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• Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce top Forrester cloud platform list

  Which cloud is best for building new applications? That depends on your developers and how they like to code, according to new research from Forrester.

• Amazon opens store on Alibaba to sell imported goods in China

  To reach more Chinese consumers, Amazon.com has opened an imported goods store on an Alibaba Group site.

• Amazon's next cloud conference set for October in Las Vegas

  IT professionals with skills in Amazon Web Services will once again swarm Las Vegas come October.

• What happens inside Amazon when there's a Xen vulnerability

  Amazon Web Services last year was estimated by Gartner to be five times bigger than its next 14 competitors combined. That's a lot of virtual machines. And they all run on a customized version of the open source Xen hypervisor, so when the Xen code has a security vulnerability, that's a big deal for AWS.

• The myth about how Amazon's Web service started just won't die

  There's a rumor that goes around cloud circles about how Amazon.com created what is now the multi-billion dollar infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud computing industry in the early 2000s.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, February 27

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• Drone backers mostly welcome US regulator's proposed rules

  Supporters of drone technology gave a mostly warm response to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposals that would open U.S. skies to commercial drone flight.

• US aviation regulator proposes opening skies to commercial drones

  The Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Transportation proposed Sunday new regulations that remove many of the barriers to commercial use of drones for applications like photography and surveying, but they don't permit the kind of automated drone use that companies like Amazon.com are eyeing for package delivery.

• One-fifth of organisations store more than 1 petabyte of data

  Data growth across Australian businesses is showing no signs of slowing with almost one-fifth of organisations responding to a survey indicating they are managing more than 1 petabyte of information.
  

• Amazon said to launch enterprise email service

  Amazon will launch an enterprise email and calendar service that competes against products from Microsoft and Google, according to the Wall Street Journal.

• Smartphones, tablets & eBay taking down SkyMall

  <a href="http://www.skymall.com/">SkyMall</a>, the quirky airline catalog, looks as though it may be grounded before long. Parent company Xhibit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and seeks to sell its assets.

• Google, Facebook, Apple spent record amounts on lobbying in 2014

  The tech industry's most influential companies spent record amounts of money on federal lobbying in 2014 despite a general drop in lobbying by most tech companies. The spending was often directed at areas away from the central business of technology, and it indicates how diverse and powerful major tech companies are becoming.

• Amazon ditches Wallet mobile payment service

  Amazon has pulled the plug on its Wallet app, a service the company launched in beta six months ago to dip its toes into the burgeoning area of mobile payments.

• Despite new public cloud offerings, VMware still playing catch-up

  The newest feature added to VMware's vCloud Air public cloud is the ability to spin virtual machines up and down with just a few clicks and pay for them by the hour.

• Cloud price wars give way to feature battles among Amazon, Microsoft and Google

  Two years ago the biggest battles in the IaaS cloud computing industry were over price. Amazon Web Services would drop prices one day, and Google or Microsoft would cut the price tag on virtual machines or storage weeks, days, or even hours afterwards.