Amazon inks deal with Fox for 2,000+ streaming movies
Amazon announced Monday that it would add more than 2,000 TV shows and movies to its streaming video services this fall in a new partnership with Fox. The new content, which includes classic movies...
View ArticleOpera responds to Amazon's Cloud-powered 'Silk' browser
One of to features of Amazon's recently announced Kindle Fire tablet drawing attention is its WebKit-based 'Silk' Web browser. What makes Silk different from most browsers is its 'split browser'...
View ArticleAmazon Kindle Fire tablet (preview)
Rumours were flying around for months about Amazon launching a tablet and the US giant has finally delivered. The Kindle Fire is a 7in tablet running a customised version of Android and is Amazon's...
View ArticleWhere there are clouds, there's lightning (and other cloud disaster tips)
They say that lightning doesn't strike twice, but apparently a single bolt of lightning can take out two cloud provider data centers at once. At least that's what initial reports cited as the cause of...
View ArticleAmazon sets up Kindle lending library
Amazon.com announced the launch of an e-book lending library for Kindle users, that allows Amazon Prime members to borrow books for free, as frequently as a book a month, and without due dates.
View ArticleBarnes & Noble launches Nook Tablet
Barnes & Noble launched its widely expected tablet Monday, taking on the soon-to-be released tablet from book-selling rival Amazon with a machine that has slightly better specs.
View ArticleKindle Fire: What the critics are saying
Gadget gurus have been testing out Amazon's Kindle Fire media tablet ahead of the device's Tuesday ship date and the consensus is that it's a solid alternative to the iPad for some environments.
View ArticleIN PICTURES: Kindle Fire - Up close with Amazon's media tablet
The Amazon Kindle Fire is one of the most anticipated tablets of the season. Here's a look at some of its notable features.
View ArticleKindle Fire gets knocked on usability
Amazon's Kindle Fire "offers a disappointingly poor user experience," according to an expert on usability.
View ArticleJobs biography Amazon's top seller in 2011
A biography of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was Amazon's best-selling book this year despite hitting store shelves and electronic readers only in late October.
View ArticleAmazon set to shake up Australian cloud market
In a move that has been expected by local commentators for quite some time, Amazon Web Services — the cloud computing arm of Amazon.com — overnight announced that customers can now access AWS services...
View ArticleF5 to launch AWS editions of BIG-IP products
Network appliance maker F5 will officially announce a new virtual edition of its flagship BIG-IP technology specifically designed for use with Amazon Web Services cloud instances at the AWS re: Invent...
View ArticleAmazon introduces data warehouse service
Adding to an already considerable set of Cloud IT offerings, Amazon has introduced a hosted data warehouse service called Redshift, pitching it as a lower-cost alternative to on-premise data warehouse...
View ArticleAmazon unveils data-warehouse-as-a-service
Andy Jassy, head of Amazon.com’s cloud arm, Amazon Web Services, used his keynote at the inaugural AWS re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas to unveil the latest addition to AWS’ cloud ecosystem:...
View ArticleAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos on innovation and entrepreneurship
In a ‘fireside chat’ with Amazon’s CTO, Werner Vogels, at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas the company’s founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos offered his thoughts on the key to innovation.
View ArticleCloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs....
It wouldn't be a mischaracterization to equate the cloud computing industry to the wild, wild west.
View ArticleAmazon connects node.js to AWS services
Amazon is providing a way for one of the most popular JavaScript extensions, node.js, to easily access the Amazon Web Service collection of cloud computing capabilities.
View ArticleStallman slams Ubuntu, calls Amazon integration 'spyware'
Activist and free software guru Richard Stallman on Friday hammered Ubuntu for including what he termed spyware in new versions of the popular open-source operating system and urged GNU and Linux users...
View Article2012: The year in quotes
Some of the most memorable IT-related quotes were uttered in courtrooms this year, which involved a steady stream of legal challenges about intellectual property. In no particular order, these are some...
View ArticleApple e-book settlement with EU will allow Amazon to set prices
Apple and four other e-book publishers have settled an antitrust battle with the European Union.
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