Google's bid for Linux

Google's bid for Linux OINGoogle announces its entry into the Open Invention Network (Dirson, InformationWeek), an association of companies to acquire patents related to the development of Linux in order to share research and protect the operating system from possible...

Automotive operating systems

Automotive operating systems Automotive via CNN Money and C | Net to the same news from the Daily Yomiuri detailing the formation of a consortium of Japanese companies and institutions (Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Toshiba, Denso and the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and...

What is this "Windows Cloud"?

What is this "Windows Cloud"? A quick mention made by Steve Ballmer last Wednesday is generating a lot of intrigue and interest: a pre-announcement of something that Microsoft's CEO named Windows Cloud, which would be designed for programmers writing cloud computing...

Watson, between artificial intelligence and Skynet

Watson, between artificial intelligence and Skynet When, on May 11, 1997, Deep Blue was able to defeat Garry Kasparov to chess, many began to look at computers differently. The feeling of unease was mitigated by some nuances: the victory had been tightened (two wins,...

The evolution of the technology industry towards the cloud

The evolution of the technology industry towards the cloud Technological take on the cloud - Five DaysMarimar Jiménez writes a piece on technology industry trends in Cinco Días, "Technological Cloud Compromise" (pdf), which reflects some of my comments on Dell's recent...

Head in the cloud

Head in the cloud It could not be clearer: the cloud is the next big topic of discussion. To Google's strong position in this area for several years with its approaches and products, is already joined by a serious offensive by Microsoft disclosed in a Business Week...

Chromebook: New Era?

Chromebook: New Era? Google reopened yesterday the informational interest of the technological world in its Google I / O with the announcement of the launch of its Chromebook, which for many supposes the culmination of the strategy of the company in an all-in-one solution...

Hyperconnected world

Hyperconnected world Yesterday, a lightning strike outside Dublin caused an incident in the transformers that supply electricity to the data centers that Amazon and Microsoft have in the Irish capital and with those who service, in the case of Amazon, its platform Of...

The last stupid idea: breaking the cloud to canon blow

The last stupid idea: breaking the cloud to canon blow A news item in CIO comments on what appears to be the penultimate occurrence of the insatiable management entities, being studied by the European Commission: to levy with a canon the use of services in the cloud...

Telefónica makes technology to analyze big data available to companies

Telefónica makes technology to analyze big data available to companies Telefónica offers companies the possibility to develop big data projects without investing in infrastructure and with the best advice through a Hortonworks data platform from Hadoop. Hewlett Packard...

Big Data: a little introduction

Big Data: a little introduction I have been collecting information about Big data for some time and introducing some notions about the subject in some of my courses, but today while I was preparing a conference I realized that it was an issue that we had not yet mentioned...

Surprise! The cloud may fail!

Surprise! The cloud may fail! If you did not read the news, maybe you noticed how multiple services from different companies failed at the same time: Foursquare, Reddit, Hootsuite, Quora and several hundred more companies failed or suffered problems with the fall...

The majority of the age of the cloud

The majority of the age of the cloud The opening talk of Apple's WWDC 2011 left, among many other things, clear evidence: Apple's official entry into the working mode that many have been using for a long time using various combinations of tools.After several unfocused...

IBM report on the future of advertising: the end of advertising as we know it ...

IBM report on the future of advertising: the end of advertising as we know it ... IBM Report on AdvertisingIBM Global Services has published an interesting report, titled "The end of advertising as we know it", which like the recently reviewed "Marketing Media &...

Cloud Computing Everywhere

Cloud Computing Everywhere Four articles in this week's Business Week ("How the cloud computing is changing the world", "Cloud computing: small companies take flight", "Enter the cloud with caution" and "It's 2018: who owns the cloud? Of cloud computing, after a first...

Video Games: The Battle of the Cloud

Video Games: The Battle of the Cloud Videogaming sceneVeo on Slashdot, "OnLive and Gaikai - How to Stop Gaming Revolution", a mention of the interesting battle that could begin to register in the video game industry with the development of platforms like OnLive or Gaikai...

Amazon opens the cloud

Amazon opens the cloud At the time, the launch of Amazon Web Services slowly led many companies to experiment with the service: a system designed to offer low barriers of entry in both the technological and the economic found that many technology managers Practically...

The cloud in business: from simple storage to shared work

The cloud in business: from simple storage to shared work One of the transitions that, in my capacity as professor and business advisor, I am able to observe in greater detail is the movement of companies towards services based on the so-called cloud computing or simply...

Microsoft, in the clouds

Microsoft, in the clouds On the 4th, Steve Ballmer participated in a webcast at the University of Washington, and made an important statement: that Microsoft's future is in the cloud. To illustrate this assertion, he provided a couple of data: not more than 70%...

Dell Ophelia: PC deconstruction

Dell Ophelia: PC deconstruction Something important is happening at Dell. On the one hand, strong rumors of changes in the structure and a possible exit of the NASDAQ from the hand of some kind of management buyout. On the other hand, a project, Ophelia, with a name...

The cloud is not good or bad: providers are

The cloud is not good or bad: providers are Sidekickoutage The loss of data from all users of the popular Sidekick device offered by T-Mobile is launching many analysts to talk about a loss of confidence in cloud computing and the idea of ​​having the data supposedly...