Articles about Amazon

Sony is inching closer toward meeting its self-imposed deadline for the worldwide delivery of its PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld gaming device. Amazon.com's UK Web site has revealed that the PSP will be released to suppliers on March 18, 2005, firing the opening shot in Sony's mission to unseat Nintendo as the dominant player in handheld gaming.

Although rumors about component procurement problems continue to persist, the company has already managed to distribute the PSP in Japan where it sold approximately 510,000 units inside of a month.

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UPDATED A listing on Amazon.com for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger has let slip a potential release date for Apple's new operating system: June 30, 2005. Amazon.com has in the past leaked pricing and dates for new software such as Windows XP, and first incorrectly listed Tiger's launch date as March 31. Tiger made its debut last June, and is set to introduce over 150 new features including the much-hyped Spotlight search tool.

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Amazon's independent A9 unit is ready to officially unveil its customized search engine, which debuted in preview form last April. A9.com combines Web and image searches from Google, movie and book searches from Amazon and reference materials from GuruNet into an interface that can be custom tailored for each user. A9 also recommends Web sites in a TiVo-like fashion and includes a Diary for taking notes on a Web page. It is not yet clear if A9 will become a part of Amazon.com.

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Amazon is now accepting preorders for Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET. Customers must wait until January 17 for the shipped product, almost a month earlier than the official launch slated for February. Pricing in the Amazon online catalog is set at $999.99 USD for the professional edition of the programming suite. Other variants are available through the site including a January 10 release of Visual Basic .NET 2002, Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect, Visual Studio.NET Developer Enterprise 2002, and upgrade releases.

Visual Studio .NET and Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect introduce three significant new features: software modeling, database modeling, and development frameworks and templates. Over 20 different programming languages -- including Microsoft's latest implementation of Java -- are supported. It also yields support for Web standards such as XML, SOAP,
and UDDI to extend interoperability across platforms.

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UPDATED While no official announcement has been made by Microsoft, online retailer Amazon.com has provided the first glimpse of the Windows XP box, as well as pricing for the upcoming OS. Not straying far from current prices, Windows XP Home Edition will run $199 USD for the full version and $99 USD for upgrades. Professional Edition will be more demanding on the pocketbook, retailing at $299 and $199 USD for full and upgrade versions, respectively.

Microsoft is positioning Home Edition as the upgrade path for consumers and Professional Edition for businesses, but acknowledges most users will not see a difference. For an extra one hundred bucks, XP Professional offers remote desktop capabilities, offline files, support for dual processors, NTFS, and advanced management tools. By comparison, Windows Me and Windows 2000 cost $9 more than their XP counterparts upon release.

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Online retail giant Amazon today announced the beginning of a new program to help make the company profitable by the end of this year. According to the Reuters report, Amazon is now allowing consumers to purchase certain pieces of software from Amazon in the normal fashion, and then download the software instead of waiting for delivery.

Once the purchase is complete, the customer is sent an e-mail with details and links to download the product from secure servers at Preview Systems Inc.

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Recently betanews.com reported about the hype concerning a new product invented by world-reknown inventer Dean Kamen. This product, codenamed "Ginger" is said to be mindblowing in its abilities, and set to provide the answer for things that "are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities." Now ZDNet is reporting that Amazon.com, whose CEO Jeff Bezos was one of two people to see a demonstration of the device, has a product page already up and running for the product. Though it is not for sale yet, the product page has information about the product that is known at this point, not revealing exactly what it is.

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The dispute between the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
and Amazon [NASDAQ:AMZN], which started earlier this year when the
privacy group nixed its book distribution deal with the e-tailer, is
continuing, with EPIC now urging government agencies of the need to
investigate Amazon's operations.

This time EPIC appears to be pulling no punches, saying that
government agencies should investigate the e-tailer in both the US and
the UK, charging violations of trade practices and data protection
laws.

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The giant retailer, seemingly the one-stop shopping place for all of your consumer needs (with the exception of groceries) just seems to be boggling my mind more and more by the second. Having never cut a profit since its inception over a year ago, the company continues to operate and lose money, while still attracting investors and retailers to sell through them.

How it is that a company can continually lose massive amounts of money and still be functioning the way Amazon.com does is beyond me at times. To top it all off, the company recently revamped its privacy policy to much dismay from its customers and registered members. The new policy has come under heat since the first day it was posted, and continues to be criticized, making the company look even worse as a whole.

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Online retail giant Amazon.com today announced that it has pumped $60 million into online delivery service Kozmo.com and forged a three-year deal to deliver Amazon orders in one hour via bicycle courier.

"They will be one of a number of one-hour delivery service companies that we intend to work with," Amazon spokesman Bill Curry told Newsbytes. Kozmo is the first, he said. The service, which will be launched at a later date, is limited to certain Amazon orders for books, music, and toys.

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