cloud

Four Yahoo Board Members to Depart, Two New Ones Arrive and Three More on the Way (Like I Said)

Kara Swisher in News on February 7 at 12:38 pm PT

Yahoo moves chairs around the deck some more.

Samsung Smart TVs Get Sweeter With SugarSync

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 20 at 7:05 am PT

Turns out cloud service SugarSync is behind some of those Samsung “smart” TVs — which means users aren’t limited to sharing only from other Samsung devices.

Who Says Intel Is Weak? Just Look at Those Crazy Numbers!

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 19 at 6:00 pm PT

Think Intel is a has-been? The numbers tell a different story: It is at the height of its powers.

Weather Prediction for 2012: Cloudy, With a Chance of Serious Growth

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 17 at 5:15 am PT

WIth every other bit of IT spending predicted to shrink this year, the market for cloud servers is going through a growth spurt.

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Symantec Buys LiveOffice for $115 Million

Kara Swisher in Enterprise on January 16 at 12:19 pm PT

Symantec said it had acquired LiveOffice, a privately-held cloud-based archiving company, for about $115 million. The security software company said the “acquisition will extend Symantec’s intelligent information governance offering to the cloud, providing customers choice between on-premise, cloud or hybrid delivery of Symantec solutions.” (Yes, the company actually said that.)

Working in Word, Excel, PowerPoint on an iPad

Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on January 11 at 6:04 pm PT

Walt reviews an app that brings the full, genuine Windows versions of the key Office productivity apps — Word, Excel and PowerPoint — to the iPad.

Acer Introduces “World’s Thinnest” Ultrabook and a “Me-Too” Cloud Service

Lauren Goode in News on January 8 at 3:37 pm PT

Acer showed off “the world’s thinnest ultrabook” at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today, as well as a suite of cloud services that looked … familiar.

Microsoft: The $71 Billion Cloud Underdog

Nick Mehta, CEO, LiveOffice in Voices on December 20, 2011 at 12:31 pm PT

If I say “cloud computing,” what companies come to mind? Amazon’s Web Services? Google’s cloud-based collaboration tools, Google Apps? How about Microsoft?