Amazon to Launch Kindle for Textbooks - WSJ.com
"Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday plans to unveil a new version of its Kindle e-book reader with a larger screen and other features designed to appeal to periodical and academic textbook publishers, according to people familiar with the matter."
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IBM teams up with Amazon Web Services | Business Tech - CNET News
"Under the arrangement, users will have access to IBM's DB2, Informix Dynamic Server, WebSphere Portal, Lotus Web Content Management, WebSphere sMash and Novell's SUSE Linux operating system software."
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Philip M. Parker writes and publishes over 85,000 books on Amazon | MetaFilter
"Philip M. Parker has written and published over 85,000 books on Amazon in the past few years, although by his own count the total published is over 200,000. He is like a writing machine - in fact, he has created a machine that churns out an original book about every 20 minutes. A few sample titles ..."
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Amazon's cloud computing business: Poor visibility - TechFlash: Seattle's Technology News Source
"How did Amazon's cloud computing business do in the fourth quarter? That's not an easy question to answer. Amazon lumps its web services business together with other non-retail activities under "Other" sales."
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Is Google App Engine successful? | The Wisdom of Clouds - CNET News
"So, all of this might lead you to believe I'm anti-App Engine, or at least not confident that it is important except as a PaaS example. And until yesterday, you would be right. However, I spent the day yesterday at the Cloud Connect conference, hosted at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Google was much more visible here (in part because they were a "platinum sponsor"), and perhaps more importantly, the "how to" sessions they hosted Wednesday afternoon were packed by interested developers and technologists."
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More Readers Are Picking Up Electronic Books - NYTimes.com
"For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of the popularity of Amazon.com’s wireless Kindle device, the e-book has started to take hold."
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Jungle Disk - Reliable online storage powered by Amazon S3 - JungleDisk
"Jungle Disk Desktop Edition lets you store files and automatically backup data easily and securely to Amazon.com's S3 Storage Service."
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A List of Amazon S3 Backup Tools (by Jeremy Zawodny)
"In an effort to replace my home backup server with Amazon's S3, I've been collecting a list of Amazon S3 compatible backup tools to look at. Here's what I've discovered, followed by my requirements."
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Amazon launches OLPC 'Give 1 Get 1' laptop drive - LinuxWorld
"The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) association launched its Give 1 Get 1 program for a second time, allowing people to buy one of their iconic green mini-laptops and donate one to a child in the developing world at the same time for just $399."
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Princeton University to publish Kindle textbooks | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
"Princeton follows Yale, Oxford and the UC Berkeley in creating textbooks for the Kindle. In the United States, there are about 2,500 four-year universities so Amazon still has a long way to go."
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Amazon Launches Music Widget For Bloggers, Web Sites -- Amazon.com -- InformationWeek
"The MP3 Clips Widget lets users pick the song and albums they want to display or select the latest bestsellers or new releases within a specific genre. The mini-application, which is embedded in a blog or Web page, can also be set up to play a 30-second sample of song."
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