links for 2008-03-04
- TNS buys Compete: “Today Taylor Nelson Softres (TNS) announced the acquisition of Compete. TNS is a $2 billion world leader in market information and insight, headquartered in London. Together Compete and TNS are creating the world’s first and largest fully global consum (tags: Business, Acquisitions, analytics, web, statistics)
- PC World – Facebook Music Dances With iTunes: “lets bands create their own profiles, sell tickets and merchandise through a deal with the Music Today service. Tracks can be streamed and Facebook is providing a link to iTunes in order that acts can offer songs for sale to fans visiting their pages.” (tags: Facebook, iTunes, Apple, myspace, Music, Business, media, ecommerce, socialsoftware)
- Microsoft flirts with “cloud”-based applications, still making billions off Earth-bound variety » VentureBeat: “Utilizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 as well as Microsoft Office SharePoint Service 2007, services such as e-mail, contacts, calendars and conferencing will all be available to use and sync online.” (tags: Microsoft, SaaS, Enterprise, cloud, Google, architecture)
- Building a Multisourced Infrastructure Using OpenVPN: “As more applications find their way to Amazon’s virtual computing environment, system administrators are looking for ways to provide secure connectivity over the public Internet between new machines in the Amazon EC2 and old machines in their regular dat (tags: Amazon, cloud, ec2, hosting, Networking, opensource, Security, virtualization, infrastructure)
- Fast & Easy EC2 Dashboard With Standalone ElasticFox - AideRSS Blog: “…a standalone desktop version of ElasticFox.” (tags: Amazon, ec2, Firefox, cloud, architecture)
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