'Cloud computing' failure hits Internet
A failure in Amazon. com's so-called cloud computing service knocked many Internet sites out for most of a day, some Web site officials said. . More...
Will Amazon EC2 Outage Negatively Affect Attitudes Toward Cloud? Nah
So what else is new? No site on the Internet is sacrosanct or immune from power shutoffs or a major service-denial attack. . More...
Upstart to Challenge FedEx
It will enter a market where only B2C shipments are growing thanks to the Internet and where the pressure is on the rankings of SMBs to offer free delivery in other words also fast. More...
Amazon computing service problem knocks clients' websites offline
Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, has billed its cloud-computing services as a cheap and safe way for businesses to outsource their data centers. More...
Acer Reorgs to Meet Crisis
Less than three weeks afterwards Acer's CEO and president Gianfranco Lanci quit in a disagreement with the board over what to do about the company's flagging PC business, it has named Jim Wong president and as well made him responsible for developing the mobile devices Acer needs to ward off Apple's cannibal iPads. More...
The energy that research companies use storing
The energy that research companies use storing and transmitting our data is becoming more of an environmental risk, according to a report from environmental group Greenpeace. More...
Amazon failure takes down sites across Internet
HootSuite, which lets users monitor Twitter and other social networks more easily, was down completely, as was questions-and-answers site Quora. . More...
Major websites including Reddit hit as Amazon EC2 web servers fail
HootSuite, which lets users monitor Twitter and other social networks more easily, was down completely, as was questions-and-answers site Quora. . More...
Amazon's partial cloud failure takes out several popular websites
"Right now, it looks like a complete network meltdown," tweeted George Reese, who is founder of cloud management company enStratus. He as well seemed to suggest that companies that found themselves down due to AWS should consider redundancy in later tweets. More...
AMD Reports First Quarter Results
AMD today announced revenue for the first quarter of 2011 of $1. 61 billion, net income of $510 million, or $0. 68 per share, and operating income of $54 million. More...