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JEDI saga continues! A federal judge has ordered a temporary block on the JEDI cloud contract, which Microsoft was selected for (over Amazon) by the Department of Justice. The judge's action was in response to a suit filed by Amazon. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, cloud computing contract is intended to modernize the Pentagon's IT operations. It could
The saga of the JEDI contract continues! In October of 2019, The Department of Defense chose Microsoft over Amazon for its “Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure” project. The contract could be worth as much as $10 billion over a decade. In November of 2019, The Washington Post (which is owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon), posted an article stating
The Department of Defense selected Microsoft over Amazon on a contract for their Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project. In short, the Department of Defense selected Microsoft's Azure Cloud over Amazon's AWS business. As you may have expected, Amazon is displeased by this decision. The Washington Post (which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who is also the founder of Amazon),
The European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation to assess whether Amazon's use of sensitive data from independent retailers who sell on Amazon's marketplace is in breach of EU competition rules. Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: “European consumers are increasingly shopping online. E-commerce has boosted retail competition and brought more choice and better prices. We need
If there's one thing that you'd expect the BBC to get right, it would be the news. Ask people in the street about BBC news and you'd expect words like authoritative, impartial, insightful, confident and trustworthy to litter the responses. But going by the number of one star reviews on the BBC's Alexa flash briefing, it looks (and sounds) like
Pocket Casts is one of the most used apps on my OnePlus 3T, playing podcasts in the car and while out walking. It's a great app, though I'm still in two minds about the new version 7.0. Why do app developers feel the need to alienate existing users with radical redesigns for no real benefit? Regardless, one of the coolest
Good news for Alex and Google Home users in the UK. The government's Cabinet Office and Government Digital Service have been working to feed the digital assistants with UK-specific information relating to government services. There are now over 12,000 pieces of information, including the minimum wage, applying for a passport and getting free childcare. Additional services will be added over time, such