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• IBM offers Tivoli Monitoring for Amazon cloud deployments

  Companies running applications on Amazon Web Services can now monitor their environments using IBM’s Tivoli Monitoring software.

• Amazon called out over cloud security, secrecy

  Amazon's cloud computing service should not be used for applications that require advanced security and availability, the Burton Group analyst firm says in a report accusing Amazon of secrecy regarding its cloud data centers.

• Amazon Web Services to expand into Asia-Pacific

  Amazon Web Services will expand its footprint to Asia-Pacific during the first half of 2010, the cloud-computing infrastructure vendor said Thursday.

• Space agency eyes Amazon cloud for star data

  The European Space Agency plans to launch a new scanning satellite to map the stars in our galaxy in more precise form than ever before, and researchers supporting the project, called Gaia, are evaluating whether Amazon's cloud computing service can handle the mammoth processing task.

• Siemens invokes Twitter to lure unified communications application developers

  SAN FRANCISCO -- Siemens is invoking the model of iPhone-application development by opening a site in Amazon's cloud to encourage creation of unified communications apps, priming the pump with a mashup it created that mixes its UC gear with Twitter.

• Amazon downplays report highlighting vulnerabilities in its cloud service

  Amazon said today that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego.

• Amazon simplifies payments with new PayPhrase system

  Amazon Payments has introduced a new way to pay at Amazon.com and a number of other web retailers. The service is called PayPhrase and lets users enter a phase and personal identification number to speed up the checkout process, it said on Thursday.

• Better definitions of cloud services needed says Forrester

  Businesses should recognise the different types of cloud computing before they embark on a cloud project. That's according to Forrester Research, which has just produced a report looking at the types of cloud technology that are available.

• Amazon fires up Kindle in Australia

  Amazon is to make Kindle available in Australia following a US-only availability for the e-book reader since its launch.
  

• Amazon takes Kindle global, lowers price

  Amazon plans to start selling its Kindle reader in over 100 countries and territories on Oct. 19, and<strong> the company has already started booking pre-orders for the device on its web site.</strong>

• Swimming robot mimics Amazonian fish

  Taking a cue from nature, university researchers have built a swimming robot that is powered by a fin instead of a more boat-like propeller.

• Amazon's 1984 Kindle credit: thank you, Big Brother!

  There are things that should be left enough alone and Amazon's Orwellian removal of the book "Nineteen Eighty-Four" from Kindle e-readers is one of them. Orwell would have gotten a kick out of this, yet Amazon seems to miss the humor in it.

• Researchers find a new way to attack the cloud

  Amazon and Microsoft have been pushing cloud-computing services as a low-cost way to outsource raw computing power, but the products may introduce new security problems that have yet to be fully explored, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• Amazon objects to Google Books settlement

  In a strongly worded letter, Amazon added its voice to the growing chorus of cries urging a court to reject the proposed Google Books settlement.

• VMware partners to offer Amazon-like compute services

  VMware is announcing a new program on Tuesday that will allow its service-provider partners to offer pay-as-you go computing services similar to those from Amazon Web Services (AWS).