Rackspace launches NoMoreServers.com
Rackspace is one of the most well known name in the hosting business.
The company has launched a new online initiative named NoMoreServers.com to showcase the emerging Computing-as-a-Service model.
Incidentally, they had launched a similar campaign named No Software a few years ago to showcase their Software as a Service platform.
Cloud computing [...]
IBM LotusLive iNotes takes on Google with a basic email service for companies
IBM has announced their hosted email service IBM LotusLive iNotes that would cost companies around $36 annually per worker.
The main rival in this segment of the market is Google which offers the premier version of Google Apps for $50 per year per [...]
Force.com Free Edition announced
Salesforce.com has now made available a free edition of their Force.com cloud computing platform.
This free service is limited in features but still offers decent functionality for anyone who wants to check out the capabilities of this platform.
The company said that the free edition would allow potential customers to develop one custom application [...]
Acrobat.com takes on Google Docs and Microsoft Office!
Adobe has launched the stable edition of their Acrobat.com web based service.
Acrobat.com has been designed to provide a web based alternative to Microsoft Office.
In a way, it competes with Google Docs and other similar web based services.
Acrobat.com already has a word processor and presentation engine. The company [...]
Norton Online Backup on Hewlett Packard products
Hewlett Packard has announced that they would soon start bundling Norton Online Backup with their desktops and notebooks.
This program would start in September this year.
Customers would get a 30 day trial to Symantec’s online backup solution.
The 30 day trial would feature 5GB of online storage.
HP [...]
Opera Software would reinvent the web on June 16?
Opera Software company is known for their Opera Browser products.
Opera Browser is available on almost every platform out there including Windows, Mac, Linux, Mobile devices, Nintendo Wii and others.
The company has now posted a new claim on their website… and they are claiming that after 15 years [...]
Google Docs now support MS Office 2007 file formats
Google has announced that they have now added support for some new formats.
They have added support for .docx and .xlsx file formats which were introduced with MS Office 2007.
This means that Google Docs users can now import files made in MS Word 2007 and MS Excel 2007. [...]
Beta label might disappear from some Google services
Google is often blamed for misusing the concept of Beta services and products.
The company launches almost all of their products and services in beta. And a couple of them have remained beta even after several years of launch.
Google Gmail is one of the biggest victims of this [...]
AT&T set to launch cloud computing services
US based telecom giant AT&T has announced that they are going to offer cloud based services similar to other players in the market like IBM, Amazon, Symantec and Iron Mountain.
They would be using products and services supplied by EMC for this launch.
AT&T said that the service would initially be [...]
EDS to help Microsoft sell their hosted services
Microsoft has announced that they are all set to launch their hosted services in 18 new countries.
EDS is one of their partners to help sell these services in the international markets.
Microsoft’s range of hosted services was available only in the US market till now. They are [...]
