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Amazon puts cloud in space
Published in Cloud
Thursday, 29 November 2018 11:44

Amazon puts cloud in space


AWS Ground Station launched

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a service that lets owners of satellites rent time on Amazon managed ground stations to send and receive data from orbit.

Amazon flogging data mining software
Published in AI
Wednesday, 28 November 2018 12:37

Amazon flogging data mining software


Will snuffle up patent medical records

Amazon is starting to sell software to mine patient medical records for information that doctors and hospitals could use to improve treatment and cut costs.

Amazon working to make Java free for its users
Published in News


Amazon Corretto is no cost

Amazon wants to make sure Java is available for free to its users in the long term with the introduction of Amazon Corretto.

Amazon to sell Apple gear
Published in News
Monday, 12 November 2018 12:47

Amazon to sell Apple gear


Long term rivals bury the hatchet 


Apple and Amazon have buried the hatchet only a few years after Jobs’ Mob arranged a pricing cartel to shut the book seller out of the ebook market.

Cisco and Amazon to help businesses in the clouds
Published in Cloud


Big and powerful team up

Networking gear outfit Cisco has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to offer software tools that would make it easier for Cisco’s customers to use Amazon’s data centres.

Amazon mocks Oracle’s click bait story
Published in News
Thursday, 25 October 2018 09:54

Amazon mocks Oracle’s click bait story


We must admit they have a point

Yesterday a story appeared on the wires based around a leaked insider report claiming that Amazon’s Prime Day was ruined by the outfits transfer from Oracle to Amazon’s software.

Amazon's Oracle purge caused Prime Day outage
Published in Cloud
Wednesday, 24 October 2018 12:29

Amazon's Oracle purge caused Prime Day outage


Banishing an Oracle is tricky

Amazon’s move away from Oracle software might have cost it a few delivery problems on its biggest day – Prime day.

IBM takes on JEDI
Published in Cloud
Thursday, 11 October 2018 11:56

IBM takes on JEDI


The Force is strong in this one

IBM is challenging the US Defence Department’s decision to turn to a single provider for its $10 billion department wide cloud computing infrastructure which has the Star Wars name JEDI.

Bloomberg finds more proof of hacked Supermicro hardware
Published in PC Hardware


Despite strong denials from the likes of Apple, Amazon and Supermicro

Despite denials from Big Tech, Bloomberg is continuing to find proof that  China has been sabotaging critical technology components bound for America.

Amazon fires misogynistic AI
Published in AI
Wednesday, 10 October 2018 11:18

Amazon fires misogynistic AI


Refused to recruit women due to problems with its motherboard

Amazon.com machine-learning specialists have discovered that the flash new AI engine which was supposed to be looking after their recruiting didn't like women.