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Amazon RDS

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Amazon has just begun offering (in beta) a new "Relational Database Service" or RDS for short. It's MySQL 5.1 wrapped into a user-friendly API to make it super easy to backup and scale your server. They also added new and larger EC2 machine types for which typical use case would be a database server.

I have not used any of the AWS seriously but I must admit that I find the idea and technology really interesting. Perhaps I can come up with a nice project to make use of these technologies. I'll put this in the back of my mind and see if I can come up with something.
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Amazon Kindle Coming to Europe

There is a new Kindle on the block! And this one can be ordered and used in Europe including downloading of books over "whispernet". Finaly a Kindle for the rest of the World. Now it's time for them to get publishers to put more books into Kindle format.

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It's in pre-order and will ship on October 19th. I hope the DX is not to far behind!

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Nvidia fermi GPU Architecture

For all of us that have an interest in OpenCL and GPGPU technologies, Nvidia has published data on its next generation Fermi architecture. Next generation GPUs will embed 512 cores, sport a greatly improved memory architecture and much more. I love the Mac platform but I wish that it was better supported by the leading manufacturers Nvidia and ATI. In any case, these cards will scream.
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