Thursday, July 19, 2012
This week the news that hits the ears of many Motorola Fans is that Google has owned their company. Now what we can think of is at least better mobile phones buy Motorola. Google buys the Motorola for $12.5bn (£7.9bn).
The deal helps Larry Page, the Google co-founder who took over as chief executive officer last year, push the web company to better compete with Apple’s iPhone and gain more clout for its Android software as it expands in the hardware business.
It also gives Google, the worlds’ biggest maker of smartphone software, a trove of 17,000 patents to protect Android devices in legal disputes with competitors.
The acquisition, announced last year, had already received approvals in Europe, the US and other jurisdictions worldwide.Motorola Mobility had said in a regulatory filing in February that only Chinese clearance was still required.
“Our stance since we agreed to acquire Motorola has not changed and we look forward to closing the deal,” Google said. The company also confirmed it had received word from Chinese authorities of the purchase being approved.
With the acquisition – the largest wireless-equipment deal in at least a decade, according to data compiled by Bloomberg – Google becomes a competitor to the other handset makers that make Android devices. In addition to Motorola Mobility phones, the software is used in handsets made by companies such as Samsung and HTC.
As part of the approval, Google needs to ensure that Android software versions are free and open over the next five years, China’s Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website.
Google will report to an independent monitor in China on its efforts to comply with terms of the deal approval, according to the website.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Tagging photos on Facebook may get easier now that the social networking company has purchased facial recognition company Face.com.
According to TechCrunch, Facebook is paying between $55 million and $60 million, in a mix of cash and stock, for the like-named startup. (The acquisition price was originally thought to be $100 million.) The acquisition lines up nicely--if not quite as expensively--with Facebook's $1 billion purchase of mobile photo-sharing app Instagram, as well as with its announcement of the Facebook Camera app.
Face.com's facial recognition technology can identify faces even when conditions are poor, such as when lighting is low. Using the company's REST-based API, developers can build apps based on the technology.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has confirmed that it bought a San Francisco startup that helps merchants court shoppers with rewards for checking in with smartphones during visits.
Facebook's acquisition of Tagtile for an undisclosed sum came on the heels of a billion-dollar deal to acquire the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram.
"We're happy to confirm that Tagtile's founders are joining Facebook, and that Facebook is acquiring substantially all of the company's assets," the world's leading social network said in reply to an AFP inquiry. "We've admired the engineering team's efforts for some time now."
Tagtile was created by former VMware engineer Abheek Anand and one-time Google engineer Soham Mazumdar. The entrepreneurs created a system that lets customers use iPhones or Android-powered smartphones to check in at shops and get rewarded with discounts, coupons or loyalty points.
To check in, customers need only to tap smartphones on small white cubes that swap information with handsets using sensors. "We started Tagtile with a simple goal, to help local business owners build better relationships with their best customers," the founders said in a post at the company's website.
"We are happy to announce that we are joining Facebook," they continued. "It is an opportunity for us to take our goal and do it on a much bigger scale than we could have on our own."
Facebook has been building its mobile services and capabilities as lifestyles increasingly revolved around smartphones and tablet computers. More than 10 million Instagram applications tuned to Apple or Android-powered gadgets have been downloaded since the acquisition by Facebook was announced on Monday, raising the total number of users to about 40 million.
Facebook in February filed for a stock offering and could raise as much as $10 billion in the largest flotation ever by an Internet company on Wall Street. Facebook, the leading social network in all but six countries, notably China and Russia, claims more than 845 million users. Facebook's value has been estimated at between $75 billion and $100 billion.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
You know what’s cool? Buying Instagram for a billion dollars.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today, via Facebook of course, that the social networking giant is purchasing Instagram, the very popular photo sharing company. According to a press release put out by Facebook, it paid $1 billion for the company.
“For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. “Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile photos with people based on your interests.”
While Facebook is expected to integrate Instagram more closely with its web and app offerings, Zuckerberg also says that it will build and grow the Instagram app independently. “Millions of people around the world love the Instagram app and the brand associated with it, and our goal is to help spread this app and brand to even more people.”
