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Tech Time Warp of the Week: Watch AT&T Invent Cloud Computing in 1994
Who invented cloud computing? Some say it was Amazon in 2006. Others say it was Google a few years earlier. But it’s all a matter of perspective. We have video proof that cloud computing was really invented in 1994 by AT&T. In the classic promotional film above – complete with some snappy cartoon art – pitches something it calls PersonaLink Services. This was a kind of online platform that used artificial intelligence to remake our lives by way of emerging portable computers such as the Apple Newton and the AT&T EO Personal Communicator. But since that’s a little hard to wrap your around, AT&T pulled out the cloud metaphor – something that had long been used among networking and telecom types. You can think…
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: Watch AT&T Invent Cloud Computing in 1994
CanIStream.It: Search Netflix, Hulu & More!
How Can I Stream It? Works CanIStream.It is a free service created by Urban Pixels that allows you to search across the most popular streaming, rental, and purchase services to find where a movie is available. If the movie you’re looking for is not available, just sign-up, set a reminder and voila we will shoot you an email when your chosen service makes the movie available. It’s simple and fast. Can I Stream It? breaks down the services into five categories: Instant Streaming Subscription based and free instant streaming services. Streaming Rental Services that offer time limited rentals (24-48 hours) for a small fee. Digital Purchase Services that offer the ability to purchase a movie forever. DVD / Bluray Services that allow you to purchase or …
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Amazon Price Tracker – camelcamelcamel.com
Use our site to ensure you get good deals on your holiday gifts this year. Before you buy, inform yourself by checking our price history charts. Our free Amazon price tracker monitors millions of products and alerts you when prices drop, helping you decide when to buy. Create Amazon price watches and get alerts via email and Twitter when prices drop. View the price history of over 18 million Amazon products. Add our price history charts to your browser with The Camelizer, our extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Signing up is quick and makes using the site more convenient. It’s also free! Have a Google, Facebook, or Twitter account? You’re welcome to sign in with those, too. Ever since I discovered it a few weeks ago…
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Amazon uses Blu-ray Disc to Archive Data, Just Like Facebook
A few years back, Amazon introduced a somewhat bizarre sounding file backup service. Unlike an ordinary S3 bucket, Glacier was designed to protect data that you didn’t constantly need access to. As the name implies, it’s a sort of digital cold storage. It also moves slowly, like a Glacier would. If you need to retrieve some files, it can take three to five hours to “thaw” them. Ever since the service was announced, people (geeky ones, anyway) have been wondering what kind of hardware Amazon Glacier uses that lets them charge such ridiculously low rates. Storage is never cheap when you’re talking about petabytes of data, but if Amazon’s only charging 1 cent per gigabyte of geo-distributed secure storage they must be …
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Amazon uses Blu-ray disc to archive data, just like Facebook
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