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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.

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?