CLOUD COMPUTING

Apple’s music service, iTunes Match, which was announced at June’s WWDC, is being tested with Apple developer community. The iCloud service will support streaming of iTunes music library to the iOS devices.

You've got to put your money somewhere, right? Under the mattress doesn't really work as a retirement program. It's lumpy, vulnerable to theft and your kids might find it.

Medicinal Genomics successfully sequenced the marijuana genome in order to understand the plant's medicinal properties.

HPQ’s chief executive Leo Apotheker has already said he wants to grow the company’s presence in so-called “cloud computing” while shedding lower-margin businesses like PCs.

Now you can be a history maker, as CERN initiated a new volunteer project in its search for the elusive "God particle" - the Higgs boson, which allows commoners to run simulation of particle physics experiment.

Jefferies has upgraded PC giant Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) to "buy" from "hold," saying that the company is expected to deliver higher margins over long-term and is best positioned to benefit from the increasing demand for cloud services.

Apple's market shares could double or even triple in the next few years, according to a new analysis.In a note to investors on Wednesday, Sterne Agee's analyst Shaw Wu called Apple's growth the "ultimate platform adopting story."

Online retail giant Amazon.com has unveiled Kindle Cloud Reader, which is its latest Kindle reading application that leverages HTML5 and enables customers to read Kindle books instantly using only their Web browser - online or offline.

FBR Capital Markets has upgraded the shares of VMWare, Inc. (NYSE:VMW) to "outperform" from 'market perform," saying that the company would be a leading beneficiary of increasing demand for virtualization solutions.

The riots, currently, have continued for the third consecutive day and have spread to other parts of UK.

It looks like Zynga?s infrastructure strategy is rubbing off on social gaming startups. Digital Chocolate, purveyor of social games such as Millionaire City and Pro MMA Fighter, is following in Zynga?s footsteps of launching games in the cloud, then bringing them back in house when demand levels off. It doesn?t have Zynga?s much ballyhooed hybrid cloud infrastructure quite yet, but Digital Chocolate is working on its own flavor of the ideal gaming cloud.

Amazon.com Inc shares, just below their all-time high, could rise 10 percent to 25 percent if its capital spending translates to fast growth in its retailing, Kindle e-readers and cloud-computing businesses, Barron's said in its August 1 edition.

Alibaba, the cloud computing unit of Alibaba Group is about to come up with its own cloud operated system for mobile phones.

New platform allows people to be interactive when simply looking at a photo.

The largest Internet retailer benefited from growth in e-commerce, though margins continued to be pressured by heavy spending on distribution, technology and digital content.

Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) string of outage woes continues with another outage on Tuesday.

The al-Qaida is launching a ‘cyber jihad’ on the West and there have been increasing attempts by terrorists to ‘invade’ Facebook and other social networking sites for propaganda and to organize attacks.

After launching its own Android Appstore and cloud-based music locker, Cloud Drive, Amazon is ready to shake Apple's core iPad market as it prepares to launch a 9-inch Android tablet.

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has longer-term disadvantages in a tablet and cloud world as Dell is not focused on tablets and is well behind Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) in developing a full cloud stack, Jefferies said in a note to clients.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Planar Systems, Senomyx, Actuate, SemiLEDs, and Brocade Communications Systems. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Affymetrix, Tessera Technologies, Conns, Perficient, and Zhongpin.

Amazon has stepped up its product offering in the frontier market of cloud services.