When RIM had a three-day outage earlier this month, it was embarrassing and damaged the company's reputation, but I'm sure one outcome it never expected was a lawsuit.
Nokia introduced its new Windows Phone 7 phones this week at Nokia World, and while the phones certainly looked nice enough, Nokia faces a tough battle with iOS and Android for market share.
The fact is no matter what Nokia came up with, it was going to be a struggle to gain market share in a maturing market with clear consumer preferences.
As businesses are forced to process more and more data, it's becoming more of a curse than a blessing, and that's why finding ways to make sense of that data is becoming big business.
When the UNC Blackboard site went down last week, it turned out to be a traffic spike on an unrelated site and a load balancer was at the root of the problem.
While it's all well and good for companies to cover their legal behinds with strict retention policies, there may be an unanticipated loss of the historical record every time you destroy a file.
When the federal government launched an updated version of the USAJobs.gov web site recently, it was hampered by performance issues and problems with the search engine, issues that should have been picked up in pre-launch performance testing.
Did you think that Facebook email you deleted was actually deleted forever? Think again. Turns out Facebook is hanging onto everything you've ever touched forever.
Scott Noteboom, the man who helped build Yahoo!'s cloud infrastructure recently left the company and joined Apple just in time to help build up iCloud, and he could be quite a find for Apple.
Cloud computing offers many advantages to organizations, but the folks in charge of maintaining company records and making sure your company is complying with all applicable laws may need to loosen their traditional ideas of control or risk negating the advantages of the cloud.