Cloud Computing News

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Salesforce.com to acquire human resources SaaS provider Rypple ow.ly/83Ce2 Prezi allows the creation of easy to understand presentations that are a great alternative to PowerPoint presentations and they can be embedded in web pages. They need to be seen to understand … Continued

Using jQuery UI and JEFS in SharePoint 2010 ow.ly/7PkYx European cloud vendors cleaning up with data protection fears - ow.ly/7ODBL Cloud telephony and communications platform, Twilio, announces $17 million investment – ow.ly/7Wbfz PHP Fog has added an add-on platform with the first free … Continued

Admit it, you’ve used weedy looking pictures of clouds to represent Amazon Web Services in your Powerpoint presentation. Now you can have the real thing, AWS icons for cloud architecture diagrams ow.ly/7NkKo Is the cloud good or bad for IT jobs? ow.ly/7LtXp Reports of … Continued

Ubuntu ditches CouchDB, the NoSQL database http://ow.ly/7GRnl CouchDB’s popularity doesn’t appear to be growing as quickly as its NoSQL rival, MongoDB. NetTuts has a great tutorial for getting started with MongoDB http://ow.ly/7GS0M Quora Gains A Twitter/Facebook Growth Expert, Loses Top Engineer to … Continued

Pragmatic Programmers, the publisher of books, PDFs and screencasts for developers and techies is having a sale on Friday 25th November 2011, ostensibly to celebrate Thanksgiving (whatever that is ). Pragmatic Programmers is offering 40% off everything in its store … Continued

jQuery Mobile, the mobile version of the jQuery library, has been in beta for a while but finally jQuery Mobile 1.0 has been released. It’s entering a fairly crowded marketplace with several rival offerings already in the marketplace, such as Sencha Touch, … Continued

Google have been acquiring: Katango was acquired by Google ow.ly/7qb37 and it acquired contextual rich news browsing startup Apture to help beef up its Chrome browser ow.ly/7qaZQ Trinity Mirror has signed up to Google Apps ow.ly/7qaDQ Amazon Web Services have opened a new … Continued

Wakanda is a full Javascript stack which we looked at previously and is currently in developer preview (DP2). Whilst not in full release yet, it’s a good time to start learning about production deployment. Wakanda includes an HTTP server so deploying onto … Continued

Google has launched Google+ for Business, a collection of tools and products designed primarily for managing a corporate presence on Google+ using Google+ Pages. Google+ is Google’s social network and its rival to Facebook. Recently Google added the option to make … Continued