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Kindle Paperwhite Explained
Friday, September 28th, 2012
Amazon recently announced a new version of the Kindle electronic reader with a new kind of technology which uses an...

Amazon Testing a Redesign

Monday, September 5th, 2011 - 15:29:51 - Gloria Koss

Can you remember a time when there wasn't an Amazon? The site seems to have been around since pages took 30 minutes to load. And it's always...

Can Amazon Disrupt the Tablet Market

Monday, August 29th, 2011 - 15:28:59 - Gloria Koss

Analysts at Forrester Research believe an Amazon tablet will be capable of disrupting the lucrative iPad-dominated market...

Amazon: Cloud Problems Resolved (Mostly)

Monday, April 25th, 2011 - 18:39:24 - Iddo Genuth

Amazon said it resolved a majority of the technical problems that plagued its Web services business last week and prompted many Web sites to either...

Amazon Lets you Play with Virtual Android

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 - 17:49:58 - Iddo Genuth

Amazon recently opened an app store for Google Android OS. According to Amazon: "Clicking the "Test drive now" button launches a copy...

How Mechanical Turk is Broken

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 - 09:41:33 - Anuradha Menon

Amazon's Mechanical Turk is important because in a perfect world, it could be the ultimate hub for the "human cloud" -- an amorphous...

Amazon Hit by Web Service Failure

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 - 12:12:30 - Anuradha Menon

The European sites of web retailer Amazon were temporarily offline on 12 December, amid ongoing threats against major sites by pro-Wikileak...

Amazon Offers E-Book Gifting

Sunday, November 21st, 2010 - 09:14:55 - Anuradha Menon

Amazon.com hopes to boost holiday sales this year by offering e-books as gifts. The online retailer Friday added the ability to send digital books as...