If they were then connected with a Nexus switch, the online banking application in New York could pull computing power from virtual servers in Boston during the day and the bill processing application could tap into virtual servers in New York at night.
Lawyer Wayne Reaud alleged Toshiba laptop computers had a flaw that could cause computing errors, although he never came up with any victims.
In fact, argues Nicholas Carr, the former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of the new book The Big Switch, those Web applications are signs of a fundamental change, a shift from the desktop to the Web that could redefine computing--and Google's business model.
Cloud computing could lead to billions in energy savings and could help recycle mainframes.
Despite the consolidation of hardware that grid computing could represent, Sun's Dutra isn't worried about the company's sales.
However, the next generation of pervasive computing could do more than just keep tabs on where things are.
Social and mobile computing could well become part of the solution, but they do not address the root cause.
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More specifically, Kempel estimates that two of its OmniCube systems could replace the computing infrastructure that companies typically use to store and retrieve data.
Apart from providing more jobs for security experts, wearable computing could create new industries and hybrid professions: data scientists who understand physiology and ethnography, for example.
Instead, Yurke says that research into DNA computing could lead to new ways of using nature's toolbox to make conventional electronic computers smaller, faster and more powerful.
Could the cloud computing consolidation wave engulf Rackspace (RAX)?
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For example, cloud computing could benefit startups by making it cheaper to start a company, but this could put IT professionals who work at local offices out of work if servers all move to server farms.
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Apple could scarcely be more dominant in the nascent tablet computing market, but Amazon could change that in a hurry, a new study suggests.
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But given that the cloud computing market could see rapid growth in the near future, even a small presence should provide notable upside.
My point in bringing up the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 is that they hint at what serious computing--corporate, government and academic computing--could look like a decade from now.
He notes that the company has relationships with over 100 customers, but note that there are over 800 companies in the enterprise computing business who could in theory be using the service.
And NetHope has created an online space where staff from member organizations can collaborate with each other and with corporate partners about cloud computing technologies that could help them reduce costs and increase efficiency.
GigaOm asserted that the deal would be intended to build a cloud computing services company that could complete with Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com.
That has been a challenge for most IT shops and could be a barrier to adopting cloud computing.
It could be that once we get past the gimmicky phase, wearable computing along the lines of motion wrist-bands or gloves, etc. coupled with 3D goggles could create the framework for a whole new era of amazing games.
Wireless chips embedded into every device could transform an ordinary home into a distributed computing system.
Without such a provision, cloud-computing and digital-storage companies could be accused of abetting infringement.
If the reports are true, it would be a smart move, and one that could help ease the transition into modern mobile computing.
Google's glasses reflect a growing interest in wearable computing, which many experts think could be the next big thing in personal technology after smartphones and tablets.
He sees many ways in which Enomaly's marketplace could be used: getting non-critical computing tasks done speedily and cheaply, testing new websites and quickly adding computing capacity in certain regions.
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Physicists at the University of New South Wales have created a transistor composed of a single atom, which is an amazing feat of nanoengineering, and could provide a better foundation for scalable quantum computing.
According to IDC, the Middle East could be the next major market to adopt cloud computing.
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XML, which allows previously incompatible computing platforms to understand each other, could be owned by anyone.
This is the cloud-computing dream, the Microsoft headache that could challenge the ecosystem from Dell to Firefox.
But the distributed computing allowed by the revamped power grid could introduce a new economic paradigm - what Mr Rifkin calls "distributed capitalism".
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