Driven by the counter-intuitive economics of the Internet and computing technology, the spread of Internet Everywhere is deconstructing the supply chains in a wide range of once-mature industries, including broadcasting, telecommunications, mass media, computing and consumer electronics, to name just a few.
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Operational competitiveness is the new dividing line between the success stories and also-rans in cloud computing and Internet services, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation during a panel discussion at the Big Science conference that took place in San Jose this week.
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The timing is right now, she says, because the explosion of internet and distributed computing is changing the way companies talk to each other.
This is because the macro concerns have had little impact on data demand which has continued to remain strong driven by the key trends of mobile Internet and cloud computing.
The market trends of mobile Internet and cloud computing are strong and continue to drive demand as more people and businesses globally are connecting to the network and consuming more digital content.
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The advent of the internet and more powerful computing that made online piracy possible also made possible legal digital distribution.
Google hired Gundotra in June, a prize poach of a man who'd spent 15 years running both developer relations and Microsoft's Internet computing strategy.
Federal investment also produced our modern computing and Internet system as well as advances in military technology that have curtailed the need for using large numbers of ground troops.
The trend has accelerated as startups can be formed more quickly and with less cash today, thanks to the Internet, mobile communications and cloud computing that make it possible to flip the switch on and get going.
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As more enterprises shut down their in-house data centers and turn to on-demand storage and computing services delivered via the Internet, their storage needs become more variable and less predictable.
Consistently upgrading computing power and internet access, at least under reasonably favorable circumstances, does.
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Personal computing and the Internet have been pecking away at the labor landscape for decades, undermining demand for everyone from travel agents to call-center workers while creating jobs in other fields.
While internet access seems nearly ubiquitous, there are still plenty of gaps, and cloud computing largely depends on nearly universal internet access.
Their original strategy was to go after Web-hosting firms and Internet service providers looking for cheap computing muscle.
Biotechnology and computing (necessary for Internet communication, which is rapidly becoming all communication) are built on these discoveries from the 1950s.
One of the strengths of modern computing, and the internet, is it can enhance the individuality of those who participate in it, and push them to bigger and better activities.
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For holders of individual stocks, the best approach is to identify other companies that will benefit from the forces that are driving Apple's stock higher, says Amy Lubas, a strategist at Ned Davis Research, including the mobile Internet, cloud computing and the continued digitization of media.
Rented applications fit beautifully with Oracle's vision of a simpler and more reliable form of computing based on the open standards of the Internet and the Java programming language.
"The reason why mobile technology is uniquely interesting to the world right now is because it represents the fifth wave of computing, " Saylor said, with smartphones following Internet-enabled computing, desktops, minicomputers and early computer mainframes on the timeline.
The perennial cloud, as in computing, and the mobile Internet got plenty of startups going in Asia.
For example, computing and electronics embraced the Internet early and will therefore reach critical mass earlier than the rest.
But that is to reckon without the shift towards Internet-based computing, and the growing success of the Java programming language, which allows applications to run on a variety of platforms.
The typical big-business database has grown in size a hundredfold in the past five years, bloated by the sprawl of computing systems and applications, Internet commerce and recordkeeping mandated by government regulation.
The combination of highly portable devices and the mobile internet is transforming our experience of computing.
Concurrently, greater availability of wireless broadband Internet, shared network printers, and mobile computing has made it easier for groups to share printers, putting additional downward pressure on demand for printers.
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From the Internet to smart phones, apps and greater computing power, new businesses and business models are being created and all too often stifled by arcane laws created with good intentions, but now simply serve to protect old, status-quo businesses.
The Internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising giant saw a 36.7% leap from last year.
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At the IBM Lotusphere conference on Monday in Orlando, IBM Collaboration Solutions General Manager Alistair Rennie described major shifts in how technology has transformed business over the decades: the Mainframe, Departmental computing, the PC, and the Internet.
You think back to the semiconductor revolution, the age of computing, and of course, the Internet -- and most recently, with regard to the Internet, the rise of social networks connecting hundreds of millions of people around the world in milliseconds.
Netbooks, which have lower price points and focus on basic computing functions, rather than frills, appeal to children, travelers and first-time Internet users in emerging markets, where sales are expected to be particularly strong.
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