Deutsche Telekom spawns of cloud company

Deutsche Telekom spawns cloud vendor Zimory

From the page:

Part distribution strategy, part software development strategy (Zimory uses an array of third-party open-source code to build its service), open source is fundamental to Zimory. However, the model's magic is in connecting disparate computing needs and resources, which is a "proprietary" service that only Zimory will be able to manage through its cloud infrastructure. It's a very smart idea.

Even Microsoft agrees. It named Zimory to its select German incubator program.

Reading Google's tea leaves

I'm very interested in the things Google do, and I follow them closely. I've written a short piece about this process called "Reading Google's tea leaves." The post both describes some of the things I do to keep track of Google, but I also analyze some recent tea leves indicating that Google is pointing its guns at the telecommunications industry.