Amazon gives Apple TV and Google Chromecast the finger | Cult of Mac

Amazon gives Apple TV and Google Chromecast the finger | Cult of Mac The most popular online retailer in the world, Amazon, is using its e-commerce powers to put the hurt on Apple and Google’s streaming devices in order to prop-up the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV stick.

Amazon Prime streaming TV works better than any of the other services I've tried. I don't think it needs propping up at all. In fact, some of the other services should think about using Amazon's content delivery network because it's clearly in a class all it's own. Without the network, H.264 is basically useless for streaming. Unless you like that buffering screen.

I'm using mine on a Google Nexus 7 tablet.

Amazon's AWS Device Farm will let developers test iOS apps from August 4 | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Paul Sawers

Amazon's AWS Device Farm will let developers test iOS apps from August 4 | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Paul Sawers: "Amazon has announced that AWS Device Farm, a service that lets developers test apps on Android and Fire OS devices that live on Amazon’s data centers, will soon support iOS too."

Fascinating, Fred.

Why VMware absolutely had to adopt Docker and its trendy containers | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Jordan Novet

Why VMware absolutely had to adopt Docker and its trendy containers | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Jordan Novet: "VMware announced that it has succeeded in integrating Docker containers, a technology that’s currently hot among developers, into its own widely used vSphere server-virtualization software."

I think docker is great. Who wants to be stuck in a server platform you can't get out of?

Understanding the New Boom in Subscriptions - Dan Burkhart - Voices - AllThingsD

Understanding the New Boom in Subscriptions - Dan Burkhart - Voices - AllThingsD
Fast forward to today. We are in the midst of yet another explosive expansion of subscription business models. "

It's so hard to find a real article about the technology boom, er, anywhere. This is one. It raises interesting and important points. I sense a cloudy future.