Tagged: Amazon & News
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Amazon EC2 service used in Sony attack? News
14.05.2011 An Amazon EC2 cloud computing service was reportedly used by hackers in last month’s cyber attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Online that saw 100m... -
Ireland wake up - there is no recession online News
10.05.2011 The internet capital of Europe’s success at providing the right environment for the world’s best technology companies hides a disturbing anomaly – indigenous companies are...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Facebook accelerates toward US$100bn valuation News
03.05.2011 Facebook is tipped for a spring 2012 IPO and is believed to be hurtling towards a US$100bn valuation by early next year because its profits are growing faster than the company... -
Latest cyber attack on Sony a breach too far for entire cloud industry News
03.05.2011 In his look back on the week, Siliconrepublic.com editor John Kennedy says the latest security breach to hit Sony – this time affecting 24.6m PC gamers – could be a knife to the... -
Amazon’s cloud outage – how it became stuck in a loop News
29.04.2011 Amazon is the poster child for the cloud computing revolution in terms of its aggressive rollout of services. However, the highly publicised crash last week threatened to kill...Categories: Storage, Software & Web Development, Servers, Security, Data Management, Data Centre, Cloud -
PlayStation breach a warning for Apple and YouTube News
28.04.2011 It has already been termed one of the greatest security breaches in history, but will the Sony PlayStation network breach that has affected 77m users provide a salutary lesson... -
Team effort needed to spread 21st-century business know-how News
26.04.2011 In his look back on the week, Siliconrepublic.com editor John Kennedy believes that while Ireland can rightly claim the title Internet Capital of Europe, this claim will only...Categories: Unified Communications, Private Irish Business, Jobs, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, CloudTags: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, EA Games, Microsoft, Cloud Computing, Unified Comms, E-commerce, Groupon, PayPal, Intel -
Weekend news roundup News
26.04.2011 A trawl through some of the weekend newspapers' tech coverage, including doubts raised over cloud computing by Amazon's outage last week, getting away from the pressures of the... -
Amazon EC2 outage affects Reddit, Foursquare, Quora News
22.04.2011 Amazon’s Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) servers failed yesterday, bringing down numerous sites, such as Reddit, Foursquare and Quora. -
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Apple has least green data centres, Greenpeace says News
21.04.2011 Greenpeace has released its How Dirty is Your Data report, looking at global cloud companies’ energy footprint, with Apple coming out lowest in its clean-energy index due to its...Tags: Apple, HP, Cloud, Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, IBM, Twitter, Amazon, Clean Energy, Smart Grid, Nuclear Energy, Energy Efficiency, Electricity -
Amazon to release cut price, ad-funded Kindle News
15.04.2011 Olay, Visa and Buick are among the brands sponsoring a series of screensavers for a new, less expensive version of Amazon’s Kindle, which is set to ship on 3 May. -
Apple plans TV and video in the cloud and living room News
12.04.2011 Apple is believed to be planning to launch a new web-based video service that will take on Netflix and jump ahead of YouTube plans to launch streaming video and TV channels. -
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Weekend news roundup News
04.04.2011 A roundup of some of the top tech stories in the weekend's newspapers, including how you can never erase your past on the internet, Larry Page's return to the CEO role at Google... -
Storm clouds gather over Amazon’s new music locker News
30.03.2011 Amazon’s new Cloud Drive has hit its first major hurdle, just 24 hours after launch, as major label Sony hit out at the company’s decision to launch the service without signing... -
Amazon's consumer cloud is music to the ears of Android users News
29.03.2011 E-commerce and cloud computing giant Amazon has taken the wraps off a new family of cloud products that bring cloud computing to the fingertips of web users and allows music... -
Android porn store latest trademark target for Apple News
23.03.2011 Apple has issued a cease and desist order to Android-based adult service MiKandi over its use of the term ‘Apps Store’ in the latest salvo, after filing a suit this week against...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Apps Zone, Apps -
Apple sues Amazon over ‘App Store’ name News
22.03.2011 Apple has filed a lawsuit against Amazon over the use of the word “App Store” in time for the launch of the retailer’s online mobile software store.Tags: Amazon, App Store, Apple App Store, Mobile Apps, Mobile, Smartphone, Angry Birds, Lawsuit, Apple -
New Govt will need to decide on EU ‘cookies’ directive News
09.03.2011 A new EU-wide law is set to make cookies crumble. But the lack of national guidelines on how website owners or marketers will be able to track users online with their consent...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Internet, Government, Economy, eCommerce, Data Management