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Articles mentioning both The New York Times and Microsoft Corp
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Do You Want the Good News First?
Explore The New York Times (May 21 2012) Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing
...N Published: May 19, 2012 Seattle Enlarge This Image Thomas Fuchs Go to Columnist Page » Josh Haner/The New York Times Thomas L. Friedman I’VE spent the last week traveling to two of America’s greatest innovation hubs ...... then making sure people execute them. The leading companies driving this trend — Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, LinkedIn, Zynga and Twitter — are all headquartered and listed in America. Facebook...
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Bing Search Engine to Be Revamped as War Against Google Intensifies
Explore The New York Times (May 10 2012)
...i to movie recommendations. Bing to Be Revamped in War for Search Engine Supremacy Stuart Isett for The New York Times Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s online services division, said Bing's new search would mine people’s online social connections to...
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Comment Mentions: The New York Times Google Facebook
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Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers
Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)
...he Nordic countries are relative newcomers. But they have joined the contest at a time when Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, among other companies, are competing with one another to create more energy e...
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Europe Weighs a Tough Law on Online Privacy and User Data
Explore The New York Times (Jan 23 2012)
...e proposed data protection regulation from the European Commission, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, could have significant consequences for all Internet companies that trade in personal data, whethe......ulations as a hindrance to innovation. Ronald Zink, chief operating officer for European affairs at Microsoft, pointed to the potential difficulty of obtaining explicit consent. He gave the example of Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect system, which ...
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Comment Mentions: The New York Times Amazon.com Europe
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Salesforce, a Leader in Cloud Computing, Draws Big Rivals
Explore The New York Times (Dec 12 2011) Cloud Computing
...m, as a marginal player in the business software industry.
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Peter DaSilva for The New York Times
Marc Benioff, chief of Salesforce, in his San Francisco office.
But recently Salesforce has won t......nues of $3 billion in 2012. That is $5 billion, and that is what has them worried. Where are SAP, Microsoft, Oracle? Why haven’t they taken our customers?” Much of the enterprise software ...
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Phones and Tablets Getting Game Power In the Cloud
Explore The New York Times (Dec 7 2011) Cloud Computing
...Internet, through so-called cloud computing.
Phones Get Game Power in the Cloud Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Steve Perlman, the chief of OnLive, playing Unreal Tournament 3 on an iPad. By NICK WINGFIELD Publi......g implications for the incumbent powers in the video game business, mainly the console makers Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo. That is because running games in data centers means that consoles in the home can ...
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Data Furnaces: Crazy Idea or Practical Solution?
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 28 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers
...ud live in your house, and heat your home? That’s the unusual concept put forth by researchers from Microsoft and the University of Virginia in a paper published earlier this year,who suggested that large clou......tems. The research, which got an initial burst of publicity back in July, has now been picked up by The New York Times.
The ability to recycle server heat - using air from the ...
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Google to Expand Oregon Data Center Campus
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 23 2011) Cloud Computing
... facilities. Pictures of the data center buildings at The Dalles have appeared on the front page of The New York Times, Information Week and in many photos on Flickr. A copy of Google’s site plan was published by Harpe......e Maps. Although the Google buildings in The Dalles are clearly visible on rival mapping sites from Microsoft and Yahoo, they are nowhere to be found on Google Maps, which ...
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i/o’s Modular Data Centers Roll into New Jersey
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 2 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing
...rn reduces the up-front capital investment to bring a facility online. An early example of this was Microsoft’s lightweight “tractor shed” design for its modular data center in Quincy, Washington, which featur......t 10 of the New Jersey Turnpike, and previously served as a printing plant and distribution hub for The New York Times. The operation was closed in 2008 when the Times reduced the size of its print ...
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Comment Mentions: The New York Times Data Center Knowledge Edison
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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
...he US,” Koomey writes. The report, “Growth in Data Center Power Use 2005 to 2010,” was prepared for the New York Times, which summarizes the findings. The full report is available via Koomey’s web site. The moderating ......n the Koomey tracks a time of dynamic growth for the data center industry, in which Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple all built enormous cloud data centers, while service providers filled ...
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Data Centers’ Power Use Less Than Was Expected
Explore The New York Times (Jul 31 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
...g of power consumed by data centers from 2005 to 2010. In the new study, prepared at the request of The New York Times, Mr. Koomey found that electricity used by data centers worldwide grew significantly, but it was an......ercial data centers and in the large data farms operated by companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook, there has been an increasing discussion about the growing percentage of ...
