Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)’s Web Services cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp. (6758)’s online entertainment systems. Hackers using an alias signed up to rent a server through Amazon’s EC2 service and launched the attack from there, said the person, who requested anonymity because the information is confidential. [...]
Google is said to roll out their online music service which is not too different from the one that Amazon.com Inc first announced back in March this year – at least that is what the Wall Street Journal claims (referring to the Amazon Cloud Player, we presume). This system will most likely function like a [...]
Researchers at the University of Washington have taken a look at how students are using the Amazon Kindle DX in their studies, and the verdict shows Amazon.com faces challenges if it wants to appeal to the campus studying crowd. Students want a better way to take notes and check references. And they also want better [...]
Motorola Xoom is about to land on our shores. This is a review, but because this is about tablets you know that it must involve comparisons. The Xoom doesn’t live alone; if it were the world’s only “media tablet” (to use the phrase analysts are using to try to split this species off from all [...]
An outage at an Amazon Web Services data center has caused disruptions in service across popular Websites, such as Quora, Reddit, Foursquare and Hootsuite. Technical problems at an Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) data center caused several websites and Internet services like Foursquare and Reddit to crash or have limited availability Thursday. Amazon, which rents Web servers [...]
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