Full Encryption stops Amazon Web Video Leak: Adobe

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By Daisuke Wakabayashi
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by adopting Adobe Systems Inc's encryption on all television shows and movies found on its site, software maker Adobe said on Monday.
Last week, Amazon.com said it fixed a temporary problem that allowed people to record and copy from the online retailer's video streaming service without paying.
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Posted on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:52:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Elmo Live already sold out on Amazon

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The new Elmo Live is going to be one of the hottest Christmas gifts this year again. Major retailers started to take pre-orders of the new Elmo Live in August already. Elmo Live is supposed to start shipping next month. Now Amazon's Elmo Live assigned stock seems to be already depleted. There are only 3rd party offers available now that have price tags 2-3 times the original $60.
Robert from Robotsrule checked in with Amazon customer support and got as feedback that Amazon is not sure if they will get more Fisher Price Elmo Live Stock. Read more

Posted on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:33:43 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon.com hires Microsoft exec: NY Post

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(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has appointed a senior Microsoft Corp executive to head its U.S. advertising sales as the global Internet retailer ramps up its online ad business, The New York Post reported.
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Posted on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:20:24 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon to sell U.S. Wine online: Vintners

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  By Alexandria Sage

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com, the largest global online retailer, plans to start selling U.S.-produced wine on its website within the United States by early October, wine industry insiders said on Wednesday.
Napa Valley Vintners, a nonprofit group representing 315 vintners in the famous California wine-producing region, has already begun to set up workshops for wineries interested in selling through the retail giant, said Terry Hall, communications director for the group.
"They have been working for a while on this wine project. Now they are signing up the wineries," Hall told Reuters. "They're fast-tracking it right now."
An Amazon spokeswoman declined to comment.

Seattle-based Amazon is looking to sell wine in approximately 26 states and wine sold on its site will come from all regions of the country, Hall said.

Annual wine consumption in the United States has grown for the last 14 years as wine has gradually shed its image as an exclusive beverage for the well-heeled. Today, many enthusiasts are coming from all parts of the country and younger Americans are turning to wine-drinking as an alternative to beer.
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Posted on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:35:50 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon Video On Demand now available on Apple Computers

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Amazon today announced that you can now instantly watch ad-free movies and television shows on Macs or PCs with Amazon Video On Demand, Amazon's digital video service offering thousands of movies and television shows.
Previously, you could only download movies and watch them on a PC (using the Amazon Unbox application) or on a TiVo. Now you can either watch instantly within your web browser or download using the Unbox application and watch anytime. Read more

Posted on Thu, 4 Sep 2008 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon Green Product Shopping Guide

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Amazon.com has launched Amazon Green, a cross-category program that includes a list of products that customers have selected as the best green products offered by Amazon.com and a place for customers to discover Amazon's entire green product selection.

The Amazon Green product guide includes obvious stuff like Reusable Grocery Totes, energy saving bulbs, and Seventh Generation Bathroom Tissue. Read more

Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Citigroup sees better Amazon Kindle Sales

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 NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citigroup said on Monday that Amazon.com Inc's Kindle electronic book reader appears to be selling much better than expected and could double a previous estimate for units sold this year, sending shares in the online retailer up 9 percent.
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Posted on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:36:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ASUS Eee Box PC ships from Amazon

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The tiny Asus Eee Box PC started shipping from Amazon.com for $349.99. The Intel Atom based Asus Eee Box PC is available in black or white.
The small Windows XP desktop computer features a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, and 802.11n Wi-fi. Read more

Posted on Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Xbox 360 60GB ships from Amazon

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Microsoft announced the new Xbox 360 with 60GB just before E3 2008. The Xbox 360 60GB sells for $349.99 and ships now from Amazon.com.

Demand for the new Xbox 360 doesn't seem that high as its sales rank is at 93 in the Video Games category. Sales are rising though as the 60GB Xbox 360 is on the 9th place in the movers and shakers list. Read more

Posted on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon Mechanical Turk Launches New Web-Based Tools

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Amazon Web Services LLC ("AWS"), a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., today launched a new set of web-based tools for Amazon Mechanical Turk that make it easy for businesses to use Mechanical Turk to outsource work to an on-demand, scalable workforce via a simple graphical interface--in just a few minutes and without writing any code. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:43:09 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus Eee PC 901 is bestselling Notebook on Amazon

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The new generation of Asus Eee PC netbooks invades the Computer and PC Hardware Bestseller list on Amazon.com. The new Atom powered Asus Eee PC 901 with 12GB SSD and Windows XP is currently the bestselling notebook beating the Apple MacBook.

