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Amazon Releases Kindle Source Code – Slashdot
“Barnes & Noble receives a lot of credit from the slashdot community for standing up to Microsoft and for allowing the nook to be so easy to root, but perhaps Amazon releasing the source code to the Kindle will help it gain back supporters it lost…
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Amazon Goes XXL: Introduces CC2 Instance
“The official name for the instance is the Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large, but they’re dubbing it CC2. It sports two 8-core Intel Xeon processors with Hyper-Threading enabled, which gives the beast 32 hardware execution threads. The CC2 instanc…
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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?
In April, Facebook announced the Open Compute Project (OCP). It sounded pretty crazy at the time: Facebook was proposing an open, commodity infrastructure for Web-scale infrastructure. But the idea has legs, and today announced a formation of a foundation for the Open Compute Project. Will your next servers be designed by Facebook and friends? Sponsor […]
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Will Your Next Server Be Designed by Facebook?
In April, Facebook announced the Open Compute Project (OCP). It sounded pretty crazy at the time: Facebook was proposing an open, commodity infrastructure for Web-scale infrastructure. But the idea has legs, and today announced a formation of a foundation for the Open Compute Project. Will your next servers be designed by Facebook and friends? Sponsor […]
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Nokia's N9 Swan Song: Be Still, My Beating Heart
Remember back when Nokia jumped to Windows Phone 7, abandoning all other platforms and future directions? Remember Elop’s infamous ‘burning platform’ memo was coveniently ‘leaked’ to the web? Remember how Elop claimed Windows Phone 7 was the only way forward, since nothing else inside the company would be ready for prime time soon enough? Remember […]
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Nokia's N9 Swan Song: Be Still, My Beating Heart
Remember back when Nokia jumped to Windows Phone 7, abandoning all other platforms and future directions? Remember Elop’s infamous ‘burning platform’ memo was coveniently ‘leaked’ to the web? Remember how Elop claimed Windows Phone 7 was the only way forward, since nothing else inside the company would be ready for prime time soon enough? Remember […]