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Road warriors: Take your library with you
E-book readers allow you to take hundreds of books and documents along with you in a device that's not much bigger than your smart phone. Michael Kassner will look at the technology behind these products and give some opinions about two of the e-book readers using a road warrior's perspective....
Tags: Sony Corp., Device, Amazon.com Inc., E-book Reader, Amazon Kindle, ePaper, Electronic Paper Display, E-book Reader Developer, Sony Reader Digital Book, DTP, E-books, Personal Technology, Michael Kassner
Blog posts 2008-07-21
When will Blu-Ray hit your data center?
Sony has finally won a format war and redeemed itself from the Betamax debacle in the 1980s. The immediate impact will certainly be in the consumer market, but it won't be long before the technology makes it into computers and data centers. The win was also impressive given the weight...
Tags: Sony Corp., Data Center, HD-DVD, Amazon.com Inc., Blu-ray, Backup Tape, Hd Dvd, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Data Centers, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andy Moon
Blog posts 2008-02-21
Amazon's S3 storage service suffers downtime
Hot on the heels of the latest outage over at RIM's North America NOC came news of Amazon's S3 cloud computing service experiencing some hiccups for several hours on Friday morning, February 15. The issue was apparently resolved by around noon EST on the same day. A...
Tags: S3 Inc., Storage, Downtime, Amazon.com Inc., Paul Mah
Blog posts 2008-02-18
Amazon's SimpleDB makes it easier to work with data
When you develop Web-based services, it can be difficult to achieve the goal of simplification. Working with the plethora of Web services offered by companies such as Google and Amazon provide plenty of examples, but these examples utilize complicated code to use the valuable services. This is why I was...
Tags: Combination, Data, Domain, Amazon.com Inc., RDBMS, Service, Wikipedia, SimpleDB, SimpleDB Service, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tony Patton
Blog posts 2008-01-28
Amazon's database in the cloud service
Amazon will unveil its database in the cloud service SimpleDB that lets customers manipulate and query data. An excerpt from News.com: "Amazon SimpleDB provides quick, efficient storage and retrieval of your data to support high performance Web applications," the company said on its SimpleDB Web site....
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-12-16
Amazon pays $4 million for limited edition J.K. Rowling book
Amazon.com made the winning bid of $3.98 million via London dealer Hazlitt, Gooden, and Fox, in an auction of the book titled The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which was mentioned in the last Harry Potter book. One of just seven copies, of which six were given...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Web Site Development, Leadership, Web Technology, Internet, Management, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-12-14
Amazon's Kindle sold out
Amazon's Kindle wireless reading device, which started selling Monday for $399, has quickly sold out due to "heavy customer demand." According to Amazon, it will be in stock again on December 7, 2007. Excerpt from CNET News.com: With the Kindle, Amazon is hoping to succeed...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, Engineering, Personal Technology, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-11-22
Photos: Amazon fires up Kindle e-reader
The online bookseller goes a step further with its new $399 handheld gadget for reading books and newspapers electronically. by CNET News.com
Tags: news, kindle, e-reader, amazon, TechRepublic Inc., Handheld, Amazon.com Inc., Photograph, Handhelds, E-business/E-Commerce, Hardware, Internet, CNET News.com
Image galleries 2007-11-20
Amazon to launch Kinder e-book reader next week
Amazon to launch Kindle e-book reader next weekLike the "paperless office" pipe dream that remains as elusive as ever, do you think that there is even a demand for a dedicated e-book reader?Will the Kindle be a bust?No I don't and yes I doDedicated is serious mistake in my opinion.Some...
Tags: E-books, paulmah@..., e-book Reader, Amazon.com Inc.
