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Amazon Turns Twitter into a Marketplace - Are You Concerned?
Written by Sarah Perez / November 4, 2009 6:20 AM / 29 Comments
Last night, Amazon sent out emails to their Amazon Associates members touting the latest addition to the company's affiliate program: a new feature called "Share with Twitter." According to the Continue reading »


Amazon Speeds Checkout with New PayPhrase Technology
Written by Sarah Perez / October 29, 2009 5:53 AM / 2 Comments
Online retailer Amazon.com has just announced a new checkout system called "PayPhrase" which speeds up the process of making online purchases by allowing shoppers to enter a unique phrase and Continue reading »


BookServer: A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books
Written by Sarah Perez / October 20, 2009 6:21 AM / 4 Comments
The Internet Archive has just unveiled their ambitious project called BookServer, which will allow users to find, buy, or borrow digital books from sources all across the web. The system, Continue reading »


Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service
Written by Sarah Perez / October 5, 2009 7:02 AM / 3 Comments
Today, Amazon launched a new service which brings the company's payment processing tools to mobile devices. Called the "Amazon Mobile Payments Service," the technology includes a set of APIs (application Continue reading »


Amazon Launches New Features For Elastic Compute Cloud: Scaling, Monitoring, and Traffic Distribution
Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 18, 2009 3:10 PM / 8 Comments
Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of new features for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The new features purport to allow for simple and automatic monitoring, Continue reading »


Amazon Opens a Kindle Store for the iPhone
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 11, 2009 12:40 PM / 9 Comments
Today, Amazon finally released an iPhone-specific version of its Kindle eBook store, which makes it a lot easier to browse and buy books while on the go. Sadly, though, Amazon Continue reading »


Amazon Introduces New Big-Screen EBook Reader: Focus on Newspapers and Textbooks
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 6, 2009 8:13 AM / 11 Comments
During an event in New York City this morning, Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, unveiled a larger version of the company's successful Kindle eBook reader. The new device, the Kindle DX, Continue reading »


Would Students Even Want a Kindle for Textbooks?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 5, 2009 10:49 AM / 39 Comments
We speculated about this yesterday, and by now, it looks like a given that Amazon will release a larger version of its Kindle eBook reader tomorrow that will focus on Continue reading »


The Big-Screen Kindle: It's About Textbooks, Not Saving the Newspapers
Written by Frederic Lardinois / May 4, 2009 8:32 AM / 9 Comments
According to a number of well-substantiated rumors, Amazon is set to debut a new, large-screen version of its Kindle eBook reader on Wednesday morning during a press conference at Pace Continue reading »


Amazon's Web Services Go To School
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 29, 2009 9:54 AM / 5 Comments
Amazon just announced AWS in Education, a new program that will give students and educators free access to Amazon's Web Services (AWS) for work on research projects, class assignments, or Continue reading »


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