Mikael Ricknas

Articles by Mikael Ricknas

Amazon improves reliability of its cloud database

The new high-availability feature, Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ), automatically configures a standby copy of the database. But it doubles the price

Study: No link between brain tumors and cell phones

The 10-year Interphone study of the health effects of mobile-phone use has found no increased risk of two types of brain tumors. But uncertainties around heavy usage and usage among children warrant more research.

Red Hat support to cover Amazon’s cloud

Premium subscribers of Red hat Cloud Access will be able to move servers between the data centre and the cloud

Nokia pegs first Symbian 3 OS smart phone for Q3

The Finnish phone vendor hopes an improved user interface will change its smart phone misfortunes. Historically, Symbian OS development hasn't kept pace with the touch-based user interfaces offered by the iPhone and Android OSes

Twitter buys SMS provider

Buying Cloudhopper and supporting SMS, Twitter can improve messaging scalability and expand usage to cheaper phones

Alcatel boosts broadband over copper to 300M bps

There's still life in those old lines if new tricks from a telecom equipment maker can be put into production. Read how it's done

Apple updates MacBook Pro family

The company's popular laptop brand will feature upgraded Intel Core i5 or i7 processors and improved scrolling functionality. The cheapest 15-inch model costs US$1,799

Amazon CloudFront now has private streaming

A new feature called private content lets CloudFront customers limit access to streamed content by IP address and date

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