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Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof
torrentfreak.com
The Pirate Bay is loved by millions of file-sharers but is also a thorn in the side of the entertainment industries. The latter group continues to push authorities to take action against the site. The Pirate Bay was raided back in 2006 and there are rumors that the police might...
Keep Track of your AWS Expenses With Cloudyn
www.readwriteweb.com
With the number of individual Amazon Web Services now seemingly approaching infinity, it makes sense for third parties to get into the act of trying to keep track of what you are actually spending and whether you have over-provisioned your services. Enter Cloudyn.com, an Israeli based company that announced its...
Missile Defense Agency tells employees to stop watching porn at work
www.theverge.com
It's never really a good idea to watch porn while at the office — especially if your job involves mildly important tasks like defending the US from missile attacks. Yet that's exactly what some employees at the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency have been doing, according to a report from...
Windows flag switches to Metro style for a 'reimagined' Windows 8
www.theverge.com
Microsoft is preparing to change the style of its famous Windows flag for the next version of its popular operating system. Currently nearing beta (Consumer Preview), Windows 8 will swap out the traditional red, green, blue, and yellow flag for a 2D Metro style version. Chinese site cnBeta first...
Want to buy or sell Amazon instances? Now you can
gigaom.com
For companies that may have over stocked Amazon EC2 reserved instances, there’s now a way out: You can sell off your excess capacity on a new Amazon marketplace. And let’s face it, Amazon knows a little something about marketplaces. Amazon reserved instances are less expensive than on-demand instances , but they’re...
iPad 3 design revealed as new wave of parts leak; Retina Display possibly pictured
www.bgr.com
More details surrounding the design of Apple’s upcoming iPad 3 have been revealed as images of a variety of internal components have been published online along with new images of the tablet’s rear shell. Following reports on Wednesday that emerged surrounding a purported image of the iPad 3′s rear...
Startup takes on cloud over-provisioning
gigaom.com
Cloudyn, an Israeli startup, says its new SaaS service can help businesses stop buying more public cloud services than they need. As more companies put workloads on Amazon Web Services or other public cloud infrastructure, many pay for more services than they need because it’s hard to track how many...
LTE: fast, global, silenced by a $650 radio jammer
www.engadget.com
Oh gosh, we haven't been so panicked since our phones were hypothetically possessed by demons. And come to think of it, this is theoretically far, far worse. A research group at Virginia Tech is claiming that, due to the particular way 4G data is transmitted, an LTE base station...
Open Source Private Cloud Software Startup Eucalyptus Raises $30M From IVP, Benchmark To Take On VMware
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Eucalyptus Systems, the developer of an open source, on-premise private cloud computing platform, has raised $30 million in Series C funding led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). To date, Eucalyptus has raised a total of $55.5 million in capital. Led by...
Open Source Private Cloud Software Startup Eucalyptus Raises $30M From IVP, Benchmark To Take On VMware
Hands-On With the Jawbone Big Jambox: 2.7 Pounds of Audio Fury, Available May 15 for $299
techcrunch.com
Bigger isn’t necessarily better but in the case of Jawbone’s Jambox, it might actually work out. Typically known for their Bluetooth headsets and the ill-fated-but-not-quite-dead UP band, Jawbone has figured out what their “cool kids” product is and it happens to be a tiny portable speaker. But for the second...
Everything's broken and nobody's upset
www.hanselman.com
Software doesn't work. I'm shocked at how often we put up with it. Here's just a few issues - literally off the top of my head - that I personally dealt with last week. My iPhone 4s has 3 gigs of "OTHER" taking up space, according to iTunes. No one...
Google Analytics Update Connects Social Marketing With The Bottom Line
techcrunch.com
If you’ve ever been to an online marketing conference in the past year or so, or even read an article on the subject, you’ve probably heard someone ask, “What’s the ROI on social marketing?” (Alternate version: “What’s the value of a Like or a retweet?”) That’s what the new version...
Pirate Party Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained
www.techdirt.com
One of the key things that we find in story after story around here is that those who have a particular business model seem to think that any disruption of that business model must be illegal (or, worse, immoral). Sometimes instances of this come from strange places. For example, the...
Pirate Party Ejected From Festival For Giving Out Free Waffles After Vendors Selling Waffles Complained
Facebook Says It Now Has 235M Monthly Gamers, App Center Hits 150M Monthly Users
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Facebook’s push for more engagement on its platform, to drive advertising and other monetization efforts, is showing some gains, according to updated figures on both games and app usage released by the company today. Facebook now has 235 million people playing games on Facebook.com, up from 205 million a year...
Motorola Employee Takes A Picture Of His Desk, Possibly Confirms Existence Of Droid Razr HD
techcrunch.com
It would appear that Motorola is putting even more of an effort into its resurrected Razr line. Just a few months after the hotly anticipated Droid Razr stepped onto the scene, Motorola offered the same unit with an upgraded battery, making the Droid Razr Maxx my new favorite Android phone...
