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Remember Nokia? Amazon's lawyers do, in patent infringement suit

Updated Finnish firm started the networking and cloud fight, Amazon could finish it

Networks31 Jul 2024 | 10

Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks

E-super-souk isn't having any of it

Personal Tech30 Jul 2024 | 92

On one Prime Day, Amazon warehouse workers endured '45% injury rate'

Bernie Sanders puts e-souk titan on blast for workplace harm

Personal Tech16 Jul 2024 | 44

Kindle sputters out: Amazon's e-readers couldn't download content for a short time

Updated Support line reports 'high volume of contacts' about the problem

Personal Tech05 Jul 2024 | 26

Amazon puts down its Astro robotic business watchdog

Now even the 'droids are being laid off – sheesh!

Bootnotes03 Jul 2024 | 19

Utility firms go nuclear over Amazon datacenter power deal

AEP and Exelon challenge electricity arrangement between power plant and colo DC

On-Prem03 Jul 2024 | 2

Amazon's Project Kuiper slips to end of 2024 for first full-scale launch

Starlink rival slips again, but service still set for 2025

Networks28 Jun 2024 | 4

SoftBank boss says 'artificial superintelligence' could be three years away

Asia In Brief Plus: Huawei closer to divorcing Android; India probes Amazon warehouses; Singapore gets autonomous street sweepers

AI + ML24 Jun 2024 | 31

Amazon Labor Union votes overwhelmingly to join forces with Teamsters in NYC

Hey Andy, how do you like them Big Apples?

Personal Tech18 Jun 2024 | 13

After contentious Amazon datacenter fight, US county says it has learned a lesson

Interview 'We love our farms' says Culpeper, but we also like internet mega-souk and others setting up servers

On-Prem05 Jun 2024 | 5

Twitch ditches Safety Advisory Council, relaunches with vetted 'ambassadors'

Who needs experts when you have an army of hand-picked super users telling you what you want to hear?

Personal Tech31 May 2024 | 13

Amazon to add 15 datacenters to atomic-powered campus

And with up to 960MW of capacity on the table, that may only be the beginning

On-Prem30 May 2024 | 8

Amazon Prime Air delivery drones allowed off line-of-sight leash

Sky shipping can now go beyond visual range of operators – starting in Texas and then maybe airspace near you

Personal Tech30 May 2024 | 7

AWS pledges to spend €15.7B expanding Spanish operations

Much of the money will go to mountainous Aragón – not mainly in the plain

Off-Prem24 May 2024 | 7

UK competition cops say Microsoft's stake in Mistral is not a merger

Watchdog drops official probe but IT giant's deal with Inflection AI and Amazon's with Anthropic still in play

AI + ML17 May 2024 | 1

AWS to pump billions into sovereign cloud for Germany

It'll own the datacenters, but keep data and employees local

PaaS + IaaS17 May 2024 | 20

AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm

Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see

SaaS14 May 2024 | 2

Amazon and Epson accuse a bunch of traders of selling knockoff print ink

Multiple Marketplace accounts sold fake bottles, cartridges for 2 years+, claim companies

Personal Tech08 May 2024 | 27

Amazon boss receives tap on wrist for statements breaking labor laws

Jass sass gets a pass

Legal02 May 2024 | 13

AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire

Updated Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day

Storage01 May 2024 | 66

AWS hits $100B revenue run rate, expands margins, delivers most of Amazon's profit

Growth is rather slower than cloudy rivals, but boss Andy Jassy can explain that

Off-Prem01 May 2024 | 3

Amazon to ditch WorkDocs sharing service, support countdown begins

Updated Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order

Applications26 Apr 2024 | 9

Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns

Talk about going round the (South) Bend

PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2024 | 4

Ring dinged for $5.6M after, among other claims, rogue insider spied on 'pretty girls'

Cash to go out as refunds to punters

Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 35

Microsoft and Amazon's AI ambitions spark regulatory rumble

Tech giants confident everything's in order

AI + ML25 Apr 2024 | 4

Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to ignore copyright law in race to AI

