Amazon Web Services has added a new storage instance for data intensive applications. The new instances are designed for applications that require high storage depth and I/O performance. According to the AWS blog, the “High Storage Eight Extra Large (hs1.8xlarge) instances includes 120 GiB of RAM, 16 virtual cores (providing 35 ECU of compute performance), […]
Posted on December 21st, 2012 by admin
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YouTube first launched its Data API back in 2007, and it has since become the video giant’s most popular API in terms of request volume. Today, YouTube announced that it has officially opened version 3.0 of its API to all developers. The new APIs bring a number of important changes to bear on its current […]
Posted on December 15th, 2012 by admin
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Today, Larry Summers became the latest prominent name to endorse Lending Club — the fast-growing peer-to-peer lending company that aims to connect creditworthy borrowers with smart investors — as the former U.S. Treasury Secretary joined the company’s growing, star-studded board of directors. The economist, also known for serving as the 27th president of Harvard University […]
Posted on December 13th, 2012 by admin
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Windows Azure Mobile Services has added push notification for developers so they can fire off updates that may include sounds, badges or SMS messages. Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president in the Microsoft Tools and Servers group, writes that the new push notification , using Apple Push Notification Services (APNS), is one of a series of updates […]
Posted on December 6th, 2012 by admin
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Revstream has a new offering for SaaS providers and subscription-based companies that takes into account the dynamics of managing cloud services as compared to traditional software billing. The new service, Revstream Cloud, is a SaaS that simplifies billing with business logic that’s not possible with traditional billing software. It stands in contrast to the company’s Revstream […]
Posted on November 20th, 2012 by admin
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) added support today for a browser specification that defines ways for apps to allow resources to be accessed by web pages from different domains. The practice is called Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) and has been requested by AWS users for the past few years. The new service represents another way that AWS automates tasks that developers […]
Posted on September 1st, 2012 by admin
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Twilio, the startup that lets developers incorporate cloud-based voice and messaging services directly into mobile and web apps via a series of APIs, continues to scale up its business — crucial to how the company will make money on its low-cost service in the longer term. Today, Twilio added five more countries in beta to […]
Posted on August 29th, 2012 by admin
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Walt Disney Corporation added a bit of nonsensical anti-open source FUD to a kid’s sitcom that it aired this past weekend. But the dialogue is so ridiculous that you have to wonder if they have any clue about what they are doing. In an episode aired Friday on the Disney Channel, the show Shake It […]
Posted on August 20th, 2012 by admin
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Several weeks ago, reports started to trickle out that a number of Dropbox users were under attack from spam. Since then, Dropbox has been investigating those attacks (with some help from a third-party) and today gave the first update on the progress, saying that some accounts were indeed accessed by hackers, but that it is […]
Posted on August 5th, 2012 by admin
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Salesforce.com has added contacts, deal tracking and public APIs to its do.com platform for task management. Initially, Salesforce.com is adding the capability to integrate Facebook and Google contacts. It will soon after add Twitter and Salesforce.com. The deal management capability adds to the do.com lightweight CRM environment. Do.com is also opening its APIs for integration into […]
Posted on August 2nd, 2012 by admin
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