English: Ray Ozzie on the PDC of Microsoft announcing Windows Azure Español: Ray Ozzie en la PDC de Microsft anunciando Windows Azure (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Microsoft's Launch Of The Elastic Compute Cloud

In the never-ending battle of tech superiority, Microsoft is pulling out its big guns in order to compete with Amazon's hugely popular EC2 service.  Known as the Elastic Compute Cloud, this infrastructure service cloud will be able to give a user access to virtual hosting and data storage, on computers running Windows as well as Linux.

This second attempt at a challenge to Amazon's super-service is no surprise.  The June 7th launch will be a means of edging into what should be a huge market as more individuals and corporations begin to store more and more data on cloud computing.  The existing Microsoft Azure cloud, however, has no Linux compatibility, a major limiting factor for those who prefer to run third-party programs. 

cloud computing (Photo credit: kei51)

AWS Compared Google Compute Engine Cloud Services

Both Amazon and Google have lowered what they charge for their Cloud services among many others. The thing is, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Compute Engine (GCE) have brought down their costs significantly in an all-out competition. Besides this, Google has gone a step further and increased the number of virtual servers it has, providing great choice. It has also made its service Euro-friendly.

found photo: business leaders (Photo credit: squareintheteeth)

How to Reduce Business Costs

During the recession many companies have resorted to cutting staff in a bid to keep costs down and their business afloat. However, cutting down on unnecessary costs can be the sustainable solution your business needs. Money can easily leak from your business if you don’t monitor your ingoing’s and outgoings closely. Here are some changes you can make to reduce your business costs.

English: Wikipedia Android app (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Google Keep: What It Brings To The Table

Google Keep is a very simple app used for recording notes, checklists, images and audio, but many people are curious as to what makes this app different than others, what it has to offer that others don't. There are a few key things in particular to realize about this app. Many people think the app will be dead and gone in just a few years, while others think it could be around for a long time, depending on how Google chooses to play it out and what consumers think in return.

English: Google Logo officially released on May 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Everyone Joining TheOldReader and Feedly after Google Reader Announcement

Google Reader will be closing at the beginning on July, current users found out just this week from a message when they logged into their accounts. The reader is very popular with bloggers and those in the media for reading stories coming from varied sources in one location. In addition, bloggers like to keep readers connected through Google Reader and Google Feedburner’s email subscribe options. With the lose of the reader, blogs might have a drop-off in readership some fear. Google is making the move in hopes that users with jump to Google+ and receive their daily news from the feed their. But the two products aren’t the same and users and instead moving to TheOldReader and Feedly, two services similar to Google Reader.

Illustration of Facebook mobile interface (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Facebook Posts Get A Lot of Exposure

Each time you post to Facebook you might think that no one sees it because no one liked it and no one made any comments. But according to a recent study done by Facebook on its own data, a full third of the users that follow you see each posts that you make. That is a really good number of friends that have seen your posts.

Whole Site Delivery and Amazon S3

Whole Site Delivery

There is a great deal of buzz about a service known as “whole site delivery” provided by content delivery networks. The way whole site delivery works, is by caching all of your site’s assets on servers all over the globe as soon as they have been accessed from the origin server. Once this occurs, any user in a particular region can access the files without having to send a request to the origin server, which may be halfway across the world. This helps to eliminate the amount of traffic that your origin server sees, which can be quite beneficial.

twitter y macworld (Photo credit: juque)

Twitter Follows LinkedIn, Facebook and Google With Ad API

In an attempt to get more advertising without hiring a good number of new sales members, Twitter opened its Ad API to the public today. This follows other technology companies that have made similar moves including Google, Facebook and LinkedIn. This makes it easy for large buyers to quickly setup and manage campaigns with in-house programmers. Small businesses can continue to use the web-based interface provided by Twitter for small transactions.

Cobian Backup (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

5 Little Known Ways to Increase Your Computer Speed

After a few years of use, you've probably noticed that your computer has gotten much slower than when you initially purchased it. However, when it gets too slow, there is no need to purchase a new computer when you can employ tactics to bring it back to an at least tolerable speed. Here are five little known ways to increase your computer speed.

Internet Access Here Sign (Photo credit: Steve Rhode)

Top 5 Questions to Ask your Internet Service Provider

Switching Internet services providers can be a difficult decision for many people. We are bombarded with advertisements for numerous plans from a variety of companies, each claiming to be the best for one reason or another. You are probably paying a lot for your Internet access, and you want to make sure you get the best possible deal out of it.

It seems like many of the companies involved don't have great service or like to hide details in the fine points of contracts that allow them to provide a lower quality Internet connection than you expected. Here are some questions you can ask a potential service provider to make sure you really understand what you would get with their service.