Cloud Computing

Amazon in the crosshairs of Google and Microsoft

Tablet and cloud announcements seem directly aimed at Amazon

Online dating site dumps Amazon cloud services

WhatsYourPrice.com says Amazon was unresponsive to dating sites requests for information on outages

Build your own Linux server on the cloud

In one hour, you can set up your own Linux server on Amazon's cloud. No kidding. It really is that easy. Here's how.

CIOs Warming (and Moving) to Cloud Technology

Wikileaks releases Syria Files, 2.4 million government related emails

Wikileaks says its latest release shines a light on the inner workings of Syria's government and on Western hypocrisy

CERN finds particle that resembles long-sought Higgs boson

More data needs to be analyzed to be certain about the characteristics of the new particle

Call of Duty franchise coming to China as free online game

"Call of Duty Online" uses a "freemium" business model popular in China

Google to discontinue Mini search appliance, iGoogle, other products

Since last year, the company has been trimming its product list to eliminate obsolete, redundant and unpopular products

Ticketmaster books a private cloud with Cisco

Parent Live Nation implementing private cloud for third largest e-commerce site

Amazon takes blame for outages, bugs and bottlenecks

Amazon's market-leading cloud suffers outage caused by power failure, restarting bottlenecks and a multiple software bugs, bringing down Netflix and other customers Friday night