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Apple's new subscription policy is making enemies
by
John Moe
Feb 16, 2011
Apple officially rolled out its new plan for content subscriptions in the iPad. What it boils down to is that if you purchase an iPad version of a...
Apple tightens grip on app store
by
John Moe
Feb 1, 2011
Apple has rejected an app from Sony that would simulate Sony's own e-book reader and allow customers to purchase books from Sony from inside the...
Living Social and Amazon sell a bunch of stuff together and somebody loses money
by
John Moe
Jan 20, 2011
Before we prepare the online coupon throne for King Groupon, competitor Living Social might have a word or two to say. Living Social, the Art Garf...
Kindle coming to Android and Windows tablets
by
John Moe
Jan 4, 2011
Eventually, Amazon will make a Kindle that operates inside a different Kindle. It'll be like Russian Nesting Kindles. Joining the array of Kindle...
Amazon patents incredibly heartless and useful idea
by
John Moe
Dec 28, 2010
Amazon has been awarded a patent for a new way to return unwanted gifts. The current system is pretty cumbersome: you have to repackage the ugly...
Kindle 3 is top selling Amazon item ever, selling xxx,???,!!! units
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John Moe
Dec 27, 2010
They won't provide an actual number but they say they've sold more Kindle 3s than they have of the last Harry Potter book. Harry Potter books,...
Mechanical Turk is 40.92% spam generators
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John Moe
Dec 20, 2010
This according to researchers at NYU. They investigated all new HIT requesters on Amazon's Mechanical Turk site for September and October ...
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Amazon Europe either hacked or not
by
John Moe
Dec 13, 2010
Several European Amazon sites were down over the weekend, leading any sensible person to think that perhaps Anonymous was taking more revenge...
Amazon selling Wikileaks e-book
by
John Moe
Dec 9, 2010
Amazon's UK store is selling an e-book containing excerpts from the recent Wikileaks cables. This after Amazon kicked Wikileaks off the Amazon...
Amazon next on Operation Payback's list
by
John Moe
Dec 9, 2010
This will be interesting to watch. About two hours ago, the Operation Payback Twitter account tweeted: "TARGET: WWW.AMAZON.COM LOCKED ON!!!"....