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Goodbye to 2008, Year of the iPhone; Hello 2009, Year of Cloud Computing

It’s time to wrap up the year 2008 - a year of change with Obama, the Olympic Games and the financial crisis. It was also the year when Yahoo said no to Microsoft. 2009 will be all about Cloud Computing: the technological hype has started already but the commercial breakthrough will come in 2009 - driven by providers including Amazon, Google, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. The potential of the hype maybe will be clearer with the fact that Amazon's price for one GB in the cloud is only $0.150 at this moment.

Handset Makers Hype 'Green' but Fall Short

To paraphrase a famous quote by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, "Green is good." Much like their server and desktop computer brethren, mobile device makers may tout the "greenness" of their devices and environmental aspects like recycling programs.

Handset Makers Hype 'Green' but Fall Short

To paraphrase a famous quote by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, "Green is good." Much like their server and desktop computer brethren, mobile device makers may tout the "greenness" of their devices and environmental aspects like recycling programs.

Handset Makers Hype 'Green' ...

E-Discovery systems pose unique challenges for storage architects if they want to keep up with data growth, performance and backup and recovery demands.

SA prepared for media hype Down Under

There was a massive thunderstorm over Johannesburg as the national cricket team assembled at OR Tambo Airport for their departure for

Proteas well prepared for media hype

There was a massive thunderstorm over Johannesburg as the national cricket team assembled at OR Tambo Airport for their departure for Australia on Saturday night and coach Mickey Arthur expected more storms when the team arrive in Perth on Sunday.

?Don?t Believe the Hype About Open Source - It?s Seductive, but Misleading?

In the context of the global financial crisis, Microsoft is attempting to deter companies from free open source software, and to keep them buying its products. The Redmond company is using British company Speedy Hire as an illustrative example of why businesses should steer away from open source solutions, even if they are looking to minimize their IT spending as a consequence of the economical slowdown.

O'Neill starting to believe the hype

Aston Villa have made progress under their manager Martin O'Neill and could be the team to break the "top-four" monopoly.

New Japanese Dissidia TV Ad Builds The Hype

With Dissidia set to be released next week, Square Enix is stepping up the marketing in Japan with a new advert which recently aired on their TV networks. The advert briefly shows some cutscenes and some gameplay before giving a glimpse at both the side of Chaos and the side of Cosmos in full.

CES: Sony's Flip rival, a portable Blu-ray player and the green tech hype

Flip Video was one of the gadgets of 2008, so it's no surprise that the rest of the tech industry is trying to muscle in to regain a bit of market. Flip was a best seller at Christmas in both the UK and US, so what can the big boys do to compete?

OpenCL May Be Coming To an iPhone Near You

With all the hype surrounding OpenCL, it’s no wonder that the buzz has moved on to the integration of the new technology for the iPhone. Imagination Technologies has advertised a multitude of job openings for OpenCL engineers and programmers, which only leads us to believe that the technology used in the new Snow Leopard will be a part of Apple’s future handheld devices.

iTunes 'long tail' theory rubbished

Despite all the hype about the potential long-tail opportunities of selling archive music via digital music download services such as Apple iTunes it appears that most tracks available for download remain as unwanted as they were on CD when sitting in record shop shelves or charity shops.

Rock Band 2 Possibly Coming To Wii And PS2 This Month

There's enough hype surrounding each Rock Band launch on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 that it's easy to forget that their are versions for the Wii and PlayStation 2 versions as well. But Wii and PS2 owners haven't forgotten, and it looks like they might be getting a surprise this month.

AT&T Hints At Replacing Java With Symbian In The Future

imageFor all the hype about the rise of operating systems, one more carrier is hinting at plans to pare down the number to just one or two OS choices for its company-branded device lineup. AT&T’s Roger Smith, director of next-generation services, said Symbian might become the OS of choice for future phones offered by AT&T under its own branding, CNET reports from the Symbian Partner Event in San Francisco. Such a move could spell an end for Java phones at AT&T (NYSE: T). Smith said there would be “dramatic consolidation from AT&T in terms of the mobile platforms and tool chains that we support … Java has not been a success… It’s not because Java is bad, but we didn’t manage it effectively.” Other carriers, like Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), have been more aggressive at discontinuing support for some operat

Jim Goldman Blogs live from Macworld Conference

Amid all the hype surrounding Steve Jobs' health, MacWorld kicks off today, with Andrew Schroepfer, Exponential Capital ...

Macworld: The Live Blog Of Apple's Conference And Expo

Amid all the hype surrounding Steve Jobs' health, MacWorld kicks off today, with Andrew Schroepfer, Exponential Capital ...

Ricky Ponting: South African attack unproven

There's plenty of hype about South Africa's bowling attack but Australia captain Ricky Ponting is unconvinced, saying they are "unproven in Australia".

South African attack unproven: Ponting

There's plenty of hype about South Africa's bowling attack but Australia captain Ricky Ponting is unconvinced, saying they are "unproven in Australia".

South African attack unproven: Ponting

There's plenty of hype about South Africa's bowling attack but Australia captain Ricky Ponting is unconvinced, saying they are "unproven in Australia".

Ponting: 'South Africa's quicks are unproven'

There's plenty of hype about South Africa's bowling attack but Australia captain Ricky Ponting is unconvinced, saying they are "unproven in Australia".

South African quicks 'unproven', says Ponting

PERTH - There's plenty of hype about South Africa's bowling attack but Australia captain Ricky Ponting is unconvinced, saying they are "unproven in Australia".

• Can iPhones go corporate?

(Fortune Magazine) -- Don't believe the hype. The iPhone still has some real shortcomings, especially as a business tool. So if you tell your IT manager you want to ditch your BlackBerry, expect him to hand you this list of iPhone shortcomings:

Can iPhones go corporate?

(Fortune Magazine) -- Don't believe the hype. The iPhone still has some real shortcomings, especially as a business tool. So if you tell your IT manager you want to ditch your BlackBerry, expect him to hand you this list of iPhone shortcomings:

I told Smith nothing: Warne

SOUTH Africa versus Australia battles have always had hype, but the Proteas have never lived up to the billing and have not been able to deliver.

'Steyn quicker than Donald'

South African pace spearhead Dale Steyn says the hype won't affect him and he'll just keep doing what he's doing, which has so far yielded 60 wickets at an average of 19 in Test cricket in 2008.

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