Amazon launches Cloudfront - its own CDN
I may be the last person to write about it. A few months back Amazon pledged to launch its own Content Delivery Network (CDN). And now they are ready with Amazon Cloudfront. Like all Amazon’s cloud services product offerings, this one too comes without any contracts or monthly commitments. Just pay for what you use.
Gmail gets themes support
Google added themes support for a select batch of Gmail users. I logged in a while back to find out gmail inbox in a strange shade of blue, with a notice at the top informing about new theme control panel in Gmail settings area.
Store moons and asteroids in Hotmail
Why does Microsoft or their services become butt of jokes every time? I logged in to my Hotmail account today (to keep it alive, of course) and was greeted with a service message informing me about the new cleaner, customizable UI and how it is up to 70% faster than before.
Meet Windows Azure: Microsoft’s cloud services platform
The next big thing in computing we are hearing these days is “cloud computing“. Every computing infrastructure vendor is announcing their range of “cloud services” offerings, or is charting their strategy to offer one. A couple of days back at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC), Microsoft announced their plans about Windows Azure - An internet [...]
[Halloween] Google is scared of Zombies
Google, the most popular search engine has huge computing resources available at its disposal. Google’s bots and spiders crawl the farthest reaches of interweb in search of more and more content to munch on — but when it comes to zombies eating their brains, they don’t want to take any chance. Google.com’s robots.txt directive currently [...]
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