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Amazon Web Services:
Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption in the US East Region — Now that we have fully restored functionality to all affected services, we would like to share more details with our customers about the events that occurred with the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2") …
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Arik Hesseldahl / All Things Digital:
Amazon Details Last Week's Cloud Failure, and Apologizes — Amazon has released a detailed account of its terrible, horrible, no good very bad week, during which portions of its Amazon Web Services crashed in the US, and brought the operations of numerous other companies down with it.
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Electronista
Jon Brodkin / Network World:
Amazon: Bad execution during planned upgrade caused outage
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The Next Web and Computerworld
Henry Blodget / SAI:
Amazon's Cloud Crash Disaster Permanently Destroyed Many Customers' Data
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PC World, SiliconANGLE, Computerworld and Digital Trends
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Hackers Claim to Have PlayStation Users' Card Data — Security researchers said Thursday that they had seen discussions on underground Internet forums indicating that the hackers who infiltrated the Sony PlayStation Network last week may have made off with the credit card numbers of Sony customers.
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PC World, LAPTOP Magazine, Gamasutra, CNN, BetaNews, Guardian, VG247, Pulse2, I4U News, Mashable!, SlashGear, CNET News, The Escapist, Geek.com, Security Bytes, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Geekosystem, VentureBeat, WebProNews, Cathode Tan, Destructoid, VentureBeat, Gawker, Kotaku, Fast Company, GamePolitics News, Help Net Security, CNET News, TechEye, Betabeat, Digital Trends, The Next Web and Threat Level
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Griffin McElroy / Joystiq:
Sony evaluating possible goodwill gesture for PSN outage and breach
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TechFlash, PlayStation Blog, Ars Technica, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, USA Today, IndustryGamers, PC World, GamePolitics News, Techland, Destructoid, Softpedia News, Kotaku, Computerworld, Kotaku and VG247
Reuters:
Sony faces global legal action over data theft
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CNET News, PC World, GMSV, Games blog and I4U News
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
Hacker Geohot denies involvement in PlayStation Network attack, blames Sony's hubris
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geohot got sued, The Escapist, DailyTech, Kotaku, Gizmodo and Computerworld
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Sources: Apple utilizing ‘iCloud’ internally, service to be more than music — Apple has begun adopting the “iCloud” name within several products currently under development, suggesting the appropriately labeled moniker is indeed the frontrunner for the company's soon-to-debut Internet cloud service …
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Gizmodo, SlashGear, IntoMobile, MacRumors, RazorianFly, WebProNews and Electronista
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Yes, Apple Did Buy the iCloud.com Domain — Apple has indeed acquired the domain name iCloud.com from Sweden-based hybrid cloud computing outfit Xcerion. Sources in position to know confirm that Apple bought the domain as GigaOm first reported Thursday, though they declined to say whether …
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Computerworld, 9 to 5 Mac, GigaOM, App Advice, RazorianFly, AppleInsider, I4U News, Softpedia News, TUAW, TechSpot, Edible Apple, Electronista, O'Grady's PowerPage, The Domains and MacRumors
Alex Pham / Pop & Hiss:
Price war! Amazon launches 69-cent MP3 store for top-selling tunes — Amazon.com, which is a distant No. 2 to Apple Inc. as a retailer of downloadable music, has upped the ante or, rather, lowered its prices to compete with iTunes. — The Seattle online company is now pricing select top-selling tunes …
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MacRumors, Gizmodo, Electronista, TechSpot, RazorianFly, iLounge, iClarified and hypebot
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Verizon Plans To Put Location-Tracking Warning Sticker on Phones — Verizon tells Congress that it plans to put warning labels on phones (illustration from Verizon letter to Markey and Barton) — Though Apple and Google have become the whipping boys for location privacy …
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Phone Scoop, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget, Electronista, Techland, BGR, Know Your Cell and MobileBurn.com
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Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Google sued over Android data location collection
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Bloomberg, BGR, Detroit News, Geek.com, GigaOM, SlashGear, Android Community, IntoMobile, TechEye, OStatic blogs, MediaPost, Android Phone Fans, The Register and CrunchGear
Zach Honig / Engadget:
HBO Go hits iOS and Android, free for subscribers — Don't ditch that premium cable subscription just yet. The long-anticipated HBO Go app just hit the iOS App Store and Android Market, bringing original HBO series and a variety of blockbuster films to your mobile device.