Discussion threads 2007-11-18
Amazon to reveal its e-book reader, Kindle
Amazon is expected to announce its e-book reader, which will connect to Amazon's e-book stores via Wi-Fi or a Sprint Nextel cellular connection. The reader is expected to be priced at $399. An excerpt from product-reviews: The features of the Kindle eBook reader will include...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., E-book Reader, Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-11-18
Amazon to launch Kindle e-book reader
Amazon.com's CEO will unveil the Kindle e-book reader in a high-profile event in New York on Monday. Reportedly delayed so as to "perfect the details," the Kindle will come equipped with a Wi-Fi connection that allows users to purchase electronic books from an Amazon e-book store. ...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., E-book Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-11-17
Amazon expands cloud computing to augment Web 2.0 ventures
Amazon Web Services opened up its utility computing service, the Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) beta, to all developers, adding large and extra large instance types to provide more flexibility to EC2 users. A quote from Internetnews.com: "[The] 'elastic' nature of Amazon EC2 allows any developer...
Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Amazon.com Inc., Computing, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-10-21
Just one more week to go for Amazon's $100,000 infrastructure challenge
Just one more week to sign-up for Amazon's $100,000 Web challengeDo you think that hosted infrastructure services represents the future paradigm of the Web?
Tags: Channel management, paulmah@..., Amazon.com Inc.
Discussion threads 2007-10-19
One more week to sign up for Amazon's $100,000 Web challenge
If you have a great idea for building a start-up around Amazon's Web Services, you have just another week to sign up for the the Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge. Based on the submission, the Amazon judges' panel will review and select five finalists based on "originality...
Tags: Web, Amazon.com Inc., Channel Management, Web Services, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-10-19
United States Patent and Trademark Office rejects Amazon's 1-Click patent
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected most of Amazon's 1-Click related patents due to evidence of another patent that predates it. Excerpt from CNET News.com: In its decision, dated September 26, the three-judge panel reversed an earlier decision approving the patent claims and...
Tags: Patent, Amazon.com Inc., U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-10-17
United States Patent and Trademark Office rejects Amazon's 1-Click patent
Do you reckon the complete revoking of Amazon's patents in this area will have any industry-wide repercussions?It's about darn time!.It's about time! I have always thought that Amazon's 1-click was a glaring example of an obvious "invention" and a very stupid mistake by the USPTO. Storing customer data so...
Tags: paulmah@..., U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Amazon.com Inc.
Discussion threads 2007-10-17
Sanity check: Could one of these five companies be the next Microsoft?
In March 2005, I was walking through downtown Chicago on my way to an event at the Microsoft office on West Wacker Drive, and I was thinking about the growing perception that Microsoft was yesterday's news. Linux and the Internet were the future, and Microsoft was the past. And then...
Tags: Software, Google Inc., Network, Platform, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Zoho, Jason Hiner
Blog posts 2007-09-10
Dalek Jawa Sand Crawler = A tank you can buy on Amazon?
Looks more like...The styling's of Jabba the Hutt's sail barge or skiffs than a Sand Crawler, though I'm sure the drive mechanism does more closely resemble that of the Sand Crawler than the sail barge.My question is, how do you explain the vehicle to your insurance company? Or to...
Tags: Insurance, brian.mills@..., Amazon.com Inc.
Discussion threads 2007-08-23
Dalek + Jawa Sand Crawler = A tank you can buy on Amazon?
If you've got $20,000 to spare, easy access to the a dry lake bed or salt flat, and a penchant for both science fiction, survivalism, and/or go-karts, then you're the perfect audience for the JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank. Sure, it looks like the midget offspring of a Dalek...
Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Tank, Internet, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2007-08-22
Amazon does a la PayPal or CheckOut with its new Flexible Payment Service
Amazon, the immensely successful e-commerce site, has unveiled its Flexible Payment Service Amazon FPS. The online payment service will take on competitors such as eBay's PayPal and Google's CheckOut. The service provides developers with APIs for accepting credit card and debit card payments....
Tags: Payment, Payment Service, Amazon.com Inc., PayPal, Service, Checkout, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-08-08


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