It looks like Google is throwing in the towel on its Google Checkout service, the cloud hosting payment service similar to eBay's popular PayPal service. The service will be shutting down on November … [Read more...]
Dell Ditches Public Cloud
May 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Dell has announced in a press release that it will be moving from a public cloud platform to selling cloud services through partners. This is a bit surprising -- you may remember our report on … [Read more...]
Some Amazing YouTube Stats
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Today is YouTube's 8th birthday! For eight years, YouTube has been making people happy by allowing the upload of videos of all kinds. To mark this momentous occasion, YouTube has posted some really … [Read more...]
Tumblr’s Dirty Little Secret
May 20, 2013 By Leave a Comment
If you were around the Internet this weekend, you probably heard all about Yahoo's proposed acquisition of Tumblr. Tumblr fans all across the globe are up in arms about this potential billion dollar … [Read more...]
The Cloud: Helping More Of Africa Access The Internet
May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
The University of Kinshasa is the biggest university located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It boasts close to 30,000 students, research staff, and faculty, but still only has 800 … [Read more...]
Google Ramps Up Its Web Hosting Options
May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
When you think of cheap web hosting, what do you think of? Most of the time, that question is met with one of two responses: Amazon or Rackspace. Sometimes, GoDaddy also makes the cut. Did you know … [Read more...]
Russian Startups Find Safety In The Cloud
May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Raids are not uncommon in Russia. Government officials can bust into any company at any time. When this happens, anything can be seized - including computers. Companies that store all data on a hard … [Read more...]
92% of Businesses Won’t Go Cloud For This Reason
May 16, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Here's a statistic that you might not have known about: 92% of IT decision makers won't move to the cloud. Why? They are worried, and super worried, about security. More specifically, about security … [Read more...]
The Great gTLD Battle
May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Since June of last year, when Google applied to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for the registration rights to the new gTLDs such as .google, .youtube, and yes, even … [Read more...]
Facebook/Parse Add Web Hosting Services
May 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Facebook has made quite a few acquisitions. One of those purchases was Parse, a mobile back-end startup company. Parse was purchased by Facebook, so that Facebook could focus on developers of the … [Read more...]