With the government.... could be a great new revenue stream for the cities if they would get their heads out of their ass.

Google Talk / Hangouts are also XMPP based as well, although they have pretty much closed it off to all outside clients.

Chrome, Dolphin, the Android browser, Kindle, and about a dozen others. The vast majority of web browsers are based on WebKit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Just ditch Trident. Why do we need more browser engines? What is wrong with WebKit? Why waste man hours and money on this waste of time project instead of helping with the development of WebKit?

It drives me bananas when people write posts like this and I see it online alll the time. Unless you care more about some corporation than your fellow consumer, NAME NAMES! There is essentially ZERO reason for a company to change practices other than bad PR, and you can't create that without naming them.

This is what I have been saying all along as holding the web back - two few programming languages.

Now that we have this new language, we can finally move forward.

To a 4 year old its the same thing.

Back in the eighties and nineties, the only organization who could even feasibly track Santa was the military, because they had the radar and private companies like Google did not own their own satellites taking pictures of the whole globe 24 hours a day. Nowadays, the idea that Google would do just as good a job of monitoring Santa as NORAD, is not far fetched.

They wont need to collect the trash since they will be floating in international waters with no regulations, they will just throw it overboard and let us deal with it.

I am not saying anything about their strategy, just refuting the incorrectness of the GP.

Blackberry phones nowadays can run essentially any Android app flawlessly...

Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment are two totally separate companies that for all intents and purposes are completely disconnected at all but the most senior executive levels (the C-Suite).

"The setup, on an enterprise scale, takes thousands or tens of thousands of dollars in hardware"

You are off by at least two orders of magnitude, at last by any reasonable definition of "Enterprise".

An enterprise grade hadoop cluster that is dealing with enterprise workloads is going to start roughly in the mid-six figures and grow into the low 7 or 8 figures over time and scale. Scale is not cheap.

Even trying to do a very simple thing, like search through all past facebook messages or group posts for a given word, is essentially impossible.

I dont know where Facebook thinks they are going with their "graph search", but as of today it is absolutely horrible.

Google is no better, with complete inability to search through Hangouts history without going into GMail of all places. You would think a search company would do better.

There are standards such as ISO 27001 that are independently audited that can prove if a cloud provider is following the right security practices. I would seriously doubt your IT shop is ISO 27001 compliant. Amazon is, Google Apps is, as are many other cloud vendors.

The whole cloud boogeyman has to die. It is foolish, short sighted thinking. Moving applications to cloud is an opportunity for enterprises to finally do things PROPERLY in IT for once instead of cobbling together systems on shoestring budgets with lax security policies and unaudited shell scripts holding the mess together like crazy glue.