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Amazon Web Services aims to make life easier for Windows developers

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.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 10 May, 2012 02:07

Tags: Web services development, software, internet, Infrastructure services, Development tools, development platforms, cloud computing, AWS, application development, Amazon Web Services, amazon.com, amazon

Amazon Web Services simplifies creation of private clouds

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.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 26 April, 2012 21:54

Tags: amazon, amazon.com, Amazon Web Services, AWS, cloud computing, Infrastructure services, internet

Amazon cloud set stage for rapid Pinterest growth

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.

By Joab Jackson | 20 April, 2012 04:37

Tags: amazon, AWS, cloud computing, development platforms, Infrastructure services, internet

Startup spotlight: DotYellow to enter online listings market

Concerned by the waste generated by the Yellow Pages books, product development director, Angelo Perera, decided to do something about it and helped start Melbourne-based online brand listing company, DotYellow.

By Hamish Barwick | 10 April, 2012 12:07

Tags: domain names, DotYellow, icann, Startup

A Report on ICANN 43: New gTLDs and DNSSEC

The ubiquity of mobile devices, the shift to "choose it yourself" top-level domains and the availability of internationalized domain names will profoundly impact the relationship between your network and your network users. In this biweekly column, Ram Mohan, a non-voting ICANN board member and "Security and Stability Advisory Committee Liaison," chronicles these and other developments in this biweekly Network World column.

By Ram Mohan, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Afilias Limited | 04 April, 2012 00:46

Tags: comcast, DNSSEC, Domain Name System Security Extensions, domain validation, e-commerce, generic top-level domains, gTLD, icann, idn, Internationalized Domain Names, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, LAN & WAN, paypal

Internet broadcast rights in doubt following court ruling

The landmark ruling by the Federal Court, which found Optus did not breach copyright by broadcasting NRL and AFL matches via its new TV Now service, has cast a doubt over the financial viability of internet broadcast rights.

By Georgina Swan | 03 February, 2012 09:38

Tags: broadcast rights, business, copyright, legal, optus, Telstra, TV Now

How to profit from new domain name rules

A new era in Web site naming has begun, providing a golden opportunity for savvy IT professionals to go on the offensive with new domains that can capture additional Web traffic and generate new revenue.

By Dirk A.D. Smith | 24 January, 2012 01:37

Tags: domain names, icann, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, LAN & WAN

Enterprise Hadoop: Big data processing made easier

It's been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague and hazy concept for your boss's boss. That puts it in the sweet spot when there's plenty of room for experimentation. The list of companies using Hadoop in production work grows longer each day, and it probably won't be long before "Hadoop cluster" takes over the role that the words "crazy supercomputer" used to play in thriller movies. The next version of the WOPR is bound to run Hadoop.

By Peter Wayner | 18 January, 2012 22:21

Tags: applications, Big Data, business intelligence, cloud computing, Data Explosion, data management, hadoop, IaaS, internet, open source software, software

New era for website names begins

A new era of Web site naming begins, when Internet policymakers start accepting applications for hundreds - perhaps thousands - of new domain name extensions such as .hotel and .paris.

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 January, 2012 05:37

Tags: DNS, domain names, FedEx, icann, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, LAN & WAN, MarkMonitor

Google scraps products, cheap renewable energy initiative

Google has announced it will ditch some of its products and renewable energy initiative as part of its ‘spring cleaning series’.

By Rebecca Merrett | 25 November, 2011 10:10

Tags: google blogs, Google research, renewable energy

Barnes & Noble launches Nook Tablet

Barnes & Noble launched its widely expected tablet Monday, taking on the soon-to-be released tablet from book-selling rival Amazon with a machine that has slightly better specs.

By Joab Jackson | 08 November, 2011 03:20

Tags: amazon, Barnes & Noble, consumer electronics, e-readers, hardware systems, tablets

Google releases Analytics Premium

Google has released a paid version of Google Analytics to join its set of enterprise tools.

By Diana Nguyen | 30 September, 2011 10:49

Tags: business intelligence, enterprise, google analytics, google analytics premium, google analytics real time

LulzSec tweets as News’ DNS servers go down

Just hours after claiming responsibility for hacking News International’s The Sun website and posting a fake story about Rupert Murdoch’s death, hacker group Lulz Security has tweeted that News International’s DNS servers are down denying access to some 1024 web addresses.

By Rodney Gedda | 19 July, 2011 11:59

Tags: DNS, DNS security, hacking, LulzSec, News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, security

Local .au DNSSEC scoping complete: auDA

Australia has moved a step closer to secure DNS services with the Australian .au Domain Administration (auDA) completing the assessment phase of the planned transition, but a final go-live data is yet to be decided.

By Rodney Gedda | 27 June, 2011 11:48

Tags: auDA, AusRegistry, Bill Caelli, DNS, DNSSEC, domain names, security

Internode founder joins FiRe entrepreneur ranks

Internode founder and managing director, Simon Hackett, has taken out the Future in Review (FiRe) 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year award in the US, for his work in telecommunications.

By Georgina Swan | 30 May, 2011 11:54

Tags: Aussie entrepreneur, FiRe, internode, isp, Simon Hackett

Internet2 turns 15: Has it delivered on its promise?

With nearly $100 million in new funding, Internet2, the faster, better Internet reserved for research and education, has embarked on an upgrade that will boost backbone capacity to a staggering 8.8Tbps and expand services to hundreds of thousands of libraries, schools and medical centers.

By Julie Sartain | 11 April, 2011 23:28

Tags: LAN & WAN, Level 3 Communications, networking

Will Google CEO shift undermine enterprise efforts?

In the nascent battle between Google and Microsoft> for enterprise software customers, there is one stark reality that customers who choose Google must accept: Google's future does not depend on the success of Google Apps.

By Jon Brodkin | 22 January, 2011 22:45

Tags: business issues, cloud, corporate issues, Google, google apps, Microsoft, SaaS, software

P2P-based alternative to DNS hopes to challenge ICANN

A group led by former Pirate Bay spokesman Peter Sunde is forming to develop a peer-to-peer-based alternative to today's ICANN-controlled DNS system, according to a blog posted on Tuesday.

By Mikael Ricknäs | 01 December, 2010 01:46

Tags: DNS, icann, internet, networking, P2P, peer-to-peer

Apache declares war on Oracle over Java

Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation has called upon other members of the Java Community Process (JCP) to vote against the next proposed version of the language, should Oracle continue to impose restrictions on open-source Java use.

By Joab Jackson | 10 November, 2010 05:38

Tags: Apache Foundation, application development, Development tools, IBM, intellectual property, Java, legal, middleware, open source, oracle, patent, software

Google tool shows blocked services

Google released a new online tool that shows where the internet giant's services and products such as YouTube are being blocked around the world.

By AAP | 22 September, 2010 17:37

Tags: censorship, Google, openinternet, youtube

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