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Amazon offers refund or redelivery for Kindle's deleted Orwell
News Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologised for the move in an email to Kindle owners on Thursday, a copy of which was provided to silicon.com sister site CNET News by a reader. We will use the scar tissue from... [07 Sep 2009]
Photos: Amazon's e-book reader re-Kindled
Photo Here, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the new device at New York's Morgan Library on Monday. The Amazon Kindle 2 is arriving in the US 24 February for $359. Photo credit: David Carnoy/CBS Interactive The... [11 Feb 2009]
Microsoft's cloud has an Azure tinge
News Ozzie said he was tipping his cap to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos for innovating the hosted computing model. Microsoft on Monday announced a version of Windows that runs over the internet from inside... [28 Oct 2008]
Jeff Bezos
AS Profile Jeff Bezos, a perennial Agenda Setters who's made the list eight times, launched Amazon.com in 1994 and has remained at its helm for nearly 15 years - an eternity in internet time. As one panellist put... [07 Oct 2008]
Werner Vogels
AS Profile Coming in nine places ahead of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, Vogels reveals the panel's belief that sometimes the techies deserve more praise than the execs for driving their businesses forward. A newcomer to... [07 Oct 2008]
Yahoo!'s board gets shareholder backing
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Yahoo! s board of directors won strong backing from shareholders at its annual meeting on Friday, with Jerry Yang, the company's embattled CEO, receiving 85 per cent of the vote in his... [04 Aug 2008]
Infosys launches radical retail tech services
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan is an unassuming man, who doesn't use his position to be imposing. It's less important for him to be the company's controller than to look like he is. [01 Aug 2008]
BT CEO Ben Verwaayen to step down
News Jeff Bezos BT's CEO Ben Verwaayen is to step down as CEO on 31 May 2008 after more than six years at the telco where he championed its push into broadband and helped it dodge regulator Ofcom's axe.... [08 Apr 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Jeff Bezos Google, Yahoo! and News Corp's MySpace.com have announced they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a not-for-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last... [26 Mar 2008]
Profile: Nandan Nilekani, co-chairman, Infosys
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Nandan Nilekani is pretty much a legend in his own lifetime. Co-founder of Indian outsourcing giant Infosys, foundation board member of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the... [03 Mar 2008]
Steve Ballmer's $44.6bn letter to Yahoo!
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better... [01 Feb 2008]
CIO Essentials: Xmas gadgets, mobile ban and green IT
News Jeff Bezos Our CIO Essentials feature puts you in the picture. Each week a leading IT chief picks his or her top stories from the past seven days and explains why they matter. This week we hear from Mark... [11 Dec 2007]
Oracle users demand better support
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Ronan Miles, chairman of the UK Oracle User Group, told silicon.com: "Areas of issue are in the support sphere. What we want to do with Oracle is identify the issues. He explained that... [10 Dec 2007]
Granger to depart NHS IT at end of year
News Jeff Bezos The head of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme will step down from his role in charge of the project at the end of this year. NHS IT director-general Richard Granger announced his plan to leave his... [05 Dec 2007]
Steve Jobs top of the Power pops
News Jeff Bezos Amazon Jobs took the top spot in Fortune magazine's Power 25 for 2007, for having "twice altered the direction of the computer industry". Apple's launch of the Apple II in 1977 "kicked off the... [29 Nov 2007]
