Amazon to offer Oracle's database in the cloud

From InfoWorld: Oracle's database will be available in the second quarter as part of Amazon Web Services' Relational Database Service, the companies announced Tuesday.

The move comes shortly after Salesforce.com announced Database.com, a pay-as-you-go product that is also powered in...

Apple Rejects Sony Reader App, Says Report

From PC World: Apple is proving once again that if you don't play by its rules (which appear to change on a whim) then you don't get into the iOS app store. This time the company has reportedly rejected an e-reader app from Sony because the electronics maker was not selling e-books...

Boxee Box's Netflix app delayed--again

From CNET News.com: As January came and went, those hoping for Netflix on the Boxee Box were once again disappointed.

In an early morning blog post today, Boxee revealed that its Netflix app failed to make a self-imposed January 31 deadline because "we have not yet satisfied Netflix...

IPv4 Internet addresses: 251 blocks down, 5 to go

From CNET News.com: Yesterday marked an important step toward the end of Internet plumbing as we know it.

Specifically, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated two of the last seven blocks of Net addresses that use today's Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). That...

Microsoft Outs Yahoo! Mail as Windows Phone 7 Phantom Data Menace

From DailyTech: Microsoft has finally gone public with the "third party" behind the phantom data menace afflicting a "single digit" percentage of its Windows Phone 7 smartphones. That app is Yahoo! Mail (previous speculation that HTC apps might be implicated now seems incorrect)...

AMD Demos 5W APU for Tablet Computers

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices claims that power consumption of its code-named Ontario accelerated processing unit (APU) can be reduced to 5W. Such APU can power devices like tablets, but it is clearly a temporary solution and going forward AMD will have to introduce a...

Intel Finds Design Flaw in Sandy Bridge Chipset

From PC World: Intel on Monday said it had stopped shipments of the chipset used with its latest generation of Core processors after it found a design flaw.

The flawed chipset was used in PCs with the next-generation Core processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture, which were...

Oracle data modeler tool gets collaborative

From InfoWorld: Oracle will release on Monday Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler 3.0, an upgrade to its relational database modeling tool that accommodates collaborative development via links to the open source Subversion version control system.

Integrating with Oracle SQL Developer...

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