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Amazon has announced the availability of a software development kit for third party developers to build new applications that work on its popular Kindle eBook reader. This is happening just before... Read more...

As companies with large data centers step up their efforts to cut costs, hard disk maker Seagate is finding itself in the position of selling its products directly to these companies. In fact, chief... Read more...

One of the data centers hosting Amazon's EC2 Cloud service experienced problems mid-week that resulted in some operations being interrupted. A one-line status report on Amazon's Service Health... Read more...

Analyst firm the Burton Group skewered Amazon's cloud computing service, saying it should not be used for applications that require advanced security and availability. The firm also accused Amazon of... Read more...

How many characters should a reasonable secure password consist of? Well, it would be 12 characters at least, according to security consultant David Campbell. Campbell came to this conclusion after... Read more...

A subsidiary of Amazon.com, Amazon Payments has announced a new payment service that allows online shoppers to breeze through the payment process. Instead of keying in cumbersome credit card details... Read more...

If your company depends on online sales, it could be a bleak holiday season for you. A new study by research firm comScore funds that online retail's runaway growth has hit a wall. E-commerce sales... Read more...

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targeted at a site hosted on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) solution have brought a number of possible weaknesses out in the open. Jesper... Read more...

I came across an intriguing article on the New York Times which compared the direction that e-books are heading to that of the music industry. "Will books be Napsterized?" asked Randall Stross.... Read more...

Even as cloud computing gains momentum, the market for cloud databases is still "in its early stage," according to Forrester Research Analyst Noel Yuhanna. Not surprisingly, many are concerned... Read more...