The cloud wars are here, plus a Chromebook we actually liked

Cloud price wars: Who wins, Google or Amazon? | Facebook's Hack language is a silver bullet for user-developers Follow CITEworld BY IDG ENTERPRISE March 27, 2014 InCITE Your twice weekly digest of the most important developments in the consumerization of IT Box vs. Dropbox: Building features is easy. Building an ecosystem is hard When it comes to Box vs. Dropbox, Box's developer base is going to make all the difference. Resource compliments of: CITE Conference + Expo Trending now: Consumerization of enterprise IT You've heard about consumerization...but how can you use it to give your organization a competitive edge? Find out at the third annual Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) April 27–29 in San Francisco. Learn how consumer-driven technology can transform your business, your workplace, and your customer relationships. Learn more Cloud price wars: Who wins, Google or Amazon? A day after Google cut prices to its Compute Engine services, Amazon Web Services unveiled cuts across many of its services. The price war is on.   Facebook's Hack language is a silver bullet for user-developers We're going through a revolution in web development tools and technologies; and now Facebook is adding its PHP-derived Hack language to the mix. Is it the right tool at the right time for the BYODev community? These salespeople will really be selling in the field – on actual farms Soon the 1,500 salespeople at agricultural products vendor Wilbur-Ellis will be moving to making their sales on iPads standing in croplands, rather than taking orders on paper forms. This Chromebook had me at hello The Acer C720P is our favorite low-cost Chromebook yet. New Amazon WorkSpaces service could poach Microsoft OneDrive customers Amazon is making its WorkSpaces desktop virtualization service available to anybody, and has added a new sync feature that could steal customers from Microsoft OneDrive. Box accelerates platform ambitions with new pricing scheme Box is introducing a slew of major enhancements to its platform, inincluding usage-based pricing, greatly enhanced metadata support to enable developers to build smarter applications, and an enhanced cloud-based document viewer. Fixes that should be in the next upgrade of Android KitKat There are reports that a new version of Android could be unveiled in July. But before Google launches Android 5.0, let's hope its pending update of KitKat fixes a number of annoying problems. Azure is not Hotmail: What to expect with cloud privacy Be paranoid -- but maybe not as paranoid as you'd be if you were leaking Microsoft company secrets via a Hotmail account. Why data from our devices and doctors won't transform medical research anytime soon Google CEO Larry Page recently praised the idea of allowing researchers access to the data contained in our electronic health records and information. It's a worthy goal. Box files IPO: Big losses mask bigger ambitions Box is burning cash as it spends more on marketing than it takes in from sales. But customer growth and potential upside still look promising.   Follow CITEworld Share this email You are currently subscribed to citeworld_weekly_update as security.world@gmail.com. Unsubscribe from this newsletter | Manage your subscriptions | Subscribe | Privacy Policy Copyright (C) 2014 CITEworld, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham MA 01701 **Please do not reply to this message. To contact someone directly, send an e-mail to online@citeworld.com.**