Cloud Computing

Internet of Things may make owning less appealing

Sensors and remote capabilities may turn physical products into services, especially for business

IoT will stump IT until clouds and big data come aboard, EMC says

The company says the Internet of Things is the best case for its collection of tools

Education app vendors beware: Google wants to be teachers’ pet

The company is prepping classroom aide software for its Apps for Education suite

Is that Twitter account a bot? Researchers make app to find out

The app looks at public Twitter data to identify phony accounts

GitHub challenges Emacs, Vim with new Atom text editor

Atom allows developers to extend the text editor to speed their own workflows

Workday takes another shot at Oracle, SAP with recruiting app

Social and mobile support are meant to appeal to younger applicants

Google Now gets smarter for real-world scenarios

New features on mobile make Google Now more useful

CEOs may look twice at IBM’s new security suite, services as Target’s head rolls

New security products and services from Big Blue are aimed at preventing nightmare data theft scenarios

Run your own cloud storage for less, EMC says

The company is launching its Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance, formerly Project Nile, at EMC World

Whirlpool CIO moves 69,000 global employees to Google Apps