It is a bad week for data loss. First, Sidekick, or more specifically Danger (owned and run by Microsoft and operating the service for T-Mobile) lost a large amount of user data. People have warned about the Sidekick service for a while. Essentially, data is stored in the cloud, and not on the device. A [...]

Last Thursday night saw the second CloudCamp in London. The first one spawned: Nailing down the Cloud – A Definition for Cloud Computing? and this one was a sell-out gig, with the venue packed to capacity. The fact that a few hundred people came out on a cold wet London night to discuss Cloud Computing is a [...]

Tech Replublic has the “First Look: 2Go Classmate PC laptop“. I’m not suggesting anyone would use this for business, but it shows how the ultra portable PC market is growing right now. Call them Ultra-mobiles, UMPCs or Netbooks, the fact is they are almost more of a buzz that a certain vendor with a logo like [...]