Amazon Web Services (AWS) recent storm-related outage, which left Web sites including Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram inaccessible, is just the latest in a string of costly cloud failures. Since 2007, a total of 568 hours of downtime at ...
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Barnes & Noble Tuesday announced that Nook Video will premiere this fall in the U.S. and UK. The service will offer access to movies and TV shows for streaming and download. In a statement, the bookseller said the videos will be stored ...
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The latest figures of the annual IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index have revealed that online sales in November are up 18 per cent from last year as the festive rush has encouraged consumers to reach into their digital pockets. In ...
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U.S. ISPs are reporting a significant rise in IPv6 traffic during the last three months, even though the overall numbers remain tiny -- less than 1% of Internet traffic. RELATED: How the U.S. is winning the race to next-gen Internet ...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw his bonus shrink a little in 2012 while that of other Microsoft executives rose significantly, the software maker said Tuesday. Ballmer received a bonus payment of US$620,000, about 91 percent of his ...
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With its popularity growing, Apache's Cassandra database for high-volume, real-time data management will be fitted with technical and query language improvements in the fall. The open source NoSQL database, which reached the 1.0 release ...
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Next week, FreeCast, Inc - a leader in digital TV distribution (DTVD) with the largest virtual guide of popular television, movies, and music content sources - will be unveiling a partnership with "As Seen on TV" DRTV giants Telebrands Corp ...
Tags: TV distribution, DTVD, television, unmatched channel, Internet
Apple and Microsoft are embroiled in a fight over the SkyDrive app for iPhones and iPads, a skirmish that has left users caught in the middle. According to The Next Web, Apple has blocked updates to the SkyDrive app ever since Microsoft ...
Tags: Amazon Kindle, app, Apple, hulu, IOS, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, netflix
Network World-During Hurricane Sandy this fall,The Weather Channel experienced its highest traffic ever.Normally the media company--which spans television,desktop and mobile platforms--supports about 90 million Web and mobile users a ...
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Enterprise users of public cloud welcomed Amazon Web Services' new products and price reductions,but said that additional features such as better security,ease of use and added multiple-availability to overcome outages issues could make ...
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In developing Bloomberg's next-generation mobile video app, general manager and global head of mobile and connected devices Oke Okaro (pictured) and his team of mobile experts studied how people use the news service. As Computer Weekly ...
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Ample picture quality now comes from small packages;you can stream high-quality video content using a smart phone or Roku's tiny,Wi-Fi-connected Streaming Stick,for example.Now a gadget that's almost as small as those,the 3M Streaming ...
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An unexpected bug cropped up after new hardware was installed in one of Amazon Web Service's Northern Virginia data centers,which caused the more than 12-hour outage last week that brought down popular sites such as Reddit,Imgur,AirBNB and ...
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Computerworld-The apps for Microsoft's new Windows operating systems are good enough to entice early buyers of tablets and other touch devices,analysts said Sunday. But the jury remains out on Microsoft's long-term chances of winning its ...
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Netflix no longer wants to run a data center to support its in-house IT services. Instead, it's shifting internal applications to Amazon's cloud and turning to software-as-a-service providers for other business systems. Mike Kail, vice ...
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