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Amazon reportedly building a private cloud for the CIA

By Nathan Ingraham on March 20, 2013 12:13 pm + 12 comments

Amazon Web Services (AWS) power many popular and essential cloud-based internet tools, ranging from Continue reading…
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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch leaving to join Apple's ranks

By Chris Welch on March 19, 2013 05:20 pm + 147 comments

CNBC is reporting that Kevin Lynch, Adobe's chief technology officer, will be leaving his position Continue reading…
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Google testifies to Congress calling for more email privacy, says current law 'fails'

By Carl Franzen on March 19, 2013 10:02 am + 121 comments

Google's legal director Richard Salgado is due to testify before a committee at the House of Continue reading…
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Netflix to give $100,000 in prizes to developers who best improve the cloud

By Greg Sandoval on March 14, 2013 10:00 am + 11 comments

Netflix is handing out prizes again. The web's top video rental service will award a total of Continue reading…
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Amazon apologizes for Christmas Eve outage that knocked Netflix streaming offline (update)

By Chris Welch on December 31, 2012 05:12 pm + 39 comments

Some Netflix customers were unable to stream movies and TV shows on Christmas Eve thanks to an Continue reading…
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Microsoft's cloud-based GPS gets your location with a tiny fraction of the power

By Jeff Blagdon on December 24, 2012 09:08 pm + 97 comments

Microsoft Research is working on a GPS technology that gets around high power requirements by Continue reading…
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Amazon, Google rivalry expected to escalate in 2013

By Chris Welch on December 24, 2012 09:47 am + 111 comments

The feud between Google and Amazon will grow even more contentious in 2013 as both companies square Continue reading…
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Box CEO Aaron Levie: 'I thought Google Wave was the future of the Internet, but I was wrong'

By Ellis Hamburger on September 25, 2012 10:31 am + 69 comments

Aaron Levie is the 27-year-old cofounder and CEO of Box, a cloud computing company leading the Continue reading…
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30 billion watts and rising: balancing the internet's energy and infrastructure needs

By Tim Carmody on September 23, 2012 05:00 pm + 76 comments

A new report by The New York Times on the internet's energy consumption estimates that data centers Continue reading…
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Box Accelerator supercharges the service's upload speeds to twice that of Dropbox

By Ellis Hamburger on September 17, 2012 09:00 am + 21 comments

Cloud storage and collaboration company Box today launched Box Accelerator, a new technology that Continue reading…