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Amazon Bridges Corporate IT with the Cloud via New Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, has announced a limited public beta of its new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) service, a...

Open Book Alliance Forms to Fight Google Book Search

Amazon.com, Microsoft and Yahoo Aug. 26 joined the Internet Archive in launching the Open Book Alliance to challenge Google's Book Search settlement with publishers...

Worldwide Semiconducter Sales To Decline in 2009, Report Says

According to a report from information technology research company Gartner, worldwide semiconductor revenue is on track to total $212 billion in 2009, a 17.1...

Microsoft Files Fast-Track Appeal in Word Patent Case

Microsoft filed an appeal on Aug. 25 in a patent-infringement suit that threatens to yank copies of Microsoft Word from store shelves and force...

BitTorrent Tracking Site Mininova Considers Appeal After Losing Court Case

As The Pirate Bay fights to stay online, one of its chief rivals has also fallen into the sights of the authorities.A civil court...

How to Implement Green Data Centers with IT Virtualization

The most significant step most organizations can make in moving to green data centers is to implement virtualization for their IT data center devices....

Rackspace Creates Portal for Cloud Computing Tools

Just weeks after releasing a public API designed to make it easier for customers to manage their cloud deployments, Rackspace is rolling out a...

Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Network Participation Soaring in Users Aged 35+

The belief that social networks are limited to teenagers is looking increasingly misguided.More than four in five U.S. adults online use social media at...

Mobile Phones with Wi-Fi Doubling Every 2 Years

ABI Research is expecting handset shipments with dual-mode Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity to continue to double every two years through 2011. ABI analysts predicted...

Microsoft Downplays Yahoo Upgrades to E-Mail, Search, Messenger Apps

Yahoo insisted in an Aug. 24 press conference that, despite an agreement with Microsoft to power search on its sites using Bing, it still...