roughtype.com - 10/23/2008
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For Amazon.com's utility-computing operation, Amazon Web Services, 2009 will be a crucial year, as the company is looking to expand beyond its traditional customer base of web developers and other relatively small-scale operators and push its services into the heart of the enterprise market. AWS ...
jungledisk.com - 10/17/2008
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jungledisk.com —
What is JungleDisk Jungle Disk Desktop Edition lets
you store files and automatically backup data easily and
securely to Amazon.com's S3 Storage Service. Store an unlimited amount of data for only 15¢ per GB No monthly subscription fee, no ...
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Jungle Disk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon ...
oprah.com - 10/24/2008
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oprah.com —
This summer, Oprah received a gift that she
says changed her life. "I'm telling you, it is
absolutely my new favorite thing in the world," she says. Meet the Amazon Kindle™, a wireless portable reading device with instant access to more than 190,000 ...
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Oprah's Favorite New Gadget
blogs.ft.com - 10/24/2008
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blogs.ft.com —
Kindle sales appear likely to get a significant
boost on Friday, with talk-show megastar Oprah Winfrey apparently
about to endorse Amazon’s digital book reader. Amazon is featuring a trailer of her Friday show on its site with Oprah talking ...
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Oprah likely to kindle big interest in digital books
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Amazon: Our cloud is solid as a rock
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... . “This is not the first time that we have gone through this cycle, but this time there are tools available to CIOs and CTOs that help them to manage their IT budgets very differently. By using infrastructure as a service, basic IT costs are moved from a capital expense to a variable cost, building clearer relationships between expenditures and revenue generating activities.” But as Nick Carr notes , tight times also tend to make companies more risk-averse, and that may be Amazon’s tougher selling job. “Amazon’s moves today — ditching the beta label, offering service ...
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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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corpblog.helpstream.biz 12/8/2008 — Saturday marks the one week anniversary of moving the Helpstream application out of our data center and on to Amazon Web Services . I’m happy to report that it has gone even better than smoothly. Various customers are reporting that it has ...
Amazon’s CloudFront Could Storm Rival CDNs [GigaOM]
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Amazon wants to buy your used video games
obsessable.com 3/5/2009 — Amazon Video Games Trade-In pays you competitive rates for shipping in your used titles. Most of us have ordered from Amazon at one point or another. Although ostensibly a bookstore, the site's product selection has grown to include most any consumer product you can think of. In recent years, ...
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