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Amazon warns customers of infected digital photo frames

ITworld staff — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:42:35 -0500

Amazon.com Inc. last week warned customers running Windows XP that a Samsung digital photo frame it sold through earlier this month might have come with malware on the driver installation CD.

E-commerce sales show 'relative strength' over holidays

ITworld staff — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:22:51 -0500

Amazon.com said it had its best holiday sales season ever, but tracking companies find overall online sales dropped compared to a year ago.

Amazon.com Becomes Santa Sweatshop, Says UK Report

ITworld staff — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:37:58 -0500

To make sure you get your Xbox 360 this Christmas, Amazon's U.K. workers pack 140 games consoles every hour. And that might be the easiest part of their day, according to a report in the Times of London, which says laborers are sometimes made to walk up to 14 miles a shift to collect items for packing. The report also notes that U.K. workers risking firing if they take sick days, even with a doctor's note.

Amazon extends EC2 cloud platform to Europe

ITworld staff — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:37:23 -0500

Amazon has extended its Elastic Compute Cloud to Europe, a move that should give customers there better performance.

SIIA expands piracy lawsuits to Amazon.com, iOffer sellers

ITworld staff — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:40:17 -0500

The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) has filed eight new lawsuits against sellers of allegedly pirated software, for the first time targeting sellers on Amazon.com and iOffer.com.

Forget about getting a Kindle for Christmas

ITworld staff — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:38:27 -0500

Unless your special gift giver happens to be an early shopper -- a very early shopper -- you won't be getting a Kindle for Christmas.

Amazon.com releases free iPhone app

ITworld staff — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:42:30 -0500

Amazon.com on Tuesday announced the release of an application designed to work on the iPhone and iPod touch. It's available for free download from the App Store.

Netbooks dominate Cyber Monday on Amazon

ITworld staff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:44:09 -0500

Netbooks dominated the Computers & PC hardware bestsellers list on Amazon.com on Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year.

20 Hot Cyber Monday Deals

ITworld staff — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:10:23 -0500

Black Friday may be over, but Cyber Monday is here. There are some great deals waiting for you right now accessible from the comfort of your office cubicle.. Oops! Sorry, I meant home computer.

Amazon debuts content delivery network service

ITworld staff — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:15:18 -0500

Amazon has launched a hosted content-delivery network (CDN) service that it first announced in a preliminary test version two months ago.