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Amid a quarter that Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff called “spectacular,” but spooked analysts worried about future growth was an interesting nugget: Dell has jumped on the platform as a service bandwagon.

Over the weekend Amazon’s S3 storage service was down for an extended period and a bunch of Web 2.0 sites lost avatars, images and other items on their sites.

Since enterprises haven’t totally jumped on the bandwagon Amazon’s outage didn’t have broader ramifications.

Virgin Mobile USA will now offer a flat-rate, unlimited calling plan to compete with the big four cell phone operators in the U.S.

The largest rural carrier in the U.S. said it, like Verizon, will use LTE to build its 4G network. That compatibility could ultimately lead to better coverage, more handsets offerings, and more open networks.

There are a few things you need to know before hopping on the Psystar Mac clone bandwagon: You can’t download a software update, which means patching is impossible.

You’ll never be a card-carrying member of the Apple ecosystem. And the hardware doesn’t come close to the designs Apple offers.

Don't cry over spilled journalism It's ironic that The Daily Texan editors excoriate students for not being sufficiently outraged about the situation in Iraq - as you did in your piece marking the fifth anniversary of the war - and yet are so thin-skinned when criticized for your reporting on the war ("Directing the anti-media bandwagon," April 7).

On Thursday night, journalist Dahr Jamail spoke to a group of about 300 on campus, sharing his personal accounts of his eight months in Iraq.

A main focus of his talk being the media's coverage of the war, he spent more than 10 minutes criticizing the April 3 Daily Texan story "Young vets recount deployments," which was the second in a series about students who have served or are serving in Iraq.

Let your fingers do the swiping.

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Present-day country and blues artists have seemingly lost their genuine level of appeal, but local grunge crooner Possessed by Paul James has simply refused to jump on that bandwagon.

Apple may be finally getting a clue about music subscriptions. We can only hope that Apple gets on the subscription bandwagon.