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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 29 June 2011 09:55 AM. Often we think about innovation as going after new unchartered territories, but it is also important to innovate in those existing dimensions that will remain important for customers. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

If you want to vastly improve the startup and load performance of your website, you cannot miss the impactful observations and insights that Jake posts on jakearchibald.com/ and shares on Twitter @ jaffathecake. He writes about Progressive Web Apps on Medium as well as on his own website. Rick Byers. Rick Byers. Tammy Everts.

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AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. Icelandic low-cost airline carrier WOW air is using AWS for its Internet-facing IT infrastructure, including its booking engine, development platforms, and web servers.

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Music to my Ears - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 28 March 2011 02:50 PM. What used to be only available in physical formats now often has digital equivalents and this digitalization is driving great new innovations. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3.

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iOS Engine Choice In Depth

Alex Russell

Nefarious websites have analysed other web browser engines and found flaws that have not been disclosed, and exploit those flaws when a user goes to a particular website to silently violate user privacy or security. Competition at the frontier enables the market and competitive spirits to push innovation forward.