News

• 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.

• Kindle rumours hint at major upgrade in the works

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 07 April, 2012 09:29

  Will the next generation of Amazon's Kindle eReaders feature a dramatic innovation, possibly a color or lighted display? Recent rumors suggest significant changes are coming for the venerable e-reader, which currently has an e-ink display without backlighting or color.

• OpenStack development finds big growing pains

  By Brandon Butler | 06 April, 2012 08:32

  It's been an interesting past few weeks for OpenStack.

• Get more out of your Kindle Fire tablet: Five tips

  By Tom Spring | 30 March, 2012 00:35

  Five months after Amazon debuted its $200 "game-changing" tablet, the Kindle Fire is feeling more like a McDonald's hamburger next to Apple's prime-rib, third-generation iPad.

• Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates

  By Jon Gold | 17 March, 2012 07:39

  Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.

• Talent pool not big enough to meet skyrocketing cloud computing job demand

  By Brandon Butler | 15 March, 2012 02:36

  The number of job postings in the cloud computing industry is growing so rapidly that there aren't enough qualified workers available to fill the positions, according to an analysis of hiring trends by Wanted Analytics.

• Android Market hits 450K apps, challengers abound

  By Ian Paul | 28 February, 2012 02:15

  Google's Android Market is nipping at the heels of Apple's iOS App Store in terms of number of offerings.

• Citrix simplifies Cloud service management

  By Tim Greene | 14 February, 2012 08:26

  Citrix is shipping a new version of its Cloud management software, CloudStack, that makes it simpler for service providers and large businesses to manage and provision Cloud services.