by Ron Miller

Google Buys Bebop And Names Diane Greene To Lead Enterprise Cloud Effort

Yesterday afternoon Google made a move to sure up its enterprise cloud effort, buying stealth startup bebop and naming its founder (former VMware CEO) Diane Greene to head enterprise cloud. http://tcrn.ch/1X2mpg5

Google Chromebook quietly takes aim at the enterprise

When Google introduced Chromebook for Work recently, it very likely made the Chromebook even more attractive to frugal enterprises. While the price tag has always been a draw, having administrative control should appeal to IT and could facilitate more Chromebook use in the enterprise in the future. http://bit.ly/1rpyHJC

 

We need a new operating system for the hybrid cloud era

We have big operating systems created for the desktop era and we have Google Chrome OS, an OS made for the cloud era, but what we lack is something in the middle that takes into account the way people work today across both environments.  http://bit.ly/1BYkfBb

The $300 Acer Touchscreen Chromebook had me at Hello

I've tried a number of Chromebooks. The $249 Samsung was too clunky and had a lousy keyboard and trackpad. The $280 HP Chromebook 11 was pretty, but too slow. The $1500 Pixel was gorgeous, but way too expensive. But the $300 Acer c720p touchscreen chromebook? It was just right.  http://bit.ly/1g16XVY

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IDC: China smartphone growth slows for the first time in over 2 years

IDC reported that smartphone shipments to the Asia/Pacific region dropped last quarter for the first time in over two years, proving that no market has unlimited growth, even China. But as the Asian markets evolve it could complicate matters for manufacturers looking for growth opportunities, and this could be especially difficult for Apple. http://bit.ly/1fdf2e3

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Chromebook plus VMware could equal big cloud win

Last week Google and VMware made a deal to run Windows software in a Desktop as a Service scenario on Google Chromebooks, a move which could make the devices more palatable to cloud-averse IT executives. http://bit.ly/1gwkQQ6

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Android can't escape Pandora's Box of openness

Google made Android open source so it would grow quickly, but it has to live with the real possibility that as open source software, they might not be able to control it forever. http://bit.ly/1dFhBRe

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Apple, Google, Microsoft and the struggle to remain on top

Apple, Google and Microsoft have been struggling for dominance for years, but they have reached the point where everyone wants a piece of their action. While they aren't imminent danger of losing their position, they have a lot of upstarts nipping at their heels. As Cold Play, once sang, "Revolutionaries wait for their heads on a silver plate." http://bit.ly/1b1wtii

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A Google ethics commission is like jumbo shrimp

Google has reportedly vowed to form an ethics commission to help monitor artificial intelligence research after its purchase of Deep Mind. Forgive me for laughing, but a Google ethics commission is like jump shrimp. Which of these things is not like the other? http://bit.ly/1imLUkV

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Gmail outage was much ado about nothing

Twitter blew up  on Friday afternoon when Gmail, Google + and Google Calendar went down briefly, but it turned out to be just a temporary glitch and it was back up and running in about a half hour or so. Ultimately, while cloud outages are very public, for the most part cloud services have 5 nines up time and have proven to be highly reliable. http://bit.ly/1n8ocfe

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