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Amazon Launches RDS: a Relational Database in the Cloud Service

There's a new Amazon acronym to learn. RDS stands for Relational Database Service and it is the newest addition to Amazon's suite of web services. Unlike previous data services from Amazon such as SimpleDB, RDS is relational (our profiles for the SimpleDB API and new RDS API). In fact, it's a MySQL ...

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Original... Web 2.0 — October 28

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Spotify CTO Tunes Out, Leaves The Company

I have been following Spotify, the hot start-up of the moment from the days when founder Daniel Ek used to share office space with one of our neighbors on Pier 38 in San Francisco. Since then, we have moved to new offices and Daniel’s company has raised tons of money, is valued at a rumored...

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GigaOM — October 27

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"Hose-to-the-Sky:" Still Spewing SO2 idea to Stop Global Warming?

Hosed by this theory or greenwashed? Photo by Tony Stl via Flickr On ABC's 20/20 last Friday, Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's former chief technology officer, and founder/CEO of Intellectual Ventures (IV), resurrected the idea of stretching a 2-inch hose up 100,000 feet (15 kilometers) into t...

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TreeHugger — October 26

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Open Microblogging Service Hires Former Creative Commons Strategist

An all-star team is forming at StatusNet, the open microblogging service for businesses and communities. The newest addition is Jon Phillips, former community and business development manager for Creative Commons. Phillips joins Brion Vibber, who came from the Wikimedia Foundation where he serv...

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Original... Web 2.0 — October 23

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imsense Founder Awarded Royal Photographic Society’s Davies Medal

Professor Graham D Finlayson, founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cambridge-based computer vision company imsense, has been awarded the Royal Photographic Society’s Davies Medal for 2009. Read more and comment » ...

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PhotographyBLOG — October 23

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Fusion-io gets its power-saving memory cards into MySpace data centers

Fusion-io is announcing today that MySpace is adopting its power-saving flash memory cards across its huge data center operations. The deal is a significant customer win for Fusion-io and an endorsement for its new way of storing data. It should garner more attention for the Salt Lake City-based ...

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VentureBeat — October 13