Posts Tagged ‘ cloud ’

Google eBookstore Launches with 3 Million Titles

December 7, 2010

Google’s ebook store has finally stepped out of the realm of rumors and entered the real world. Matter-of-factly called the Google eBookstore, it is well stocked and supports a wide variety of devices, including PCs, smartphones, tablets and e-read…

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Sync Office Documents to Google Docs with Cloud Connect

November 23, 2010
Sync Office Documents to Google Docs with Cloud Connect

Google acquired a small company named DocVerse back in March. Its flagship product was a MS Office plugin that let users sync their offline documents to the cloud. The service has since been moved to Google’s infrastructure and renamed Google Clou…

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Nvidia Powers Amazon’s New Cloud-based GPU Super Computing Service

November 15, 2010
Nvidia Powers Amazon’s New Cloud-based GPU Super Computing Service

With more than a little help from Nvidia, Amazon hopes to bring supercomputing to the masses through a new Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) offering called “Cluster GPU Instances.”
By “masses,” we’re referring to enterprises and start-ups, not everyday Joe…

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Facebook Plucks Drop.io CEO, Acquires File Sharing Service

November 1, 2010
Facebook Plucks Drop.io CEO, Acquires File Sharing Service

The mega-billion entity known as Facebook has scooped up most of Drop.io’s technology and assets, the file sharing firm announced in a blog post. Sam Lessin, the head of Drop.io and also a former Harvard student (just like Mark Zuckerberg), is making t…

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Microsoft Office 365 is Office in the Cloud

October 19, 2010
Microsoft Office 365 is Office in the Cloud

Microsoft is taking another step into the cloud with the new hosted version of Office, Office 365 is going to be aimed at businesses and may be had for as little as $6 per user per month for small businesses. However, that low rate only includes the ho…

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Google Chrome OS Launch in 1 Month?

October 11, 2010
Google Chrome OS Launch in 1 Month?

It’s been all quiet on the Chrome OS front lately, but some recent comments on the Google Code site have some wondering if a release is right around the corner. Google announced Chrome OS last year around this time, and said the product would be availa…

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Amazon Introduces No-Fuss "Kindle for the Web" Beta

September 28, 2010
Amazon Introduces No-Fuss "Kindle for the Web" Beta

Amazon figured out a way to make its Kindle software compatible with just about any Internet-ready platform: Shuttle the software to the Web.
That’s part of the idea behind Amazon’s “Kindle for the Web” project, which was released in beta form this mor…

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Google Insists Chrome OS Still Focused on Netbooks

September 9, 2010
Google Insists Chrome OS Still Focused on Netbooks

The rumor mill has been very busy churning out tablet rumors in recent times. Last month, tech blog DownloadSquad made its long-awaited contribution to the growing body of tablet rumors by claiming that HTC was building a Chrome OS tablet, which wou…

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