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Amazon Auctions Cloud Computation -- InformationWeek

The price for free computing cycles is now to be set at auction. Could this be the first real move toward real smart-grids? Real market pricing. Commoditizing of computational power, such that profit margins no longer need mean gaming the system? I ho [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Roll Your Own Ubuntu Private Cloud -- Cloud Computing

Is this huge or minor? Ordinary folks can leverage "the cloud" and make their stuff available to as many people as might want it . . . [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Who will win the e-book war?

(From The Wall Street Journal ) Wal-Mart Stores Inc. launched a brash price war against Amazon.com Inc. on Thursday, saying it would sell 10 hotly anticipated new books for just $10 apiece through its online site, Walmart.com. That was just the beginn [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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WANT

DO NOT WANT

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Kindle 2 goes to $259 - want one now?

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This just in: the Kindle 2 is falling from $299 to $259 and they will be selling an international version with built-in AT&T SIM card for $279 on October 19. Quoth the suits: “Kindle has revolutionized the way we purchase and read books, by m [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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APPROVE

OBJECT

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Teen sues kindle for deleting 1984 along w/ his notes

In case you haven't followed this story, Amazon quietly and secretly deleted George Orwell's 1984 on everyone's Kindle because of a licensing issue. Now, this kid, who lost all of his notes along with the book (apparently Kindles let you add notes to [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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FUNNY

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Three Wolf Moon T-shirt inspires wave of snarkiness on Amazon

If you haven't seen this meme, check it out, then vote. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Amazon Opens Kindle to Bloggers, But Will Readers Want to Pay?

One of the benefits of Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle reader is portable access to content. There’s a deep library of books and an increasing pool of subscription content. One of the detriments singled out by some camps is the Kindle’s closed environmen [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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COOL

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Official-looking Kindle 2 pictures leak out - what do you think?

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We're not going to call it official yet, but a bunch of very real-looking Kindle 2 press images just hit the tubes, and we've got to say we're pretty convinced. Although the device itself looks basically the same as in those previously-leaked shots we [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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MEH

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Oprah gushes about Amazon Kindle, traffic jumps 479 percent

The Amazon Kindle is an ebook reader, and Oprah mentioned it on her show and how much she loves it. "On October 24, Oprah Winfrey told her audience she loves Amazon.com's (AMZN) electronic book reader, the Kindle. 'I'm telling you,' she said, 'It's a [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Amazon will be selling over 4 million Kindles per year by 2010

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Amazon has had a surprisingly good run with their ebook reader, the Kindle. A Citi analyst revised his outlook on Amazon, partially based on these surprising results. The article shows a Citi project (click [more] to see the image link) that extrapo [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Amazon has sold 240,000 Kindles, surprised?

Several companies have taken a stab at e-book readers. Amazon seems to have some footing finally. From the article: "Doing a little back of the envelope math, that brings total sales of the device so far to between $86 million and $96 million (the p [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Amazon's second quater earnings doubled.

SEATTLE - Amazon.com Inc. says its second-quarter profit more than doubled and surpassed Wall Street's expectations. Sales were strong in several sections of Amazon's massive marketplace. The Seattle-based Web retailer earned $158 million, or 37 ce [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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