05/23/2011
News Observer
Watch Amazon closely in the next few months. If anyone can pressure Apple in devices that change the way we do things, it’s Amazon.
Here is a company that began as a bookseller and morphed into an all-around Internet retailer with huge clout, not to mention its growing presence in “cloud” computing, where data [...]
05/13/2011
Giga Om
Netflix on Android was big news yesterday, but I wouldn’t count Amazon out of the portable video market just yet. Pocketables, a mobile enthusiast website, reports that Amazon Unbox videos play back on the HTC Thunderbolt, without much effort on a user’s part. The simple process entails nothing more than a download of the [...]
04/29/2011
Mashable
The outage of some of Amazon’s AWS services, which caused downtime to many prominent websites, is finally behind us. Amazon has issued a formal apology and a lengthy explanation of how and why it happened, along with a list of measures it plans to implement to prevent such incidents from happening.
System admins and developers [...]
01/28/2011
CNET.com – New York Bureau
Yes, it’s finally happened. The digital book has overtaken the paper book on Amazon.com. And this time that isn’t only true about hardcover books. Now we’re talking paperbacks.
In reporting its latest earnings, Amazon said that it was selling more Kindle books than paperback books, though the score is still close. [...]
11/01/2010
AFP
E-reader device allows users to access Facebook, Twitter despite censorship.
Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle 3G e-reader is being snapped up on China’s gray market as it has an extra special advantage for customers–it automatically leaps the so-called “Great Firewall” of state web censorship.
Sites such as Facebook and Twitter, which are blocked by the Beijing authorities, can [...]
10/11/2010
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Amazon.com Inc. is plotting a deeper foray into Google Inc.’s and Apple Inc.’s turf, with plans to open an online applications store for smartphones running Google’s Android software, said people briefed on Amazon’s plans.
Amazon’s entry into the mobile-applications marketplace would open a new battlefield with Apple, which pioneered [...]
10/07/2010
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Amazon.com Inc. is planning to open a software-applications store for smartphones running Google Inc.’s Android operating system, putting it in direct competition with Google’s own marketplace as well as Apple Inc.’s App Store.
According to an Amazon document for developers that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal, Amazon would [...]
01/21/2010
Wall Street Journal – San Francisco Bureau
Amazon.com Inc. is showing signs of app envy.
The e-commerce giant says it plans to open its Kindle e-reader to “active content”–application programs that would allow the device to take on a wider range of uses.
Amazon’s move appears to borrow a page from Apple Inc. and its popular [...]
10/20/2009
New York Times
arnes & Noble, which has long left open the possibility of introducing its own electronic reader, is expected to unveil on Tuesday at a news conference in Manhattan what it is calling the Nook.
The device features color touch-screen controls and a gray-and-white reading display. It will cost $259, matching Amazon.com’s most recent price [...]
