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Why the Possibility of an Amazon Tablet Intrigues Me

by Mike Mansell March 21, 2011

Last week I discussed Amazon’s rumored entry into the mobile software field and how the Internet giant’s involvement with the Android OS hinted at the possibility of the company releasing their own Android-powered device in the near future. While Amazon has yet to publicly confirm anything, recent actions seem to at very least back all [...]

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What is Amazon’s Future in Mobile?

by Mike Mansell March 18, 2011

When it comes to online merchants, Amazon is easily the largest and most well-known store out there; selling everything from books to high-end consumer electronics. In the last few years however, we have seen Amazon adapt from being your run of the mill online storefront to becoming a “Jack of all trades” per se. The [...]

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Amazon Prime Now Includes Streaming Media

by Mike Mansell February 23, 2011

I absolutely love Amazon. If there was ever such thing as an “Amazon fanboy”, then I am most definitely the living breathing definition of one. What once started out as a simple book store has emerged to become so much more; a full-blown online store that sells just about everything you can imagine, a web [...]

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The Amazon Kindle is the Next Chapter in Literature

by Mike Mansell January 31, 2011

Amazon has always been one of the largest – if not the largest – online stores to ever take grasp upon the Internet. In fact, Amazon was among the first to pioneer the concept of online storefronts. However, many people aren’t aware that Amazon originally opened their doors (or their servers, rather) as an online bookstore. That [...]

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3 Companies That Can Afford to Take Gambles in 2011

by Mike Mansell December 27, 2010

As we near the end of 2010, we cannot ignore the fact that businesses of all ventures – even those once seen as invincible – have been struggling to stay alive. As Jeff wrote the other day, companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL desperately need to step up their game in 2011 in order to have [...]

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Use Amazon CloudFront for Fast Web Hosting at a Low Cost

by Mike Mansell December 23, 2010

When maintaining a website, content is always going to be your number one priority. However, you also need to carefully consider two additional factors in order to ensure your overall success. First off is cost – simply because no one wants to spend too much on web hosting. Next off is speed. In a previous [...]

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How Amazon Could Improve and Expand Their Business

by Mike Mansell November 22, 2010

When it comes to online shopping, one of the most well-known online retailers is Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon, a company that started as an online store in 1994, has grown to become a huge multi-million dollar corporation that dominates the Internet. One of the things that really intrigues me about Amazon is the fact that they [...]

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CloudBerry S3 Explorer Review

by Mike Mansell October 24, 2010

I love Amazon’s S3 service and honestly feel that it is the most innovative and intuitive file storage solution that I have ever come across. I say this because S3 has the flexibility to work as a file storage solution and by being paired with Amazon’s CloudFront service has the ability to take on light [...]

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Amazon S3 Review

by Mike Mansell October 20, 2010

For a while now, I have been using a Virtual Private Server to store my personal websites and screenshot uploads. While this has been working well for me, the cost of having such a server only to store and serve mostly-static content has seemed like overkill. While companies like Webair have amazingly reasonable pricing on [...]

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iTunes Music Store vs AmazonMP3

by Jeff Weisbein June 4, 2010

A recent report by NPD Group concluded that the iTunes Music Store is responsible for 70% of the legal digital music downloads, while its major competitor, AmazonMP3 is responsible for 12%. Other services such as Napster and Rhapsody account for remaining percentages each holding about 1% to 2% of the market. When the Amazon MP3 [...]

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