Amazon.com (AMZN) school is in session. The world’s leading e-commerce retailer has launched a new educational curriculum concerning the cloud. Amazon operates Amazon Web Services, the largest provider of cloud services. AWS has rapidly become a big business. The company’s new service, AWS Educate, is designed to help educators and students use real-world cloud technology in the classroom and prepare students before they enter the cloud workforce.
S ales of Ultra HD televisions are likely to get a boost with news that Hollywood movies will soon be available on Blu-ray Disc for the super-high resolution format. The Blu-ray Disc Association announced Tuesday the completion of the Ultra HD Blu-ray specification and will begin licensing the technology this summer to makers of set-top boxes and discs. Ultra HD video, also called 4K, offers four times the resolution of today’s standard high-definition video. To view Ultra HD Blu-ray movies, consumers will need 4K televisions as well as not-yet-available Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc players. To date, Internet television services Netflix (NFLX) and Amazon.com (AMZN) have been the leading providers of 4K content with select TV shows and movies.
Amazon.com (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX) and AT&T (T)and are among the winners as U.S. tech infrastructure shifts to cloud-based connectivity, hyperscale data centers and the Internet of Things, says an S&P Capital IQ Global Markets Intelligence report. The study assesses U.S. infrastructure developments in health care, energy, financial services and other sectors. In the technology sector, many companies will gain from a shift in how