olpcnews.com - 12/15/2008
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Heads up to European Give 1 Get 1 donors! Amazon.co.uk may be canceling your G1G1 Global purchase because OLPC is talking too long to ship your XO laptop. Via OLPC News Forum , here is the Amazon.co.uk email being sent out : Dear Donor: The following order, placed on 17-Nov-2008 with One Laptop ...
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 ...
(more)
Key data center architect leaves Microsoft, headed for ...
allthingsdistributed.com - 12/10/2008
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allthingsdistributed.com —
Starting today the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)
supports the ability to launch instances in multiple geographically...
distinct regions. The new EU region enables users to launch instances in Europe. This addresses the requests from many our ...
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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon EC2 in Europe
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Amazon UK having issues with OLPC shipments
Liliputing —
... available is available to customers in more countries than last year.
My guess is that this is just a technical glitch. Some automated Amazon system is sending people the same notice they would receive if their order had been placed with any other third party merchant that sells items through Amazon. Hopefully once the problem is brought to the company’s attention the orders will be extended and the computers will ship as soon as they’re available.
via OLPC News
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Amazon OLPC orders in danger of cancellation -- think of the children!
Engadget —
... When Amazon got in on the Give 1, Get 1 OLPC plan, where generous lovers of little green machines could chip in $399 to donate one XO to the cause while also getting a new toy for their children (or themselves), it was unclear exactly when the things ...
Amazon OLPC orders threatened over shipping delays
SlashGear —
... Delays in shipping have caused Amazon UK to begin informing OLPC buyers that their notebook orders may be cancelled. Sales began ...
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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 ...
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Fisher Price definitely made enough Elmos for this ...
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