CLOUD COMPUTING

Few organizations have moved to cloud computing -- the delivery of computing as a service from remote centers -- and of those that have, many are disappointed with the results, a survey published on Tuesday found.

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer failed to clinch his maximum bonus for the second year running due to the company's slow progress in mobile phones and adapting to the tablet computer revolution.

With only a day remaining for Apple's eagerly anticipated iPhone event, rumors over what the company will and will not include in its new phone, which is believed to be the iPhone5, continues to grow.

Now that the wraps are off, Amazon's Kindle Fire is an aggressive play into Apple's iPad market.

A day after Amazon's announcement of launching Kindle Fire, which will cost just $199, Best Buy announced a huge discount on BlackBerry PlayBook.

Amazon officially made its entry in to the tablet market on Wednesday by announcing its Kindle Fire Tablet at $199.

Tablet wars are heating up day by day. Online retailer Amazon announced its foray in to the tablet space with the launch of its Kindle Fire tablet.

Amazon rolled out its new line of Kindle tablets in New York Wednesday morning, adding the seven-inch $199 color Android Fire, the $99 keyboard-free 4GB Touch model and a $79 2GB non-touchscreen version to its ranks. Yet the Amazon product causing the most stir was not an e-reader or tablet, but Amazon Silk, the company's new mobile web platform powered by Amazon's incredibly extensive web services platform.

At Amazon's Kindle Fire announcement in New York City, Amazon surprised everyone by unveiling a new browser called Amazon Silk, which leverages the cloud to optimize load speeds.

Amazon's cloud computing unit has taken steps to avoid a repeat of the outage of its cloud services platform earlier this year and customer interest has only grown since, a top company executive said.

Apple's upcoming operating system iOS 5, which is expected to be released this fall and is going to power iPhone 5, iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4 and iPhone 3 GS, has copied certain features from the Android platform.

With iCloud being reset, Apple's iOS 5 upgrade looks to be right around the corner. The company is also expected to release the iOS 5 Golden Master one day after the iCloud reset.

Intel, the world’s biggest chipmaker, introduced new low-power and multi-core chips specifically designed for cloud computing applications. Some could have as many as 50 core processor.

The real value is in the data/information, versus hardware, as Symantec Corp. expects to leverage virtualization, cloud and mobile to drive growth.

Though Apple has not announced anything officially about the highly anticipated iPhone 5, rumors about the probable specifications (based on details embedded in the beta version of iOS 5 and improvements expected on the next iPhone), have turned cacophonous on the web.

Intel Capital, the in-house arm of the world’s biggest chipmaker, has seeded seven small companies in hopes they will swell into profitable ventures. The move comes a month after Intel announced its $300 million Ultrabook initiative for tablets and ultralight products.

Apple's iOS 5 operating system, which is going to power the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3rd generation, iPod touch 4th generation, iPad, iPad 2 and iPhone 5, is now under beta testing.

Music can be streamed from the cloud to iOS devices as Google Music Beta is now accessible in iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Alibaba Cloud Computing, a unit of Alibaba Group, will release an English version of its mobile operating system this month and launch its tablet in the next two months, a top company executive said on Friday.

China's top search engine Baidu Inc is on the lookout for potential acquisitions and investment opportunities in the mobile and cloud computing spaces, its chief financial officer said on Friday.

While the iPad is today’s undisputed giant in the tablet market, senior Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps predicted that Amazon could sell 3-5 million units of its own tablets in the fourth quarter alone. Here are our top 5 reasons why the Amazon Tablet will be the iPad’s newest rival.