Under the top 10 bestselling notebooks are 6 Eee PC netbooks. Besides the 901, the Asus Eee 900, the Asus Eee PC 1000H are dominating the top 10. Read more

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:24:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

TiVo enables Amazon.com Shopping on your TV

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TiVo announced that they have teamed up with Amazon to provide you with the ability to purchase physical products from Amazon.com on your TV, using your TiVo remote control.

With this new Product Purchase feature, television advertisers will have the unique ability to market products sold through Amazon.com on any broadcast or cable network, any TV show, or via any of TiVo's extensive interactive advertising features. Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:26:33 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon partners with Sony to offer Movie Streaming

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Amazon is entering the video on demand arena with Sony as its first partner to deliver the experience directly to the TV.

Amazon already offers the ability to download movies and TV shows with their Amazon Unbox Service.

The Amazon video streaming service will be available on the Sony Bravia Internet Video Link system. Sony BIVL (BRAVIA Internet Video Link was announced early last year and connects to the back of BRAVIA TVs. Read more

Posted on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:42:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus Eee PC 1000 available on Amazon

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The new top of the line Asus Eee PC 1000 netbooks are available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

The Asus Eee PC 1000 features a 10 inch screen, 40GB SSD, 1GB RAM, 6 Cell Battery and Linux. The Asus Eee PC 1000 sells for $699.99 and is available in black and white on Amazon.com.
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Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MSI Wind on Sale on Amazon.com

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Amazon just started to take orders for the MSI Wind.

The MSI Wind available for purchase is the black model. A very vague shipping date of 3-5 weeks is given at the moment. The price is $499.99 and this is also just the 3 cell battery MSI Wind. Read more

Posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:52:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon MP3 Offers Daily Deals and Friday Five Discounts

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Amazon MP3 has announced new ongoing promotions called “Daily Deals” and “Friday Five” that offer deep discounts on new releases and albums from the Amazon catalog. The Daily Deals campaign will be updated daily and offer popular albums at discounted prices.

The Friday Five promotion will offer five albums at $5 per album starting Friday and going throughout the weekend. Amazon says that all of the MP3 tracks it sells are without DRM protection. Amazon says the Friday Five this week will be Rolling Stone's "Let It Bleed," Frank Sinatra's "The Essential Frank Sinatra," Robert Plant & Alison Krauss' "Raising Sand," Linkin Park's "Minutes to Midnight" and Andrea Bocelli's "Vivere - The Best Of”. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:08:23 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Amazon.com Exclusive Fallout 3 Survival Edition

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Anyone who shops online knows one of the best places to get all sorts of stuff is Amazon.com. Aside from being a great place to get things like video games, Amazon also gets some exclusive gear from time to time and today is one of those times.

Amazon has announced an exclusive Fallout 3 survival Edition game available for both the Xbox and the PS3. The bundle includes a copy of the Fallout 3 game, metal Vault-Tec lunch box, 5-inch Vault Boy Bobblehead, The Art of Fallout 3 hardcover book and a DVD called The Making of Fallout 3. The game sells for $129.99. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:34:17 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Amazon's Kindle still in ''Investment Phase'': CEO

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's electronic book reader, the Kindle, is still in its investment phase, the Internet retailer's chief executive told CNBC on Wednesday.

CEO Jeff Bezos would not reveal how many Kindles the Seattle-based company had sold since its launch in November, but said the price had recently been lowered to $359 from $399.
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Posted on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:21:12 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Mario Kart Wii outsells GTA IV on Amazon

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GTA IV set world records in sales, but on Amazon's video game bestseller list, a little plumber called Mario and his kart are in the pole position.

Even the Wii Wheel accessory outsells GTA IV. The 3rd spot on the Video game bestseller list is held by GTA IV for Xbox 360 followed by GTA IV for the Sony PS3. Read more

Posted on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:24:18 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus Eee PC 900 pre-order on Amazon.com started

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Yesterday we reported that some online stores including 3rd party vendors on Amazon.com started offering the new Asus Eee PC 900. Now Amazon.com itself started to take pre-orders for both new Asus Eee 900 notebooks for $549.99 each.

Amazon.com does not state a shipping date yet for the Asus Eee 900. It is expected that the Asus 900 will ship tomorrow May 12th. Because Amazon ships them its free with Super Saver Shipping. Read more

Posted on Sun, 11 May 2008 12:30:07 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon suing NY State over Sales Tax Law

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has sued the state of New York, challenging a new statute requiring Internet retailers based elsewhere to collect New York sales taxes.
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Posted on Mon, 5 May 2008 07:53:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr