Thursday | 8 January, 2009

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    Microsoft targets auctions in counterfeit crackdown 05/12/2008 06:08:00

    Microsoft continues to crack down on people it believes are counterfeiting and selling its software. On Thursday the company will add another 63 legal filings in 12 countries against individuals who it says are selling counterfeit Microsoft products.
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    Amazon offers online database service for free 02/12/2008 11:55:00

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has opened its online database service for public beta testing and said a certain level of usage will be free, at least for now.
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    Can supercomputers help save the economy? 01/12/2008 07:15:00

    President-elect Barack Obama will soon outline an economic stimulus plan that likely will include billions of dollars for infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges and new schools. Obama also is hearing calls for new funding to improve the information infrastructure and the virtual highways it runs on, and to broaden access to high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
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    VMware security chief leaves to run OpenDNS 21/11/2008 11:58:00

    The head of VMware's security group has left to join San Francisco's OpenDNS, a startup that provides Internet infrastructure services.
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    Amazon, Capgemini partner on application development 19/11/2008 10:39:00

    Consultancy Capgemini and Amazon.com will offer application development and hosting services using Amazon.com's infrastructure, the companies said on Tuesday.
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    Amazon debuts content delivery network service 19/11/2008 08:00:00

    Amazon has launched a hosted content-delivery network (CDN) service that it first announced in a preliminary test version two months ago.
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    Wikis that work: Four IT departments get it right 14/11/2008 09:35:00

    When you're one of just two technology managers tasked with supporting a geographically dispersed user base, any kind of self-help technology that takes the burden off IT is welcomed with open arms. That's why Ernest Kayinamura of Enel North America and his lone counterpart have actively embraced wikis as a way to make IT materials more accessible to the end users they support.
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    Q&A: Nicholas Carr on 'the big switch' to cloud computing 14/11/2008 09:01:00

    During his keynote speech at the Society for Information Management's SIMposium 08 conference in the US, author Nicholas Carr drew an analogy between cloud computing and the transition that manufacturers made from generating their own power to relying on utilities in the early 20th century.
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    Mobile tech under Obama 10/11/2008 08:49:00

    We've just elected a new president. Barack Obama starts a four-year term starting January 20. There's no way to know how America and the world will change during this time. But we can see how mobile technology will change.
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    Making sense of Microsoft's Azure 07/11/2008 08:38:00

    Last week, Microsoft announced its cloud-computing effort, called Azure. Fitting between Google's and Amazon.com's current offerings, it represents a very big step toward moving applications off the desktop and out of a corporation's own datacenters. Whether or not it will have any traction with corporate IT developers remains to be seen.
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    Stormy weather: 7 gotchas in cloud computing 04/11/2008 08:33:00

    When the computer industry buys into a buzzword, it's like getting a pop song stuck in your head. It's all you hear. Worse, the same half-dozen questions about the hyped trend are incessantly paraded out, with responses that succeed mainly in revealing how poorly understood the buzzword actually is.
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