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How Is Kindle "Killing" Cloud Computing?

Stupid posts with stupid titles like this one can damage the credibility of authors and the sites posting those stories
By Salvatore Genovese
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July 21, 2009 01:45 PM EDT
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My Google alert just popped up with the following story title:

Will the Kindle Crisis Kill Cloud Computing?
Datamation - Darien, CT, USA
By Emery Fletcher Last week Amazon, without prior notice, withdrew certain books from the Kindles of people who had purchased the books. ...
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Kindle of course has nothing to do with whether Clod Computing will change the IT world once and forever or not, but stupid posts with stupid titles like this one can damage the credibility of authors and the sites posting those stories. What a moronic headline! What is next? HP selling ink as their Cloud Computing strategy? How about this for a comparable headline.

Will HP's Online Ink Store Crisis Kill Cloud Computing?

Published July 21, 2009 – Reads 3,987
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Salvatore Genovese is a Cloud Computing consultant and an i-technology blogger based in Rome, Italy. He occasionally blogs about SOA, start-ups, mergers and acquisitions, open source and bleeding-edge technologies, companies, and personalities. Sal can be reached at hamilton(at)sys-con.com.

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