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Implications of Ballmer's Cloud Announcement - 12 Mar 10
Microsoft revealed this week plans to lower its data center budget from $500 million per project to $250 million or less, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.
Kevin Timmons, head of Microsoft's data center operations team, says the company is currently on track to "reduce costs by 50 percent or more in the next-generation builds". |
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Opera Mini 5 Beta Has Arrived - 11 Mar 10
All those Android smartphone owners who have been wondering when they can ditch the outmoded Opera Mini 4.2 browser in favor of the latest beta can now unfold their pouts, stop that kicking, and remove their pounding fists from the floor. Opera Mini 5 beta has arrived. |
Twitter Feed to Appear on Yahoo Homepage - 10 Mar 10
Yahoo and Twitter have reached an agreement to put Twitter feeds on various Yahoo sites, including the Yahoo home page as well as search, e-mail accounts, and Yahoo sites devoted to news, finance, sports and entertainment. |
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Uptime in E-Commerce - 09 Mar 10
Though I can think of one or two recent examples of online retailers being unable to cope with 'unprecedented' traffic, the UK's e-commerce sites have a higher average availability rate than those of some European rivals. |
"Final Third" of UK Miss Out on Fast Internet Access - 08 Mar 10
The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has announced a new national broadband campaign called 'The Final Third First' (FTF). This title refers to approximately one third of the UK population who currently are, for economic or technical reasons, unlikely ever to be able to receive a superfast ISP connection (i.e. more than the governments promised 2Mbps by 2012). |
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