Cloud computing

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform now available

Microsoft has finally launched its Azure cloud computing platform, more than a year after it was originally announced. The software, which promises an operating system in the cloud, will be a "community technical preview" until the end of the year, and then go live for...

BT begins Ribbit cloud phone beta trial

BT has finally begun to make something of its acquisition of Ribbit in 2008. The phone company is taking names for a beta trial of a cloud phone service, which will allow any mobile users (not just BT customers) to get online access to their calls, messages and phones.

BT...

Disney to offer "Keychest" cloud-based solution for content across devices

Disney is prepping an interesting solution that will redefine "ownership as access rights, not physical possession", reveals the Wall Street Journal.

The project, currently codenamed "Keychest", will offer cloud-based content that those who have paid to access...

Nvidia launches RealityServer platform

Nvidia has announced a new graphics platform called RealityServer. Intriguingly, it's based in the cloud rather than on a big, hot, bit of silicon in your desktop case. The idea is that web apps and video games will be able to tap into a good chunk more graphics power...

Vodafone PC Backup announced

Vodafone has announced it has teamed up with Decho to develop a range of cloud-based services for both consumers and business customers.

Vodafone PC Backup, based on Decho's Mozy online backup service, will let customers "simply and securely" back up both work-related...

nivioCompanion launches

Nivio has announced the launch of its nivioCompanion computing device in the UK, with pre-orders now being taken for its late July launch.

Describing the device as "cute", the device is a consumer-aimed thin client solution - a Window-based online desktop where...

Microsoft opens up My Phone beta to all

Microsoft's My Phone cloud sync service, which Pocket-lint brought you news of earlier in the year, has entered a public beta testing period. Anyone can now sign up for the service.

That means that if you've got a Windows Mobile handset, then your contacts,...

icloud "world's first free online computer" launches

icloud, "the world's first free online computer", has launched worldwide, a move that Swedish company Xcerion says takes cloud computing "to the next level".

After what's said to be 8 years of development, icloud is angled as the online PC for everyone without...

Microsoft's SkyBox service site live as "My Phone"

It seems as if the site that will host Microsoft's cloud computing phone-related services - due to be revealed at this month's Mobile World Congress event - has gone live a little early.

Live at getskybox.com (that apparently currently has an invalid security...

Official Google GDrive reference spotted

That Google is to launch its "GDrive", a sort of online hard drive, has been talked up since 2006, with rumours of an imminent launch once again gathering pace around the Internet.

As well as broadsheets getting hold of the story and predicting the "death"...

Google starts reseller program for Apps

Google has announced a program that will see technology solution providers selling its cloud-based Google Apps to businesses around the world.

In direct competition to Microsoft's Office, authorised resellers will be able to sell, customise and support Google...

Apple launches iWork into the cloud

As was reported was likely to happen, Apple has launched some of its software into the cloud.

At the Apple keynote at Macworld Expo 2009 in San Francisco Philip W. Schiller senior vice president of worldwide product marketing for Apple has announced that iWork.com...

Apple to launch iMovie and iWork into the cloud?

Pre-Macworld rumours suggest that Apple is about to take some of its popular software suites into the cloud. The rumours see iMovie, Apple's video editing software, and iWork, its productivity software, going online.

"Reliable sources" of Apple Ink's Seth Weintraub...

Developers get pre-beta Windows 7

At its Professional Developers Conference 2008, Microsoft has shared the first full public demo of Windows 7. Microsoft says Windows 7 "extends developers' investments in Windows Vista" as well as encouraging the creation of new applications and services for the Windows...

Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform announced

Microsoft has announced the Azure Services Platform at the ongoing Professional Developers Conference 2008.

Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing framework that will eventually be offered alongside Windows 7.

The Azure Services Platform is said...

Windows Cloud to launch in 4 weeks

Microsoft is about to launch an entirely new operating system - for cloud computing.

As revealed by company’s chief executive Steve Ballmer, speaking at an event in London, the CEO is reported to have said that Microsoft would announce "Windows Cloud" within...

Microsoft Live Office Workspace hits a million

Microsoft has announced that 6 months after release, the beta of Microsoft Office Live Workspace has reached the one-million-customer sign-up milestone.

Office Live Workspace beta is the free, web-based extension of Microsoft Office that lets people access their...

Megawhat News - iPhone nano rumours ... yes really

Want to know the latest news but don't have time to read the stories we've written?

Well why not take a peek at the top stories on video.

In the headlines: Daily Mail publishes iPhone Nano rumours; Sony brings out a phone fit for a spy; more whisperings...