Rackspace breaks out OpenStack-based block storage with disk and SSD options
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Rackspace continued to roll out pieces of its OpenStack cloud Tuesday with the debut of Cloud Block Storage. Rackspace CTO John Engates Unlike its current non-OpenStack storage, this offering lets customers mix and match sizes of block storage volumes as needed with their compute instances. “We used to offer block...
Wanna track your Amazon cloud costs? Here's another way to do so
gigaom.com
In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a whole ecosystem of startups building businesses around making Amazon Web Services less inscrutable to business customers. And some of those startups are now partnering up with each other to provide a fuller suite of services.. Cloudyn CEO Sharon Wagner. The latest partnership is...
ACTA suffers major blow following European rejection call
www.zdnet.com
ACTA, the controversial anti-counterfeit and copyright-bolstering treaty, which at one point threatened the very existence of the Web, may not have its desired global effect should the European Parliament reject the trade agreement.And it’s one step closer to being thrown out after the guiding “rapporteur” for the treaty warned fellow parliamentarians not to...
Google revamps Play Store developer rules, looks to banish intrusive advertising
www.engadget.com
Google has tweaked the developer policy for the Play store with an eye on reducing intrusive advertising, spoof apps and clarifying subscription cancellations. Apps that pass themselves off as others, or are "confusingly similar" will now be pulled, so say goodbye to those thousand instances of Angry Byrdz. Adverts...
CloudLock aims to bring PCI compliance to Google Drive
gigaom.com
CloudLock CEO Gil Zimmermann CloudLock, the Waltham, Mass.-based startup specializing in cloud security, says it’s bringing PCI compliance to Google Drive storage with a service that scans data as it flows into and out of the data repository. The growing popularity of cloud-based storage services, such as Google Drive. The...
Newvem pulls back the curtain on Amazon cloud usage
gigaom.com
Startup Newvem has some new cloud usage data that might surprise the Amazon Web Services faithful. Newvem looked at how about 200 customers were using AWS and the results show that a large number are not getting the biggest bang for their buck Amazon is seen as the low-cost public cloud provider of...
Newvem Raises $4M From Greylock, Eric Schmidt To Help AWS Customers Spend Less Money
techcrunch.com
EXCLUSIVE-Startup Newvem, which offers a SaaS based service for Amazon/AWS customers that aims to help businesses spend less money and gain more value from Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, has raised $4 million in funding from Greylock Partners with participation from Index Ventures and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, as well as angel...
Cloudability tool tracks Amazon reserved instances
gigaom.com
Many companies use Amazon EC2 discounted reserved instances as a way to save money on their cloud computing loads. But keeping track of what instances they have and which are in use can be tricky. Cloudability is attacking that problem with a new tool that helps them search and track...
Apple throws MobileMe users a free version of Snow Leopard to update to iCloud
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MacGasm reports that Apple is giving away free copies of Snow Leopard to MobileMe users, to ease their move to iCloud. iCloud only works on Lion, so Apple is offering MobileMe users who haven’t yet purchased Snow Leopard a copy for free, so they’ll pay $30 to upgrade to Lion. Once...
Anonymous organizes protests in 18 Indian cities over web censorship
www.theverge.com
Anonymous, the internet hacking group recently profiled by Parmy Olson, has shifted its attention to the increasing permissiveness of internet censorship by the Indian government. Late last month, Anonymous disabled or intruded on government- and ISP-backed websites in response to commercially-driven attempts to block instances of copyright infringement. As...
OpenStreetMap versus Google maps
www.guardian.co.uk
Travelling to Sarajevo showed the Open Knowledge Foundation's Lucy Chambers the overwhelming reach of crowdsourced open dataNot long ago I travelled to Sarajevo for a conference. It was my first time in Bosnia, so before travelling I checked where my hotel was on Google maps:At the time, there were reports...
iPhone 5 carrier update for Verizon fixes data usage issue
www.bgr.com
Apple (AAPL) on Sunday released a carrier update to the iPhone 5 to prevent the device from using Verizon’s (VZ) cellular network when connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot. Previously, users had reported some instances where the iPhone 5 was gobbling up data that counted against their monthly bandwidth cap...
Newvem calls in Dome9 to harden Amazon cloud workloads
gigaom.com
Newvem, the feisty Israeli startup that made waves by pointing out just how insecure (or badly configured) many customers’ Amazon cloud instances are, is taking steps to remedy that situation. As Gigaom reported in April, many customers have more money than sense when it comes to spinning up instances in...
How to use fancy gestures on the iPad (and why you should)
gigaom.com
At the beginning of last year, Apple added iPad gesture controls in iOS 4.3 as a developer option. And with the debut of iOS 5 in October of last year, Apple made these multi-finger gestures official. Since then, however, I really haven’t seen the company promote this functionality the way...
ProfitBricks says it can out-Amazon Amazon's cloud
gigaom.com
ProfitBricks is nothing if not ambitious: It plans to take on Amazon in massively scalable cloud infrastructure. That’s no mean feat, but Bob Rizika, CEO of ProfitBricks USA, says the company — which launches cloud services in the U.S. this week — is attacking it from a position of strength. Robert...
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