The support service also casts Amazon more in the mold of traditional IT providers such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun Microsystems, which all offer a variation on hosted computing.
The paid support is a sign that Amazon’s hosted computing is ramping up to take on a broader swath of clients, including large businesses.
Looking to take [...]
She is an excellent manager. She is very good in building our international organization. I’m focused on the direction of the company, especially of the product development, and the overall strategy. I spend a lot of time working with engineers and product developers. We work together hand in hand.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, said [...]
On Thursday in Symantec blog, researcher Kelly Conley writes that the e-mail arrives with the subject line: Hillary Clinton Full Video !!! The body text reads, in part: “Hillary Clinton visited her Virginia campaign headquarters and did satellite interviews, looking beyond Tuesday’s trio of contests…”
Update 11:45 a.m. PST: This blog incorrectly described part of what [...]
I listened to two CDs for the first time last night, and while I’m very happy with both of them, the disparity in sound reminded me how much production can make or break a record.
Portishead's Third is one of the best-sounding CDs I've heard in years.
(Credit: Portishead 2008, design by Marc Bessant)
The first one was [...]
SAN DIEGO–A standoff between San Francisco city officials and a city employee jailed this summer for allegedly refusing to reveal passwords to the city’s computer network could have been avoided with technology launched this week at DemoFall.
Terry Childs, a network administrator for the city of San Francisco, was jailed July 13 on four felony [...]
Well, it’s finally here: Bill Gates’ final, official day at Microsoft as a full-time employee.
To mark this historic moment–33 years in the making–we’ve been combing through our video archives to find some memorable stuff.
• Origin of PC clones At a 2001 event celebrating the 20th anniversary of the personal computer, Gates and Compaq founder [...]
A serious new flaw was disclosed on Thursday that affects the latest versions of Apple’s QuickTime and iTunes applications.
The National Vulnerability Database entry CVE-2008-4116 describes a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability within Apple’s QuickTime 7.5.5 and iTunes 8.0 programs.
To infect a computer, a maliciously coded long-type attribute within a QuickTime tag might be placed on [...]
Kudos to ArcSight for having the chutzpah to go public rather than wait around to get acquired. What does the company’s IPO mean to the market? Three things.
1. The space is on fire. ArcSight revenue was up about 75 percent year over year–from just under $40 million to just under $70 million. A testament to [...]
Earlier this week, I described some Registry tweaks that force Windows to shut down faster. Another weapon in the fight against interminable shutdowns in XP is Microsoft’s User Profile Hive Cleanup service, a free download written by Robin Caron.
Some programs and services don’t release their connections to Registry keys when a user logs off. This [...]
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Mark Shuttleworth points to an excellent way to let Ubuntu Linux newbies give it a try without leaving the comfort of their Windows machines:
…I was absolutely delighted with the way Agostino Russo and Evan Dandrea steered the Windows-native installer for Ubuntu into 8.04 LTS. What I think is really classy about it is the way [...]
