Tag: amazon.com
WSJ.com – Amazon Plans iPad Rival
A new Kindle though I’ve been waiting for that, defiantly pick up one of those puppies.
Ars Technica – Apple quietly drops special subscription requirements for iOS apps
The new rules feel much more balanced for both publishers and Apple.
Shawn Blanc – Cloudy With a Chance of Music
Ownership and total control over the experience is almost paramount for how I listen to music.
Twilio Engineering Blog – Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issue
Twilio on how to build a service that was able to deal with Amazon’s downtime.
O’Reilly Broadcast – The AWS Outage: The Cloud’s Shining Moment
The article even goes through the process of what it would take to permit you to have stayed up through Amazon’s recent downtime.
CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes
When this goes through (though possibly not this year) some business is going to make a mint providing a back-end service to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a purchase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Checkout should start building that now, if they haven’t already.
NYTimes.com – Amazon to Sell Cheaper Kindle Supported by Ads
Uggh, really Amazon, not only is advertising not really your thing but only 25 dollars off.
Lendle – Amazon revokes Lendle’s API access Update
Let’s hear it, good job Amazon on getting in touch with Lendle and coming to a reasonable solution.
Twitter – Lendle – Amazon has revoked Lendle’s API access
It’s downright awful, Lendle was a great site where you could lend your Kindle books with people you wouldn’t even know.
Bloomberg – Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of ‘App Store’ Trademark
Ughh when does it ever end.