Cyberthoughts

Although this is sort of IT 101, build an idea of what it looks like to shut down an application that you either built or are using as a...

Version numbers & product names are pure marketing.  In my opinion Apple made a marketing mistake in naming the latest phone the “4S...

What follows are my growing notes on the TouchPad.  It’s not really just about the touchpad but to help me understand why iPad is continu...

The first thing that prospective cloud users ask about a new cloud application is "What about security?".  It's a good ques...

Hopefully you’ve read my article about backing up your workstation to the cloud and using a secondary backup to something like a USB ...

UPDATE:   If you've read about Gmail account passwords getting stolen (hackers getting users to load a fake page and stealing passwor...

Although I’ve mentioned it in the past, I want to do a quick review of Dropbox , a “cloud network file system” for all your devices.  Al...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) had a major failure last week and there was a lot of buz about it since it took down several major web sit...

I wanted to be able to continue to use the cloud for editing my documents in Google Docs.  If you need a word processor, spreadsheet, and ...

Originaly published on 2/1/2011 As promised, this is my what’s new article on Google Apps. Google Docs has been around since 2006 and has ...

Taking a break from cloud computing I want to give you my quick take from the Apple iPad 2 announcement and why I think they will continue ...

Today, Google took their MS Office plugin out of BETA and release Google Cloud Connect (GCC), a way to easily share and edit documents real-...

According to a Infoworld article on IT hiring slowing due to cloud growth they say IDC  is forecasting that public cloud services revenue...

Evernote.com is another great example of a powerful cloud computing application that has many of the benefits of cloud computing . I use ...

I came across something recently that places a black mark on cloud computing in general.  In January of 2011, MOZY , a network backup pro...