by Ron Miller

Google Tries Transparency with New Dashboard

The sheer amount of information that Google has on us across its properties can be daunting. The new Dashboard tool is a step toward letting us see what they have.

Read my analysis on DaniWeb .

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Can We Control Content in the Cloud?

Moving applications to the cloud is an attractive proposition for cash-strapped companies, but there are a host of data governance issues you need to think about before you do.

Read my Editor's Corner on FierceContentManagement.

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Ballmer Gets That Sidekick Issue a Matter of Trust

Even while pushing his new SharePoint cloud services, Steve Ballmer understands the recent Sidekick data loss incident isn't going away. But he's doing his level best to minimize it and its impact on Microsoft's cloud strategy.

Read the Full Story on DaniWeb.

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A Black Eye for Cloud Computing

While it's easy to dismiss the fears of cloud computing naysayers, it was a startling bad week for cloud computing as Microsoft lost data and Apple might have leaked some.

Full Story on DaniWeb.

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US Military Technology Paradox: Cutting Edge & Clueless

The US Military is by turns cutting edge and clueless. On one hand, they embrace cloud computing and social media tools, yet think it's worthwhile to upgrade from Windows XP/Office 2003 to Vista/Office 20007 when Windows 7 and Office 2010 are on the way. Like any large organization, they make good and bad decisions when it comes to technology.

Read more on my DaniWeb TechTreasures blog.

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The Third Cloud and the Future of Social Computing

 
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Picture a world where your social interactions don't require a conscious effort on your part to open an app, but one where the computing power is ubiquitous and device interaction happens effortlessly. That's a world that Andrew Lippman of the MIT Media Lab described last week at the Wednesday keynote at AIIM.

Read more in today's DaniWeb post.

Watch Out Microsoft: Google Aims for Desktop

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It appears that the Android OS has two distinct purposes, one for the mobile phone and one for the netbook. If Google moves Android to a netbook, it begins the move from being a pure cloud vendor to the desktop.

And Microsoft and Apple should be worried.

Read my post on DaniWeb TechTreasures to find out why.

The Cloud is the Next Step in Enterprise Computing

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In today's DaniWeb TechTreasures post I speak to CODA CEO Jeremy Roche about his company's foray into Cloud Computing. After some internal debate, CODA decided it wasn't worthwhile to build their own data center and built the cloud version of the CODA application on Force.com.

Find out why at DaniWeb TechTreasures.

Let's Not Trash Cloud Computing Over Gmail Outage

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When Gmail when went down over night, it gave some people an excuse to trash cloud computing in general, but let's be serious, just because it's in the cloud doesn't mean it's immune to the same problems any software faces.

Read my defense of Cloud Computing on DaniWeb.

Are SaaS & Cloud Computing Interchangeable Terms?

 

A couple of weeks ago Alfresco CTO John Newton posted a question on Twitter asking if SaaS and cloud computing were interchangeable terms. I had been using the terms interchangeably up until that point, but it got me thinking and I decided to do some research and find out.

Read about what I find on DaniWeb.

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