Dreamforce: Salesforce.com adds Facebook, Amazon and Neil Young
As tech giants eye the cloud computing market, Salesforce.com chief executive Marc Benioff made it clear that he intends to stay competitive. During his keynote speech today at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, he first discussed Force.com Sites, the service for hosting public-facing websites and apps that I covered last night. Then he announced that Salesforce.com is connecting its business application platform with Facebook and Amazon.
The Facebook announcement is probably the most significant, because… Continue Reading
Roundup: Sprint to announce a big wireless partnership, Sun previews JavaFX and more
Here’s the latest action:
Sprint and Clearwire to join forces for WiMax venture – The telecom companies, along with Comcast, Time Warner, Google and Intel, are about to announce a $3.2 billion investment in a new wireless Internet company using WiMax technology, according to the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reports that the new company, which will also be called Clearwire, is valued at more than $12 billion. It will launch two years ahead of competing… Continue Reading