Amazon Web Services, a fascinating division of the company offering a collection of commodity computing services, data storage and more - all sold in the cloud - is about to Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/music/Amazon_to_Give_Away_1_Billion_Free_MP3s_in_Superbowl_Promotion'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Billboard magazine has done some fine sleuthing and turned up a number of developments in the works that may push

I used to write a blog about ebooks - some of you may remember eBook Culture (alas I let the domain name slip and so it was gobbled up by Continue reading »

Update: Since the publication of this post, Amazon's PR people have contacted me a number of times to request that we remove this coverage based on a draft press Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Amazon_S3_Exceeds_99_99_Uptime'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; We're hearing of more and more startups using Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) for their storage needs; and this stat

We all know the term 'Software as a Service (SaaS). The term SaaS was coined in a conference in 2005 and then popularized by Salesforce with its "No Software" motto. Continue reading »

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 »