JAKARTA - Maybe for some people who were struggling in the field of information technology not yet understand about cloud computing. So what exactly is cloud computing? And what advantages?

CK Lam explained, Enterprise Solutions Manager for Juniper Networks Asia Pacific region, cloud computing is the term for the IT world that the system is only rented. That is, in applying this technology, customers are required to hire a job in IT components, such as data storage servers to the data center.

"I have demonstrated through this cloud computing companies only need to pay USD87 per year to pay for training and to migrate. Compare with the old solution, which can cost around USD3.785," Lam CK illustrate, when discussing with a number of journalists, at the Hotel Four Season, Jakarta, Wednesday (21/10/2009).

Yet it does not mean cloud computing can be directly and immediately tested successfully in Indonesia. There are several requirements that must be achieved to adopt the new system is classified. It is said CK Lam, one of which is a large increase in bandwidth.

Furthermore, he provides an illustration of the countries that the level of broadband technology was already qualified. For example, the United States. This country is considered to feel really impact the use of cloud computing. Moreover, this technology is considered capable of pressing spending, so it is suitable to be applied in the government sector.

"The U.S. government has felt the impact of the use of cloud computing that can cut spending. It is important to them in the era of crisis like now," he said.

NEW YORK - Year 2013 is estimated based phone shipments Android operating system will reach 31.8 million units worldwide. Whereas until the end of 2009, the volume of shipments through the Android phone numbers 6.5 million.

It was revealed, a consultant from Taiwan, Market Intelligence and Consulting Institute (MIC) as reported by Cellular-News, Monday (26/10/2009). Overall, mobile phones and products based on other Android is expected to reach 126 million units.

"The Android platform is still relying on the smartphone. This will threaten the other operating systems such as Symbian and Windows Mobile. Therefore they must be issued a new strategy. For example Windows Mobile which should reduce the price of the license to reduce the impact of Android," says analyst MIC, Kate Huang.

Since Google launched Android, the market is continuing to change. Character-based Android open source stimulates third parties, in this case the application developer, to provide mobile applications for Android.

Until now, only approximately 13 thousand applications that support Android phones. The amount is very small compared to the applications offered in the AppStore, which reached 85 thousand applications.

NEW YORK - Not too week Microsoft presents Windows 7 as the newest operating system, has a lot of people who protested and report problems that occur in this operating system.

The Register reported on Tuesday (27/10/2009), hundreds of people who buy Windows 7 at Shop Digital River having trouble they'll download this OS computer. Some users claim the difficulty to install and often get error messages on her computer.

Shop Digital River is based in Minneapolis, United States, is offering an upgrade of the lawas OS to Windows 7 for approximately USD29.99 or specific to Rp290 thousand students. Previously, also serves an upgrade of Windows Vista and Office 2007 in the year past 2007, but did not see a problem.



Microsoft itself now been confirmed on this issue, immediately conduct an investigation into what the root causes, so that hundreds of people are difficult to install Windows 7 on a computer.

"We will immediately inform our findings," wrote Microsoft in pernyataanya.

Users themselves have trouble several times when trying to install Windows 7. Digital River itself is offering a file.exe named 'Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x64.exe' and 2 additional files with file extension. Box. Predicted, tersebutlah file format which the main problem.

San Francisco - If you are Facebook users, certainly familiar with the Farmville. Every day there are 21 million Facebook users who gardened in Farmville.

This game allows players to create virtual estates that will make you act like a farmer. Gamer possible to harvest the fruits and vegetables and then sold to generate revenue. In addition Farmville also allows players to interact with each other like a real environment.

"On the first day of launch, precisely on June 19 last, Farmville only capable of making 25,000 users every day. But now, 21 million users to play Farmville every day and every month if In total there are 60 million users each month worldwide," said Chairman Team Developer Farmville Mark Skaggs, as quoted by SF Gate, Monday (26/10/2009).

According to Skaggs, except for an easy game, Farmville is also a game with themes that are universal and almost everyone knows 'what is gardening'.

Variations interesting game from the way the players have to harvest vegetables and fruits are grown. For example, for strawberry harvesting takes only four hours, while for pumpkin takes longer, approximately 8 hours. If the harvest goes well, players can sell and get money to continue their virtual estates, or buy other virtual goods to continue their lives in Farmville.

CALIFORNIA - Google has not officially announced the operating system for mobile besutan Newer their most Android 2.0. However, news of their presence continues to grow among the Android lovers.

There is some speculation about the emergence of mobile phones developed by the OS that reportedly has the code name of the donut, among them Motorola. The vendor will issue Droid poured phone embedded with Android 2.0. It also, Droid will be released on Wednesday, October 28 tomorrow.

However, these issues could be wrong. The reason, as quoted by leading technology blog Gearlog, Tuesday (27/10/2009), Samsung fanfare Android 2.0 will exhibit at the Moment Samsung phone, it uses Android 1.5.

Then if there is no serious vendor Donut Android launch in the near future? Not really, because according to sources at these blogs, Samsung and HTC to ensure that one cell phone using a donut being developed. Although the two are visible only serious HTC Android 2.0 working on this.

Interesting to look forward to the presence of this open OS. Moreover, Google so far has no close relationship with one vendor, except for designing successful HTC G1, Google's first phone is. Currently we can only await the arrival of Android 2.0.

San Francisco - Yahoo finally decided to close the web hosting service Geocities has ever bought $ 3 billion worth.

"We've felt the give hosting sites made by Internet users in selurh the world, and we are proud to have become part of that success. But in the future, we want to help consumers on the Internet to explore and develop Internet communications in a different way," said Yahoo party, as quoted by news.com, Tuesday (27/10/2009).

To mark the disappearance of Geocities, a popular web comic to make changes to their layout, so similar to Geocities display, complete with scrolling text, animated icons and image links.

Geocities closure took place a week after Yahoo reported a policy of cutting production costs to help boost corporate profits, due to the impact of revenue decline 12 percent in the third quarter of this year. Also Yahoo has also reduced the number of employees to 2,000 people. Yahoo currently numbering 13,200 employees.

Geocities itself developed since 1994 in Beverly Hills. Yahoo bought GeoCities in line with the intention of expansion, when the service was dot com boom in the 90's.

WASHINGTON - Programming which manages white building site, the address at www.whitehouse.gov, plans switch to open source the code so the site can be viewed, developed and used by the public.

"We now turn to a technology that allows the government to get more and more votes for input to President Barack Obama. This is the art technology, and government participate in it," said White House Director of Media Macon Phillips, told the Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday (27/10/2009).

White House officials described the changes are similar to rebuilding the foundations of a building without changing the path or the appearance. They also hoped to make the site more secure the White House, and the same thing could apply to other administrative sites in the future.

"Security is basically built into the development process because society consists of people who are scattered all over the world, and they view the source code from the beginning of the process to spread," said Terri Molini, the Open Source community of America.

Once the code is open, it might seem kerentananan security. But quite the contrary, experts inside and outside the government believed programmers working together to find a mistake or an opportunity to exploit the web code, which in turn is much more secure.

"We want to improve the equipment used for the arrival of thousands of people to WhiteHouse.gov, so they are involved with White House officials, and one another, in a meaningful way," said Phillips.