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Amazon pushes social media app Parler offline after Capitol attack

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 11 01:45 AM

Messages of support for the Wednesday's rioters along with calls for new demonstrations had flourished on Parler, leading Google to remove it from its app store on Friday, followed by Apple on Saturday.   Read more »

Huawei looks to cloud services in 2021 as US sanctions strangle smartphone business

Karen Chiu, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 04 01:05 PM

The firm’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, says the Chinese giant should learn from global leaders Amazon and Microsoft. Staff were told to focus on some aspects of cloud computing and scale back to survive rather than trying to follow US giants or Alibaba. Read more »

TINGNAN: Nakamamanghang cloud formation sa Sorsogon City

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 30 03:11 PM

Isang nakamamanghang cloud formation ang nakunan sa Coastal Road ng Sorsogon City, alas-6:11 ng gabi nitong Martes.   Read more »

Gmail service disrupted in new Google mishap

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 16 08:44 AM

"The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior," Google said.    Read more »

Globe migrates tech systems to Amazon cloud to improve customer experience, 'virtualization'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 14 06:08 PM

Globe Telecom is migrating its technology infrastructure to Amazon Web Services' (AWS) cloud storage and computing to speed up systems and improve customer experience, it said on Monday. Read more »

Microsoft aims to help businesses get handle on data with new tool

Stephen Nellis, Reuters
Posted at Dec 04 06:05 AM

Microsoft Corp on Thursday announced a new cloud-based tool designed to help corporate customers understand where data is scattered throughout their operations and whether they are in compliance with data privacy regulations. Read more »

China vows to beef up 'weather modification' capabilities

Reuters
Posted at Dec 03 11:59 AM

SHANGHAI - China wants to boost its ability to modify the weather and will extend an artificial rain and snow program to cover at least 5.5 million square kilometers of land by 2025, the country's cabinet said late on Wednesday. Read more »

Amazon says cloud outage triggered by capacity upgrade

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 29 10:44 AM

A giant outage of Amazon's cloud-computing network in the US, which impacted large users such as media companies, was triggered by an effort to upgrade capacity, the company said Saturday.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: November 13, 2020

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 01 05:25 PM

Here are the big stories today in photos. Read more »

LOOK: Umbrella-like cloud crowns Mayon Volcano

Chito L. Aguilar, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 14 02:40 PM

Mayon Volcano is pictured on Thursday covered by an umbrella-like cloud from Puro, Legazpi City in Albay.  Read more »

Microsoft rides cloud to higher earnings

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 28 07:12 AM

Microsoft on Tuesday said its profit in the recently ended quarter continued to soar as the pandemic boosted a trend toward business being taken care of in the internet cloud.   Read more »

Microsoft cloud computing looks to the stars

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 20 09:36 PM

Microsoft on Tuesday said its Azure cloud computing service is taking to outer space, and will deliver datacenter power to remote spots on Earth in the process.   Read more »

Housewife opens cloud kitchen to augment family income during pandemic

Leah C. Salterio
Posted at Oct 17 10:17 AM

Miriam Capacia-Catajay attested her income from selling home-cooked food is a big help for her family. Read more »

Bangko Sentral urges thrift banks to leverage 'limitless' potential of digital tech

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 13 12:07 PM

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Gov. Benjamin Diokno said Tuesday thrift banks should take advantage of the "limiteless" potential of digital technology including cloud banking.    Read more »

IBM to break up 109-year old company to focus on cloud growth

Munsif Vengattil, Reuters
Posted at Oct 09 08:40 AM

International Business Machines Corp is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world's first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing. Read more »

Filinvest launches program to aid digital transformation of companies

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 02 03:00 PM

Filinvest group said Friday it launched an open innovation program to help the digital transformation of companies through collaborations, product development, partnerships and potential investments.  Read more »

Microsoft grabs some of world’s biggest games in $7.5 billion deal

Kellen Browning and Steve Lohr, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 22 09:09 AM

The company’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media puts it in a strong position against Sony just weeks before the release of their next generation of gaming consoles.  Read more »

Alibaba Cloud aims to expand market share in PH by training 50,000 IT workers

Art Fuentes, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 20 12:46 PM

The company said it also aims to certify at least 10,000 of these IT professionals as well as help 5,000 businesses in the Philippines on their digital migration by end-2023. Read more »

Comedian Petti Smith turns his love for Bicolano dishes into a food business

Leah C. Salterio
Posted at Sep 13 06:25 AM

At this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, Petti Smith, a regular performer at Punchline and Laffline, had no choice but to leave the limelight and give up performing.  Read more »

Pentagon sticks with Microsoft for cloud computing contract

Kate Conger, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 06 11:38 AM

The Defense Department on Friday reaffirmed its decision to award a massive cloud computing contract to Microsoft, despite protests from Amazon, which had argued that President Donald Trump interfered to prevent it from winning the $10 billion contract.   Read more »