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Sony says has removed data stolen by hackers and posted online

Sony said on Saturday it had removed off the Internet the personal details of 2,500 people that had been stolen by hackers and posted on a website.

 

Amazon Issues Mea Culpa

Amazon.com issued a detailed account of last week's Web-services outage in which it apologized for the shutdown and offered a service credit to customers.

 

Did Apple spend $4.5 million to name its cloud storage service iCloud?

Apple may have purchased the domain iCloud.com from Sweden-based company Xcerion for a reported $4.5 million, according to GigaOM.

 

Amazon’s Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts

Companies are expected to reassess backup and recovery after the interruption at Amazon Web Services.

 

Amazon launches music service

Amazon launches music service

Amazon has just entered the streaming music business with the launch of Cloud Player, a music player that lets anyone upload their music to Amazon's servers and play them via the web or Android.

 

Amazon Web Services And Cloud Biz Not Meaningful For Stock Price

Amazon Web Services And Cloud Biz Not Meaningful For Stock Price

Amazon.com, apart from being a major online retailer of books, DVDs, music, games, apparel, and other merchandise, also has a small business of providing cloud and other Web services. It offers Web services like cloud computing and cloud storage service offerings, in which it competes with bigger players like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com. Amazon also owns and operates websites such as Audible.com, IMDB.com, and Shelfari.com.

 

Google Docs Simplifies Collaboration With Sharable Links

As Microsoft moves into the cloud with Web-based versions of its Office suite of applications, Google has been beefing up Google Docs to stay one step ahead. The Big G has just made it much easier to share documents online through the service's online document editor, Google Docs.

 

City of Los Angeles Switching to Gmail

City of Los Angeles Switching to Gmail

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to outsource its e-mail system to Google Inc, a making it the largest city in the nation to have made such a move. Welcome to the cloud.

 

The T-Mobile Sidekick Fiasco

The T-Mobile Sidekick Fiasco

The fiasco over the weekend with T-Mobile Sidekick and Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, struck a cord with me. If you haven't heard, their server that held nearly a million users' contacts, emails, photos, and appointments went kaput.

 

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