Google has recently made its biggest investment acquisition when it finally decided to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion dollars. Motorola Mobility being the leading supporter of Google’s Android mobile phone OS made smartphones and tablets PCs run on the software, which they called the Xoom. The recent acquisition will give Google an upper hand…
Sprint is looking to offer “hosted collaborating services” to SMBs as a move to get into the cloud services market and ultimately help the company grow. The company plans to use its own data center to provide services. Sprint is following the footsteps of other telecom companies like Verizon, who back in January picked up…
HTC, a Taiwanese handset manufacturer, acquired Dashwire for $18.5 million to beef up its cloud-based services that lets users synchronize their photos, contacts and videos online. Dashwire is a mobile cloud platform based in Seattle and backed by Trilogy Equity Partners and Best Buy Capital. The company was founded in 2006 to develop cloud-based services…
Last week’s highlight at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas included Qualys security upgrade on its cloud platform. Phillipe Courtot, chief executive was very proud to announce that the cloud-based security has been contributing $65 million dollars of revenues each year. One of their newest product offering includes QualysGuard consulting edition, whose features…
Apple and Google’s operating system are seen by mobile developers to command the lead for cloud computing technology, social networking and the mobile enterprise IT. This does not mean though that Microsoft is totally out of the picture. A recent survey conducted by a cross-platform development toolmaker Appcelerator and research firm IDC revealed that developers…
Huawei Device Co Ltd announced on Wednesday the launch of its first mobile phone which offers a cloud-based service. Other Chinese companies have made the move in the past to apply cloud computing technology in smartphones including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Baidu Inc. The 3.7 inch touch screen mobile phone is called “Vision” and…
Telephone and cable companies are very interested cloud services and are willing to invest huge amounts of money from acquisitions to partnerships just to get into the cloud market. Telephone companies will find it easy to fit into the cloud technology, according to Verizon, because they already have their own network in place and just…
The new technology trend next year will be about strong connections between various electronic gadgets, PC’s and post-PC devices. It will be about the cloud dominion using shared interfaces, wireless communications, cloud-based database storage, which will highlight connections without using cords. This is what Google mobile apps is all about with the launch of OS…
CloudTimes is happy to announce that we closed a media partnership for the Mobilize 2011 conference, on September 26 & 27 in San Francisco, CA. This comes is in continuation to the successful partnership for GigaOM’s Structure event in June 2011 which we covered closely. Mobilize 2011 is GigaOM’s premier event for mobile innovation. Now…
According to Larry Page, CEO of Google, Google+ already has 10 million users who are sharing 1 billion items every day, and Google’s +1 button (the Google version of News Feed) is being hit 2.3 billion times per day. Larry Page was speaking to analysts today during Google’s second-quarter earnings conference call. He also said that every…