Google not going to enter browser market
News For example, Amazon's new search venture A9.com is built by several application protocol interfaces that tap into Amazon's own "search inside the book" feature. Amazon started a Web services division two years ago and it now has more than 65,000...
[October 6, 2004, 9:15]
IBM and Microsoft back Zend's cloud API plan
News The initial goals for the project are to create interfaces for file storage, document database and simple queue services from Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Nirvanix Storage Delivery and Rackspace Cloud Files.
[September 23, 2009, 17:02]
IBM joins the 'cloud computing' bandwagon
News IBM on Monday launched a major initiative into 'cloud computing', a current term for internet-based services, in an effort it hopes will challenge the early lead of cloud pioneers such as Amazon and Google.
[October 6, 2008, 17:16]
Amazon opens up SimpleDB to the public
News SimpleDB is just one of many components that make up the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud-computing initiative — the others being the Simple Storage Service (S3) hosted storage facility, the CloudFront content-delivery service and the Elastic...
[December 1, 2008, 16:11]
SugarCRM adds mobile, collaboration tools
News Rest support is designed to make it easier for SugarCRM to interact with services such as Amazon's Flexible Payment Services. The software allows users to log in via mobile devices such as the BlackBerry or the iPhone, and the new release allows...
[June 2, 2009, 12:55]
Java makes Google App Engine more mainstream
News It can mean anything from raw computing services that can be bolted together, as in the case of Amazon Web Services, to finished products such as the Picnik photo-editing site or Salesforce.com customer-management service.
[April 9, 2009, 8:54]
Google fosters ties with developers
News As web applications become more functional, developer programmes have become important strategies for web properties such as Amazon, eBay, Microsoft and Yahoo, which itself first hosted a Hack Day for developers last autumn.
[June 1, 2007, 15:36]
Shuttleworth: Karmic Koala to make cloud 'dance'
News The Ubuntu cloud strategy is, for now, based on the use of the application programming interfaces (APIs) for Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform. A tool called 'Ubuntu-vmbuilder' already makes it possible to create a custom Amazon Machine...
[February 23, 2009, 12:52]
EBay: OS for the highest bidder
News and Amazon.com, gives the company a powerful base from which to launch new commerce initiatives. EBay is estimated to control more than 80 percent of the online consumer auction market, with Yahoo and Amazon its closest competitors, according to...
[November 20, 2000, 12:55]
PayPal plugs in Azure, woos developers
News PayPal has also had a fire lit underneath it since Amazon rolled out its own online payments service around this time last year. It let users make online purchases using billing information that was stored on Amazon.com.
[July 24, 2009, 16:42]
Web services adoption too slow for Microsoft
News But in terms of customer-facing (sites), does Amazon have a Web services interface? When we look out on the landscape, we don't see enough Web sites -- and, in particular, customer-facing sites -- that have XML Web services interfaces that people...
[September 12, 2002, 12:17]
Open-source cloud platform goes commercial
Blog Crucially, Eucalyptus appears to the be the only private cloud platform today that supports the same application programming interfaces (APIs) as public clouds - in this case the popular Amazon Web Services.
[April 29, 2009, 13:15]
Amazon, Google lead new path to Web services
News We have discussion boards, they help each other debug one another, post code," said Colin Bryar, director of Amazon's Web services and associates program. There are actually sites that are directories of Web services using the Amazon API.
[November 25, 2002, 10:07]
Microsoft to launch 'Windows Cloud' in a month
News Amazon said on Wednesday that it would offer some of its cloud-computing customers the option of running Windows over its systems. You get rich user interfaces and user interaction, which is only going to get better with speech.
[October 2, 2008, 16:25]
