By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Come November 1, Amazon's Web Services division will be lowering the per-hour prices for all of its current five instance types (AMIs), while adding two new AMI types on the high-end, according to a multitude of announcements from Amazon today. At the new high end of the scale will be a "quadruple extra-large" AMI with 68.4 GB of dedicated RAM, and the virtual computing power of a 1 GHz, 26-core Intel Xeon processor (albeit a 2007 model)[......]
Archive for October, 2009
By Tim Conneally , Betanews I was sitting in the dentist's chair getting my teeth drilled, while the technician complained about her now-worthless Sidekick. [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews During an industry event whose original purpose was to concentrate on SharePoint 2010, Microsoft's collaborative server product, CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that his company is making ready an official "public beta" of Office 2010, the applications suite for Windows[......]
By Carmi Levy , Betanews System performance is an interesting concept; everyone seems to define it differently. To some, it involves chewing through a complex spreadsheet. To others, it's how fast a 3D video sequence can be rendered, or how easily Web pages are served up[......]
By Carmi Levy , Betanews There are service outages, and then there are service outages. T-Mobile customers who carry the Sidekick smartphone are learning the hard way that there's a major difference between having no access to a service for a little while and losing every contact, calendar entry, and related shred of personal data they've got . [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews 12:05 pm EDT October 11, 2009 [......]
