Geekonomics

Cloud pioneer now offers its suite of web services from new Singapore datacenters to serve customers desiring an Asia Pacific presence

SEATTLE—April 29, 2010—(NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., today announced the launch of its first Asia Pacific Region.  Asia Pacific-based businesses or global businesses with customers based in Asia can now leverage the AWS suite of infrastructure web services to build their businesses and run their applications in the cloud.  Prior to today, the AWS platform has been available from datacenters in the U.S. and Europe.  The first AWS Asia Pacific Region (located in Singapore) is now open and any business or software developer can sign up and get started today at http://aws.amazon.com.

Before AWS launched in 2006, businesses would take on the massive capital investment of building their own infrastructure or contract with a vendor for a fixed amount of datacenter capacity that they might or might not use.  This choice meant either paying for wasted capacity or having to worry that the amount of capacity they forecasted was insufficient to keep pace with their growth.  Businesses spent time and money managing their own datacenter or a co-location facility, which meant time not spent on growing their actual business or differentiating their offering for customers.  When it launched in 2006, AWS offered

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Version 5.0 guidelines provide the industry-standard reference for the mobile marketing ecosystem, including the four largest U.S. carriers

New York, London, UK, Singapore & Sao Paulo: April 29, 2010 - The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) (www.mmaglobal.com) today released the latest version of its U.S. Consumer Best Practices (CBP) Guidelines for Cross-Carrier Mobile Content Services. The guidelines are the industry standard for cross-carrier mobile content services such as text messaging (SMS), multimedia messaging (MMS), shortcode programs, Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and mobile Web.

Produced by the MMA’s CBP Committee, the new, version 5.0 guidelines provide

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Symantec Corp announced its channel strategy and vision at the inaugural Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) Symantec Partner Engage 2010 Conference in Sanya, China. This announcement includes planned enhancements to the Symantec Partner Program which focuses on helping partners differentiate their business, maximise sales opportunities and accelerate profitability. Under the enhanced program which will go into effect at the end of 2010, Symantec will put an increased focus on driving partner competence in key solutions areas and providing partners with more resources, tools, incentives and sales support.

During the conference, Symantec also announced the recipients of its 2010 APJ Partner Awards. The Symantec Partner Awards recognise channel partners that have demonstrated innovative delivery of services and solutions to customers during the past year as well as acknowledge their dedication and commitment. The award winners are selected on criteria such as overall performance in revenue, deal registration, technical and marketing investments, customer service excellence and certification.

The winners included Singapore firm Imperium Solutions Pte Ltd, which clinched the Symantec Partner Innovation Award.

Full details in the Press Release after the break:

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Today, Dell announced the release of the latest Inspiron R range of laptops, designed to be the ideal, beautifully designed mobile personal entertainment hub at an affordable price.

“The Inspiron R takes the rock solid Inspiron line and amps up the cool factor with a sexy and practical machine for gaming, entertainment, and social networking along with all the usual home, school and work functions. Aside from the great new look, the Inspiron R makes it easy to access media and puts your most commonly used apps right up top with the Dell Dock feature,” said Walt Mayo, Vice President and General Manager, Dell Consumer Asia.

The Inspiron R series is first available in Asia. Prices begin at S$1,099 for Inspiron 13R and 14R, and S$1,199 for Inspiron 15R at www.dell.com.sg and authorized retailers.

For more information, you can refer to the press release after the break:

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Pretty interested to see how the integration with Omniture worked out since I’m a long time user of SiteCatalyst. Following is the press release from Adobe (you can also check out #csbuzz on Twitter):

SINGAPORE — April 13, 2010 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Master Collection, a breakthrough release of the industry-leading design and development software for virtually every creative workflow. Focusing on interactivity, performance, and maximising the impact of digital content and marketing campaigns, the Creative Suite 5 product line brings exciting full-version upgrades of flagship creative tools while delivering significant workflow enhancements to designers and developers. Integrating online content and digital marketing optimisation capabilities for the first time, Creative Suite® 5 Master Collection includes access to signature Omniture technologies, to capture, store and analyse Read more…