gigaom.com - 1/10/2009
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Today, Amazon ( s AMZN) Web Services announced a management console that illustrates how carefully Amazon is playing its role as a platform provider. The new console competes in part with products from RightScale , Elastra (which has backing from Amazon ) and Enomaly, but doesn’t crush ...
gizmodo.com - 1/5/2009
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gizmodo.com —
Roku's Netflix box is currently a one-trick pony,
but it's getting Amazon's Video on Demand later this...
year, meaning you can soon buy or rent and instantly stream movies and TV shows from Amazon's service. Amazon's Video on Demand library has about ...
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Roku Netflix Box Gets Amazon Video on Demand [Amazon]
channelregister.co.uk - 1/13/2009
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channelregister.co.uk —
A New York Supreme Court judge has approved
the state's new-fangled Amazon Tax . Earlier this year,...
Amazon.com and Overstock.com sued New York over an ingenious new law that forces the big-name online retailers to collect sales tax if they maintain ...
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New York judge OKs Amazon Tax • Channel Register
phx.corporate-ir.net - 1/5/2009
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phx.corporate-ir.net —
Access and add to their virtual library of
purchases via Amazon Video On Demand's Your Video Library...
, and re-watch them anytime on the Roku Player or online with a PC, MAC or other compatible device. Watch new release movies the same day that they ...
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Did Amazon Just Damage Their Ecosystem?
SmoothSpan Blog —
... There’s a lot of back and forth over whether Amazon has just damaged some of their ecosystem partners by launching the AWS Console, which provides an easy way to control your Amazon Cloud usage from a web browser.
Elastic Vapor trumpets, “Amazon Crushes Ecosystem.”
GigaOm says the new offering competes with RightScale, Elastra, and Enomoly, but doesn’t crush them out of existence.
This is not the first time this has happened. Elastra and others were queing up to solve EC2’s persistence problem and Amazon ...
Joyent to Buy Reasonably Smart, Creating Scalable, Open-source Cloud [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... of their infrastructure heritage. Amazon, which has plenty of services, from SimpleDB to S3, continues to extend its offering with value-added services like CDNs, billing and management consoles — even at the expense of its ecosystem of existing vendors that have built similar tools atop EC2. ...
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informationweek.com 12/3/2008 — Amazon.com has launched on the Apple App Store an iPhone application that makes it possible to take a picture of a product and then send it to the online retailer, which will try to match it with products in its inventory. Amazon said its new mobile ...
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smoothspan.wordpress.com 12/18/2008 — Well it’s official. My company, Helpstream , has now been running our application entirely on Amazon Web Services for a week and we’re very happy with the result–it’s better, faster, and cheaper. We’ve gotten a more ...
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