Instagram, which was released for Android smartphones just last week, allows users to apply filters to images and then share them with others on the network and other social networks, including Twitter. Facebook stressed that it wouldn’t remove the feature that allows for sharing across other social networks. Instagram currently has only nine employees.
The acquisition is the Facebook’s biggest yet, but Zuckerberg says these types of deals won’t be frequent. “We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all,” he added.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
About two decades ago, if any one would have mentioned the term “cloud computing” people would have considered it Greek or Latin. But today almost all businesses irrespective of the size are relying on it for getting reliable tools to help them grow and expand in a sustainable manner. Of all the providers out there in the market, Google Cloud Computing is considered the best not for one but many reasons. The primary reason for people’s preference of Google’s applications is the fact that many of them have been integrated together in a very seamless and flawless manner making things really easy for getting the job done.
For instance, Gmail, Google Docs, AdWords, Maps, Picassa all can be accessed easily using one email id. This makes the entire operation easier and also highly affordable. If one had to get some software coded to meet all these purposes, it would have cost millions of dollars. Moreover, the time spent on developing the same and maintaining it would also be substantial. Let us now take a detailed look at what all services Google Cloud Computing has on offer.
Google Mail (Gmail) – The most commonly used service of Google. Though it does not come directly under the purview of cloud computing, one needs to have a Gmail account in order to use the other services. Gmail was one of the first mail servers to have an integrated chat applet. This applet was even able to store conversations automatically in the form of an email.
Google Docs – In simple words Google Docs is Microsoft Office online. You can create all the documents such as work sheets, documents and even presentations online and store them on Google’s server. Moreover, since the files are store on a remote server you can virtually access them from any place in the world that has an internet connection which makes them very handy. At the same time you do not need to worry about the security of the files as they are encrypted with advance technology and only people whom you permit can access them.
Google Analytics – using Google’s Analytics tool you can monitor the entire traffic come on to your website with data being updated hourly. This way you make decisions after being well informed about the situation and modify or update your sites accordingly.
Google AdWords and AdSense – Once you have got to know your target audience, you can use these revolutionary advertising tools to get the most value for every cent you spend on advertising. With AdWords, your message is sure to reach the precise target you intend to communicate with and thus get good returns. The best part is that data from any of Google’s other cloud computing applications can be integrated with each other and you will not have to rephrase the same.
Picasa – This is one of the best and most interactive applications in the Google Cloud Computing bouquet. For those who intend to sell physical products online, Picasa is a great way of uploading photographs and images of your products and exhibit them to clients. This application again can be integrated with your site.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
HYDERABAD: Cloud computing will generate some 14 million new jobs worldwide by 2015, and India alone will create over 2 million, predicts a study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC).
Pointing out to a strong linkage between cloud, innovation and entrepreneurship, the study said most companies look at migration to cloud computing as a way to free up existing resources and work on more innovative projects. Freeing up budget allows organisations to shift some of their legacy work to the cloud and invest such freed budget in IT innovation that supports business innovation and in turn create new jobs.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Top cloud computing companies list.
Amazon - Amazon Web Services (IaaS)
The cloud computing company of Amazon.com : Amazon Web Service(AWS) provide Infrastructure-as-a-service(IaaS) offerings in the cloud for organizations requiring computing power,storage, and other services.
- Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2)
EC2 is a web service that allow resizable compute capacity in the cloud.The customers can create virtual machines (VMs)-that is ,server instances called Amazon Machine Image (AMI)- on which the customer can load any softaware of his choice.They follow pay-by-the hour system.
- Simple Storage Service(S3)
S3 provide a web service interface that can be used to store and retrived unlimited amounts of dat, at any time, from anywhere thru the Internet.
Google Cloud Computing Unit : App Engine
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Google (SaaS,PaaS)
Google App Engine is Google's platform-as-a-service(Paas) offers building and hosting web applications on the Google Infrastructure.Currently Python and Java are the supported programming languages.App Engine is free up to a certain level of resource used.Fee is charged for additional storage, bandwidth, or CPU cycles required by the application.
Software-as-a-servive (SaaS) offers business email and collaboration.Its similar to the traditional office suits, includin Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites.
