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After Amazon Unbox and AmazonMP3 Beta, the virtual mortar and pestle retailer has stealthily released a Software download section which, for the time being, contains nothing more than Tax software from TurboTax.You can...

The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked an Amazon patent on a gift ordering system.Amazon had been granted a European patent for its invention, but this was opposed by an Interflora company, the German Society of Information...

Like Google, Amazon has a number of products and services running in the background, unbeknown to most mortals. The brick and mortar giant has been busy preparing Amazon Payments which is an online competitor to the likes of...

An Amazon Marketplace seller, MP3 Direct, is flogging the Microsoft Zune 30GB Digital Media player for only GBP 89.99. Zune starts with a 30GB digital media player and adds a twist. You can wirelessly share selected full-length...

On the cover of this week's Newsweek is Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, holding what some might consider as Amazon's future, the Kindle, which is an eBook reader.Dubbed by some as the iPod of books, the device sports a monochrome...

UK and Canada based e-Security specialist Rozmic has launched EmailCloud.com, a fully managed and hosted email spam protection service which monitors email activity worldwide, blocking spam and threats before they reach the users...

The New Zealand performance artist who brought down Amazon.com’s one-click patent said that he gained much of his information from a subsidiary of Amazon itself. He also said that he acted because so little happens in New Zealand...

Amazon is taking the fight to Apple today, with the launch of its new AmazonMP3 music store. Unlike the Itunes store, which mostly sells songs DRM'd up the wahoozle, the AmazonMP3 store sticks to its name selling, you guessed it,...

The biggest names on the internet have been sued by a patent holding company which claims the firms are violating its rights by automatically routing email messages.The biggest names on the internet have been sued by a patent...

Digisense, Inc. announced the general availability of its Digisense System, backup and archiving hardware and software, for managed service providers (MSPs) serving small to medium sized business customers (SMBs).MSPs get a...

Enomaly Inc has announced the release of ElasticDrive. ElasticDrive is a network block device based upon the Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). ElasticDrive provides a caching block device driver which pushes blocks to and from...

IBM and Amazon have settled a two-way patent dispute dating from 2002 and have agreed to cross-licence each others' technologies. The deal involves Amazon paying the computers and services giant an undisclosed sum.Though legal...

Amazon and TiVo will allow TiVo owners who shop on Amazon's digital download store, called Amazon Unbox, to send films and TV shows to their broadband-connected TiVo machines, and pause and fast-forward through them as they do a...

Yahoo! has refused to provide Google with details of its book digitising programme that Google believes could help it to defend itself in a lawsuit. Amazon.com has already turned down a similar request.The search giant is being...

IBM is suing Amazon.com in a US court alleging that the online retailer infringes its patents. Two lawsuits have been filed in two different Texas courts, IBM said.IBM says that Amazon.com's system is built on technology patented...