Cloud Computing

The recycling of IT

There is a small set of key IT concepts and they do recycle over time

Amazon cloud computing service unveils eBay auction-style pricing

Auction lets cloud computing customers bid on unused virtual server capacity

What Cloud Computing Can Do for Higher Education

Plurk users bring microblogging to many languages

Yahoo’s microblog now in Chinese, but blocked in China

Yahoo appears to be targeting large developing countries in Asia and elsewhere with Meme

H-1B visa use by U.S. firms holds steady in ’09

Indian IT firms cut back, but some U.S. companies used more than in '08

Twitter rival Plurk claims UI, code ripped off by Microsoft China

Says MSN Juku is 'overly inspired' by Plurk micro-blogging service

Online holiday shopping sales rise despite economy

ComScore reports online holiday spending at nearly $20 billion so far, up 3% over 2008

Cloud computing outages: Amazon customers the latest to suffer downtime

Power failure takes instances offline for hours Wednesday morning

Cost-effective data encryption in the cloud