Amazon announce the availability of the AWS Console for iPhone! The app summarizes the status of your EC2 instances, CloudWatch alarms, total service charges, and AWS Service Health. You can view all of your EC2 instances, filter and search for a specific instance, view instance details, and stop or reboot an instance. You can also filter and search for CloudWatch alarms and view CloudWatch metrics to monitor the health of your resources. As with the web-based management console, sign-in is as simple as entering your AWS or IAM credentials. (via Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS Management Console for iPhone)
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Amazon announce the availability of the AWS Console for iPhone! The app summarizes the status of your EC2 instances, CloudWatch alarms, total service charges, and AWS Service Health. You can view all of your EC2 instances, filter and search for a specific instance, view instance details, and stop or reboot an instance. You can also filter and search for CloudWatch alarms and view CloudWatch metrics to monitor the health of your resources. As with the web-based management console, sign-in is as simple as entering your AWS or IAM credentials. (via Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS Management Console for iPhone)

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Silk may soon be speeding the browsing experience for more than just Kindle Fire users. CNET‘s Stephen Shankland observed Thursday that Amazon has reserved a pile of domain names that indicate future non-Fire uses: silkformac, silkforpc, silkforwindows, and silkfortablets. And that’s not all. Silk’s terms and conditions tells users that Amazon will collect information from the browsers crash reports when used on a Kindle and adds, “You may choose to send these reports when using Amazon Silk on other devices.” (via Is Amazon Silk Coming to a Mobile Device Near You? | Inc. Technology)
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Silk may soon be speeding the browsing experience for more than just Kindle Fire users. CNET‘s Stephen Shankland observed Thursday that Amazon has reserved a pile of domain names that indicate future non-Fire uses: silkformac, silkforpc, silkforwindows, and silkfortablets. And that’s not all. Silk’s terms and conditions tells users that Amazon will collect information from the browsers crash reports when used on a Kindle and adds, “You may choose to send these reports when using Amazon Silk on other devices.” (via Is Amazon Silk Coming to a Mobile Device Near You? | Inc. Technology)

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You can borrow Kindle books from your local library’s website and, with the click of a button, have them delivered to your Kindle device or free reading app. Visit the website of a U.S. library that offers digital services from OverDrive. Check out a Kindle book (using a valid library card). Click on “Get for Kindle” and then sign in to your Amazon.com account to have the book delivered to your Kindle device or reading app. (via Amazon.com: Public Library Books for Kindle)
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You can borrow Kindle books from your local library’s website and, with the click of a button, have them delivered to your Kindle device or free reading app.

  • Visit the website of a U.S. library that offers digital services from OverDrive.
  • Check out a Kindle book (using a valid library card).
  • Click on “Get for Kindle” and then sign in to your Amazon.com account to have the book delivered to your Kindle device or reading app.

(via Amazon.com: Public Library Books for Kindle)

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The idea is simple: these nondescript boxes will be in 7-Eleven stores across the country and act as a sort of P.O. box for Amazon purchases. Once a customer makes a buy on Amazon’s website he can select a 7-Eleven close to work, or on the way home and have the package dropped off there. When the package is actually delivered, the customer receives an email notification along with a bar code to his smartphone and heads to the 7-Eleven. There he’ll stand in front of the locker system, which looks like the offspring between an ATM machine and a safety deposit box. The machine will scan the bar code on his handset to receive a PIN number. He’ll punch that PIN number and retrieve the package. (via Convenience store - WWW.THEDAILY.COM)
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The idea is simple: these nondescript boxes will be in 7-Eleven stores across the country and act as a sort of P.O. box for Amazon purchases. Once a customer makes a buy on Amazon’s website he can select a 7-Eleven close to work, or on the way home and have the package dropped off there.

When the package is actually delivered, the customer receives an email notification along with a bar code to his smartphone and heads to the 7-Eleven. There he’ll stand in front of the locker system, which looks like the offspring between an ATM machine and a safety deposit box. The machine will scan the bar code on his handset to receive a PIN number. He’ll punch that PIN number and retrieve the package. (via Convenience store - WWW.THEDAILY.COM)

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They key point is that Amazon’s first tablet, any way you slice it, sounds like just as much of a threat to the iPad as all the other Android tablets have been so far. That is to say, no threat at all. Instead, it will likely be more of a threat to their own Kindle device (it’s hard to make the “this device is no good for reading” argument out of one side of your mouth while saying the opposite out of the other). And much more so, it will be a huge threat to Google. (via Amazon’s Tablet Is No Threat To Apple, It’s A Huge Threat To Google | TechCrunch)
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They key point is that Amazon’s first tablet, any way you slice it, sounds like just as much of a threat to the iPad as all the other Android tablets have been so far. That is to say, no threat at all. Instead, it will likely be more of a threat to their own Kindle device (it’s hard to make the “this device is no good for reading” argument out of one side of your mouth while saying the opposite out of the other). And much more so, it will be a huge threat to Google. (via Amazon’s Tablet Is No Threat To Apple, It’s A Huge Threat To Google | TechCrunch)

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