March, 2011

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Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Music to my Ears - Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player. By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon.com announced new solutions to help customers manage their digital music collections. Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player enable customers to securely and reliably store music in the cloud and play it on any Android phone, tablet, Mac

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Sprint's Marathon

The Agile Manager

There's been a lot of public hand-wringing at the proposed AT&T / T-Mobile USA merger, particularly with regard to Sprint. Sprint is a distant third in subscribers today, but this is a very dynamic market. Today's subscriber count may not be relevant to tomorrow's. First, most mobile subscribers aren't bound to a network. While a post-merger AT&T/T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless would have most of the customers, there are no switching penalties for long-term handset contract customers.

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Breaking Development Update

Tim Kadlec

Yesterday the last of the topics for Breaking Development was announced. I couldn’t be happier with how it all turned out! I think there’s an awesome mix of talks that are going to really challenge people to reconsider how they approach mobile development. Also, since last I wrote about the event, we added a special half hour talk by Brian Alvey. Brian has a ton of experience managing the content for some major mobile applications and I think his talk on mobile and the cloud is going to be a gre

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region. By Werner Vogels on 01 March 2011 10:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today Amazon Web Services is expanding its world-wide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region located in Tokyo, Japan.

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton. By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. I have been to the conference almost every year and it is getting better every time.

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Responsive Web Design and Mobile Context

Tim Kadlec

There is an active, and very interesting, debate taking place right now in the web community about the merits of responsive web design—particularly how it applies to mobile. On one side of the fence you have the “one web” group who believe that you should be delivering the same content to both mobile and desktop users, typically anchored by a responsive approach.

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