Microsoft tackles China piracy with free upgrade to Windows 10

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 09:33

Microsoft Corp is making its biggest push into the heavily pirated Chinese consumer computing market this summer by offering free upgrades to Windows 10 to all Windows users, regardless of whether they are running genuine copies of the software.

Google launches cloud service for ''cold data''

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 23:50

Google Inc introduced a cloud storage service for users to store "cold data" and access it much faster than traditional services.

Microsoft launches new cloud adoption programme for SMBs in India

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 19:32

Microsoft has rolled out a new cloud adoption programme for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in India, a company statement said here on Tuesday.

Alibaba opens US data centre in new challenge to Amazon

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 23:39

Chinese online giant Alibaba will open a data centre in Silicon Valley, it said Wednesday, challenging US rival Amazon in the field of cloud computing.

IBM targets $40 billion in cloud, other growth areas by 2018

Last Updated: Thursday, February 26, 2015, 21:52

International Business Machines Corp, which ruled computing in the age of the mainframe, is targeting $40 billion in annual revenue from the cloud, big data, security and other growth areas by 2018.

Alibaba takes $590 mn stake in China smartphone maker Meizu

Last Updated: Monday, February 9, 2015, 09:59

Last year, Meizu used an operating system developed by Alibaba`s cloud computing unit YunOS on its flagship smartphone.

RComm targets Rs 400 cr revenue from cloud space in 2 years

Last Updated: Friday, January 23, 2015, 20:20

Reliance Communications (RCOM) is looking at generating a revenue of Rs 400 crore from cloud- based and related services in the next couple of years, a senior company executive said Friday.

Amazon's cloud business a harder sell in post-Snowden era

Last Updated: Friday, December 19, 2014, 12:08

In cloud computing, clients store and process data on remote servers accessed by the Internet, as opposed to storing information in local servers.

IBM says cloud business enjoying "breakthrough year"

Last Updated: Thursday, December 18, 2014, 12:24

IBM aims to expand the number of data centres it offers clients around the world by 25 percent to meet fast-rising demand for internet-based services, after what a company executive said has been a "breakthrough year" in 2014 for its cloud computing business.

Oracle's Ellison plays down threat of NSA database snooping

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 10:00

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison played down concerns on Wednesday about possible government snooping in his business customers` private data.

PARAM supercomputer among the most power efficient systems in world

Last Updated: Thursday, January 2, 2014, 10:50

India`s supercomputer PARAM Yuva II, developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), has been ranked first in India, ninth in the Asia Pacific Region and 44th in the world among the most power efficient computer systems as per the Green500 List announced at the Supercomputing Conference (SC 2013) in Denver, Colorado, in the US, an official release said here Wednesday.

Karbonn expects mobile computing speed of 3 Ghz next year

Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 19:48

At present, speed of processors available in Indian market is generally about 2.7 Ghz which can go up to 3.7 Ghz temporarily by using booster technology.