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February 08, 2012
The Federal action against file sharing site Megaupload must be sending shivers through legitimate file sharing, backup and collaboration sites. As well as shutting down...
February 06, 2012
The sheer pace of cloud computing development can leave a person almost breathless. Three years ago I was moaning about how useless my old mobile...
February 02, 2012
In the wake of the Megaupload closure there has been a flurry of activity ands concerns over legitimately held data in the cloud. The latest...
January 30, 2012
Google has almost become synonymous with business office tools through its Google Docs and Google Apps packages – not forgetting GMail of course – but...
January 27, 2012
Putting global conflicts and the economy aside I have a feeling that 2012 will be the year when we see cloud computing hits its stride...
January 20, 2012
I have always had a hankering to be more organised and my attempts at using technology to achieve this have, by and large, been memorable...
January 19, 2012
I have never been a great fan of Apple’s closed garden approach thinking it to be a symptom of Apple’s anally retentive control freakery but...
January 16, 2012
Let’s be totally pragmatic. There is a four letter word associated with cloud computing and that word is risk. The cloud is still cutting its...
January 13, 2012
Taking The P out of cloud computing – no jokes please – and introducing cloud commuting is one direction that I can see the new...
January 09, 2012
Regular readers here know that I firmly believe that the future of cloud computing is mobile. The growth of the tablet and smartphone market has...
January 03, 2012
Is that’s time of year for making seasonal wish lists, new year’s resolutions so I thought I’d chip in with a few of my own...
December 23, 2011
December is obviously the time for research analysts to whip out their crystal balls and predict what is going to happen in the year or...
December 16, 2011
There are a lot of words that can be applied to cloud computing. Exciting, worrying, empowering, dangerous, intrusive, revolutionary – the list goes on and...
December 13, 2011
To paraphrase Ken Kesey in the Kool Aid Acid trip you are either on the cloud or off the cloud; or possibly it is better...
December 12, 2011
If you’re looking to move your business to the cloud, you’ve probably heard a lot of buzz about Google Apps. But why specifically should...