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GigaOM, PC World, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, SocialTimes.com, PhoneArena, WebProNews, GottaBeMobile, BGR, RazorianFly, MobileBurn.com and Electronista
Tim Cushing / Techdirt:
Leaked Documents Show How The RIAA Plans To Spend The Limewire Settlement — The RIAA believes it is on the cusp of victory in its lawsuit against Limewire, thanks mainly to its large selection of damaging charts. However, it seems to be expecting the worst, if these leaked documents are any indication.
Antti Vilpponen / ArcticStartup Posts:
Some More On The Nokia Microsoft Partnership — Nokia Ääni blog, which is the Finnish equivalent of the Nokia Conversations blog, has just released in the past few days some interesting material regarding the Nokia Microsoft Partnership. The information trickles from a video …
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LiveSide.net
Sarah Kessler / Mashable!:
Bank Lets Customers Pay Friends By Bumping iPhones — ING Direct customers can now transfer payments to friends with the bump of a cellphone — no account numbers needed. — The bank released an updated version of its iPhone app [iTunes link] on Wednesday morning that integrates an API …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Worldwide Mobile Phone Market Grew 20% In Q1 2011, Fueled By Smartphone Boom — According to research firm IDC, the global mobile phone market ballooned in the first quarter of this year, growing 19.8 percent year-over-year, mostly due to the meteoric rise of smartphone shipments, especially in emerging markets.
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IDC, BetaNews, MacRumors, BGR, The Loop, Dow Jones Newswires, RazorianFly and Reuters
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Facebook takedown followup: what happened, and what Facebook needs to fix — Facebook has reinstated a number of sites' Facebook pages that were taken down due to bogus copyright claims this week. The company issued an apology for the inconvenience and says that DMCA notice abuse is an issue …
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paidContent, PlagiarismToday, Tech News and TechEye
Greg Lamm / TechFlash:
Amazon to take away 1,249 jobs in S.C. over sales tax beef — The Alliance for Main Street Fairness criticized the tax deal. — Amazon.com has been on a hiring binge, and its need to open more fulfillment centers across the U.S. has been a big factor. But the Seattle ecommerce giant …
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@jason, CrunchGear, The State, ReveNews and Associated Press
Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
Billboards suck. Promote your company's jobs on Techmeme! — As you might have noticed, a hiring boom is underway in tech, leading to ballooning salaries, aggressive recruiting tactics, and finally, billboards. [1, 2] Yes, billboards along Bay Area highways now pitch jobs to the small fraction …
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@qthrul, @cameronbrain, @jason, @om, @dannysullivan, @randyholloway, @softlayer and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer »
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Confirms It Has Passed 200 Million Accounts, 70% of Traffic Now International — The number of people who have registered accounts on Twitter has now surpassed 200 million, a representative of the company said publicly yesterday. Katie Stanton, Twitter's Vice President of International Strategy …
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The Huffington Post, @jason, @patrickseitz and @fredericl
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Why Can't Anyone Make A Popular Tablet? — I've been thinking a lot about the popularity of tablets and the problems manufacturers face coming up against the iPad. The devices that we see here at CG are all pretty amazing - even the Playbook was a cool, if flawed, device - but no one device seems to be able to grab any traction.
Amit / Digital Inspiration Technology Blog:
Twitter Introduces Text Ads — Twitter is experimenting with sponsored text-ads on their website that show-up just after the “trends” section. The first round of text-ads mainly promoted Twitter apps and other services built around the Twitter ecosystem but that is no longer the case.
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Mashable!, AllTwitter, SAI and MarketingVOX, Thanks:labnol
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft tool aims to help developers migrate iPhone applications to Windows Phone — Microsoft released a developer tool on April 29 that is aimed at helping iPhone developers port their applications more easily to Windows Phones. — Microsoft officials described the new API …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Apple, Google will testify to Senate on location tracking — Franken, Leahy confirm both companies will answer questions about smartphone privacy at May 10 inquiry — Computerworld - Representatives from both Apple and Google will testify at a Congressional hearing next month on consumer privacy …
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App Advice, Al Franken, RazorianFly, MacRumors and TUAW
