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Amazon's "Open Infrastructure"

Dave Winer: Amazon removes the database scaling wall.

Tigers Need Computer Infrastructure Too

IBM and Cisco did their part to make it easier to care for the big cats and several other species residing at North Carolina's Carnivore Preservation Trust.

Rackspace Wrecked By Wayward Truck Driver

Plenty of popular websites suffered a couple of hours of unanticipated downtime when a truck hit a transformer and took down Rackspace's Dallas datacenter.

Relevancy Chagnes at MSN, Yahoo, & Maybe Google

MSN Search Update MSN announced they are upgrading relevancy and coverage. The increased coverage likely means that more inbound link sources are getting indexed. From looking at rankings of a few of my sites it looks like:

Cutts: PageRank Zero Problem Fixed

Reach for your copy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and press the DON'T PANIC! button; the problem with some sites seeing a zero PageRank after Google's latest update should be corrected by now.

Cutts Releases Infrastructure Status Report

Matt Cutts has given the infrastructure report of the current month. The quarterly PageRank export is on its way.

$100 Laptops Face Hurdles

M.I.T lit up the world when it announced its massively philanthropic One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC) with the aim of putting $100 laptop computers into the hands of the poorest children on Earth. And no one is blaming them, but despite all noble intentions, skeptics are saying project leader Nicholas Negroponte is putting the cart before the horse.

New Database Packs From Sun/Oracle Resellers

Sun Microsystems and Oracle have announced the availability of new Database Packs from Sun/Oracle joint resellers.

Mueller: Our National Infrastructure Is A Soft Target

Speaking at the InfraGard 2005 conference in Washington DC, FBI Director Robert Mueller asked attendees to share information when attackers hit their firms.

The Four Ps of Selling Enterprise Infrastructure

Despite pockets of accelerating growth, enterprises overall aren't buying as much as infrastructure vendors projected.