Cloud Computing

At Google I/O, developer services hogged the spotlight

Further opening the company's services to developers was a focus at the show

Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds

Move points to increased competition and maturation of Microsoft's cloud

UC news roundup: Thinking Phone Networks in EMEA, Level 3 adds to portfolio, ShoreTel’s new phone

Former Amazon cloud engineer spills to Reddit audience

Amazon is notoriously hush-hush about its internal operations

Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox

A patch to only allow cookies from sites visited still needs more work, Mozilla's CTO said

At Google I/O, Glass wearers say ‘trust us’

Google is facing questions from Congress over the privacy issues raised by Glass

Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass

Several social networking services now have apps aimed at connecting Google Glass wearers

SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

SAP is shipping a raft of new features for the in-memory platform and letting partners in on its HANA Enterprise Cloud

ServiceNow wants to be the cloud for IT

Instead of being afraid of the cloud, IT shops should embrace, and control it, ServiceNow says

Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost

Users can now do parallel scans to access data in large tables more quickly