Google’s got a special new version of its standard Premier Edition Google Apps that’s supposed to meet basic toe-in-the-door government security requirements. Well, at least the data generated by the government’s use of Gmail and calendaring will be segregate from everybody else’s cloud-borne data on servers located in the continental US. Other apps will eventually [...]
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Google, in its attempt to challenge Microsoft’s PC dominance, has moved up the market entrance of its cloud-based Chrome operating system from 2011 to late fall, less than six months from now according to reports out of the Computex show in Taiwan quoting Sundar Pichai, the Google VP in charge of the Chrome project. He [...]
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Google and VMware have never been particularly chummy but now they’re suddenly each other’s new best friend and a little cloud brought them together. As a result Google is going to support some of the Java tools VMware got with its acquisition of SpringSource, enough so users can move relatively painlessly between Google’s cloud, any [...]
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Google fired a shot across Apple’s bow Wednesday and considering the way things have been going Apple will probably seek to return fire in the not-too-distant future with an armor-piercing lawsuit. The latest fray started when Google got up at the Google I/O developers conference – like it was widely expected to do – and [...]
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As predictable as the sun rising in the east – and without making too much hoopla about it – Google’s gone into the migration business trying to decouple folks from Microsoft Exchange and move them to Google Apps. Its newfangled Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange tool works with Google Apps Premier or Education Edition [...]
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Larry Ellison’s not the only software maven bitten by the hardware bug badly enough to risk losing focus. Besides that Google-designed HTC-manufactured Android Phone reportedly dubbed the Nexus One that Google itself is getting ready to sell directly through its web site come January, Tech Crunch says to look out for a Google-branded Google-peddled Chrome [...]
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Neon Sues IBM for Trying To Destroy It Google Catches Hardware Bug FTC Means To Clap Intel in Irons & Rip Out Its Claws Oracle Claims Victory over EC; Says Sun Will Sell Clouds Canonical’s Executive Suite To Change Verari Close to Death Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud Floats into Beta EC Lets Microsoft Out on [...]
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Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, a couple of the revered old soldiers who wrote Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno at Bell Labs – and programming languages like Limbo and B, without which C probably wouldn’t exist – have come up with an experimental new programming language called Go that Google, their current refuge, open sourced [...]
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IBM Goes after Gmail In a fit of Google-envy, IBM Monday went into competition with Gmail, pitching businesses big and small on LotusLive iNotes, a new cloud-based hybrid e-mail service that starts at three buck a head a month. It claims its cloud-mail is secure and reliable – Gmail has had some problems lately staying [...]
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The shoe that Google’s been itching to drop – the one everybody knew was dangling – has finally dropped. With Pearl Harbor-like timing of a declaration of war, Google VP of product management Sundar Pichai and engineering director Linus Upson said in a midnight blog post Wednesday morning that Google’s going to develop a fast, [...]
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