I have written a couple of pieces recently arguing that IBM needs to rethink its attitudes to “consumer” vs enterprise, be...

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The online storage pioneer Streamload–or Media Max Powered by Streamboat, as it prefers being called these days–has just landed a major distribution deal with EMBARQ C...

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Amazon.com made a preemptive strike on Apple today by unveiling Amazon Unbox, a new service for selling downloadable movies and TV shows onl...

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In the high lonesome county in West Virginia where I grew up, the arrival by mail of the Sears-Roebuck catalog always made for an exciting day.  The “wish boo...

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Okay, I give up.  What exactly is Amazon up to with its Mechanical Turk platform?  You don’t know about the Mechanical Turk?  Where hav...

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Amazon Reports Steep Drop in Income Amazon.com reported a 58% drop in second-quarter net income as a severed partnership with Toysrus.com and higher technology investmen...

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