Amazon and eBay battle in Washington over Internet sales tax
Earlier this week, both Amazon and eBay had a public debate in Washington in front of the House Judiciary Committee about the creation of a standard Internet sales tax that could be adopted by any state seeking increased tax revenue according to CNNMoney. Recently on the opposite side of the argument, Amazon is currently arguing in favor of a standardized tax in order to simplify the tax ...
Amazon cloud management tool gets integrated status monitoring
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) management tool will from now on tell users about upcoming scheduled operational activities that will affect the availability of its cloud, the company said in blog post on Thursday.
Kindle Fire ships a day early
"We're thrilled to be able to ship Kindle Fire to our customers earlier than we expected," said Dave Limp, vice president of Amazon Kindle. "Kindle Fire quickly became the bestselling item across all of Amazon.com, and based on customer response we're building millions more than we'd planned."
Apple's iOS remains top draw for devs, but interest in Fire 'remarkable,' says pollster
Computerworld - Although developer enthusiasm for Apple's iOS remains strong, app programmers are extremely interested in Amazon's Kindle Fire, the tablet that goes on sale Tuesday, a new survey said.
Software AG updates cloud road map
IDG News Service - Software AG's WebMethods middleware and ARIS process modeling tools are now certified for deployment on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and VMware, the company announced Tuesday as part of an update on its overall cloud strategy.
