How the Google-Apple Cloud Computer Will Work


	How the Google-Apple Cloud Computer Will Work

tabsey

2-13-2008 12:47 AM

224 views

tags:

computers

Add a Comment

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

When Computers Meld With Our Minds

World’s First Stable Artificial DNA to Be ...

When Computers Meld With Our Minds

Too young for Jitterbug, too old for Twitter

At What Point are we Taking Things Too Far...

Hackers get hold of critical internet flaw

More clips from tabsey

Rare seahorses born at aquarium

Sydney brothels say Pope's visit will give...

Why Are Neocons Attacking Turkey?

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from February 13, 2008

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e7d6049e-11ae-4296-9985-596fef22401e/23AC94F5-0EFD-44D1-A906-6D96A1D5C9D2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer.htm" href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">computer.howstuffworks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer.htm"><DIV class="articleTOC">
	<DIV class="label">Inside This Article</DIV>
	<DIV class="items">
			<DIV class="number">1. </DIV>
				<DIV class="activeentry">
			Introduction to How the Google-Apple Cloud Computer Will Work		</DIV>
		<DIV></DIV>
<DIV class="number">2. </DIV>
				<DIV class="entry">
			<A href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer1.htm">
				A Googol of Power			</A>
		</DIV>
		<DIV></DIV>
					<DIV class="number">3. </DIV>
				<DIV class="entry">
			<A href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer2.htm">
				Why Google and Apple?			</A>
		</DIV>
		<DIV></DIV>
				</DIV>
	<DIV class="items">
					<DIV class="number">4. </DIV>
				<DIV class="entry">
			<A href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer3.htm">
				Other Cloud Candidates			</A>
		</DIV>
		<DIV></DIV>
					<DIV class="number">5. </DIV>
				<DIV class="entry">
			<A href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer4.htm">
				Lots More Information			</A>
		</DIV>
		<DIV></DIV>
					<DIV class="number">6. </DIV>
		<DIV class="entry">
			<A href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-hard-drives-disks-channel.htm">See all <B>Hard Drives & Disks</B> articles</A>
		</DIV>
</DIV>
	<DIV></DIV>
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer.htm"><P>In his new book "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google," <A href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/">computer</A> industry writer and former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review Nicholas G. Carr discusses the changes he sees in the future of computing. One of the more dramatic changes is a shift to <STRONG>cloud computing</STRONG> -- where applications and files are stored on a large, centralized supercomputer or <A href="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-networking-channel.htm">network</A>. The end user accesses his or her files using computers that are more streamlined but less sophisticated than today's typical machines.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://computer.howstuffworks.com/google-apple-cloud-computer.htm"><DIV><IMG width="400" height="302" src="http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/google-apple-cloud-computer-1.jpg" alt="Author Nicholas G. Carr" class="article" /><BR /><FONT size="1">John Todd/Sun Microsystems/<A href="http://howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=google-apple-cloud-computer.htm&url=http://www.gettyimages.com/">Getty Images</A></FONT><BR /><FONT size="2"><STRONG>Nicholas Carr, seen here at a Sun Network Conference in 2003, believes that tech giants Apple and Google may be on the verge of creating a cloud computer.</STRONG></FONT></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/23AC94F5-0EFD-44D1-A906-6D96A1D5C9D2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Blog; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Related Clips

More clips from tabsey

Today's Top Clips