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Byte? A Basic Definition

A group of bits representing a single character. Usually, there are 8 bits to 1 byte.
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One character of information, usually eight bits wide.
From: Information Technology

The amount of memory needed to store one character such as a letter or a number. Equal to 8 bits of digital information. The standard measurement unit of a file size.
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A group of bits representing a single character. Usually, there are 8 bits to 1 byte.
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Amazon S3 Adds Option To Make Data Accessors Pay

Published January 5, 2009, 4:35 pm, Slashdot

CWmike writes "Amazon.com has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data owners shift the cost of accessing their information to users. Until now, individuals or businesses with information stored on S3 had to pay data-transfer costs to Amazon when others made use of the information. Amazon said the new Requester Pays option relieves data providers of that burden, ...

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Partnerships Spark New Life Into Enterprise DRM

Published January 5, 2009, 10:07 am, Byte and Switch

Data leak protection vendors and makers of enterprise DRM software are working together to make it easier to identify information that needs protecting and to impose limits on who can access and use those files

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Amazon offers pay-per-use service for data hosted on S3

Published January 5, 2009, 9:04 am, InfoWorld

Amazon has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data holders charge another entity for the cost of accessing their information. Previously, someone with information on S3 would have to pay for the storage in addition to data transfer costs when another service uses the data, Amazon said. The new "Requester Pays" option relieves the data provider of that ...

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Amazon storage users to be offered pay-as-you-go option

Published January 5, 2009, 8:17 am, TechWorld

New pricing plan for S3 Amazon is to offer a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data holders charge another entity for the cost of accessing their information.

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Amazon offers pay-per-use service for data hosted on S3

Published January 5, 2009, 8:14 am, Macworld UK

Amazon has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data holders charge another entity for the cost of accessing their information.

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More Privacy, Bit by Bit

Published January 5, 2009, 7:15 am, CircleID

Before the Holidays, Yahoo got a flurry of good press for the announcement that it would (as the LA Times puts it) "purge user data after 90 days." My eagle-eyed friend Julian Sanchez noticed that the "purge" was less complete than privacy advocates might have hoped.

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Amazon Offers Pay-per-use Service for Data Hosted on S3

Published January 5, 2009, 7:03 am, PC World

Amazon has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data holders charge another entity for the...

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Benchmarks Can Answer Solid-State Drive Question

Published January 2, 2009, 10:37 am, Byte and Switch

Richrelevance ran a series of tests on several SSDs before deciding which to use to replace hard drives that were causing a performance bottleneck

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Theoretical attacks yield practical attacks on SSL, PKI

Published December 31, 2008, 9:56 am, Ars Technica

A paper published in 2007 describing a way of attacking a widely-used cryptographic function was widely dismissed as "theoretical." Now, a team of researchers has shown why that was a foolish thing to do, and why you can't trust your browser's padlock icon any more. Read More...

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UK Government To Outsource Big Brother Internet Monitoring. I"™m moving to China.

Published December 31, 2008, 9:50 am, TechCrunch

It will cost $17.5 billion, be run by private companies and track every move we make on the internet, every call, text message and every transaction. Yes, this is the UK government proposal to manage and run a communications database that will make Chinese attempts to control and monitor its citizens look like "light touch" regulation. The only difference with one-party states like China ...

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