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Vodafone is launching a cloud-based service designed for business people and consumers who are looking for a way to back up the data on their desktops, laptops and netbooks. The move is significant as Vodafone is making another move beyond the mobile market and is using cloud-based services to get there

The launch of Apps.gov, the U.S. Government's attempt to Go Google by offering cloud-based web apps to its various agencies.

It looks like The White House has copied a page from Google'sGoogle playbook and is now advocating that federal agencies move to the cloud.

Using cloud architecture and crowdsourced data on web pages, this real-time discovery and recommendation engine ranks pages based on whether users actually visited them and returns results from all over the web, not just a handful of indexed pages.

The new site lets anyone post a question along with a monetary "reward" for answers. Then all you have to do is wait for the experts to weigh in.

With this book, you'll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to 'rent' computing power, data storage and bandwidth on Amazon's vast network infrastructure. Programming Amazon Web Services gives developers the background and technical detail they need for using Amazon's subscription-based Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications