Why we hate -- and need -- cloud computing

The industry's chieftans express disenchantment with 'the cloud,' but the services keep coming

MS Office battles growing threat from Google in the cloud

Office 2010 will be released into a far different competitive landscape than Office 2007 faced

Google to apply Postini policy technology across Google Apps

No timetable announced, but goal is to bolster business confidence in use of Google's online apps suite

IBM announces new beta services for cloud software development

Big Blue is prepping pay-as-you-go infrastructure as well as full-lifecycle services for private clouds, though there isn't significant demand for could-based app dev yet

Facebook, MySpace coding errors compromised users' data

Both sites have fixed the flaw, which let subdomains be vectors for data theft

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How to kill the cloud: Claim it's about job loss

Blog by David Linthicum

Unisys' bragging that a cloud project eliminated U.S. jobs does a huge disservice -- especially because cloud computing is not about job elimination

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