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Explore The New York Times (May 21 2012) Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...innovation emerging from the ground up, but from seeing the new tools coming on stream that are, as Amazon.com’s founder, Jeff Bezos, put it to me, “eliminating all the gatekeepers” — making it easier and cheap......N Published: May 19, 2012 Seattle Enlarge This Image Thomas Fuchs Go to Columnist Page » Josh Haner/The New York Times Thomas L. Friedman I’VE spent the last week traveling to two ... (Read Full Article)

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Europe Weighs a Tough Law on Online Privacy and User Data

Explore The New York Times (Jan 23 2012)

SAN FRANCISCO — Europe is considering a sweeping new law that would force Internet companies like Amazon.com and Facebook to obtain explicit consent from consumers about the use of their personal data, delete......e proposed data protection regulation from the European Commission, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, could have significant consequences for all Internet companies that trade in personal data, whethe... (Read Full Article)

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Salesforce, a Leader in Cloud Computing, Draws Big Rivals

Explore The New York Times (Dec 12 2011) Cloud Computing

...m, as a marginal player in the business software industry. Enlarge This Image Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Marc Benioff, chief of Salesforce, in his San Francisco office. But recently Salesforce has won t......r. Benioff, who co-founded Salesforce in 1999, the acquisitions are a vindication of his strategy. “Amazon Web Services is making over $1 billion in revenues with cloud software,” he said. “Google Apps is c... (Read Full Article)

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Phones and Tablets Getting Game Power In the Cloud

Explore The New York Times (Dec 7 2011) Cloud Computing

...t people play the richest, most graphically intense games on Apple’s iPhone and iPad, as well as on Amazon’s Kindle Fire and other devices based on Google’s Android software. In the past, these games have b......Internet, through so-called cloud computing. Phones Get Game Power in the Cloud Peter DaSilva for The New York Times Steve Perlman, the chief of OnLive, playing Unreal Tournament 3 on an ... (Read Full Article)

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Web Hosts Report Data Centers Operational After East Coast Earthquake

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Aug 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...on, Boston, New York City and other cities were evacuated after the quake, according to a report by the New York Times, and a Virginia nuclear power plant lost power but is on reserves. Web Hosts Report Data Centers Op......ain data center shutdowns," though it didn't specify which data centers in particular were offline. Amazon Virginia, Contact Solutions, Razor Servers and PAETEC also appear to be fine after ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers’ Power Use Less Than Was Expected

Explore The New York Times (Jul 31 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...g of power consumed by data centers from 2005 to 2010. In the new study, prepared at the request of The New York Times, Mr. Koomey found that electricity used by data centers worldwide grew significantly, but it was an......re largely hosted in commercial data centers and in the large data farms operated by companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook, there has been an increasing discussion about ... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Unveils ‘Cloud’ Music and Storage Service

Explore The New York Times (Jun 6 2011) Cloud Computing

...centric era of computing, Mr. Jobs said. Apple Unveils ‘Cloud’ Music and Storage Service Jim Wilson/The New York Times Steven P. Jobs at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. By MIGUEL HELFT Published: June 6, 2011 ......le has reached deals with the major record labels and music publishers to license their recordings. Amazon and Google offer similar services. But because those two companies did not obtain licenses from th... (Read Full Article)

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Data Grows, and So Do Storage Sites

Explore The New York Times (Jun 5 2011) Storage

...ad only one or two computers, file sharing wasn’t a big worry. Enlarge This Image Peter DaSilva for The New York Times The co-founders of Dropbox, Drew Houston, left, and Arash Ferdowsi, in San Francisco, see their ser...... what banks and the military use. Files saved with Dropbox are encrypted during transmission to Amazon.com’s servers, which the company leases. After reaching their destination, those files are divided ... (Read Full Article)

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Lady Gaga Sale Stalls Amazon Servers

Explore The New York Times (May 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...mething else: the pitfalls of cloud computing. Add to Portfolio * Google Inc * Apple Incorporated * Amazon.com Inc Go to your Portfolio » “Born This Way” (Interscope), her new album, arrived with a blitz of m...... in an unfamiliar technology. Last month a variety of Web sites, from start-ups like GroupMe.com to The New York Times, were affected when there was a failure on servers that Amazon rents out for cloud ... (Read Full Article)

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Morning Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Skype, Google

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (May 10 2011)

...lans to unveil a new music storage and streaming service at its annual developers conference today. The New York Times reports the new cloud-based music player service, called Music Beta by Google, doesn’t have the sup......ly relying on the partnerships that have proven difficult.” There are similarities between this and Amazon’s own cloud-based music service launched in March, according to All Things Digital. While Google ha... (Read Full Article)

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The Aftermath of Amazon’s Cloud Outage

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 25 2011) Cloud Computing

... to Availability Zones within a single Region), the SLA has not been breached, legally speaking.” + Amazon’s Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts: The New York Times examines the potential impact on cloud adoption. “Industry analysts said the troubles would pro... (Read Full Article)

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A Chip Start-Up Aims to Slay Intel

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... the United Arab Emirates, has formed in a bid to disrupt one of Intel’s most lucrative franchises, The New York Times’s Ashlee Vance reported Monday. The companies have put $48 million into Smooth-Stone, a start-up......el’s server-chip business and offer companies, especially those with vast data centers like Google, Amazon.com, Facebook and Microsoft, enormous energy cost savings. Acknowledging the David vs. Goliath strug... (Read Full Article)

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A look at the nonstop acceleration of Internet technology

Explore Nieman Watchdog (Sep 20 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...users were shut out of their online word processor documents for about an hour on July 8, 2008, and Amazon customers (including The New York Times) lost access to data for a few hours on July 20, 2008 following a power outage. Privacy: Lawyers ha... (Read Full Article)

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