Today, Google announced Android Things, a new platform designed to power the connected devices in your life. Here’s what it all means. What is Android Things? Android Things is a platform and an operating system. Developers will ...
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Apple is reportedly the latest company to ditch Amazon and adopt Google for its cloud computing needs. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure are the two biggest cloud computing platforms in the world, and are where the vast majority ...
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After running the service in preview mode for over a year, Google is making its IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) Google Compute Engine (GCE) available as a full-fledged commercial service. The company has established a service level ...
Microsoft has announced that it will introduce message encryption for its cloud-based Office 365 service in early 2014. Dubbed Office 365 Message Encryption, the system will automatically encrypt email to anyone outside a company ...
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To encourage developers to create more mobile applications to run from its cloud services, Google is offering two new or updated frameworks to run the back-end infrastructure of mobile apps. This could free developers to concentrate on ...
Patent enables virtual images to be super-imposed over real-world view Google has acquired patents for wearable technology from Apple's primary assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn), for anticipated use in its interactive 'Google ...
Google's services, including its search service used by nine out of 10 people in the UK, went down for just five minutes over the weekend - but web activity plunged by 40 per cent as a result. The rare outage in Google's services, which ...
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Google has responded to complaints about its surreptitious snooping of users of Apple devices by claiming that it is not subject to UK privacy laws. The claim was made in a bid to get a lawsuit against the company, launched in the UK, ...
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Piers Linney, co-founder and CEO of cloud services and unified communications company Outsourcery, believes that it will take the cloud between five and 10 years to fully mature. In an interview with Computing, the entrepreneur, who has ...
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Google has bowed to concerns over unauthorised eavesdropping by announcing that it will start to automatically encrypt data stored in Google Cloud Storage. The company says that it will use 128-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) ...
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Enterprises that rely on cloud-based services are getting more options for falling back on another cloud if necessary. On Tuesday, Nasuni introduced a cloud-to-cloud mirroring option to give customers extra assurance that their data will ...
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Google is hoping to appease developers that want better portability for their hosted apps by working with Red Hat on running App Engine in private clouds. The Google Cloud Platform team has been working with Red Hat’s JBoss ...
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Google wants more developers to use its App Engine cloud service, and has launched Mobile Backend Starter to make it easier. Running servers on top of a hosted environment to power mobile apps can be a bit of a headache, according to ...
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Deploying an update of its DB2 database, IBM is pitching its SmartCloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for use in data reporting and analysis. "We're the only player in the marketplace that has [a cloud service] for data-in-motion -- ...
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Google’s Android OS has more than 900 million users, the company said Wednesday at its I/O event in San Francisco. Google also announced several APIs that will let developers add more capabilities to their Android apps, including in ...