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Amazon Launches New Features For Elastic Compute Cloud: Scaling, Monitoring, and Traffic Distribution
Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 18, 2009 3:10 PM / 6 Comments
Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new features purport to allow for simple and automatic monitoring, Continue reading »


Amazon Opens a Kindle Store for the iPhone
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 11, 2009 12:40 PM / 4 Comments
Today, Amazon finally released an iPhone-specific version of its Kindle eBook store, which makes it a lot easier to browse and buy books while on the go. Sadly, though, Amazon Continue reading »


Amazon Introduces New Big-Screen EBook Reader: Focus on Newspapers and Textbooks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 6, 2009 8:13 AM / 9 Comments
During an event in New York City this morning, Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, unveiled a larger version of the company's successful Kindle eBook reader. The new device, the Kindle DX, Continue reading »


Would Students Even Want a Kindle for Textbooks?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 5, 2009 10:49 AM / 34 Comments
We speculated about this yesterday, and by now, it looks like a given that Amazon will release a larger version of its Kindle eBook reader tomorrow that will focus on Continue reading »


The Big-Screen Kindle: It's About Textbooks, Not Saving the Newspapers
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 4, 2009 8:32 AM / 7 Comments
According to a number of well-substantiated rumors, Amazon is set to debut a new, large-screen version of its Kindle eBook reader on Wednesday morning during a press conference at Pace Continue reading »


Amazon's Web Services Go To School
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 29, 2009 9:54 AM / 2 Comments
Amazon just announced AWS in Education, a new program that will give students and educators free access to Amazon's Web Services (AWS) for work on research projects, class assignments, or Continue reading »


Amazon Rents Out MapReduce Power with EC2, S3 and Hadoop
Written by Phil Glockner / April 2, 2009 11:00 AM / 4 Comments
Amazon announced today that it is bridging two of its web computing services, EC2 and S3, with Hadoop, an open-source project that brings the same distributed data processing power as Continue reading »


Talis Takes on Amazon With Pot of Structured Data in the Sky
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 31, 2009 2:02 PM / 9 Comments
By making available databases of human genomic data, US census records and other data of public interest, the Amazon Public Data Sets are an incredible resource. They're like a 21st Continue reading »


Amazon's Kindle Comes to the iPhone
Written by Frederic Lardinois / March 3, 2009 10:00 PM / 12 Comments
Amazon just released a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch (iTunes link) that allows users to download and read any eBook from Amazon's Kindle store on Apple's popular Continue reading »


Amazon Exposes 1 Terabyte of Public Data to Developers
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 25, 2009 5:26 AM / 28 Comments
Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing power that it started a dirt cheap "computing in the cloud" business that changed Continue reading »


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