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Amazon's long awaited DRM-free online music store launched today. The service is called Amazon MP3. There's an estimated 2 million MP3 files there, for the low price of 89 or

We have written here extensively about emerging Amazon Web Services, as well as the latest consumer facing innovations at the world's largest online retailer. Amazon has consistently delivered exciting technologies, Continue reading »

Alex Iskold is reporting live from ETech 2007 Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon.com, took the ETech stage to discuss the challenges in building a large-scale, reliable web infrastructure. Continue reading »

Today's Web has terabytes of information available to humans, but hidden from computers. It is a paradox that information is stuck inside HTML pages, formatted in esoteric ways that are Continue reading »

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HIT stands for Human Intelligence Task and it's the term for a small job at Mechanical Turk, Amazon's AI task management service. According to Wikipedia's definition, "Mturk enables computer programs Continue reading »