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Cloud Computing: Number Crunching Made Easy

Cloud computing is making high-end computing readily available to researchers in rich and poor nations alike. Christopher Werth, NEWSWEEK, From the magazine issue dated May 18, 2009 A dwindling water supply spells disaster for the residents of Brazil’s arid Northeast, who live by subsistence agriculture. Droughts have become longer and more frequent, and every year […]

Ray Ozzie: “we are moving to a world of three screens and a cloud.”

Microsoft’s Ozzie On His Company’s Web Strategy Joseph Tartakoff 05.01.09, 6:05 PM ET Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, who famously zinged his company back in 2006 for not moving aggressively enough to the Web, was much kinder to the company during the annual State of Technology luncheon in Seattle Friday. “There are many things […]

WhiteHouse 2.0: White House Joins Facebook, MySpace,Twitter

White House Blog: Friday, May 1st, 2009 at 2:03 pm In the President’s last Weekly Address, he called on government to “recognize that we cannot meet the challenges of today with old habits and stale thinking.” He added that “we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more […]