engadget.com - 8/2/2009
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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 the date and price from what we heard at WWDC ...
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 ...
Poll results: For Computer Hardware, do you prefer to shop at Amazon or NewEgg?
hardware-revolution.com 3/15/2009 — During the last two weeks, I’ve run a poll with the following question:
For Computer Hardware, do you prefer to shop at Amazon or NewEgg?
Voters were allowed to choose only one answer and couldn’t vote more than once. In total, we received 45 votes.
Here are the results:
The ...
Hands on: Barnes & Noble playing catchup with new e-books
arstechnica.com 7/22/2009 —
A year ago, it wasn't even clear that traditional book retailer Barnes & Noble had an e-book plan. But, over the past few months, the company has picked up several small e-book companies, and on Monday it announced the ...
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 aims to simplify online payments with PayPhrase
techspot.com 26 days ago — 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, ...
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 ...
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 to acquire retailer Zappos
driverheaven.net 7/22/2009 — Whoa. This was unexpected: Amazon has agreed to a stock takeover of Zappos.com , a Las Vegas-based online retailer that has become famous for its unusual corporate culture. While Zappos started out selling only shoes, it has since expanded to other products .
"This morning, our board ...
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