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Amazon's S3 faces outage

Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service - a major component of its online computing services - was experiencing problems Sunday in the US. Read more »

Google modernises Web software tool

Google plans to release later this week a near-final version of the Google Web Toolkit 1.5, software designed to ease the onerous parts of writing sophisticated Web-based software.

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Nokia switches on Microsoft's Silverlight

Content developed for the software giant's alternative to Adobe's Flash will be able to be viewed on Nokia smartphones. Read more »

FireWire standard accelerates to 3.2Gbps

The speed of FireWire is set to quadruple next year after the group behind it announced a new specification for the networking interface. Read more »

Amazon to host Red Hat Linux online

Red Hat on Wednesday announced a significant departure from its current business plan, saying its flagship Linux product will be available on Amazon.com's Elastic Computing Cloud online service. Read more »

Aust IT decision-makers don't understand open source: report

Australia's top information technology decision-makers have a limited understanding of open source and very low awareness of open source products other than Linux, according to a leading analyst. Read more »

Open source advocate: Release Java code

A day after Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy said open-source software is his company's friend, a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy has called upon the server maker to open the code of Java. Read more »

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Amazon S3: For now at least, sometimes you have to reboot the cloud

Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, S3, spent a few hours Sunday in a big pothole on the road to the glorious cloud computing future, with an outage taking the storage system offline for several hours Sunday. Should we be surprised? Read more »

The Age of Automation

The '60s and '70s were the decades of the mainframe. The '80s made up the decade of client-server computing. The '90s were the Internet years. Now we're entering the decade of the electronic butler. Read more »

XML-RPC lets you set up Web services in minutes

The XML-RPC standard was developed in the late 1990s and survives unchanged today. While other specs are in flux, you can rely on this simple, stable spec. Read more »

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    When Apple announced it would be vetting every application submitted for inclusion in the App Store, this was just the kind of question that entered many a mind: just how arbitrary would the company be in wielding that veto power? Read more »

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    Hands up if you missed the Chrome release -- didn't think anyone did. Google's browser arrived with all the fanfare and hype that only Google can produce. Read more »

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    Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform". Read more »

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