'Cloud' computing's reliability gap

Online software may be the future of computing – but the truth is, it's far from perfect.

February 12: Research in Motion's BlackBerry e-mail service goes on the blink for three hours, and slows again a week later.
February 15: Problems with Amazon Web Services' S3 online storage service takes several sites down for two hours.
February 24: Google's YouTube video service is knocked offline.
February 26: Some customers of Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail have MORE

Rumors: iPhone SDK not ready for primetime?

There's growing speculation among Apple (AAPL) watchers that the iPhone software developer's kit (SDK) that Steve Jobs said he hoped to have ready before the end of February -- and is the headliner of the "special event" scheduled for March 6 -- may still be in beta and might not arrive until the World Wide Developer's Conference some time in June.

This would be a surprise, although probably not the MORE

Is Google running out of gas?

By Yi-Wyn Yen

Google's stock is on its steepest decline ever, a sign that investors who once believed in the search giant's story of perpetual growth have started to lose faith.

There's certainly some immediate cause for concern. Google's revenue growth is rapidly decelerating -- more rapidly than would be accounted for by its sheer size. Last year's annual growth rate of 56.5% has now dropped to 28.27%, according to Thomson Financial. MORE