Is a cheaper, ad-supported Kindle Fire on the way?
Amazon is reportedly trying to sell ads that would appear on the Kindle Fire's welcome screen, at prices of at least $600,000 for a two-month campaign. Does that mean a cheaper, ad-supported Kindle Fire is coming soon?
S3 Storage for WordPress Blogs
Looking to tap Amazon S3 storage for your WordPress blog? The WP2Cloud plugin lets you store all your WordPress data - not just media files - in S3.
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Amazon updates CDN for dynamic content
Amazon says its updated Cloudfront content delivery network will better handle dynamic, interactive web content. To date, Cloudfront handled static web pages while Amazon left a lot of the heavy lifting of dynamic content to partners like CDN market leader Akamai.
Amazon adds billing alerts to cloud services menu
Amazon cloud services may be cheap, but they can add up. Following a raft of third-party companies that offer AWS monitoring services, Amazon has stepped up to offer its own proactive billing alerts for Cloudwatch customers that enable it. 
Publishing News: Another publisher ends its app fling
The publisher of MIT's Technology Review talks apps and HTML5, RWW's Antone Gonsalves reviews B&N's chances of survival, and Amazon hires Sara Nelson.
SAP cuddles up with Amazon, but what about Azure?
News that SAP and Amazon will All-in-One business applications to run in production on Amazon's public cloud raises a question: what's going on with SAP and Microsoft Windows Azure? News on this could come next week at the Sapphire 2012 show. Or not.
No Tablet News Yet From Nokia, But It Is Launching Its E-Reader Reading App
There are still some big question marks over what Nokia plans to do in tablets -- a market where it is now possibly the only major smartphone maker yet to make a device -- but at least Nokia is moving...Amazon and SAP put All-in-One in the cloud
SAP All-in-One business applications will now run in Amazon's cloud -- another step that could make Amazon Web Services more enticing to risk-averse businesses that stress over entrusting their life-blood applications to a public cloud.
Adventures in big data: How AddThis’ Hydra works
With 10 terabytes of data generated everyday, AddThis (formerly called Clearspring) has access to a social graph that rivals Facebook. But unlike the social networking giant, AddThis wants to share its data. So I asked them how they can handle real-time processing on that many terabytes.
OMG, is Amazon going to kill tech blogs too?
Is Amazon seriously launching a tech blog to compete with gadget blogs like the Verge and Gizmodo? According to a new report, yes. The funny thing is that Amazon already has a gadget blog, plus seven other blogs on topics like food and music.
Complete Harry Potter book series available on Kindle Lending Library starting June 19th
Amazon and Pottermore have announced that the entire Harry Potter book series--all seven books--will be available on the Kindle Lending Library beginning June 19, bringing a huge slice of legitimacy to the service.
“We’re absolutely delighted to have reached this agreement with Pottermore. This is the kind of significant investment in the Kindle ecosystem that we’ll...
