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Amazon Elastic Block Store launches

Amazon has just launched EBS (Elastic Block Store) which allows anyone to attach persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage to an EC2 instance. For me basically this is the end of hosting to traditional companies and from now on all our...

The future of operating systems: my point of view

In the last few years there have been many changes in the world that were so expected that only few people talk about how they will change the future of personal computers. First of all I would like to summarize these changes and then analyze 4 different approaches on...

Latest news sum up for next gen Toyota Prius hybrid 2009

In the last few days there has been a lot of activity and press releases regarding the upcoming Generation 3 Toyota Prius. So here is a sum up of all verified news regarding the new Prius: Next Gen Prius to have 67% larger NiMH battery with 71 MPG (vs. 50 MPG current...

A tip for ultra-fast web browsing

 The last few months there has been a great interest around SSD drives and their 0.1ms access time. We all want to get an SSD ASAP but the prices are still too high. However there is software that can create a drive on your computer using its memory. This means that...