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• Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds

  By Brandon Butler | 17 May, 2013 16:29

  Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well.

• Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D

  By Matt Hamblen | 09 May, 2013 20:18

  Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram.

• London Gatwick Airport takes out 200 servers, moves to cloud, BYOD

  By Ellen Messmer | 07 May, 2013 22:51

  Cloud computing and a "bring your own device" (BYOD) strategy aren't technology approaches typically associated with running an airport's information-technology operations. But London Gatwick, the U.K.'s second largest airport, is pushing heavily into both.

• Wall Street Beat: Earnings highlight smartphones as key to growth

  By Marc Ferranti | 26 April, 2013 21:02

  With Apple reporting a decline in profit margins and Samsung consolidating its leadership in the mobile device market, earnings results and market research reports this week point to the ever-increasing importance of smartphones as key to growth in tech.

• Infor partnering with Amazon on Redshift-powered cloud analytics platform

  By Chris Kanaracus | 22 April, 2013 13:04

  Infor is planning to offer customers a cloud-based data warehouse and analytics platform based on its own ION and Business Vault technology as well as Amazon's Redshift service.

• Amazon has reportedly acquired Siri rival Evi for Kindle Fire, hints at future smartphone

  By Ashleigh Allsopp | 19 April, 2013 13:55

  Amazon has reportedly acquired Siri rival Evi, suggesting that the Kindle-maker is planning to bring voice control to its devices and hinting that an Amazon smartphone could be in the works too.

• Former Microsoft man building 'something secret' at Amazon

  By Martyn Williams | 01 April, 2013 20:52

  The former general manager of Microsoft's Windows Phone developer platform started a new job at Amazon on Monday, leading a team that's working in a new area for the company.

• Amazon to acquire Goodreads book recommendation site

  By Martyn Williams | 28 March, 2013 21:07

  Amazon.com will acquire Goodreads, a website that recommends books.

• 2012: The year in quotes

  By Nancy Weil | 12 December, 2012 13:45

  Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some of the comments that stuck with us as 2012 winds to a close.

• Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google

  By Brandon Butler | 03 December, 2012 13:14

  It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.

• NEWS FOCUS: Will tablets soon be free?

  By Mike Elgan | 06 September, 2011 10:53

  The price of touch tablets used to make sense. Apple's iPad has cost between $499 and $829 since it first shipped a year and a half ago. And for a while, competitors all hovered around that price.

• Apple iPad vs Kindle DX: Which is better for education?

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 02 February, 2010 01:31

  If the iPad doesn't succeed as a consumer electronics device--its initial target market--it may find a successful second career as an electronic textbook reader.

• Amazon's Kindle for PC app: 10 things to know

  By JR Raphael | 23 October, 2009 09:12

  Amazon's extending its electronic bookstore onto your desktop. The company announced plans for a Kindle for PC desktop application at Microsoft's Windows 7 launch event Thursday.

• Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

  By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

  There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.

• Google's move into e-books could be explosive

  By Matt Hamblen | 02 June, 2009 08:16

  E-books may have been a niche technology so far, but Google Inc.'s entry into the market could burst the online business wide open.