Infoworld – OpenStack , the open source "cloud operating system," has stirred community excitement and attracted a vendor following, including Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, and Red Hat. But until now one thing has been lacking: A high-profile corporate customer willing to talk about its OpenStack implementation. More: continued here
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Street Fight Daily: Ebay's Same-Day Delivery, Google Localizes Political SpendStreet FightEBay has launched a new same-day shipping service called 'eBay Now, which will allow shoppers to gain same-day shipping on goods sold by local retailers. The new service puts eBay in direct competition with Amazon, which already offers same-day … …
Read More »Fake stamp paper case: court denies relief to Telgi’s nephew – IBNLive.com
Fake stamp paper case: court denies relief to Telgi's nephewIBNLive.comTabrej was arrested in Pune for counterfeiting government stamps and was sentenced to seven years in jail by a sessions court there and was lodged in Yerwada Central Prison there. The Delhi ACMM's court had sentenced Tabrej on June 11, 2009, …
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Nicira, Inc., the network virtualization company, today announced that one of its customers, eBay, is running Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform in a production OpenStack environment to rapidly test and deploy new Web applications. More: continued here
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Authorities are investigating a carbon monoxide incident at Baltimore's main post office. More: continued here
Read More »Carbon monoxide leak closes downtown post office annex – Baltimore Sun
Carbon monoxide leak closes downtown post office annexBaltimore SunA carbon monoxide incident closed an annex at Baltimore City's Main Post Office Monday and sent two people to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Fire crews responded at about 8:30 a.m. to the one-story annex at Colvin and Lexington streets, … …
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Daily Mail London 2012 Olympics: Morrissey hits out at Games and Royal FamilyDaily MailThe rock star, who has come out with controversial remarks in the past, has said that he can not even bring himself to watch the Olympics, slating the presence of the Royal Family and David and Victoria …
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Stamp Paper Scam: Court Denies Relief to Telgi's NephewOutlookThe plea of fake stamp paper scam kingpin Abdul Karim Telgi's nephew Tabrej Ahmed Telgi to set off his five-year sentence in an offshoot case here against the jail term served by him since January 2004 as under trial in another case …
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Boston.com Kill the Farm BillThe Weekly Standard (blog)While keeping food stamps intact as an entitlement, the welfare reforms of the 1990s transformed SNAP into a “hand up” that went to many people who worked full-time for low wages. On the farms, meanwhile, subsidy and insurance programs typically …Congress Breaks For …
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