CLOUD COMPUTING

Apple Inc. has joined the race in offering cloud computing services along with Google Inc., Amazon.com and Microsoft Corp. Apple's iCloud service are intended to be used by 76 percent of iPhone users, according to a RBC Capital Markets survey.

Technology giant Apple’s one-stop cloud-based photo, video, music and data back up and push out service iCloud has generated a lot of interest and Apple has even held back the launch of its new MacBook Air and other products so that it could bundle iCloud with all future product launches. But does iCloud have what it takes to beat Google Music Beta digital locker, Amazon Cloud Drive, Microsoft Sky Drive?

With the latest launch of iCloud, Apple has joined the race in offering cloud computing services along with Google, Amazon and Microsoft.

The United States' first chief information officer (CIO) Vivek Kundra, 36, will resign and leave the Obama administration in middle of August, according to the White House. After resignation he plans to take on a fellowship post at Harvard University.

Vivek Kundra, the nation's first federal Chief Information Officer (CIO), will quit the White House in August for a fellowship at Harvard University.

Vivek Kundra , who is the White House's first chief information officer and was the key leader in his administration's effort to streamline the federal government's massive IT infrastructure is leaving in August for a fellowship at Harvard.

Illinois based computer hardware and software supplier, in a poll conducted last month, confirmed that nearly 28 percent of all US organizations are using cloud computing and another 73 percent reported that their first access to cloud was through a single cloud application

California-based information technology giant HP (Hewlett-Packard) has conducted research on health monitoring solutions at its Data Center Design for Cloud Computing

Oppenheimer has upgraded telecom giant Verizon Communications to outperform from perform, saying that the company is poised to benefit from the cloud computing trend.

Big day for Apple and therefore for the rest of the world! People were happy watching frail looking Steve Jobs introduce a host of services, and one among the audience even shouted to the Apple CEO: We love you to which he responded that it helps. As the user reviews poured in following the WWDC, people appeared to be in love with Apple's ideas. But industry experts, rival corporations, music industry insiders and legal experts seem to have qualms about the possible implicati...

As Apple attempts to chart out new territory with its cloud-offering iCloud, it is entering into a domain ruled by other giants like Google, Amazon and Microsoft who have huge data centers to back their cloud services.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to launch the iCloud, in San Francisco which could fundamentally change the way Apple fans listen to music, watch TV shows and download movies.

Apple iCloud, iOS 5, and OS X Lion are going to dominate Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next week.

Apple for a change has turned its back on its secretive ways and has openly confessed, prior to its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), that it will be launching its highly anticipated cloud offering- iCloud.

Carmaker Ford Motor is harnessing the power of cloud computing, analytics and Google innovation to make smart cars.

Social networking is coming to your next automobile thanks to Toyota.

Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using just a single laser which could help to broadcast three-dimensional high-definition television signals and support the continued rollout of cloud computing.

Apple has trumped Google and Amazon's unlicensed music locker offerings by landing a cloud-music licensing deal with Sony Corp., EMI Music and Warner Music.

Apple has trumped Google and Amazon's unlicensed music locker offerings by availing a cloud-music licensing deal with EMI Music.

Amazon's cloud-based Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) EC2 which leases compute power was used by hackers to siphon off personal details of over 80 million users from Sony's PlayStation Network (PSN).

While many are heralding the entry of Chromebooks as the next game changer cynics have a question or two about Google's strategy behind its light-weight, browser-based Chrome OS.