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RSS amazon in newsArtificial Intelligence - alive and kicking
News These include shopping robots, auction robots and systems such as Amazon.com's Recommend assistant. Artificial intelligence technology (AI) is being used all around us but don't expect any philosophical discussions with your hoover quite yet. [10 Jul 2008]
Google looks to the cloud to woo business
News Chandra acknowledged that several well-established competitors, including Microsoft, Amazon.com, Salesforce.com, and others are converging on the same market: delivering business applications via the web with the same reliability and security as... [11 Jun 2008]
Cloud computing: Ready to experiment with
News Pointing to developments in the space, such as Amazon's virtual storage service and Google and Salesforce.com's recent alliance, Swaminathan said the industry's progress in creating hardware, services and applications in the cloud is something... [23 May 2008]
Ignore social networks at your peril, retailers told
News Amazon, for example, recently unveiled its social shopping application for Facebook. Retailers need to wake up to the potential of social networks in order to tap into the huge numbers of consumers using the sites. [02 May 2008]
UK record industry in illegal file-sharing crackdown
News Multi-national label EMI sells tracks DRM-free through Apple's iTunes catalogue while Warner, Sony/BMG and Universal offer unprotected songs on Amazon's US site. More people than ever are able to illegally swap their music collections because... [27 Mar 2008]
Windows Vista SP1 finally a go
News According to web retailer Amazon, boxed copies of Windows Vista with SP1 will be available today in the US, and Amazon UK has the updated operating system listed for retail release on 4 April. The first service pack for Windows Vista has been... [19 Mar 2008]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications for social networking site Facebook to allow users to share and buy products with their friends. The 'social shopping' apps work in conjunction with the US-based Amazon.com website - they are not... [14 Mar 2008]
Cloud computing - the data centre of the future?
News The services offered by a new crop of hosting providers, such as Amazon Web Services, are where the overall hosting market is going, according to Staten. Forrester identified a wide range of companies as "cloud providers," including Amazon.com... [11 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 Indian National Association of Software and... [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 position the two companies in the online world... [01 Feb 2008]
Toy retailer entertains web upgrade
News Called Blue Martini E-Commerce suite, the software will manage the retailer's stock levels, provide analytics and support the customer service department in terms of taking orders and issuing refunds, as it sells direct and through sites such as... [30 Jan 2008]
Outsourcing growth expected in 2008
News Software as a service (SaaS) is emerging as a viable alternative to traditional outsourcing for user organisations, with vendors including Amazon, Google, Microsoft and SAP making announcements about new SaaS offerings and mass-customised software... [10 Jan 2008]
Online retailers rated on customer satisfaction
News The top traditional brand in the survey, HMV came fourth, behind Play.com, Amazon UK and QVC UK. Pure-play online retailers scored more highly on customer satisfaction than the web counterparts of traditional high-street brands over the Christmas... [02 Jan 2008]
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 many of the concerns expressed by Oracle UK... [10 Dec 2007]
Woolworths boosts ecommerce functionality
News Batty is hoping that Woolworths' automatic product recommendations will be more effective than other sites, such as Amazon, that use similar tools because the UK high street retailer's customer demographic has a narrower range. [06 Dec 2007]
