I predict that 2012 will be the year that cloud computing loses a lot of its luster for enterprises.

Not because it is going away or anything like that. Rather, the opposite is happening — it is becoming so ubiquitous and commonplace that business and IT end-users alike will almost forget that they’re even using software off the cloud.

VMware on Wednesday announced a high-tech collaboration with Google.The companies said they will make enterprise software developers more efficient in building, deploying and managing applications in the cloud.

VMware President Paul Maritz announced the collaboration at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco, emphasizing how the work by the companies will accelerate enterprise adoption of private, public and hybrid clouds. It was all part of the 2010 Google I/O agenda to celebrate what Google describes as the “web’s evolution into the software development platform of choice.”
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The secret is out.

Those of you who have been wondering who in the world sold that lost

iphone

prototype to Gizmodo for the $5000 can now sleep easy because the guy who found the phone has been identified as Brian Hogan who is a 21 year old dude from Redwood City.

And there you have it, it’s come full circle.

Someone is definitely going to write a book about this lost

iPhone

, seriously, it has that much drama. Let’s run it down. Read More

Best laptops – I know it’s too early to have a “Best of 2010″ list when 2010 isn’t done yet, but many people are asking me what type of laptops do I recommend they should buy NOW.  This is why I decided to offer my recommendations.

On top of being a big fan of Squidoo.com for many years, and concur on most of its lenses, I offer thee.

Let’s take a look at some of the Best Laptops 2010 and some of the Netbooks that have become available at affordable prices.   Read More