Last week Skype rolled out an application for the iPhone. If you are on a WiFi network you can make calls to other skype users or phones. I have used it to make phone calls to land lines a couple of times the quality of the call was really good. The main problem is that […]
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Amazon S3 Announces Temporary Lower Transfer-In Costs
In celebration of S3’s 3rd anniversary Amazon has announced the reduction of the transfer-in costs for data from $0.10/GB to $0.03GB for April – May 2009. Now is the time to transfer all the home videos and music that isn’t backed up else where.
Read moreAmazon Elastic MapReduce
Amazon anounces Elastic MapReduce. Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). If you […]
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