High-flying AI scientist claims unfair dismissal following pregnancy leave

AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 47

Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road

Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan

Storage17 Apr 2024 | 13

Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says

Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect

Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8

GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes

And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way

Off-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 15

Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources

Exclusive Users report being pointed to other EU regions if they need more grunt

On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 114

AWS severs connection with several hundred staff

'Necessary,' 'focusing our efforts,' 'deliver maximum impact' ... sounds just like all the other tech layoffs lately

PaaS + IaaS03 Apr 2024 | 13

Amazon to lure upstarts with $500K in AWS AI credits each

Come on in, drill into Anthropic and Mistral – that's not the sound of a door slamming shut behind you

AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 1

Amazon fined in Europe for screwing shoppers with underhand dark patterns

E-commerce titan to appeal sanction amounting to three hours of annual profit

Personal Tech29 Mar 2024 | 58

Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic

Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude

AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 3

Garlic chicken without garlic? Critics think Amazon recipe book was cooked up by AI

Updated Twitter tipster points to suspicious signs from author producing thousands of recipes

Offbeat20 Mar 2024 | 79

Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS

Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage

PaaS + IaaS05 Mar 2024 | 3

Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M

E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant

Off-Prem04 Mar 2024 | 13

Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs

Our right to exploit workers trumps your right to probe

Public Sector22 Feb 2024 | 37

Date set for for epic Amazon-FTC antitrust showdown

Lina Khan may not even be in charge of watchdog by time case gets to trial, if it even goes that far

Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 2

Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

Who could possibly have predicted this backlash?

Personal Tech14 Feb 2024 | 162

Amazon overcharges shoppers with Buy Box algorithm, fresh lawsuit claims

Bazaar of Bezos buries bargains, allegedly

Personal Tech10 Feb 2024 | 46

IPv4 address rentals to mint millions of dollars for AWS

You were warned

Networks05 Feb 2024 | 84

Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days

Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume

Off-Prem02 Feb 2024 | 16

Amazon calls off $1.7 billion iRobot buy, blames regulators

Retailer steps back from Roomba-maker and 350 staff will have to step back from a job

Personal Tech29 Jan 2024 | 15

FBI recruits Amazon Rekognition AI to hunt down 'nudity, weapons, explosives'

Honestly, it sounds like a fun time

AI + ML26 Jan 2024 | 29

FTC drills into Amazon, Microsoft, Google over billions pledged to OpenAI, Anthropic

Updated Khaaaaaaan! Khaaaaaaaaaaan!

AI + ML25 Jan 2024 | 2

Amazon Ring sounds death knell for surveillance as a service

Tough luck non-Americans, the cops can still see your footage

Personal Tech25 Jan 2024 | 57

'Birthplace of Amazon' on the market for $2.28M

'Affordable' for the neighborhood

Bootnotes24 Jan 2024 | 21

France fines Amazon €32M for watching staff so much they'd have to 'justify each break'

French watchdog says non to excessive monitoring of workers as retail giant plans appeal

Legal23 Jan 2024 | 13

Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment

Land of the rising profit?

PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |

It's uncertain where personal technology is heading, but judging from CES, it smells

Column Our vulture spent a week in Las Vegas – here are his key takeaways

Personal Tech12 Jan 2024 | 33

Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January

Analysis E-tail giant seeks profitability for its vid-streaming service and a classic Big Tech dominance play

Personal Tech29 Dec 2023 | 133

China’s e-commerce players commit to broaden overseas

If all goes to plan, more Chinese goods will flow into the global market

Off-Prem15 Dec 2023 | 6

In just one year, UK.gov's direct spend on AWS rises 76 percent

Cloud vendor remains a distance behind leading tech suppliers though

Public Sector13 Dec 2023 | 2

AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications'

re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer

Storage12 Dec 2023 | 6

Amazon's practices are 'the essence of competition,' it tells judge

Why would FTC call that antitrust, it asks in dismissal request

Legal11 Dec 2023 | 12