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Amazon will start putting stuff in lockers at 7-Eleven for pickup

Sep 8, 2011
Because apparently we live in 1997. Reports are coming out of England and Seattle about the emergence of Amazon lockers located in high traffic...

The Amulet (Amazon Tablet) is real and it's wonderful, according to a report

Sep 6, 2011
MG Siegler of TechCrunch says that not only is Amazon really building a tablet, he's tried it out and he loves it. The story goes that Amazon will...

AT&T dangles jobs to get its way, now everyone's doing it

Sep 2, 2011
Amazon.com says it will create 7,000 full-time jobs in California if the state doesn't make them pay its new Internet sales tax until 2014. I can...

Preparations being made for the Amulet.

Aug 31, 2011
Since Amazon won't confirm a name, or even the existence, of its forthcoming tablet, we're going to go ahead and name it the Amulet. Especially...

Amazon could be nipping at Apple's heels when it comes to tablet sales

Aug 30, 2011
For a product that doesn't exist, whose arrival date is undetermined, that doesn't have a name, that doesn't even have official confirmation of its...

Good news for music locker companies

Aug 23, 2011
Remember when Amazon and Google set out to launch their cloud music storage services without having record label permission because they said they...

Google Magnifier

Aug 18, 2011
This launched yesterday and it's being variously described as a magazine or a service. The idea is to help users of Google's still-in-beta music...

For public good, not for profit.

Amazon signs big author

Aug 17, 2011
Publishing industry tries to adjust its collar, complains its getting kind of hot in here, dabs at its brow....

Amazon's cloud goes down

Aug 9, 2011
Amazon Web Service's cloud infrastructure went all blinky last night for about 25 minutes, knocking such things as Netflix, Foursquare, and Reddit...