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Kindle Fire HD tablets now selling in Australia

Amazon will officially sell its Kindle Fire HD 8.9" and Kindle Fire HD tablets in Australia from next month.

By Ross Catanzariti | 24 May, 2013 09:30

Tags: amazon, amazon kindle
Profitable future for data centre services market: report

The Australian data centre services market is forecast to hit revenues of over $1.5 billion by 2019, according to a new report by Frost & Sullivan.

By Hamish Barwick | 20 May, 2013 14:21

Tags: amazon, data centre transformation, Frost & Sullivan, rackspace, data centre services
Newvem expands to monitor Azure and Amazon clouds

Newvem, which sells a tool that allows users to track and optimize their use of cloud computing resources, has expanded its software's functionality to monitor not just Amazon Web Services, but now Microsoft Azure now as well.

By Brandon Butler | 17 May, 2013 16:29

Tags: amazon, Amazon Web Services, Azure cloud, Microsoft, Cloud, Microsoft cloud, cloud computing, cloud watching, internet, Amazon Cloud
Amazon may be working on a smartphone with hologram-like 3D

Amazon is reportedly developing a smartphone that sports a 3D screen that relies on retina-tracking technology to make images seem to float above the screen like a hologram.

By Matt Hamblen | 09 May, 2013 20:18

Tags: amazon, 3D smartphones, consumer electronics, emerging technology, Microsoft, smartphones, hardware systems, wall street journal
Lessons learnt: Building scalability and resilience in the cloud

Freelancer.com is an online outsourcing marketplace. Almost from its founding in 2009, the company has relied on Amazon's public cloud to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service.

By Rohan Pearce | 08 May, 2013 13:08

Tags: Amazon Web Services, amazon, Freelancer.com, cloud computing

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2012: The year in quotes

Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some of the comments that stuck with us as 2012 winds to a close.

By Nancy Weil | 12 December, 2012 13:45

Tags: sharp, Civil lawsuits, EDRi, mark hurd, International Telecommunication Union, internet, Mergers and acquisitions, samsung, Google, Janis Sharp, legal, government, William Lee, business issues, Gary McKinnon, Oracle, RiTeng Computer Accessory Co., personnel, Tyler Ochoa, intellectual property, steve ballmer, smartphones, software, Lucy Koh, amazon, foxconn, larry ellison, Apple, Santa Clara University School of Law, eric schmidt, Roger Kay, Werner Vogels, storage, Meg Whitman, YEAR END, Hewlett-Packard, William Alsup, consumer electronics, security
Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs. Google

It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.

By Brandon Butler | 03 December, 2012 13:14

Tags: amazon, Amazon vs. Rackspace, Google Cloud, Amazon vs. Google, Microsoft cloud, cloud computing, internet, Amazon Cloud, Apple, catalyst, Gartner, microsoft azure, Google, vs. Google, Cloud, OpenStack, VMware
Apple iPad vs Kindle DX: Which is better for education?

If the iPad doesn't succeed as a consumer electronics device--its initial target market--it may find a successful second career as an electronic textbook reader.

By Jeff Bertolucci | 02 February, 2010 01:31

Tags: amazon, Apple, amazon kindle, apple ipad, kindle, ebook, iPad
Amazon's Kindle for PC app: 10 things to know

Amazon's extending its electronic bookstore onto your desktop. The company announced plans for a Kindle for PC desktop application at Microsoft's Windows 7 launch event Thursday.

By JR Raphael | 23 October, 2009 09:12

Tags: amazon, amazon kindle
Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.

By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

Tags: Amazon Web Services, amazon, amazon ec2, virtualization, cloud computing

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