What’s your reaction when the “Check Engine” light goes on while you are driving your car? Do you immediately head to your local mechanic to have it diagnosed? Are you a DIYer who stops by the local auto parts supplier to get a free scan, or perhaps you own your own OBD2 scanner and use it to retrieve the error codes? Or, do you just continue to drive around hoping that it will eventually go out? The problem with that is the light usually doesn't go out – it just stays on, glowing at you as if to say “Hey, we have a problem here…..don’t ignore me!!!” I've known some people who cover it with tape just to feel less guilty.

Google is cutting prices on Google Drive cloud storage. The new price for 100 GB of storage is now set at $1.99 a month down from $4.99...Thats right, you can now store most of your personal data in the cloud for less than it costs to get your morning coffee.

CEOs at some of the nation's leading tech companies see boundless potential for big data and smarter, integrated systems to address major social challenges in areas ranging from medicine to education to transportation -- but at the same time, they worry that policymakers at home and abroad could stand in the way of that vision.

IBM came out with guns blazing at Amazon on Friday. The morning after Amazon announced its 4th quarter earnings IBM claimed that it is on top of the cloud, not Amazon Web Services.

An IBM representative gave this statement about how Amazon’s full-year “other” revenue, which includes AWS, was $3.9 billion comparable to IBM’s $4.4 billion.

Back in October when Windows released their latest update to Windows 8 it was assumed that there would be a focus on cloud computing. This was primarily due to their focus on the Surface Pro line of devices. When these devices first came out Microsoft bundled them with 7GB of free cloud storage, encouraging users to upload their larger files to the cloud.