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Amazon says it won't offer a free smartphone, after all

Posted September 10, 2013 - 9:33 am

A spokesperson for online powerhouse Amazon has denied reports that the company plans to offer a free smartphone to consumers, saying that no handsets will be released in 2013, and that it wouldn't be free in any case.
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Have a two-factor authentication backup plan and sleep better tonight

Posted September 10, 2013 - 6:00 am

Two-factor authentication is great security when it works. Here's what to do when it doesn't
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Report: Amazon wants to give you a free phone

Posted September 9, 2013 - 9:46 am

The retail giant is apparently considering handing out devices gratis for those with an Amazon Prime account.
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Help! My teen wants an iPhone

Posted August 19, 2013 - 3:57 pm

My daughter is demanding an iPhone for her birthday and I’m dead set against it. Here’s why she’ll be getting one anyway
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Here’s what could go wrong with Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post [CARTOON]

Posted August 9, 2013 - 6:00 am

Attention China: Just so we’re clear, the following cartoon is a joke
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MaskMe: The next best thing to total Web anonymity

Posted July 25, 2013 - 4:19 pm

Abine's MaskMe browser app lets you keep spammers, scammers, and telemarketers at bay -- and even shop anonymously on line.
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Wait – maybe JavaScript IS the top programming language

Posted July 9, 2013 - 6:00 am

The ubiquitous language that’s the “glue” of web pages tops some recent rankings of programming languages
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Hey Amazon: Where's your private cloud?

Posted July 3, 2013 - 1:37 pm

The public cloud computing market is becoming increasingly competitive with new entrants focusing on hybrid offerings that combine public and private clouds. That's leaving some asking the market-leading public cloud provider, Amazon Web Services, where its private cloud offering is.
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Wait - Verizon throttling Bridezillas is bad why? [CARTOON]

Posted June 21, 2013 - 6:00 am

Verizon throttling Netflix streaming may not be the worst thing in the world
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Former Amazon cloud engineer tells all on Reddit

Posted May 20, 2013 - 7:01 am

Amazon is notoriously hush-hush about its internal operations.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s birthday party hits a snag

Posted May 17, 2013 - 6:00 am

Facebook’s founder turned 29 on Tuesday and the party may still be going on
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Wanted: Developers. Reward: A puppy

Posted April 25, 2013 - 11:48 am

One company is offering an unusual referral bonus to attract candidates in the tight Seattle job market for developers
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Amazon debuted eight original comedy pilots and I sat through (almost) half of them

Posted April 23, 2013 - 8:30 am

Amazon is crowdsourcing the decision of which of fourteen original content pilots (six kid's shows, eight comedies) they'll move forward with. I spent Saturday afternoon checking out four of the comedies and here's what I thought.
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Need a music fix? Tune into Murfie

Posted April 15, 2013 - 4:56 pm

Want to pack off your CDs, stream music to any device, and buy or swap albums for a song? Murfie will be music to your ears.
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Amazon upgrades Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications

Posted April 9, 2013 - 9:23 am

Amazon Web Services' Elastic Beanstalk for .Net applications now supports configuration files to simplify cloud setup and integration with Amazon's private cloud and relational database.
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Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud: Salesforce.com?

Posted April 8, 2013 - 8:09 am

Who is Amazon's biggest competitor in the cloud?
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Is Amazon working on a Kindle smartphone?

Posted April 2, 2013 - 2:23 pm

Amazon may be building a Kindle smartphone on a custom version of Android to be launched in the second half of 2013.
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Storage wars heat up, as Amazon syncs Cloud Drive

Posted April 2, 2013 - 1:48 pm

Amazon is making a serious play for Dropbox and Google Drive users with a new file-syncing feature in its Cloud Drive storage service.
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The government running Google? What could possibly go wrong?

Posted March 25, 2013 - 11:35 am

Are Google’s products and services becoming a critical infrastructure that the government should ensure survives?
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The Weekly Hash - March 22, 2013

Posted March 22, 2013 - 9:22 am

Searching from the top of the world to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to bring you - and make fun of - this week’s top tech stories
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Bills would make movies and in-flight entertainment accessible

Posted March 18, 2013 - 11:55 am

Senator Tom Harkin has introduced legislation to require captioning and video descriptions at movie theaters and during in-flight entertainment
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Amazon, the mother of all clouds

Posted March 14, 2013 - 10:33 am

Ah, Amazon -- did Jeff Bezos choose that name to symbolize the largest bookstore in the world or did he realize that he would one day create an enterprise cloud service that was as large and complex as the river basin? After spending some time with his enterprise infrastructure service, I think he saw this coming.
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Amazon drops price of Kindle Fire HD 8.9'' to $269

Posted March 13, 2013 - 3:01 pm

Amazon on Wednesday lowered the starting price of its large-screen Kindle Fire HD 8.9" tablet in the U.S. to $269 for the Wi-Fi version and $399 for the 4G version.
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Save 15% on Amazon Subscribe & Save deliveries

Posted March 1, 2013 - 3:49 pm

A new discount means bigger savings on essentials from Amazon
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Amazon warns users not to install current version of the Kindle app for iOS

Posted March 1, 2013 - 12:00 pm

Kindle app devotees will want to shy away from the Update All button in the App Store for the time being. Amazon recently released an update to the app, but unlucky upgraders discovered that the app update logged them out and wiped out their stored books.
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