Google's Floating Data Centres! Now that's a Patent To Drool About

The iPhone is not only unethical but is now also considered "dirty." Greenpeace published its annual report on Internet companies, with Apple not exactly portrayed in the most flattering of colours. According to the...

Canonical has lifted the lid on its new baby, a "Metal-as-a-service" tool (MAAS) which offers the provisioning and management of servers, on top of which a cloud can be deployed. In a blog post, founder Mark Shuttleworth said...

When the early rumblings of cloud computing hit the industry wires, it was all new companies we had never heard of, emerging from the deep dark depths of Silicon Valley. The Amazons and Googles of this world were toddlers...

US Congress is working hard to wrap its collective head around Amazon’s new Silk Web Browser present in its Kindle Fire. The Kindle Fire is a much anticipated tablet from Amazon which is scheduled to be released on Nov...

As you may have gathered from its party-themed doodle, Google is celebrating its 13th birthday, a period which has seen the company rise from a simple research project to one of the biggest entities in the world with fingers in...

Search giant Google revealed on Thursday the company’s energy consumption footprint - and to everyone’s shock, it was found that the company uses as much electricity as would be required to power 200,000 homes. The...

In what is being seen as a shocking breach of data, names and Social Security Numbers of 43,000 people associated with the Yale University were exposed on Google for over a period of 10 months.According to Yale Daily News, the...

Google Inc. has come with a new warning system to warn the users of infected computers right away. According to tech website CNET, Google Inc. has incorporated a new malware detecting system on its search engine which will flash...

HP has launched its new data containerised data centre EcoPod, a move by the company that will provide it with the same sort of high efficiency that other market leaders like Google, Facebook etc. usually able to derive from...

Texan outfit Smooth-Stone says it will raise $48 million from a unique syndicate of investors in order to change the way data centres work forever. The company - whose funding partners included Brit chip shop ARM, Advanced...

The rising use of internet is inflicting a severe drain on our energy resources and it threatens the future of internet giants like YouTube, industry experts claimed.  With around 1.5 billion internet users across the globe,...

Google officially apologised to its Gmail users and posted an explanation on the mail service's blog detailing what caused Gmail to stop working on Tuesday 24th. Acacio Cruz, Gmail Site Reliability Manager, said that the...

Microsoft recently announced the launch of a new data centre in Ireland to support its growing online business. This new data centre will comprise tens of thousands of servers pumping out web-based applications to internet users...

IT Firm Alchemy Plus and Microsoft are coming together to build a £20 million "cloud computing" data centre that should be operational by the end of 2010 and which has been billed as the country's first eco-friendly data...

Nicholas Carr from Roughtype writes that Microsoft will drop a massive bomb during the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas; the big news, it is understood, will be the announcement of 24 new data centres worldwide, each with a...