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The main engine of Microsoft Corp’s historic earnings power – selling Windows and Office to big businesses – is showing signs of waning, and investors are concerned that the shift to the cloud is not making up for the shortfall. Shares of the world’s largest software company fell more than 4 percent after hours on Monday, as it forecast a
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British scientist Prof Stuart Parkin has won the 2014 Millennium technology prize worth €1m (£824,400) for research that has led to a phenomenal increase in the storage capacity of digital devices and heralded the era of cloud computing. The Watford-born physicist told the Guardian he planned to use the money to buy a house in Halle, Germany, but was aiming
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Russia’s go-to search engine, Yandex, has launched a free and open-source challenge to Google’s App Engine called “cocaine”. The open-source platform as a service (PaaS), allows creation of custom cloud-hosted web apps, such as the Google-owned Panoramio location-based photo service, supporting C++, Python and JavaScript programming languages, with Java and Racket support in development. The tool is available for download
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