The Wired Campus reports today that “Boston College Will Stop Offering New Students E-Mail Accounts.” All the incoming students may not have cloud-like email such as gmail, but that may be a major factor in this trend: Many students don’t even want a college e-mail address these days because they already have well-established digital identities

There is a growing trend, which you might have noticed (would be hard not to!), for companies to offer ‘cloud computing’ services – Google have been there for a while, Apple recently relaunched theirs, and Microsoft have now put their play out there too. And that is just the big three, as opposed to the

In a Yahoo!Tech report routed from InfoWorld, the question is pondered: Should enterprises reconsider the cloud? It turns out that the big enterprises are taking the lead in important ways: With support for three of the major pillars of application development and deployment — Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL, and open source MySQL — under its belt,

Found under: Windows Mobile, Cloud, , In case you didnt get the chance of being one of the closed-beta testers of Live Mesh then you must be happy to find out that the program is now available for all Windows Mobile handsets users. Live Mesh is will get you the Cloud closer to your Mac PC and mobile device. Live Mesh is a synchronization framework of Microsoft which is available for download. The ...

Reports from the::unwired indicates that Microsoft will release Live Mesh later this week. Live Mesh is similar to Apple's Mobile Me in that it moves various computing elements into the cloud and should complement Office Web nicely. Live Mesh will enable users to synchronize files between their PCs, Windows Mobile devices, and Macs, giving them access to a virtual drive. You can share and vie...

I read with interest Steve Ballmer's letter to staff on Techcrunch (the letter is near the end of the post).  Its a carefully crafted document.  It starts with the concept of "Software plus Services" - this is he wants to merge the cloud with the rich applications available on a PC (ie protecting its software base and its developers). This is the concept I blogged about a ...

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Ok folks, take a seat for this one. Steve Ballmer did indeed announce the Microsoft Cloud earlier this month in what we could refer to a sudden sparkle of sanity. No matter if you believed him or not the cloud OS is upon us. And the name seems quite pleasant! We shall refer to it

T-Mobile's G1 smart phone launches to great mobile and wireless fanfare today, marking the entrance of Google's Android mobile operating system. However, Enterprise Mobile CEO Mort Rosenthal points out that enterprises should exercise caution when considering the G1 or any mobile device where data from Web services lives in the cloud. Would you trust the G1 as your enterprise mobile comp...

BOSTON — Nuance Communications Inc. is pulling the cloud into the speech-recognition space, and appears to be in the advanced stages of rolling out new services based on the technology with top-tier carriers Verizon Wireless and T-Mobile USA Inc.