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Data Grows, and So Do Storage Sites
Explore The New York Times (Jun 5 2011) Storage
...ad only one or two computers, file sharing wasn’t a big worry. Enlarge This Image Peter DaSilva for The New York Times The co-founders of Dropbox, Drew Houston, left, and Arash Ferdowsi, in San Francisco, see their ser......in 2005. And online backup or storage services like MobileMe from Apple, Windows Live SkyDrive from Microsoft, Mozy from EMC and SugarSync are now familiar. What’s changed is that more ...
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For Microsoft, Skype Opens Vast New Market in Telecom
Explore The New York Times (May 10 2011)
... touch with someone anytime and anywhere — preferably at no cost. Enlarge This Image Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times By buying Skype, Microsoft would immediately become a leader in online voice and video calls. Multimedia Microsoft Acquires Skype Microsoft Acquires Skype Close Video See More Videos » Microsoft's Pricey Calling Plan Microsoft's Pricey Calling Plan Close Video See More Videos » Related * DealBook: Skype Investors Reap Windfa...
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Comment Mentions: Apple The New York Times Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Morning Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Skype, Google
Explore Forbes.com Blogs (May 10 2011)
Microsoft is in talks to buy Skype from eBay and the internet telephone services's founders for between $7 bi......lans to unveil a new music storage and streaming service at its annual developers conference today. The New York Times reports the new cloud-based music player service, called Music Beta by Google, doesn’t have the sup...
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Software companies may find cloud transition painful, energy-wise
Explore SmartPlanet (Oct 20 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing
...out the corporate sustainability and social responsibility mindset of another big software company, Microsoft, I felt it would be valuable to spend some time with the 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report relea......rticles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune Small Business, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. In a past corporate life, Heather was editor of Computer Reseller News, where she was a featured s...
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Cisco Executive Joins Skype As CEO
Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Oct 5 2010)
...nced a host of partnerships based around UC and video collaboration with such vendors as HP, Avaya, Microsoft, BT, Juniper Networks and Siemens Enterprise Communications Group. For its part, Logitech jumped in......tnership with Facebook. Growing Skype’s business will be a particular focus for Bates. According to The New York Times, of Skype’s 124 million monthly users, only 8.1 million are paying customers. In the first six ...
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A Chip Start-Up Aims to Slay Intel
Explore dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com (Aug 16 2010)
... the United Arab Emirates, has formed in a bid to disrupt one of Intel’s most lucrative franchises, The New York Times’s Ashlee Vance reported Monday.
The companies have put $48 million into Smooth-Stone, a start-up...... and offer companies, especially those with vast data centers like Google, Amazon.com, Facebook and Microsoft, enormous energy cost savings.
Acknowledging the David vs. Goliath struggle ahead, the company’s...
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Google and Facebook: A Tale of Two Data Centers
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 10 2010)
...of Google Maps. Google’s data centers in The Dalles are clearly visible on rival mapping sites from Microsoft and Yahoo, but nowhere to be found on Google Maps, which appears to be using imagery of The Dalles ...... facilities. Pictures of the data center buildings at The Dalles have appeared on the front page of The New York Times, and more can be seen at Information Week and on Flickr ...
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Yahoo Banking on Original Content — Again
Explore GigaOM (Apr 2 2010) Cloud Computing
...Original Content — Again * Research + Ignore Greenpeace: The iPad Isn’t Bad News for Green IT + Why Microsoft’s Electric Vehicle Deal With Ford Matters + Exclusive Event: Cloud Computing & Open Source + The iP......pending wads of cash hiring traditional journalists either away from existing media outlets such as the New York Times (including Saul Hansell, who is running the company’s Seed project) or those who have been laid off...
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A look at the nonstop acceleration of Internet technology
Explore Nieman Watchdog (Sep 20 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing
...needed to set up dedicated IT departments with their own data storage. Not any more. Today, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Amazon and others offer an alternative: They’re building and operating vast Internet data ......king its head in the cloud? So far there are only a few examples, including these: • In late 2007, The New York Times decided to make its archive of back issues—11 million articles covering the period ...
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Ibm & Cloud Computing: The Big Blue Cloud - A Summary
Explore Linux (Jun 17 2009) Cloud Computing
...loud can do for you. Or simply, it's about the application, duh?
In a statement earlier today in the New York Times, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said, “The information technology infrastructure is under stress --- and the......othing new. This is in direct contrast to IBM's rivals such as Amazon Web Services, Google and even Microsoft who have managed to create a totally new and integrated stack of cloud ...
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Dell Builds a VIA-Powered Server to Cut Power Costs
Explore GigaOM (May 15 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers
...se x86 vendor known for its low-power chips for netbooks and other portable computers, according to the New York Times. Putting VIA chips in servers reduces both the cost and power consumption of servers — something im......a center operators are exploring unconventional processors and seem willing to accept lower speeds. Microsoft is testing the use of Intel’s low-power Atom processors in servers, and has said it saw more than ...
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