mediamemo.allthingsd.com - 12/15/2008
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Amazon has been selling digital music from all the big music labels for nearly a year now. It hasn't changed Apple's grip on that business in any way, and it hasn't made any money for Amazon. But don't write it off as a failure just yet.
business.timesonline.co.uk - 12/16/2008
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business.timesonline.co.uk —
Amazon, Britain s most popular website for Christmas
shopping, is making its staff work seven days a...
week and threatening them with the sack if they take time off sick. The company charges among the lowest prices for products ranging from books and ...
(more)
Revealed: Amazon staff punished for being ill
techflash.com - 12/12/2008
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techflash.com —
James Hamilton, one of the big brains behind
Microsoft's data center strategy, has left the company, according...
to a note on his Microsoft home page . And we just confirmed that he's headed across town to Amazon.com, one of Microsoft's key rivals in ...
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Key data center architect leaves Microsoft, headed for ...
apple.com - 12/10/2008
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apple.com —
iTunes U is a part of the iTunes
Store featuring free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more,...
that you can enjoy on your iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. Explore over 75,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public ...
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Education - iTunes U - Introduction
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Amazon MP3 (AMZN) Not Killing iTunes Yet (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... How was Amazon's (AMZN) first year in the MP3 business? Not great: Music industry execs peg Amazon's market share between 5% and 10%, according to MediaMemo -- similar to the 8% to 10% ...
Amazon MP3 couldn't beat iTunes
Obsessable News Feed —
... [Electronista] Amazon’s MP3 Store, One Year In. No iTunes-Killer, Probably Won’t Be [MediaMemo] [All Things Digital] ...
The iTunes DRM-free plot (and smoke) thickens
VentureBeat —
... suggests that despite the advantage, the DRM-free Amazon MP3 is still no match for mostly-DRM’d iTunes, as MediaMemo notes. Still, ...
Jobs keynote likely for Macworld; iTunes keeps Amazon MP3 at bay
AppleInsider —
... citing economic concerns. Amazon MP3 fails to dislodge iTunes' market share Even after a year on the market, Amazon MP3 hasn't resonated enough with the market to dent Apple's command of the digital media market, All Things D notes. Referring to data from unnamed record label managers, the report claims that Amazon's copy protection-free store has garnered between 5 and 10 percent of US online music sales. While a significant portion, the number has done nothing to shrink Apple's ...
DRM's lingering hold at iTunes
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... I don't think I'm asking too much here. After all, Amazon's been doing it for a year, and Napster and Rhapsody have been all-MP3, all-the-time for months. ...
Wake Up, World! Amazon’s MP3 Store Deserves Better. Doesn’t It?
Technologizer —
amazonmp3 Over at All Things Digital, Peter Kafka is saying that Amazon.com’s DRM-free MP3 download store is a “miserable failure” as an iTunes Store rival at the end of its first year of operation. Judged in terms of market share, dollars, and cents, it’s hard to argue that it’s anything else: Kafka says that Amazon appears to have around seven or eight percent of the music download business, compared to Apple’s seventy-plus. If it’s possible to put a serious dent in Apple’s supremacy, Amazon hasn’t figured out how to do it…and neither have other DRM-free music merchants such ...
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alleyinsider.com 12/15/2008 — How was Amazon's (AMZN) first year in the MP3 business? Not great: Music industry execs peg Amazon's market share between 5% and 10%, according to MediaMemo -- similar to the 8% to 10% we reported in July . Meanwhile, Apple's kept its 70%+ share.
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Electronista | Amazon MP3 due for UK, elsewhere soon?
macnn.com 12/3/2008 — Amazon is in talks to bring its Amazon MP3 music store outside of the US as early as the summer, the British Telegraph newspaper claims . Senior officials from Amazon's online store have purportedly visited British label heads to negotiate details of ...
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Car Gifts and Stocking Stuffers $4.99 and below on Amazon —
I4U News 12/15/2008
Amazon pulled together a nice sale on car related gifts ideal as stocking stuffers as the items are priced $4.99 or lower.
There are more than 100 gifts where Amazon dropped the prices. The little car gifts include gift sets for specific car ...
Amazon Reportedly Working UK Staff 7 days per Week —
I4U News 12/15/2008
Let's just get it out there in the open, work sucks. We would all rather not have to work and instead spend out days doing whatever it is we like the most. What sucks even worse than having to work, is having to work without any days off.
Reports ...
Stargate SG-1 DVD Box with 9,900min. Runtime only $99.99 —
I4U News 12/15/2008
Amazon has again a great DVD box set on sale with a steep discount. This time Amazon.com Stargate SG-1 - The Complete Series Collection from 2007 for only $99.99.
In case you do not know Stargate, its this Sci-fi series where MacGyver (Richard Dean ...
Elmo Live is selling now for under $50 on Amazon —
I4U News 12/15/2008
The new Elmo Live finally gets offered at a discount. Elmo Live was selling for the longest time at close to $60 across the board. Now I just saw that Amazon.com offers Elmo Live for just $48.99.
Fisher Price definitely made enough Elmos for this ...
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