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    Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service, S3, spent a few hours Sunday in a big pothole on the road to the glorious cloud computing future, with an outage taking the storage system offline for several hours Sunday. Should we be surprised?

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    The European Commission has announced it is to double the amount of funding given over to robotics research and development.

  • Google modernises Web software tool

    Google plans to release later this week a near-final version of the Google Web Toolkit 1.5, software designed to ease the onerous parts of writing sophisticated Web-based software.

  • Sun launches OpenSolaris, inks deal with Amazon

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