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Google's New Cloud Table Collaboration Experiment

Google has introduced a new Lab called Google Fusion Tables, which is described as "an experimental system for data management in the cloud." It allows users to upload tables of up to 100MB and share them with collaborators.

AppRiver Offers Free Email Disaster Recovery Program

Cloud computing services company AppRiver has made available its Digital Disaster Recovery Program, a free email redirection service offered in the event of a natural disaster.

Twitter and Google Respond to Their Respective Uproars

Two of the biggest names on the web had interesting weeks. Google experienced a big outage across a number of its services and Twitter mad a change to how it handles replies and sent a tidal wave of backlash throughout its user base. Both companies received their fair share of negative responses from users, and both have responded to those responses on their respective blogs. The Google Situation

Google Slows to a Crawl

Update: Google has addressed the issue on the Official Blog. The company says:

Google Quietly Patches Huge Vulnerability

A security researcher known by the online handle of “Inferno” discovered a cross-site scripting ( XSS) vulnerability in mid-April affecting a range of Google services like Gmail, Google Documents, iGoogle, and Analytics.

Yahoo Expands Cloud Computing Partnerships

Yahoo said today it is expanding its cloud computing research efforts and has partnered with three more U.S. universities. The University of California at Berkley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using Yahoo's cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems software research.

Amazon Introduces Elastic MapReduce

Amazon Web Services has introduced the public beta of Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a cloud computing service that allows businesses, researchers, data analysts and developers to process large amounts of data.

Create and Insert Drawings in Your Google Documents

Google Docs has started including a new feature - the ability to insert drawings into documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. To use this feature, simply go to the Insert menu and click Drawing.

Tweeting for Customer Relationship Management

Salesforce.com has added Twitter support to its Service Cloud offering, which was released earlier in the year. Salesforce breaks down what companies can expect to get out of the service:

Amazon Web Services Adds New Pricing Option

Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing service, has announced it has added a new pricing option for Amazon EC2 called Reserved Instances. Reserved Instances extends the current on-demand pay-as-you-go pricing by giving customers an option to make a one-time payment to reserve capacity and reduce hourly charges. After the one- time payment, the instance is reserved enabling customers to only pay for the compute capacity they use, and if they don't use an instance they will not pay usage charges on it. Reserved Instances are available in 1-year or 3-year terms.