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Did Google just doom the lot of small-scale cloud providers?

Originally posted on Gigaom: About a year ago, I wrote a post comparing cloud computing providers to fast-food chains. I called Amazon(s amzn) Web Services the McDonald’s of the cloud, Rackspace(s rax)the Wendy’s and Google(s goog) — in a close third place — the Burger King. Since then, Google has been steadily creeping up on…
DDR4 Heir-Apparent Makes Progress | EE Times

The current paradigm has become increasingly complex, said Black, and HMC is a significant shift. It uses a vertical conduit called through-silicon via (TSV) that electrically connects a stack of individual chips to combine high-performance logic with DRAM die. Essentially, the memory modules are structured like a cube instead of being placed flat on a…
The rebirth of the Ishtar Gate
Ex-Spotify Engineers Raise $2.2 Million For Lookback, A Mobile App Screen Recorder For User Testing

I might find an app like this useful depending on how “cloud-based” it actually is. To date we have used Panopto Focus Recorder for this type of job, and it is fully cloud -hosted with recordings being uploaded in the background to the big website/database in the sky.
Microsoft Launches Office For iPad, Available At 11am PT Today
Last.fm Shuts Down Its Streaming Service To Focus On Scrobbling

I never subscribed to Last.fm as I had already bought music for the keeping and owning. Discovering and streaming were not my thing. But now Spotify has sucked all teh air outta the room and Last.fm is closing up shop. I’m beginning to think now that iTunes has streaming/radio available Spotify is going to have…
In Response To Google, Amazon Announces Massive Price Cuts For S3, EC2, ElastiCache, Elastic MapReduce And RDS

The game is on, and I would hope the big players hosting their big web apps (Box.com, Spotify, etc.) will benefit as much as the small guys. I doubt however it’s all that easy to host/de-host once you marry yourself to a particular cloud hosting provider. But this price competition can only be a good…
A Brief History Of Oculus

It’s important to know the full implications of Facebook buying Oculus. Let’s first start with the history lesson,… how did we get here?
The Creator Of “Doom” Is Now A Facebook Employee

It’s true, John Carmack did take up residence at Oculus. Makes me wonder how long he is for the new mashup. I would like to think Facebook will treat it like an independent subsidiary able to chart its own course. That would be best for everyone.
Financial Firms Looking To Linux, Windows 7 As XP Support Dries Up

I think the same was true in the era prior to WinXP (2001), when IBM’s OS/2 was the only game in town for the ATMs. They migrated once, they can do it again.