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Amazon boosts Kindle Paperwhite screen size and battery life in first major upgrade in 3 years

GeekWire

The bezels are slimmer, but the device itself is also larger, as shown in this comparison below. It’s the fifth Kindle Paperwhite since Amazon introduced the device in 2012, although the company calls it the 11th generation Paperwhite, referencing the current cohort of Kindle devices. inches, from 6 inches previously.

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Losing YouTube on the old Apple TV underscores how far ahead competitors are

The Verge

If you have a third-generation device ( the 2012-era model that predated the modern tvOS-based set-top boxes), you’ll only be able to stream YouTube through an iOS device using AirPlay starting today, as noted by 9to5Mac. Image: Apple. The YouTube app on older Apple TV models has officially been discontinued as of today.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008.

Sean Daniel

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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Technology Short Take 113

Scott Lowe

Diógenes Rettori has a comparison of Istio and Linkerd as solutions for service mesh. This post is from 2012, but is—to me—still as applicable today as ever. Personally, I could’ve done without the little product advertisement at the end, but that’s just me. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Total Cost of Ownership and the Return on Agility - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. An apples to apples comparison of the costs associated with running various usage patterns on-premises and with AWS requires more than a simple comparison of hardware expense versus always-on utility pricing for compute and storage. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Apple iPad vs the Blackberry Playbook

Sean Daniel

Friday, May 25, 2012. and I thought it would be great to do a little bit of a comparison now that I’ve played with it for a bit. So let’s get down to business, my impressions and comparisons between the iPad (3rd generation) and the Playbook 2.0. You can even use it as temporary storage while you travel.

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IDF 2013: Virtualizing the Network to Enable SDI

Scott Lowe

Brian draws the comparison between property management and how IT is shaping: A rental house is pretty easy to manage. After a few slides of discussing SMB3 with very little relevance to the rest of the discussion, Pinkerton moves back into a discussion of the virtual switch found in Windows Server 2012 R2. Why is this a big deal?