced 45nm Quad-Core EE

On Wednesday, AMD Inc. introduced the 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron EE processor with the company's lowest x86 quad-core server power band.
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Sun Micro takes on Amazon in cloud computing

Computer maker Sun Microsystems Inc is preparing to take on web retailer Amazon.com Inc in the fledgling market for cloud computing services that can be accessed via the Internet.
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Group asks U.S. FTC to probe Google privacy safety

An online privacy group called on Tuesday for government regulators to investigate the adequacy of Google Inc's security safeguards after the company inadvertently released consumers' private information this month.
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Microsoft My Phone in Mobile World Congress

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker is ready to announce My Phone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week where it could announce more details about a test of the service.
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IBM unveils cloud computing strategy

IBM unveiled Tuesday its cloud computing technology, which stores information and runs applications in shared computing facilities to users over the Internet, and announced the new head of the cloud computing division.
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Google Launches Online Apps for Enterprise

On Thursday, Google expanded its free software suite, called Google Apps, to the enterprise market, allowing co-workers to collaborate on documents, calendars or presentations and to chat via instant messaging.
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Google hot on Skydrive's heels

U.S. search engine giant Google plans to offer internet users access to online storage services, a move which provides a boost to web computing and encroaches on Microsoft's territory, according to a report.
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IBM in big push to build data centers for clients

IBM is staking out a major new source of business helping clients like banks or retailers manage data centers on a par with Internet players such as Google or Microsoft, a top official said on Wednesday.
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Google upgrades business e-mail

Google Inc is moving to attract big business users to its Google Apps service just a year after entering the software market, as the company said on Tuesday it is offering stepped up e-mail management services at no additional cost to paying users.
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Microsoft to test ad-supported version of Works

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it will offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic productivity software, Microsoft Works, as part of a test program with computers manufacturers.
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Google Dominates Web-Based Productivity Tools

While online office software is still in its infancy, new research released today reveals that the world's number 1 search provider, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), also led the market as the top provider of Web-based productivity tools for the last three months of 2006.
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Software to Shift Towards Service Model: Report

Within five years, a quarter of all software sales wont come in traditional off-the-shelf packages as they do today, but they will be hosted on remote servers, with users paying per usage, one research firm states.

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