Amazon Cloud Challenge Has Prizes of $400,000, €310,000 for Startups

Amazon Cloud Challenge Has Prizes of $400,000, €310,000 for Startups

Companies using the cloud can get cash and AWS services for free

Google to Offer Cloud Music Matching for Free, Still Needs 2 Labels to Approve

Google to Offer Cloud Music Matching for Free, Still Needs 2 Labels to Approve

Google is finding it hard to deal with the labels that are always asking for more

  • Web Blog
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • September 11th, 2012
Amazon Is Now the World's Largest Web Host with 118,000 Servers

Amazon Is Now the World's Largest Web Host with 118,000 Servers

Its cloud services power 6.8 million sites but also a large number of other projects

  • Web Blog
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • September 11th, 2012
Amazon Is Already Discounting Books from Price-Fixing Publishers

Amazon Is Already Discounting Books from Price-Fixing Publishers

Several publishers accused of collusion have settled with the US government

  • Web Blog
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • September 10th, 2012
Alibaba Is Already Bigger Than Amazon and Ebay, Its Android Competitor Is Gaining Steam

Alibaba Is Already Bigger Than Amazon and Ebay, Its Android Competitor Is Gaining Steam

The Chinese ecommerce giant is growing at a fast pace, but only locally

Kindle OS X App Adds “Lion Gestures”

Kindle OS X App Adds “Lion Gestures”

Also includes support for Kindle Format 8 books for richer formatting

Amazon Relents, You'll Be Able to Opt Out of Ads on the Kindle Fire for $15

Amazon Relents, You'll Be Able to Opt Out of Ads on the Kindle Fire for $15

All Kindle Fires will be ad-supported out of the box

Bing Is the Default on the Kindle Fire HD, Thank Microsoft for Your Cheap Tablet

Bing Is the Default on the Kindle Fire HD, Thank Microsoft for Your Cheap Tablet

Amazon is getting a lot of money to displace Google as the default search engine

Broken Amazon Kindles Have Their Own Book (Video)

Broken Amazon Kindles Have Their Own Book (Video)

The meaning of “broken art” is suddenly more ambiguous

  • Tablets
  • By Constantin Murariu
  • September 7th, 2012
Kinde Fire HD Ships with No Charger and Amazon Overcharges Europeans 252% For It

Kinde Fire HD Ships with No Charger and Amazon Overcharges Europeans 252% For It

The supplied USB cable will indeed charge your gadget, but it takes 14 hours to do it

Amazon Is the Second Guttenberg, More Books Are Sold and Read Than at Any Time in History

Amazon Is the Second Guttenberg, More Books Are Sold and Read Than at Any Time in History

The publishing industry is whining, but it should be extremely grateful

The New Kindle Fires Are Getting a New Silk Hybrid Cloud Browser as Well

The New Kindle Fires Are Getting a New Silk Hybrid Cloud Browser as Well

The new Silk browser is faster and more HTML5-compliant

Kindle for Mac – Read E-Books from Your Desktop

Kindle for Mac – Read E-Books from Your Desktop

Access your Amazon e-books collection from your Mac

  • Security
  • By Lucian Parfeni
  • September 7th, 2012
Kindle Fire Silk Will Have Privacy "Hypochondriacs" Throwing Fits Again

Kindle Fire Silk Will Have Privacy "Hypochondriacs" Throwing Fits Again

But you probably shouldn't worry especially since you can turn the cloud connection off

You’ll Be Allowed to Pay to Not Have Ads on Your Kindle Fire HD

You’ll Be Allowed to Pay to Not Have Ads on Your Kindle Fire HD

This is the opt-out feature for those that don’t want to see advertisments

Amazon Builds Tablets, Google Builds a Shopping Site, Everyone Is Copying Everyone

Amazon Builds Tablets, Google Builds a Shopping Site, Everyone Is Copying Everyone

Amazon, Apple and Google are becoming more and more like each other

  • Tablets
  • By Constantin Murariu
  • September 7th, 2012
Nvidia Responds to Amazon’s Kindle Performance Claims

Nvidia Responds to Amazon’s Kindle Performance Claims

The company feels there’s nothing it needs to do to prove that Tegra 3 is the real king

 
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