Amazon's Kindle Fire burns competing Android tablets?

Flurry, a mobile app analytics and advertising platform, has released some analysis showing, Amazon’s Kindle Fire equalling the “session usage” that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is seeing in astounding record time.
 

Amazon's free AWS offer now includes Windows Server

The free tier on Amazon Web Services now includes the use of Windows Server, not just Linux.
 

IBM sets new US patent record

IBM was granted a record number of US patents during 2011.
 

Star Wars: The Old Republic not available for Australians

Of all the upcoming MMO games, one game has been generating the most buzz, namely Star Wars: The Old Republic.
 

Amazon, Microsoft & Nokia all looked at buying RIM

Rumours are circulating that Amazon, Microsoft and Nokia have  had informal or formal merger discussions with Research in Motion in recent months, but with none of these discussions progressing to the stage of a formal bid.
 

PersonalWeb alleges patent infringement by Google, Amazon, VMware and others

Another set of patent infringement suits have been filed against major tech companies.
 

eBook market surges with popularity of tablets

The eBook market continues to record strong growth with the upsurge in usage of tablet devices, with revenues from eBooks delivered to portable devices forecast to be pushed to $9.7 billion by 2016, up from just $3.2 billion this year.
 

eReader market expected to triple in five years

Worldwide shipments of eReaders will nearly triple from the 25 million expected to reach the market this year to 67 million eReaders by 2016.
 

How Secure is the Cloud?

As part of our discussion with Entrust CTO, Jon Callas, iTWire was interested to know where the point of intersection between Clouds and Security lay.
 

Online shift for telecoms customer services

Telecoms companies will increasingly rely on online platforms to deliver customer service as the huge growth in the smartphone market and rise in mobile broadband traffic places an unsustainable burden on existing telco customer service infrastructure.