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Amazon lowers cloud costs
Blog From the first of February users of Amazon’s CloudFront will find the cost of the cloud computing application has dropped. On Friday, Amazon said that the cost of transferring data around the cloud has come down from $0.170 per GB for the first...
[January 30, 2009, 16:25]
Amazon's Kindle lights no UK fires
Blog Everybody seems to be talking about Amazon's new Kindle e-book reader just now, and if you're wondering why there's no coverage on ZDNet UK Reviews, it's because the device is not yet available for sale this side of the pond.
[November 21, 2007, 12:43]
OLPC available on Amazon
Blog According to the BBC, the OLPC project has teamed up with Amazon to push the Get 1 Give 1 scheme where consumers can choose to buy two of the $200 laptops - one for themselves and one for donation to a child in need.
[September 7, 2008, 22:41]
Cloud from Amazon blows into Europe
Blog Amazon has created a European zone in its EC2 cloud, quoting fault tolerance, data separation and stability as reasons for giving the Old World a place of its own. Because it's a brand new region, users who want to move services and data across...
[December 10, 2008, 15:42]
Kindle 2 from Amazon launches Feb 9
Blog Though its actual existence has not confirmed by Amazon, Jeff Bezos the CEO will be giving a news conference in the Morgan library and Museum in New York. A previous 11 to 13 week wait for the Kindle has now been set to 4 to 6 weeks tying in nicely...
[February 3, 2009, 13:03]
Amazon to release free Kindle PC app
Blog Amazon is making its Kindle electronic book service more accessible by launching a new free app for Windows PCs. The new app will let users download and read ebooks on their computer, and, like the iPhone app, it will sync with Kindle readers.
[October 26, 2009, 14:29]
Gobsmacked at Amazon delivery fiasco
Blog I ordered an iPod from Amazon early last week, when I was still on holiday. I had actually had a bad experience with this company before - again regarding an Amazon order - so I was well-versed on their inane policies of not changing the delivery...
[January 12, 2008, 11:03]
Amazon.com in space!
Blog Jeff Bezos has released the first images of a test flight of his Blue Origin space vehicle. In a video clip of the flight on the BBC.the cone shaped pod reaches a height of about 85m (285ft). Writing on the Blue Origin.site, Bezos said that the...
[January 4, 2007, 14:07]
Kindle, international ebook of mystery
Blog At last, the Amazon Kindle is to launch in the UK - and around a hundred other countries. Likewise with Amazon execs, who say "You'll have to ask AT&T about that". So how come Amazon is ready to talk about the launch of the Kindle, but unable to...
[October 7, 2009, 15:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Curious goings-on at Amazon. Last year, Amazon bought a company called mobipocket, which publishes e-books for PDAs. But now it seems as if the company is losing all non-Amazon published e-books from its lists.
[August 7, 2006, 13:40]
Wikimedia Foundation turns down Phorm
Blog After Amazon did the same earlier this week, Wikimedia took the plunge on Thursday, "after some internal discussion on whether opting out of the Phorm user-profiling system in the UK would legitimize it".
[April 17, 2009, 17:01]
Open-source cloud platform goes commercial
Blog Eucalyptus, an open-source project aimed at making it possible to set up Amazon Web Services-compatible private cloud infrastructures, has established itself as a private company, Eucalyptus Systems. Crucially, Eucalyptus appears to the be the only...
[April 29, 2009, 13:15]
Microsoft shuns Open Cloud Manifesto
Blog It appears that Microsoft will not be a signatory, and the major cloud player Amazon has also given it a cool reception. Then Amazon, arguably the biggest player right now in the cloud computing scene, weighed in.
[March 27, 2009, 15:39]
1-Click at 6
Blog Last June, Amazon lobbyist Paul Misener invoked the ghost of BountyQuest, asking Congress to believe that the Bezos-funded company's failure to declare an 'official' winner in an O'Reilly-underwritten contest to debunk Amazon's 1-Click patent...
[November 1, 2006, 11:32]
Rupert Goodwin's Diary
Blog Here's some promotional mail from Amazon, nicely personalised: he likes and trusts the brand, so he opens the email. This scene has been repeated around the country, my correspondents report, as Amazon's email targeting software goes kerblooie.
[July 16, 2001, 18:16]
Eye-Fi - the Wi-Fi SD card for digital camera fans
Blog Amazon UK is currently selling it for £71 which is extremely steep for an SD card of that capacity. Geotagging is supported by the ‘Explore Video’ card (which Amazon seems not to be selling), while the top of the range Pro card, sold in a 4GB...
[January 7, 2010, 11:01]
Google ABC’s… I Like
Blog A=Amazon For fun, do a Google search and type in the letter A, what you’ll find to no surprise is “Amazon” as the first auto-complete suggestion. For some of the most popular web searches however, they’ve penetrated the coveted Google ABC’s… which...
[October 27, 2009, 16:48]
Raining on the cloud
Blog It could be either a large service delivery uptime issue or a big security issues - and CIOs will be reinforced in their preference for building their own data centres as opposed to shipping the crown jewels of the business out to Amazon.
[January 1, 2010, 20:20]
Experts Exchange and ostrich policy
Blog It's however remarkable that the latest customer review at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/review/product/B00006BLAS/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful/105-1934369-9253243? My mailing log: I asked the person that suspended me at Experts Exchange to change my...
[December 14, 2008, 13:03]
Adobe clouds billow around a ‘sandbox in the sky’
Blog The gateway to this product is via the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Adobe is not the only company to use this route to what it describes as a virtual self-contained enterprise development environment.
[January 15, 2009, 23:12]
