Google and Apple, being regarded as ‘The World’s Most Innovative Companies of the World’ by Forbes, keep the momentum in place with their continuous innovations and inventions. While Google Glass finding a place in ‘Best Inventions of the Year 2012’ by TIME magazine and Apple iWatch being the most anticipated yet-to-be released smartwatch, they are marching towards the next generation computing. This article unfolds the unpredictability of who wins the game and be the next generation computing.
With so many recent innovations and technological advancements you might wonder whether you can keep track of your expenses and claim your expenses with cloud technology. Yes it is possible! ExpenseMagic is a phone App and a cloud based service available as an App for iOS devices and soon coming out on Android and BlackBerry by January 2012.
Damian Schmidt, CEO of Strato commented, “Users of cloud storage want to open and manipulate their files from anywhere, like they do with their PC at home. The new File Manager in HiDrive makes it possible to access data conveniently no matter what device is used and from any location. The design and functionality is adapted to other standard file managers, so it is highly intuitive and easy to use”.
Dolphin web browser has released its new version Dolphin 7.0 for Android phones that takes you to the cloud with Dolphin Connect. The previous version Dolphin 6.0 had the features such as Speed Dial, Webzine and Gestures. Dolphin 7.0 now lets you sync your browsing preferences, bookmarks and gestures across all Android devices and yet to be ready for iOS. Dolphin 7.0 stands out of the other mobile cloud browsers like Opera Mini and Amazon Silk especially for its Sync functionality.
Zhang Cheng, Senior Manager of Information Systems at Baidu states, “The Cisco Nexus 7000 and the next generation F2-series line-rate 10GE I/O modules and Fabric2 modules offer unmatched high performance, high density and low power draw, ensuring Baidu can continue to scale and serve our rapidly growing customer base”……
Microsoft although dominated the IT world, now struggles to compete with the cloud computing giants such as Google, Amazon, Rackspace and VMWare as it proves to provide interrupted services from Hotmail to the recently released cloud service SkyDrive and it makes us think twice before moving to Microsoft Cloud. In Cloud computing, any provider may experience outage anytime but it matters how they recover and build their future systems with minimal outages. This article focuses on the Microsoft’s cloud outages and how they were dealt and recovered.
The much awaited Amazon’s Kindle Fire featuring Amazon Silk Cloud Accelerated Browser, an Android based 7 inch tablet is set to be released in November this year for a price of $199 and Amazon proves to be the benchmark in cloud computing with its continuous innovations. Amazon Silk is just a browser built in on Amazon Tablet but that dominates the other features on the tablet since it works along with Amazon EC2 to give you the best possible cloud experience ever which seems to be a big leap in the history of cloud computing with Amazon’s eight years of cloud experience.
TonidoPlug2 a Cloud-In-A-Plug device going to be released in the series of Tonidoplug by CodeLathe, a private software startup based in Dallas, TX. With a TonidoPlug connected to your hard drive and internet, you can access your files, photos, music and media like you do with other cloud gadgets like ‘Pogoplug’ but in addition you can access your applications too. SkyDrive or Dropbox may give you storage but only up to a limit for free. TonidoPlug could be a good option to run your home-based server with an investment of just $99……For More…Please go to http://www.cloudpropel.com/tonidoplug_personal_cloud.html
