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Article | 8/12/2009 First look: Amazon RDS gives you a MySQL server in the cloud

Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) creates a MySQL database server in the cloud.

Article | 3/07/2009 Cloud control systems tame the ether

Signifying a formless haze of computing power and storage that is somewhere "out there," computerdom's current buzzword is as difficult to get one's a...

Article | 25/02/2009 More specialty Linuxes to the rescue

The day of the mold-your-own OS has come, and Linux is the clay.

Article | 12/11/2008 Specialty Linuxes to the rescue

Linux is, among other things, a customizable operating system. Clever developers can craft a Linux whose kernel and packages are configured for a spec...

Article | 13/03/2008 Inside Google's mobile future

The Open Handset Alliance's Android SDK for creating mobile applications throws a few semantic curves at Java developers, but for the most part, they ...

Article | 28/02/2008 Inside Google's mobile future

Android is Google's foray into the handheld OS realm. It follows a path trodden by -- among others -- Symbian's Quartz, the SavaJe operating system, a...