Grazed from Reuters. Author: Kevin Parrish.

Google supposedly threatened to cut off Android support to Acer if the handset maker launches a phone with a rival mobile OS. Taiwan-based Acer was reportedly forced to cancel (or postpone) the launch of its new CloudMobile A800 smartphone on Thursday due to intense pressure from Google Inc.

According to Reuters, the phone was a joint venture between Acer and Alibaba Cloud Computing, deemed as the first to use the latter company’s new mobile operating system, Aliyun. Acer and Alibaba originally planned to launch the device in Shanghai on Thursday afternoon, and then go into full retail mode on Friday…

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jack Clark.

Changes brought about by the rise in cloud computing have had a huge impact on servers and server design, and could be the key factor in bringing ARM’s low-power RISC chips into the datacentre. ARM believes that the rise of cloud companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon is bringing about a change in attitudes to processors that could make its chips relevant for these companies, posing a potential threat to Intel and AMD’s server businesses.

Over the past few years, "the nature of servers has changed," ARM’s general manager of its processor and physical IP divisions, Simon Segars told ZDNet this week. "It’s really the growth in cloud [and] growth in companies doing web hosting [and] social sites. As that has grown the nature of servers has changed."…

Grazed from PR NewsWire. Author: PR Announcement.

AnyPresence, a leading enterprise mobile platform-as-a-service, today announced that it was named a CRN 2012 Emerging Vendor. The company was recognized as one of the key players that are significantly impacting the cloud computing industry.

"We are honored to receive this award from CRN," said AC Chakrabarti, CEO of AnyPresence. "The AnyPresence platform is already in use by large technology integrators, and we are excited about the potential to help our customers accelerate their mobile development projects without the typical concern of platform lock-in."…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.

Are you a startup working on big data/high performance computing; gaming; consumer or business applications? Do you want $50,000? If so, Amazon has a challenge for you.

Amazon Web Services and startups have always gone together like peanut butter and jelly, and Amazon wants it to stay that way. Toward that end the cloud services giant launched its sixth annual AWS Global Start-Up Challenge on Friday…

Grazed from MidSize Insider. Author: Doug Bonderud.

It’s easy to talk about cloud computing, but often more difficult to realize this technology’s long-term benefits. Despite aggressive marketing by both tech giants and start-up companies, a recent market study found that small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) are by and large letting the cloud pass them by, even though it is finally starting to offer concrete return on investment (ROI). So what’s keeping companies away?

Lack of Knowledge

That’s the main reason midsize business IT have for avoiding the cloud, according to a recent survey by MYOB, as reported by the Herald Sun. The survey, which asked over 1000 midsize companies about their cloud use, discovered that 79 percent didn’t use cloud technology at all, with 27 percent citing lack of knowledge as the main reason…

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Jen Cohen.

A cloud computing strategy can absolutely save any company money, regardless of company size. In fact, one of the beautiful things about cloud computing is that it provides flexibility for small businesses and allows access to capabilities that were once only accessible for a large company with a large budget. For large businesses, it provides scalability and accessibility in many locations.

If you’re considering a cloud computing strategy and/or providing insights on the benefits of how it can save your company money, here are a few ideas to help support the money-saving concept…

Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Rich Miller.

After you’ve bult one of the world’s largest web hosting companies, what do you do for an encore? If you’re Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, you set your sights on the cloud computing market.

Weiss and Gauger were pioneers in the European hosting sector, and helped build Germany’s 1&1 Internet into a web hosting juggernaut. With their new company, ProfitBricks, the duo are hoping to win over software developers and latency-sensitive businesses with a high-performance infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering…

Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Raejeanne Skillern.

At an Intel Developer Forum session, Intel executive Diane Bryant outlined Intel’s three-part cloud strategy: Listen to the needs of end users, deliver optimized products and technologies based on those needs, and enable a broad range of deployable solutions that address customer requirements.

The Intel Developer Forum always provides many opportunities to get the inside story on Intel strategy and the technologies and solutions that stem from it. That was the case when Diane Bryant, VP and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group (DCSG) for Intel Corporation, talked about cloud computing at an IDF session…

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Fernanda Aspe.

IT experts and cloud consumers understand the need for cloud standards, but standardization seems like an elusive possibility when the objectives of those standards remain undefined. Typically, standards are created to drive a market; end users or consumers usually have little say in the process of standardization.

"We end up with standards created to service technology providers, not the consumers," said David S. Linthicum, CTO and founder of cloud computing experts company, Blue Mountain Labs…

Grazed from Mobile Magazine. Author: Andrew Grush.

When you think of desktop computing, Motorola is probably one of the last brands that come to mind. Motorola is one of the kings of the Android smartphone and tablet world, right? While that’s true, it’s not stopping Google and Motorola from bringing out a new Android-powered desktop solution.

The new CloudBB is specifically targeted at the Chinese market and is described as a “home entertainment terminal”. As you can probably guess, this is a cloud computing device design to replace a PC…