Google is announcing pricing for its App Engine service for Web application hosting Wednesday, maintaining a free tier, then charging for storage of more than 500MB of data.

Jelastic, a Palo Alto, Calif., startup, delivers a beta of the Jelastic Java platform-as-a-service offering for hosting service providers.

Having introduced its Modern Web Application (MWA) pattern for Java developers late last year, Microsoft is now promoting the cloud-centric concept further by highlighting the benefits of the ...