Amazon’s MP3 is preloaded as an application in T-Mobile’s G1, the first phone designed on Google’s Android platform. G1 users will be able to purchase DRM-free MP3’s from the store to listen on their phone.
The Amazon partnership is crucial for Google’s G1 to compete with the iPhone, which integrates very well with Apple’s iTunes store [...]
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Google G1 to get DRM-free music from Amazon’s Music Store
Amazon’s IMDB now lets you watch free movies!
Amazon’s IMDB has launched free online videos including popular TV shows and hollywood movies. Over 6,000 full-length feature films and TV episodes can now be watched free on IMDb.com.
The announcement also introduces an easy to upload service for folks who own rights for TV shows and videos using Amazon’s withoutabox service. Withoutabox is a division [...]
Amazon Web Services introduces EBS: Elastic Block Store
Amazon is betting heavily on software and services on the cloud. The company today launched the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), a new persistent storage feature for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Amazon EC2 is an infrastructure service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. With Amazon EBS, storage volumes can [...]
August 21st, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuediTunes leader in music but Amazon upsets Target
According to the latest MusicWatch consumer surveys from The NPD Group, a leading market research company, the five leading music retailers in the U.S. for the first half of 2008 (January through June, based on purchases of CDs and a-la-carte digital music downloads) ranked as follows:
iTunes
Wal-Mart (Walmart, Walmart.com, Walmart Music Downloads)
Best Buy (Best Buy, Bestbuy.com, [...]
Amazon acquires AbeBooks
Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that, subject to closing conditions, it has reached an agreement to acquire AbeBooks. AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books, with over 110 million primarily used, rare and out-of-print books listed for sale by thousands of independent booksellers from around the world.
“As a leader in rare and hard-to-find books, AbeBooks brings [...]
Amazon shares soar on Q2 earnings
SEATTLE, Jul 23, 2008. Amazon.com announced financial results for its second quarter ending June 30, 2008. Net sales increased 41% to $4.06 billion in the second quarter, compared with $2.89 billion in second quarter 2007. Excluding benefits of foreign exchange rates through the quarter, net sales grew 35% compared with second quarter 2007.
Operating income increased [...]
TIVO inks deal with Amazon, now also offers YouTube videos
TiVo and Amazon have signed an agreement to provide consumers with the ability to purchase physical products from Amazon.com on their TV sets, using their TiVo remote control. With this new Product Purchase feature, television advertisers will have the unique ability to market products sold through Amazon.com on any broadcast or cable network, any TV [...]
July 22nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | ContinuedAmazon begins streaming movies, plans for TV
This is a good week for streaming. Earlier this week, Microsoft and Netflix announced a partnership to bring Netflix movies to your TV via XBOX 360 Live service. Now Amazon is moving from its Unbox, a download-first-watch-later store to a new streaming store called Amazon Video On Demand. The store boasts an impressive collection of [...]
July 18th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
Amazon opens office supplies estore
Amazon has just announced that it will now be selling officesupplies through www.amazon.com/officesupplies. The new store includes a selection of more than 500,000 products from thousands of manufacturers such as Avery, Hammermill, Papermate, Midland Paper, Russell+Hazel and Raymond Geddes.
The following items will be sold in the estore
Staplers and Punches Tape
Adhesives and Fasteners
Writing and Correction Supplies
Presentation [...]
Amazon funds animoto
Animoto today announced that it has received an unspecified amount of funding from Amazon for its video production web application. The service, launched in August 2007, has had more than 160,000 registered users, about 7.5% of them signing up for premium services, the company said. Animoto Productions is based in New York City with an [...]
May 15th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
Sun announces availability of OpenSolaris OS 2008.05
Sun and the global OpenSolaris community today jointly announced the immediate availability of the OpenSolaris Operating Systems at the Sun CommunityOne developer conference.
Code named project Indiana, Sun has been working to build a LiveCD installation and the new network-based OpenSolaris Image Packaging System (IPS) to simplify and speed installation and integration with third-party applications. Debian [...]
