Here it is in a nutshell: Amazon Web Services continues to sell briskly according to the company’s latest earnings report. For the fourth quarter, net sales in the closely-watched category that includes Amazon Web…
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Don’t like your cloud vendor? Wait a second.
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Jeff Bezos: Raising the price of Amazon Prime was a great decision
Raising the price of Amazon Prime to $99 was the right decision, Jeff Bezos crowed in the company’s Q4 2014 earnings report released Thursday. “The data is in and customers agree,”…
Yes, your Basis Peak health tracker now has phone notifications
Basis was a bit ahead of the curve when it released its first health tracking device with heart-rate monitor back in 2012. The competition has caught up now as smartwatches often…
Kids under 13 spend an average of 2 hours a day playing mobile games
If you consider yourself an average mobile gamer, you’re likely spending up to 120 minutes a day tapping on a screen to have fun. That figure comes from the NPD Group,…
Uber and MetroMile offer drivers per-mile insurance between fares
Uber has partnered with on-demand insurance provider MetroMile to start to unravel the tangled web of insurance liability it and its drivers face every time they hit the road to pick…
Opera founder unveils feature-rich Vivaldi power browser
Almost two years ago, the Norwegian browser firm Opera ripped out the guts of its product and adopted the more standard WebKit and Chromium technologies, essentially making it more like rivals…
Facebook: Downtime was caused by an internal boo-boo, not a hack
Facebook’s outage early on Tuesday, which also took out linked services such as Instagram and Tinder, was down to a technical issue caused by the company itself rather than external factors…
This week’s podcast unravels the secrets of Thread and HomeKit
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Amazon continues to reach into your server room
Microsoft already has a huge presence in most companies’ server rooms. And it hopes to keep it that way or at least, persuade those companies running Windows Server, SQL Server et al…