The Wall Street Journal has a worthwhile piece discussing the origins of the word “cloud computing” and what the term actually means. 

Yahoo!Tech reports that, according to a new report by industry consulting firm Ovum, “

[b]roadband-service providers will see their revenue from mobile services jump to 137 billion dollars worldwide by 2014, up 450 percent from 2008.  […] But the number of mobile broadband users will likely outpace revenue growth as competition drives prices lower and because most of the new clients will come from less wealthy users in emerging markets”

In a different article, Yahoo!Tech writes that “[a] U.S. crackdown on European online gambling breaches World Trade Organization rules and would justify action at the World Trade Organization, the European Commission said on Thursday.  The European Union executive, which oversees trade policy for the 27-nation bloc, said its draft report found that such U.S. laws hampered trade and thus were inconsistent with WTO rules but stressed it would seek a negotiated solution.  ‘It is for the U.S. to decide how best to regulate Internet gambling in its market, but this must be done in a way that fully respects WTO obligations,’ EU Trade Commissioner Catherine Ashton said in a statement.”

Reuters has the latest on IBM’s rumored bid for Satyam.    

 
The Washington Post has a very revealing article about security loopholes found in Google docs – and how the company reacted to complaints about the issue.  The publication writes that “[s]ecurity consultant Ade Barkah checked in with us to alert us to a couple of serious security issues associated to Google Docs, the web-based office software from the world's most famous search engine company, giving a whole new meaning to its mission to make the world's information universally accessible. On his blog on software, infrastructure and security, Barkah outlines no less than three issues that he discovered while investigating some potential security lapses.  Since he did the right thing by contacting Google about his findings (only to receive no response after five business days), we're hoping that this article will help trigger the company's engineering team to plug the holes asap. In case you missed it, earlier this month we uncovered some major privacy blunders going on with Google Docs, which the company later confirmed and fixed (we pinged them for this too).”