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Amazon CTO: Cloud infrastructure keeps companies focused on inno...

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Thu, 11/20/2008 - 12:11pm

On the night of the historic U.S. presidential election, news outlets across the country streamed live video of the news coverage on their Web sites.

Obviously, the Web traffic that night, compared to others, was exponentially greater.



 

Amazon launches content delivery network

CNET Tech blog  Tue, 11/18/2008 - 9:37am

Company goes live with CloudFront, which promises to work closely with its popular S3 service, with "low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments."



 

OLPC's Give One, Get One program to be rekindled Nov. 17

CNET Tech blog  Tue, 11/11/2008 - 6:46pm

Amazon.com is facilitating this year's installment of the One Laptop Per Child donation program.



 

Salesforce partners with Facebook, Amazon to spark more app deve...

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Mon, 11/03/2008 - 2:54pm

Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff doesn’t think companies should be worrying about things like servers and security, software updates and web hosting.

In a keynote speech at the company’s Dreamforce conference today, he explained that those sort of things are what he and his company should be worrying about.



 

Hot Topic launches DRM-free music service

CNET Tech blog  Wed, 10/29/2008 - 4:01pm

Hot Topic, the alternative rock accessories and apparel store, launches a DRM-free music store to compete with iTunes and Amazon.



 

Tech stocks ride high in anticipation of interest rate cut

CNET Tech blog  Tue, 10/28/2008 - 4:34pm

Cisco, Amazon, Comcast, and other tech stocks surge on market rally. Dow posts gain of nearly 900 points.



 

Earnings alert: EarthLink profits on cost cuts

CNET Tech blog  Tue, 10/28/2008 - 9:10am

Plus: Sony reduces forecast...Microsoft earnings beat estimates, outlook lower...iPhone sales buoy AT&T earnings...Amazon offers dim holiday forecast.



 

Amazon launches WindowShop: A 3-D shopping experience

CNET Tech blog  Mon, 10/27/2008 - 2:53pm

Amazon's standard site got you down? check out WindowShop, a really cool 2-D browsing experience for Amazon.com.



 

Amazon's Kindle obsession: Bury the printed book

CNET Tech blog  Fri, 10/24/2008 - 3:56pm

Jeff Bezos is very patient, and clearly willing to invest long term in his Google-like vision--digitize the world's information and buy it through Amazon.



 

E-commerce’s looming question: Will consumers show up?

ZDNET - Between the Lines  Thu, 10/23/2008 - 8:42am

The fourth quarter for e-commerce will be very telling. Will online sales continue to grow even if the consumer is strapped?

Or will e-commerce increasingly look like the rest of the retail sector?