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Skype: Going Going Gone for $8.5 billion to Microsoft
Skype: Going Going Gone for $8.5 billion to Microsoft
By Salar Golestanian @ Wednesday, May 11, 2011 :: 12:49 AM :: 485 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
This morning We woke up to one of the biggest deals this year in the IT world with Skype Going Going Gone for $8.5 billion to Microsoft, the largest d...
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The problem with 'Cloud Computing' part II - 'The bigger they are, the harder they fall'
The problem with 'Cloud Computing' part II - 'The bigger they are, the harder they fall'
By Salar Golestanian @ Sunday, May 01, 2011 :: 1:09 AM :: 747 Views :: 4 Comments :: Article Rating
Last week we had the biggest news in IT with Amazon EC2 going down and strange thing was that the competitors did not make a meal out of the story - They had a good reason. They are all heavily investing in it and this was their biggest PR nightmare. Over night the perception has changed about Cloud Computing and to top it all, how about Sony’s PlayStation Network? Of course you have (I Know it is not strictly the same kind of cloud as Amazon). But it is big and it was so thoroughly hacked this week that Sony had to shut it down indefinitely. Did you also know that Sony’s PS3 firmware is effectively wide open, because they made a hilariously stupid security mistake?
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