Google Near Launch of Cloud Storage Service

Google Inc. is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.

Like Dropbox, Google's storage service, called Drive, is a response to the growth of Internet-connected mobile devices like smartphones and tablets and the rise of "cloud computing," or storing files online so that they can be retrieved from multiple devices, these people said.

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Google & O-Zone to provide free Wi Fi Across Country !!!

Google has announced a a unique marketing initiative with public Wi-Fi provider O-Zone Networks.

The initiative has been taken to encourage mobile internet usage and enabling users to access Google+ and YouTube on their portable devices away from work and home.

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How IBM Saw 2012 in 2007: Where’s My Mind-Reading Cellphone?

The brainiacs at IBM made some pretty far-out predictions this week: In five years, they say, you won’t need passwords, there will be no more digital divide, and mind reading will no longer be science fiction.

Forgive us if we take issue with the last one. Five years ago, in a similar list of predictions, IBM said that by the dawn of 2012, “mobile phones will start to read our minds.”

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Has science found the 'God particle'?

European nuclear research scientists say they are close to discovering the elusive Higgs boson, the "God particle" that confers mass on matter and is thought to be one of the building blocks to the universe. But they are still some way from confirming the existence of a sub-atomic particle that is one of the cornerstones of modern physics.

Despite excited reports yesterday morning on the BBC that the particle has been "glimpsed", the Cern laboratory in Geneva yesterday merely confirmed that measurements by its £5bn Large Hadron Collider have come closer than previous searches to detecting the sub-atomic particle whose existence was first hypothesised in the 1960s.

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Cloud computing offers Indian information technology new growth opportunities

Cloud computing would emerge as the key advance in IT services and applications, says Gartner, the technology research firm, in its forecasts for 2012. The mavens see the cloud, which makes possible the leasing of digitised IT assets and solutions via the internet, as paradigm shifting. It implies transformative change in IT architectures, the development of products and services, and attendant delivery methods and strategies.

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The Legend IBM's solar array is designed specifically for data centers

Built for its software lab in India, the company eventually will make the technology available to clients seeking green data center power alternatives.


Wanted to reiterate some news out of IBM’s India operation early in November: the company has designed a solar array for its data center in Bangalore specifically configured with the needs of servers and cooling infrastructure in mind.

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Salesforce.com Launches Do Project Management App

Salesforce.com's reach is about to get wider both in terms of functionality and target audience with the arrival of Do, a project management application announced in public beta on Tuesday.

Do is built on the Manymoon software Salesforce.com acquired earlier this year, and is "probably the closest thing to a consumer product we've ever done," said Sean Whiteley, senior vice president. "We took the Manymoon product, poured gasoline on it and lit it on fire."

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The Honeywell Green Jet Fuel Powers Regular Commercial Route For Aeromexico

UOP LLC, a Honeywell (NYSE: HON) company, announced today that Honeywell Green Jet Fuel™, produced using process technology from Honeywell’s UOP, is powering Aeroméxico’s Mexico City to San José, Costa Rica route, marking one of the first uses of renewable fuels in everyday airplane passenger service.

Aeroméxico has begun use of Green Jet Fuel made by Honeywell’s UOP on its regular Mexico City to Costa Rica route as part of its “Green Flights” project designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Aeroméxico-operated Boeing 737-700, which carries up to 124 passengers, will use a 15 percent blend of Green Jet Fuel made from the inedible plant camelina and petroleum-based fuel.

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