Amazon’s Research Repository

Amazon, the popular Web retailer, has unveiled a data-storage service intended to help software developers peruse their works in progress remotely. The service, called S3, was designed to encourage programmers to work with the company. But some colleges are already using it for their own research: A team of scientists at the University of California at Berkeley, for example, is storing millions of images collected from a National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiment. (CNET News; Computerworld)