As you will have heard, this week saw a Twitter employee’s Gmail account hacked, leading to the unauthorised publication of a number of “sensitive” Twitter company documents. Thankfully for Twitter, these documents were more embarrassing than damaging – but the fact they were compromised serves as an important lesson for us early adopters!
If you are a Gmail or Google News user, you might have noticed that the service was either down, or extremely ‘sluggish’ earlier. Apparently, this problem was caused by what Google Spokesperson Urs Hoelzle referred to as a “traffic jam.”
Google’s downtime raises a question
Of course, with so many people now relying on providers, like Google, for ‘cloud computing’ services – The question is; “Is cloud computing reliable enough yet?” Read on…..
According to The SD Times website the Microsoft Midori OS is a step closer to your PC! Microsoft Midori? Microsoft Midori is being developed in a bid to totally move away from a Windows based OS. Apparently, Microsoft Midori (not Windows Midori), is going to be far leaner than Vista and Internet focused. It is…
I recently posted that I thought that right now, cloud computing is still waaaay toooo flakey for businesses to be able to rely on it 100%. The concept is superb, but it’s not quite there yet; in my opinion. Today, as you will already know if you visited Twitter or stacks of blogs / websites,…
I think that cloud computing is going to be ‘the way ahead’ for most businesses and individuals in the coming year or two. It makes a lot of sense.
However, right now, in 2008, I think it’s a very brave person who would entrust their business data to one of the thousands of micro-businesses offering ‘cloud computing’ services. Why – read on!
