Soon your smartphone will be able to connect seamlessly to your mobile operator’s Wi-Fi hotspots. But what about hotspots that your carrier doesn’t manage? It turns out the world of Wi-Fi… Read more »
T-Mobile USA is asking the Federal Communications Commission to require that all LTE devices in the 700 MHz band be interoperable, a requirement that would benefit a bunch of small operators… Read more »
Developers concerned about confining their apps to a single cloud need worry no more. If they’re willing to utilize Cloud Foundry, the open-source PaaS project, developers can now run apps that… Read more »
The dream of open cloud computing took a couple of small steps forward in the past 24 hours with Apache promoting the Libcloud project to top-level status and with Microsoft releasing… Read more »
TechAmerica’s Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD2) officially kicked off its three-month mission today to advise the Obama administration on cloud computing best practices, and… Read more »
Intel’s new push toward cloud interoperability has the makings of a big deal, but there’s more to pulling this off than meets the eye. I point out a couple of key… Read more »
Intel is targeting cloud interoperability via a trio of new initiatives designed to make the cloud more open, interoperable and intelligent. Taken as a whole, Intel’s vision has much potential, but… Read more »
I was happy to read about the API-based public-media content platform this morning, not only because I think it could mean great things for the future of journalism, but also because… Read more »
Lock-in. The scourge of cloud computing. While issues like security and reliability supposedly are improving, concern over lock-in never goes away. Although there are projects, organizations and even vendors trying to… Read more »
While most of the technology world was watching Steve Jobs launch the iPad, some (unfortunate) others were listening to Oracle executives lay out the roadmap for the newly approved Oracle-Sun Microsystems… Read more »