Amazon EC2 is now out of Beta after two year and now gets an SLA. Service Commitments and Service Credits If the Annual Uptime Percentage for a customer drops below 99.95% for the Service Year, that customer is eligible to receive a Service Credit equal to 10% of their bill for the Eligible Credit Period. […]
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Gmail Mobile 2.0: Faster, Smoother, Offline Support
The Gmail team has rolled out version 2.0 of their mobile client for J2ME-supported and BlackBerry phones.
Read moreGmail Rolls Out New Emoticons
Gmail has rolled out new emoticons to choose from when words just can describe what you are feeling.
Read moreGmail Labs: Advanced IMAP Control
Gmail announces a new Lab feature for Advanced IMAP Controls. These new options will allow you to better control your IMAP experience down to the label level.
Read moreAmazon Announces Tiered Pricing for S3
Today Amazon anounced new tiered pricing for the S3 service. For the United States: Storage — Current Pricing (thru October 31st) $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used Storage — New Pricing (effective November 1st) $0.150 per GB – first 50 TB / month of storage used $0.140 per GB – next 50 TB / month […]
Read moreGmail introduces Mail Goggles
Do you have a tendancy of sending emails late at night that you really shouldn’t? Maybe after a long night out drinking? Well the Gmail team has just rolled out Mail Goggles which may come to the rescue. Once activate Gmail will prompt you with a couple simple math problems before an email can be […]
Read moreXP SP3, Remote Desktop and Console Session
The other day I was trying to help a client connect to the Console Session on a Windows 2003 Server from their XP computer. For some reason connecting via mstsc.exe /console they were not getting connected to the console. What was odd was that from my XP laptop I had no problems. I was ready to […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 Running Windows Server: Coming Soon
Amazon has announced that later this fall that they will offer the ability to run Windows Server and SQL Server in the EC2 environment.
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