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• Amazon Web Services aims to make life easier for Windows developers

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 02:07

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) now allows ASP.NET developers to take advantage of Elastic Beanstalk, which has been developed to make it easier to roll out cloud-based applications, the company said on Tuesday.

• Wall Street Beat: Tech earnings provide some bright spots

  By Marc Ferranti | 28 April, 2012 02:16

  With Apple leading the revenue charge midweek and Amazon providing a kick to trading in tech shares Friday morning, bright spots appeared in what has otherwise been a mixed earnings season.

• Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 26 April, 2012 21:54

  Amazon Web Services has made it possible to create private clouds using CloudFormation, which automatically creates stacks of resources described using templates, the company said on Wednesday.

• Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0: A low-cost, full-featured Android tablet

  By Melissa J. Perenson | 23 April, 2012 23:30

  The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0's low price coupled with its numerous features give it a clear advantage over leading value tablet competitors.

• Greenpeace's sign to Amazon, Microsoft: 'How clean is your cloud?'

  By Brandon Butler | 20 April, 2012 05:36

  Activists at Greenpeace intensified their environmental criticism of Amazon and Microsoft today by posting signage near the Seattle offices of both companies questioning the cleanliness of the companies' clouds.

• Amazon cloud set stage for rapid Pinterest growth

  By Joab Jackson | 20 April, 2012 04:37

  The explosive success of the social networking service Pinterest wouldn't have been possible without the easy scalability of the Amazon cloud services, an executive for Pinterest said.

• APP OF THE DAY: Kindle

  By Patrick Budmar | 19 April, 2012 11:09

  You may have seen people with a Kindle device reading their favourite books at a café or on a train, but you can do can do the same with the Kindle app on your smartphone.

• Apple vs. Amazon: Who is really fixing e-book prices?

  By Tom Kaneshige | 18 April, 2012 03:47

  In the mid-1990s, I ran across what looked like an incredible story: A teenager, dubbed the Whiz Kid, was selling a ton of computers from his parents' home. Newspapers told the story complete with images of the teenager talking on his cell phone-which, at the time, was a big deal.

• 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.