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Azure pricing: How low will Microsoft go?

Microsoft is planning to share details about its pricing and licensing plans for its Azure cloud environment at its Worldwide Partner Conference in mid-July. That’s what we know. What we don’t know about its Azure pricing and licensing plans would fill a book. But there are a few hints and some educated speculation circulating regarding Microsoft’s expected directions here. Azure is Microsoft’s cloud operating-system, programming environment and hosting platform which is currently in beta. Microsoft is expected to release the “final” version of Azure in November during its Professional Developers Conference. At its Worldwide Partner Conference, company officials are on tap to explain to its reseller partners and integrators “ the Azure Service Platform Partner Model and Pricing ” (as one show session on Tuesday July 14 is named). Webcast replay: All About Azure According to the WPC agenda, Microsoft is on tap to outline “the details of the Azure business model, pricin

Myspace shuts down free storage

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Online storage company Myspace.com has ceased its free storage service, prompting many of its customers to scramble to retrieve their digital files before they are deleted. San Francisco-based Myspace says on its Web site that people can obtain their files until Friday at 5 p.m. PDT. Myspace previously let people store, organize, share and distribute digital files--including music, photos and documents--for free through a password-protected account. "This will be the only period of time you will be able to retrieve your files," the company's Web site reads. "After this date, Myspace free consumer site will be closed. Myspace customers will not be able to access their accounts, and, to ensure your privacy, all stored files will be deleted." The company could not be immediately reached for comment. Myspace is the latest online storage company to stumble amid the economic downturn. In February, Driveway closed its storage service and laid off three

Modern threats to American liberty

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Cash, currency and coins, is a store of value. In the US, “legal tender for all debts, public and private.” Carry too much of it though and you are marked for suspicion (per the Wall Street Journal]: Steven Bierfeldt, treasurer for the Campaign for Liberty, a political organization launched from Ron Paul ’s presidential run, was detained at the St. Louis airport because he was carrying $4,700 in a lock box. . . . TSA screeners quizzed him about the cash, . . . then summoned local police and threatened him with arrest because he responded to their questions with a question of his own: What were his rights and could TSA legally require him to answer? How about former Senator Bob Dole who habitually carried a wad of $100 bills? When federal regulators spotted his large cash withdrawals his bank filed “suspicious activity reports” questioning whether he might have violated federal laws against money laundering . Multi-millionaire New York Governor Elliot Spitzer’s large ca

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