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- Unboxing amazon's Kindle
- A look at Amazon's Kindle out of its packaging. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Larry Dignan, product photos, Amazon, Kindle, E-book, Amazon Kindle
- Image galleries 2007-11-20
- amazon's Flexible Payment System
- Jeff Barr, Amazon's Web Services evangelist and Phil Burns are both people I'm friends with on Twitter, so I was interested to follow an exchange with them a couple of nights ago when Jeff kept promising Phil that "the announcement" was almost ready. What announcement?Yesterday in a long blog...
- Tags: Web Technology, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- amazon experiments with groceries
- Amazon appears to experimenting with grocery deliveries in Seattle. The invite only service, which was highlighted by Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, is dubbed Amazon Fresh and promises a fresh selection, value and convenience of grocery shopping online.Arrington makes the obvious comparison to Webvan and its flameout, but misses one key...
- Tags: General, E-commerce, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- Podcast: SF power outage, Apple earnings, mashups and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show we discuss Apple's quarterly earnings (which were released just before we recorded the show--270,000 iPhones sold in the two-day launch before the end of the quarter) and the power outage in San Francisco that took out ZDNet, Craigslist, Technorati, Yelp and other...
- Tags: Web Technology, SaaS, General, Enterprise 2.0, Disaster Recovery, Datacenter, Dan &, David Show, Apple, Business Continuity, Amazon, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- amazon makes IT spending cool
- Wall Street is a funny place. Amazon spends heavily on technology and content for the last two years and all analysts do is whine. Now Amazon has reported two straight quarters of stellar earnings and analysts appear to be big backers of the e-commerce giant's capital spending. That's what blowout...
- Tags: Amazon, E-commerce, General, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Will amazon see Christmas in July?
- Amazon's second quarter earnings on Tuesday will go a long way to determining whether the company is viewed as a retailer or an e-commerce platform much like eBay.Thus far, the e-commerce platform camp seems to be winning. Amazon is expected to report second quarter earnings of 15 cents a share...
- Tags: Web Technology, General, E-commerce, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Super Techies: Larry Tesler--the trail from Xerox PARC to Yahoo
- We've started a new video program, Super Techies, where I interview some of the people who are major impact on the past and future of computing. First up is Larry Tesler, currently Yahoo's vice president of user experience and design.Tesler's career is a roadmap of innovation in user interface design,...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Personal Technology, General, Apple, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- An Army of Davids
- Glenn Reynolds has a new book called An Army of Davids about how markets and technology are empowering individuals in new ways. In a similar vein, I wrote a column about the rise of personal businesses several months ago.The gist of my column is that many businesses, especially...
- Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, Government, General, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- amazon tops BusinessWeek's InfoTech 100
- BusinessWeek just published its InfoTech 100 report, which lists Amazon in the number one spot, Apple ranked 6th, Microsoft 8th, RIM 12th, Google 19th, IBM 21st, Oracle 22nd, HP 35th and EMC 88th.Dell, SAP, and Motorola failed to make the cut, due to weakness in their business, according to...
- Tags: General, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- eBay's new APIs: Harbingers of the Net's commerce operating system to come?
- Yesterday, as can be seen from the video we captured a part of eBay's senior director of Disruptive Innovation Max Mancini's keynote address at the eBay's Developer Conference in Boston, eBay made a series of announcements. Among them, the release of two new APIs that developers can use as they...
- Tags: Yahoo, Software Infrastructure, Salesforce.com, Innovation, Google, General, Enterprise 2.0, eBay, E-commerce, Berlind, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Internet sales tax a big hang-up for alleged amazon-Netflix deal
- Amazon is allegedly pondering a purchase of Netflix, but rumor mongers may want to ponder some tax implications before jumping the gun. Netflix NFLX shares were last up almost 6 percent on rumors that Amazon AMZN was interested in acquiring the movie rental site. Now let's entertain these rumors, which...
- Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, Hollywood on Demand, General, Entertainment, E-commerce, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Podcast: Microsoft patents, Dell's Project Hybrid, DRM-free music and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss Microsoft's accusation that the open-source software industry has infringed 235 Microsoft patents and Dell's Project Hybrid, which appears to be a plan deliver virtualized, plug-and-play servers for datacenters. We also Amazon's new DRM-free music service, Google's Universal search and...
- Tags: Entertainment, DRM, Dell, Datacenter, Dan &, David Show, Apple, Amazon, Google, Hardware Infrastructure, IT Management, Linux, Microsoft, MySpace, Open Source, Red Hat, Software Infrastructure, virtualization, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-17
- DRM-free movement snowballs; watch those song prices
- Amazon said Wednesday that it will launch a digital music store "later this year" that will feature DRM-free tunes. The online retailer said it will offer millions of songs from more than 12,000 labels. EMI's music catalog, which went DRM-free with Apple, will be included in Amazon's store. The official...
- Tags: Entertainment, DRM, Apple, Amazon, General, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- At Mix07, is Microsoft's bottom-trolling for developers with weak knees?
- From the early reports coming out of the Mix07 conference, Microsoft is making revamped offers to Web 2.0 developers that they are not supposed to be able to refuse. It worked in the client/server world, where getting your applications into a mainstream channel made the Microsoft ecosystem hard to resist....
- Tags: Windows, Web Technology, Web Services, Vista, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA, search, SaaS, Open Source, Microsoft Live, Microsoft, Internet, Google, Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Amazon, Adobe, .NET
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- Meet Goog-Azon, world dominator
- Giants such as Yahoo, Google, eBay and Amazon and their ilk are going to control 50 percent of all consumer purchases by 2016 and wreak havoc on consumer businesses. These stats are tossed out by Gartner to get folks thinking. That...
- Tags: Amazon, eBay, Enterprise 2.0, Gartner Symposium, General, Google, Innovation, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Adobe swiftly advances Flex into a RIA powerhouse by taking it open source
- I was just telling Coach Wei of Nexaweb the other night that Adobe was being too arrogant, and that more exploitation of open source would make sense for them. Well, darned if it turns out I was making some sense, even after two beers and a crab taco at Fenway...
- Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Developer Tools, Amazon, Adobe, .NET, Google, Intellectual Property, Internet, Microsoft, Open Source, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- amazon mum on EC2, S3 spending
- While Amazon delivered a blow-out quarter it remains quiet about detailing how much it is spending on the fast-growing EC2 and S3 Web services. On the first quarter earnings conference call, Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck tried to pin down Amazon AMZN executives on...
- Tags: Utility computing, Amazon, Web Technology, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- amazon delivers--big time
- Amazon reported its first quarter earnings that handily beat expectations. It also sees clear sailing in the second quarter. Amazon reported net income of $111 million, or 26 cents a share, for the quarter ending March 31. Wall Street was...
- Tags: Web Technology, General, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- SOA Insights analysts delve into SOA/Web 2.0 mashups and the Oracle-Hyperion deal
- Read a full transcript of the discussion.How do SOA and Web 2.0 services come together? Are we entering an era where a variety of business services from a spectrum of sources contribute to and perhaps dominate new business process aggregation? If so, wont that require a level of governance to...
- Tags: SOA Governance, Enterprise 2.0, Web Services, Software Infrastructure, Software Development, SOA architect, SOA, SAP, SaaS, Podcasts, Oracle, Microsoft, management, Internet, Interarbor Solutions, IBM, Google, business intelligence, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- IBM and amazon--no way
- Redmonker James Governor argues that IBM is too risk averse, large-enterprise focused, and lacks a strong presence at the core of the Internet. His solution to IBMs apparent conservatism which is how the mainframe obsessed IBM missed out on the PC revolution at first is that the company should acquire...
- Tags: IBM, General, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-04-20
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