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New Amazon competitors offer some compelling deals in the cloud, but at what price? Hosting provider Atlantic.net launched a $0.99 per month cloud server this fall, which is significantly less expensive than the $0.013 per hour starting price for market-leader Amazon Web Services’ on-demand Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual machines. […]
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BlackBerry, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS take different approaches to staying alive. The smartphone operating system market is dominated by Android and iOS, but you can never count out Microsoft, so let’s say that Windows Phone, despite lagging in market share, rounds out the Big Three. That leaves four […]
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Amazon took to social media and YouTube Wednesday with a cagey promotion for an upcoming launch event, setting off rampant Internet speculation that its long-rumored smartphone is about to be announced. “Join Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos for our launch event,” the company said on Twitter. The event will be June […]
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A diverse set of real-world Java benchmarks shows that Google is fastest, Azure is slowest, and Amazon is priciest If the cartoonists are right, heaven is located in a cloud where everyone wears white robes, every machine is lightning quick, everything you do works perfectly, and every action is accompanied […]