Tag: Amazon

Amazon Web Services Outage Brings Down Websites
Last Thursday night a power outage in a Northern Virginia data center caused some websites running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud technology to go down. The issue was resolved...
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Amazon Web Services Lowers Prices, Expands Support
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon's cloud services company, announced today that it has expanded its free support and lowered its prices for premium support plans. Amazon's suppor...
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Amazon Closing in on Deals With Major Music Labels
Earlier this week the Amazon Cloud Player app was released for the iPhone. The app allo...
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Amazon Competes With Google On A Bunch Of gTLDs
Google applied for 101 gTLDs, according to the big list ICANN...
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Tons Of Classic MGM Movies Are Coming To Amazon Prime
If you're stil on the fence about ponying up the $79 a year for Amazon Prime, the company hopes that a new deal with MGM is the kind of motivation you're looking for. Film fans...
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Amazon Prime to Offer Hundreds of Classic MGM Movies, TV Shows
Variety is the the spice of life, they say, and thanks to a new deal struck up with MGM Studios, Amazon Prime members will be enjoying that spice soon as the online company will no...
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Amazon Cloud Player for iPhone Released
Amazon announced today that the Amazon Cloud Player app is now available for iPhone and iPod touch devices. The app can now be...
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HBO Go Is Now On Fire (The Kindle Fire)
Just in time to relive Game of Thrones' epic second season and catch any episodes you may miss of the new season of True Blood, HBO Go has finally landed on the K...
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Amazon Acquires Avalon Books Back Catalogue
Amazon made the announcement today that they have acquired the publishing rights to over 3,000 Avalon Books. These titles are predominately in the categories of Ramance, Mystery,...
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Kindle Update Improves Contrast and Parental Controls
Amazon has announced a software update for the $79 kindle, the most affordable and the most purchased of the Kindle line. The changes are said to improve the reading experience wi...
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Amazon Offers ‘Never Before on DVD’ Store
For all the film buffs out there that love to talk about rare and unreleased movies comes a new collection from Amazon that showcases rarely seen "classics" (with quotations) and c...
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Publishers Strike Back at Amazon
It was recently reported that the U.S. federal government is suing Apple and book publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, on the assumption tha...
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Amazon Collecting Sales Tax in New Jersey
Amazon, who is planning to install two new distribution centers in New Jersey, which would create 1,500 new jobs, is now going to be charging sales tax in that state in July, 2013....
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Amazon Instant Video Comes To Xbox 360
Microsoft is usually king of the content acquisition deals. They get more content like Netflix sooner and usually in better forms than the competition. That's why it was so weird t...
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Amazon’s “Never Before on DVD” Store Launched Today
Amazon announced today that it's created a new Never Before on DVD store that, if you couldn't discern from the name, is a new serv...
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