Amazon creates own house brand of consumer electronics
techflash.com 9/20/2009 — Amazon.com has been quietly building a private label strategy for the last couple years, creating house brands around kitchen tools (Pinzon), outdoor furniture (Strathwood), bed and bath products (Pike Street) and power tools (Denali). Now the online ...

Amazon Video on Demand goes high definition
arstechnica.com 4/22/2009 — Today Amazon announced that its Video On Demand service now has HD movies and TV shows, which had started appearing in late March , available for purchase or rent. The move catches Amazon up with Apple's iTunes Store, which has offered HD ...

Amazon Launches Same Day Delivery in Seven Major Cities and Expands Saturday Delivery Options
phx.corporate-ir.net 10/15/2009 — SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2009-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the launch of “Local Express Delivery,” a new shipping option giving customers same-day delivery in seven major cities including New York, Philadelphia, Boston, ...

Variable pricing spreads to Amazon, Lala, Rhapsody, Wal-Mart
arstechnica.com 4/8/2009 — At Macworld Expo in January 2009, Apple announced that it had negotiated a deal that would allow it to join the rest of the digital music distribution industry by  removing DRM from all 10 million songs in its download catalog. In a ...

Oracle Database Cloud Backup
johanlouwers.blogspot.com 6/10/2009 — When you are looking into the architecture of a new database system a lot of things are to be considered. Besides the applications that will be using the database you will have to think about hardware, networking, storage, failover systems, backup and recovery, etc etc etc.Traditional backup is ...

Amazon VoD now rocking Roku set-top video player
arstechnica.com 3/3/2009 — Roku on Tuesday announced that Amazon's Video On Demand (VoD) service is coming to its compact, $99 digital video player. Now that the Roku player features both Netflix's back catalog of streaming titles and Amazon's more recent catalog, ...

Amazon Makes a Slight Dent in iTunes Market Share
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 4/7/2009 — Amazon MP3 launched in September 2007, and when it did I wanted it to succeed, as a market dominated by one dominant giant (iTunes) gives Apple too much power. And they've managed to cut out a decent market share for themselves, with 16% piece of the action, according to the market research ...

Amazon aims to simplify online payments with PayPhrase
techspot.com 10/29/2009 — With the holiday shopping season almost underway, Amazon has launched a new payment system it hopes will make it simpler for customers to make online purchases on partner sites. The PayPhrase service works by keeping credit card information, shipping address and shipping preferences on record, ...

Snow Leopard pre-orders now being taken at Amazon
engadget.com 8/2/2009 — We could've sworn it was already available for pre-order, but seeing as Google cache is telling us otherwise, we thought it best to give you a heads up that Amazon is now accepting monies for Mac OS X 10.6 a.k.a. Snow Leopard . Nothing new about ...

Belkin rep hiring folks to write fake reviews on Amazon?
engadget.com 1/19/2009 — Back in our day, if you weren't busy walking up uphill both ways, you'd write your own dang fake reviews on Amazon, but apparently Belkin 's Michael Bayard -- or a clever impostor looking to smear the man's good name -- decided it'd be easier and ...

T-Mobile G1 for Under $100 at Amazon — PC World Latest Technology News 3/11/2009
The big price cut suggests the forthcoming arrival of next generation Android devices

Vodafone Music drops the protection — The Register 3/12/2009
Like Amazon, only more expensive Vodafone has announced that from this summer the company's music store will start switching to DRM-free MP3 files, with every Vodafone network going DRM-free over the next few years.…

Amazon tweaks EC2 pricing — CNET News - Business Tech 3/12/2009
This was originally published at ZDNet's Between the Lines . Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise-friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web ...

Amazon's cloud adds reserved seating — The Register 3/12/2009
Pay now, play later Amazon will let you reserve space on its cloud for up to three years under a pre-paid agreement.… Claim up to £100 Cash Back on selected Toshiba laptops

AWS Adds Option to Reserve Capacity on Cloud — PC World Latest Technology News 3/12/2009
Amazon Web Services is for the first time giving customers in the U.S. the ability to reserve in advance capacity on EC2.