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HP’s Cloud Strategy and WebOS

March 28, 2011 By 1 Comment
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It’s becoming increasingly clear that with last year’s purchase of smartphone maker Palm and its WebOS, HP is going to develop its own cloud offering. HP CEO Leo Apotheker announced this week that HP wants to provide the platform of choice for cloud services and connectivity and that HP will launch a public cloud offering in the near future. Apotheker also says everything HP will do in the future will be delivered as a service. HP also intends to install WebOS on a variety of devices, … [Read more...]

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The Growth of Cloud-Based Music Streaming

March 21, 2011 By 2 Comments
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Cloud computing is gradually revolutionizing the music industry and the way digital music is being consumed. Instead of buying and downloading (digital download) songs over the internet, consumers are accessing to them via the cloud in the form of on-demand streaming services. This also brings  new services that helps users to create playlists and receive recommendations for songs and bands according to their music interests. Cloud-based music services Due to its enormous penetration and … [Read more...]

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Mobile Cloud Computing Changes App Development

March 14, 2011 By 2 Comments
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With the advent of mobile cloud computing, increasing effort has been put into developing platforms that simplify the development of cloud-based mobile applications. Creating apps for the mobile cloud is significantly different than developing apps for a native smartphone platform like the iPhone or Android. But over the long run, the mobile cloud computing model may prove more profitable for app developers, and open the field to a larger number of developers. Current mobile development … [Read more...]

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Storage and backup in the mobile cloud

March 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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When it comes to working with data and files on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, one of the most crucial issues concerns data storage – where and how the data is going to be stored, accessed, updated and backed up. Cloud storage assumes storing data in the cloud and making it accessible irrelevant of location and, sometimes, irrespective of terminal type. In a mobile cloud computing scenario, both mobile apps and data are stored and run directly from the cloud, increasing the … [Read more...]

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