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Google to take on Amazon in ebooks
At the BookExpo over the weekend, Google announced its intention to open an ebook service and said it will be up and running by the end of the year. Google will essentially create a program where... Read more...
Business Week's hottest tech companies
Business Week is out with its list of the hottest tech companies for '09. The list includes companies you know well and a few that you may have never heard of. Amazon is number one for the third... Read more...
Cobol comes to Amazon's cloud
In an inexorable migration toward cloud-based computing, yet another company, enterprise software company, Micro Focus, has announced that it is extending its Enterprise Cloud Services to support... Read more...
Belkin admits to soliciting for fake reviews, issues apology
In a PR disaster of epic proportions, networking and peripheral manufacturer Belkin has admitted that an employee actively solicited for reviews that were biased in favor of the company's products.... Read more...
Startup debuts cloud attached storage
Ctera, a startup making its debut this week, has a device designed to seamlessly connect network attached storage to online backup services such as Amazon's S3 Simple Storage Service. The product,... Read more...
Amazon champions 'Frustration-Free Packaging'
In the hope of eliminating annoying blister packs and plastic-coated wire ties, giant web retailer Amazon has started a "Frustration-Free Packaging" initiative in the United States. The idea will... Read more...
Amazon goes into business of digital delivery
Amazon, this week, unveiled a new service to help companies ship digital content such as MP3s and software applications of all sizes around the globe. The idea behind this push into being a computing... Read more...
Amazon's S3 storage service experiences more outages
Amazon's
much-touted S3 cloud storage service suffered another hiccup over the weekend,
with service fully restored some eight hours after the first onset of problems. One of the sites affected... Read more...
Does a CIO need to be a technocrat?
The times, they are a changin'. CIOs once needed a high level of technical expertise to succeed. Today, CIOs certainly must still have a solid foundation of IT knowledge, including an understanding... Read more...
Check out the top 100 IT companies
Business Week posted its top 100 Information Technology companies worldwide--companies that are in hot industries, and that have performed well in terms of shareholder return, revenue growth and... Read more...






