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• Former Amazon cloud engineer spills to Reddit audience

  Usually Amazon Web Services, which many consider to be the leader in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing market, is pretty hush-hush about the internal workings of its massive cloud.

• In e-book case, Apple says publishers had already taken measures to counter Amazon

  Concerned about Amazon.com's low pricing of e-books, publishers had taken measures as early as 2009 such as "windowing," a practice of delaying e-book releases to benefit sales of hardcover editions, Apple said in a filing in an e-book price-fixing lawsuit.

• Amazon's new China app store could help pave way for Kindle products

  Amazon.com has updated its mobile app store to include support for its Chinese customers, in a sign that the U.S. company could be preparing to sell its Kindle e-readers and tablets in the country.

• Amazon leaks evidence of first smaller, cheaper Windows 8 tablet

  Details of what could be the first smaller Windows 8 tablet leaked on Friday when Amazon briefly published a listing for an 8.1-in. Acer Iconia tablet.

• CERN celebrates the web and how it changed the world

  Twenty years ago today, CERN released World Wide Web technology -- all royalty free.

• Cloud fight keeps Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Rackspace clamouring for enterprise customers

  Amazon Web Services is attempting to distance itself from other cloud providers by enhancing its services to incorporate the differentiating features of its competitors.

• Amazon's Android Appstore to become available in 200 more countries

  Amazon.com is continuing the global expansion of its Appstore by announcing that developers can submit their apps for sale in another 200 countries around the world.

• Amazon.com upgrades Cloud Drive with file syncing

  Amazon.com has added a file-syncing feature to its online storage product, Cloud Drive, putting the service on par with competitors such as Dropbox and Google's Drive.

• Microsoft discontinues Office 2010 sales, some retailers jack up prices

  Some sellers have raised the price of Office 2010's lowest-cost multi-license package after Microsoft discontinued retail sales of the suite.

• Amazon CEO's group recovers Apollo moon mission rockets

  A group led by Amazon's CEO has recovered from deep in the Atlantic Ocean rocket engines that powered the NASA Apollo moon missions in the 1960s and 1970s.

• Amazon Web Services aims to simplify roll-out of Node.js apps

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js, in an effort to make it easier to deploy and manage application development on its cloud.

• Amazon's applications for book industry top-level domains opposed

  Amazon.com's application for top-level domain strings, including for ".book" and ".read," has come under attack from publishing industry groups and competitor Barnes & Noble.

• Schools test 'app store' for learning through Gates-funded project

  Some school administrators are testing a bold idea to integrate the multitude of systems that are used to store student data, giving teachers a single view of how students are performing and allowing them to better deliver the right learning materials.

• AWS offers a free month of automated system analysis

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering users a month-long free trial of a set of system analysis tools that the company is developing. The free offer is one of a number of price cuts and expanded services the company has introduced in the past few weeks.

• Office 2013 pricing loophole discounts suite by as much as $40

  Microsoft customers can save between $20 and $40 on a one-PC, perpetual license of Office 2013 by purchasing a "product key card," a retail offer that consists of a 25-character activation key.