SoftLayer aims to let customers pay for only what they need with a new infrastructure-as-a-service pricing model it calls Build Your Own Cloud.

Users can choose exactly how much RAM, CPU and storage they want.

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SoftLayer aims to let customers pay for only what they need with a new infrastructure-as-a-service pricing model it calls Build Your Own Cloud.

Users can choose exactly how much RAM, CPU and storage they want.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ducked the question of whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ruling Monday striking down a business-method patent.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ducked the question of whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ruling Monday striking down a business-method patent.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ducked the question of whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ruling Monday striking down a business-method patent.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has ducked the question of whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) should continue to issue software patents in a ruling Monday striking down a business-method patent.

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While data center managers have long used heat maps to help determine where to best position racks of servers and cooling units, this mode of visualization can also be handy for better understanding system latency, argues an Oracle engineer in the July issue of Communications of the ACM.

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SAP is segmenting its emerging cloud-computing strategy across multiple development platforms, including one code-named “River,” which will support lightweight extensions to its on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

The first River-based application, Carbon Impact 5.0, is set to be unveiled next month and will be running on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud.

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The Archos 7 Home Tablet is an inexpensive Android tablet meant for people who want to access (not create) media like video, audio, images, email, and Web content, but don’t have high performance expectations. Aided by the easy-to-use Android 1.5 operating system, I found that the Archos 7 performed these tasks relatively well, but I had trouble navigating to, and controlling, these applications using the device’s touchscreen.

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ActiveState this week added open source packages for financial and scientific computing to its ActivePython distribution of the Python programming language.

The move is being made as a result of growing demand for Python in heavy data-centric scientific computing and financial modeling applications, the company said. The packages are being offered partially in response to proposed rules about asset-backed securities from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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