Microsoft Azure Service Platform(PaaS)
Azure Service Platform is Microsoft's PaaS offering an operating system called Windows Azure that serves as a runtime for the applications and provides a set of services such as:
.NET Services, SQL Services, Live Services
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Rackspace (Cloud Hosting)
Is one of the premier cloud computing companies that leads cloud hosting. They serve over 10000 companies and many of the Fortune 100 companies come under this huge list. Their unique customer service strategy named - Fanatic support have helped them in gaining the trust of their clients. With the huge client commitment and state-of- the art technology. Rackspace is one good cloud computing company to invest in.
Proofpoint (SaaS,IaaS)
Proofpoint provides SaaS and IaaS services in the cloud related to securing the enterprise email infrastruture, with solutions .Proofpoint's solutions are priced on a per-user, per-year basis,depending on the product features.
RightScale(IaaS)
RightScale provides IaaS-Related services in the cloud to assist organizations in managing cloud deployments offered by other CSPs, including vendors such as AWS,FlexiScale, and GoGrid.The Rightscale Cloud Management Platform allows organizations to manage and maintain their cloud deployment through one web-based management platform.
Salesforce.com(SaaS,PaaS)
Salesforce is a provider of SaaS-based products, as well as having a PaaS offering, Force.com.
Sun Open Cloud Platform
According to Sun, the Open Cloud Platform is an open architecture and infrastructure encompassing technologies such as Java, MySQL,OpenSolaris, and Open Storage software.
Workday (SaaS)
Workday is a provider of SaaS-based hum resources and financial management products.Workday pricing is on a per-user basis and functionality.Workday's solutions are divided into serveral modules like Human Capital Management, Payroll, Worker Spend Management, Financial Management et cetra.In the collection of such companies the ones which provide Cloud Compuing in IaaS cloud are the most On-demand in the market today!
SaaS – Software As A Service
Essentially based on the concept of renting application functionality from a service provider rather than buying, installing and running software yourself. Offerings within this range from services such as Salesforce.com at one end, delivering the equivalent of a complete application suite, to players like MessageLabs at the other, whose services are designed to complement your operational infrastructure.
PaaS – Platform As A Service
Platform as a service (PaaS), which is all about providing, a platform in the cloud, upon which applications can be developed and executed. Players like Google, again Salesforce.com (this time with Force.com), and Microsoft (with Azure) exist in this space. Facilities provided include things like database management, security, workflow management, application serving, and so on.
IaaS – Infrastructure As A Service
Infrastructure as a service (IaaS). The proposition here is the offering of compute power and storage space on demand.The difference between this and the other two categories of cloud is that the software that executes is essentially yours. In practical terms, the model is based on the same principles of virtualisation that we are all familiar with in the context of server partitioning or flexible storage. Rather than running a virtual image on a partition existing on a physical server in your data centre, you spin it up on a virtual machine that you have created in the cloud. Virtual disks can be created in a similar manner, to deal with the storage side of things.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet).
Cloud computing provides computation, software applications, data access,data management and storage resources without requiring cloud users to know the location and other details of the computing infrastructure.
End users access cloud based applications through aweb browser or a light weight desktop or mobile app while the business software and data are stored on servers at a remote location. Cloud application providers strive to give the same or better service and performance than if the software programs were installed locally on end-user computers.
At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of infrastructure convergence (or Converged Infrastructure) and shared services. This type of data centre environment allows enterprises to get their applications up and running faster, with easier manageability and less maintenance, and enables IT to more rapidly adjust IT resources (such as servers, storage, and networking) to meet fluctuating and unpredictable business demand.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Android is a mobile operating system, owned by Google.
Android Inc. was the startup company that developed the initial Android OS. Google acquired the company in July 2005, and many of the original Android Inc. founders work for Google today, including Andy Rubin and Rich Miner.
The Android OS can be used as an operating system for tablets, netbooks, and cellular phones. Televisions are now being constructed with Android's OS as well.
Google's flagship smartphones running Android are the Nexus One (manufactured by HTC) and the Nexus S (manufactured by Samsung)
