nytimes.com - 9/21/2009
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Amazon is shaking up retailers, both big rivals and small independent stores, as it speeds its way beyond books toward its goal of becoming a Web-sized general store.
Amazon And Wal-Mart Raise MP3 Price
tweaktown.com 4/10/2009 — It was an inevitible price increase that many have been expecting for years. The Music Industry has been breathing down the necks of all three companies and demanding more money. Apple tried to fight
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 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 ...
Mart, Amazon, Target in DVD price war
mercurynews.com 22 days ago — NEW YORK Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante heading into the holiday season, trimming the online preorder prices of some upcoming DVDs following last month's price cut on books. The move led rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Target Corp. to reduce the ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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