Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks … walk into certain Amazon meetings, and you may momentarily think you’ve stumbled into a computer science lecture…more

By Ed Bott | March 30, 2011, 2:21pm PDT What Apple took away, Amazon has restored. I’m talking, of course, about Lala, the pioneering digital music service that Apple purchased in December 2009 and shut down more than a year ago. The first thing Apple did, almost immediately after purchasing the company, was to disable its Music [...]

By Chris Nuttall in San Francisco Published: March 10 2011 I rediscovered my old AOL e-mail account this week and was taken down e-memory lane as the famous “You’ve Got Mail!” message boomed from the PC speaker as I signed in. After years of neglect and only spam in my inbox, it was like a voice [...]

Advantages and drawbacks of both ‘cloud-’ and ‘ground’ computing

Wednesday 15 April 2009 | 10:39 AM CET   UK cable and mobile operator Virgin Media said it will offer enhanced email services to its four million home broadband customers in partnership with Google. The operator’s new email service will offer customers over 7 GB of storage and @virginmedia.com email addresses for the first time. ..read more

Written by Richard MacManus / January 6, 2009 6:30 PM  A new report from Forrester presents a cost analysis of cloud-based email systems in enterprises, such as Google Apps or Yahoo!’s Zimbra. In the report, Forrester argues that cloud-based email services are cheaper than running email on-premise for all companies with less than 15,000 employees. [...]