Posts Categorized: Cloud Computing

When the Assembly Line Moves Online

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Description: DO one assigned task on your computer. It shouldn’t take you more than two seconds. Repeat 14,399 times. Congratulations! Your eight-hour work day is complete. Source: NYT.com Date: Oct. 30, 2010 No such workplace yet exists, but with the fiendishly clever creation of standardized two-second tasks, delivered to any computer connected to the Internet,… Read more »

Software-as-a-service fills market niche

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Description: Not all businesses flock to cloud computing, though. What its proponents tout as its main benefit – applications and data on the internet – its critics impugn as a potential weakness Source: CBC News Date: Oct 26, 2010 Cloud computing explained | silicon.com Cash-strapped startups and small companies like cloud computing for various reasons…. Read more »

Is user data safe in the cloud?

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Description: Thousands of websites and millions of pieces of private data are increasingly in one big cloud, where some of the old rules of data security are out the window. Source: Fortune Date: Sept 24, 2010 With the rise of cloud computing companies, and the ferocity with which tech’s biggest companies are snatching those firms up, it’s… Read more »

Google admits to accidentally collecting e-mails, URLs, passwords

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Description: Thousands of websites and millions of pieces of private data are increasingly in one big cloud, where some of the old rules of data security are out the window. Source: CNN.Tech Date: Oct 23, 2010 Google admitted in a blog post Friday that external regulators have discovered that e-mails, URLs and passwords were collected and stored… Read more »

Report: Facebook apps sharing user info

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Description: A Facebook representative said in a statement was taking steps to “dramatically limit” exposure of users’ personal information to companies. Source: Cnn.com Tech Date: Oct 18, 2010 Many of Facebook’s most popular apps are sharing personally identifiable information of their users with dozens of advertising and Internet-tracking companies, in violation of the social-networking giant’s… Read more »

Over 10 Million Students Now Use Google Apps for Education

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Description: Google just announced, there are over 10 million students, staff, faculty and alumni that are actively using Apps for Education. Source: The New York Times – Technology Date: 10/14/2010 Just about four years ago, Google launched Apps for Education – a version of Google’s online productivity tools (including Gmail and Google Docs) that is geared… Read more »