Amazon Web Services Now Makes It Easier To Move EBS Snapshots Between Regions
Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) allows developers to create storage volumes that can be mounted by Amazon EC2 instances, among other things. While it was always relatively easy to move an EC2...
View Article‘AmazonCare’ Might Be The Next Page Amazon Takes Out Of Apple’s Playbook
Amazon might enjoy only very thin to nonexistent margins on its Kindle hardware, according to most industry watchers, but it looks to be cooking up a plan to extend device sales revenue thanks...
View ArticleAmazon Sees Its Biggest Holiday Season Ever, Tops Online Shopping Survey...
Customer experience analytics company ForeSee released its eighth annual holiday online satisfaction report this morning, which rates the top e-retailer websites in 2012. This year’s newly expanded...
View ArticleAmazon Makes It Easier To Host Static Web Pages On S3
S3 is Amazon’s cloud storage service for developers, but you can also use it to host static web pages on the cheap. Amazon introduced this feature about a year ago and today, it is making it even...
View ArticleInstall Linux Based VM To Your Micorsoft Windows Azure Using VM Depot by...
Microsoft Open Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, has announced the launch of VM Depot, “a community-driven catalog of open source virtual machine images for Windows Azure.” Azure,...
View ArticleAmazon Launches Instant Video For Nintendo Wii
If you own a Wii, you were probably a little bummed out to hear that Amazon would be serving up Instant Video to the Wii U and not to your older console. But fret no longer, as Amazon has just...
View ArticleBango Adds Telefonica To Its List Of Mobile Carrier Billing Partners For...
Mobile payments company Bango — partner to Facebook, Amazon, BlackBerry and others to enable app and content charges directly to your mobile phone bill — has announced another major carrier partner:...
View ArticleAmazon Extends Its In-App Purchasing Option to Mac, PC And Web-Based Games
Amazon has announced that it would extend its in-app purchasing API to cover games for Mac, PC and Web platforms, letting players purchase virtual currency and goods in games using its back-end billing...
View ArticleAmazon Gets Into Voice Recognition, Buys Ivona Software To Compete Against...
Amazon today announced that it is acquiring Ivona Software, a Polish-based specialist in voice technologies that competes with Nuance and is already used in the Kindle Fire for services covering...
View ArticleTop Technology Discussions Of The Week-18th March To 24th March-2013
1. Amazon Launches ‘Send to Kindle’ Button for Websites Amazon announced this new button that any website can integrate, called “Send to Kindle.” The button lets users forward any pages using the...
View ArticleAmazon Offers ‘Amazon Pages’ For Brands To Customize With Their Own URLs, And...
Just in time for the holiday shopping blitz, it looks like Amazon is opening a new chapter in its role as an online marketplace for third-parties to sell their goods. The company is quietly...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services Expected To Hit $1.5 Billion In Revenues For 2012
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expected to earn $1.5 billion in revenues this year, but overall the organization still remains under-appreciated as a core asset of Amazon.com. But that may change...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services Launches Data Pipeline, An Orchestration Service For...
Amazon Web Services announced AWS Data Pipeline at the re:Invent conference today. The new service is designed to help developers manage applications through a data driven process. With the Data...
View ArticleAmazon Founder Jeff Bezos Talks AWS, Innovation, Customer Service & Space...
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and CEO, took the stage at the company’s re: Invent developer conference for a wide-ranging discussion with the company’s CTO Werner Vogels about Amazon’s web service...
View ArticleAmazon Puts Instant Video On iPhone And iPod Touch, Cloud Player Music On...
Amazon has announced a number of new platform expansions for its streaming media services today, including Cloud Player apps for Samsung Smart TVs and Roku set top boxes, as well as dedicated...
View ArticleGoogle Could Loosen Amazon’s Cloud Grip With Pay-Per-Use API Services
Google recently rolled out a number of enhancements to its Cloud Platform products. With these changes, it’s clear that Google is aiming its sights directly at Amazon Web Services, not to mention...
View ArticleTop Technology Discussions Of The Week – 7th May 13th May-2013
Coming Soon: Your Personal Flying Car It’s 2013. Where’s my flying car? Answer: about eight years away. Terrafugia is a Massachusetts company previously best known for the Transition, which was best...
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