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The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to map the stars in our galaxy and might use Amazon's cloud computing service to crunch the data.
SAS chief: Hot on fraud detection, cool on cloud computing
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Amazon Web Services to expand into Asia-Pacific
Amazon Web Services will expand its footprint to Asia-Pacific during the first half of 2010, the cloud-computing infrastructure vendor said Thursday.
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Google announced today a big drop in its price for online storage for the Picasa photo editing application and other apps. The price is now a quarter of what it was for as much as twice the capacity.
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