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Crash: Amazon's S3 utility goes down — There are reports that Amazon's Simple Storage Service - called S3 - suffered a “massive” outage this morning, beginning at about 7:30 am eastern time. At 9:03, an Amazon official posted a note in the service's customer forum, saying, “We can confirm the high error rate you're experiencing.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Amazon S3 Storage Service Goes Down, Still Not Up — Amazon's S3 cloud-based storage service went down earlier this morning, according to numerous tips we've received. The service has impacted many companies, including folks like Twitter. According to our tipsters, the service went down around 4:30 a.m. …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Can anyone stop this man? — Who is this? — It's Jeff Barr. Amazon's Web Services evangelist hanging out in front of Amazon's headquarters in Seattle, Washington, USA. Here's his blog. — So, why was FastCompany.tv over interviewing him today (my interview will be up on March 3)?
Susan / Check Out Blog:
Wal-Mart Chooses a Hi Def Platform — Back in December I posted a Blog that said “HD or BD - Does Anyone Care.” I only received one response, I was very disappointed. :( But following the news from Best Buy and Netflix, everyone's asking “what about Wal-Mart?” — Ok, so are you ready...Wal-Mart is going Blu.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Report: Toshiba making funeral plans for HD DVD; Wal-Mart to go all Blu (updated) — Since the beginning of the year, when Warner Bros. announced that it was pulling support for HD DVD, the prospects appeared grim. Toshiba and some of the other backers of the format put on a brave face …
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:HD DVD's “Unofficial” Official Death—Blu-ray Lives
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Hollywood Reporter:Toshiba to drop HD DVD, sources say
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New York Post:
BOARD BUCKS YANG — YAHOO! DEAL CONCERN — While Yahoo! chief Jerry Yang desperately seeks an alternative to Microsoft's $44.6 billion hostile takeover, an independent group of Yahoo!'s board members are taking the lead in shaping the company's future. — The informal group is being led by Yahoo! …
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David Benjamin / EE Times:
Users' love affair with iPhone stumps Mobile World panel — BARCELONA, Spain — A blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best recent advance in the mobile telecommunications user space came …
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Business Week:
Building the Perfect Laptop — The superslim ThinkPad X300 is Lenovo's bid for leadership in the high-stakes world of laptops — “Phyllis! Get me one of those interoffice mail envelopes!” — It was just after lunchtime on Jan. 15, and Peter Hortensius was storming through the cubicles …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Lenovo X300 vs. Apple MacBook Air... Fight! — As long as Lenovo is drawing a direct comparison between their own X300 and the MacBook Air, we thought we'd go ahead and put them side-by-side for you. So dear reader, how do you define perfection?
Yahoo! Video Blog:
Welcome to the All-New Yahoo! Video — Hey Yahoo! Video viewers and creators (and those that do both), — Notice anything different about Yahoo! Video? As you can tell we've really changed things around here and I'm really excited about it. I love online video, and our new site makes everything …
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Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine:
CloudBook Unboxing and Very First Impressions — Our CloudBook just arrived and we've taken it out of the box and snapped a few photos. Editor-in-Chief Mark Spoonauer is working on a hands-on post right now, and already we've encountered two significant problems:
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:Everex Cloudbook Unboxed, Fondled, Declared Horrible So Far
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
An Outsider's Flawed View Of Silicon Valley — Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman wrote a blog post a couple of days ago comparing Silicon Valley unfavorably to the Seattle tech scene. — I spend a lot of time in both places, and I think some of his observations are correct (people here compete to the death, people there go hiking).
Bradley Horowitz / Elatable:
On Leaving Yahoo... Leaving Yahoo. — Yes, it's true. I've left Yahoo. — It was somewhat overwhelming sifting through the barrage of reactions over the last 48 hours: “Thanks for all you've done”, “How could you?!”, “Congrats!”, etc. It's fascinating to watch people react.
Robert Buderi / Xconomy:
EMC Soaring Into the Cloud (Computing)—the Question is When, Not If — Robert Buderi wrote: — Cloud computing has put the wind in the IT industry's sails lately. It seems that there are as many interpretations of what the term means as there are clouds in the sky.
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Electronista:
Best Buy runs dry of 15-inch MacBook Pro — Retailer Best Buy is no longer stocking any 15-inch MacBook Pro online, according to reader reports. The mid-range 2.4GHz model is listed as “sold out” and therefore unavailable; the base 2.2GHz version is listed as backordered and unavailable for between 1-2 weeks.
Louise Story / New York Times:
4 News Companies Ally to Sell Ads on the Internet — Four large newspaper companies are joining forces to sell advertisements on the Internet, hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money. — Each of the four companies …
