It looks like Google Apps suffered a brief outage this morning. How did we find out? Well, from Valleywag of course. After all, the best place to get the status of key cloud based applications and infrastructure is also the same place where you can find out the latest gossip about the valley. Seems natural, [...]

After the long weekend, HyperLINKS are back! Here are today’s top stories: InfoWorld’s Ephraim Schwartz writes about the lack of standardization and security for the cloud And in more cloud news, George Crump writes about cloud storage, mentioning that storage solutions will need to be able to scale, as well as be reliable as companies [...]

Celebrate Independence Day with a fully (legally) unbricked smart phone. Starting July 4th, OpenMoko will begin selling it’s Neo FreeRunner for $399. The software is 100% free and open source. For an additional $99 you can get the Debug Board and really get up in its guts. VGA touchscreen, 500MHz, 128M RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth, AGPS, [...]

We hope you have a fun and safe 4th of July weekend! HyperLINKS will be taking a break tomorrow but we will be back on Monday. Now, here are today’s top stories: Mozilla has broken the Guinness World Records for its record number of downloads. The official number of downloads stands at 8,002,530 According to [...]

Another very cloudy news day. Here are today’s top picks: Big news to start off HyperLINKS. Microsoft has announced that it has bought semantic search engine, Powerset Tom Kaneshige of InfoWorld writes about Google’s long road to the enterprise through its Google Apps According to a new Gartner study, email will move to the cloud, [...]

Happy first day of July!  Here are Tuesday’s tidbits: Stacey Higginbotham lists ten reasons why Enterprises are not quite ready to trust the cloud (Security and reliability are two reasons listed) Brian Krebs of the Washington Post blogs on a recent cloud “dilemma” about the number of spam emails he received in his inbox that [...]