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Amazon Receives Cease and Desist Notice From eBay

November 20, 2018 by Paul Salmon

Amazon has received a legal letter from eBay as a cease and desist notice. The notice stated that Amazon’s staff had contacted eBay merchants with the intention of getting them to defect. It’s alleged that Amazon’s staff has communicated with eBay sellers through eBay’s My Messages internal system. Based on the Wall Street Journal, eBay accused Amazon of poaching sellers in a letter requiring them to stop the recruitment through eBay’s system.

Comprehensive Comparison Between Amazon, Linode, And Digital Ocean’s Cloud Services

September 17, 2013 by Guest Blogger

Cloud computing has been defined as the provision of on-demand, IT resources using a ‘pay as you go’ service. This covers network based services as well as tools, which are provided by virtual servers. This is easily done by simulating the software running on one, or more computers. Cloud computing has rapidly evolved because the servers don’t actually exist and so are easily expanded or minimized without causing any problems to the user.

Cloud computing allows startups to save on infrastructure costs. Because the servers are not physically there, companies also save on office space. Providers allow companies to run their applications quickly and effectively.

Streaming Mobile Video is Changing TV and Movies Forever

August 16, 2013May 24, 2013 by Paul Salmon

TV isn’t just for TV anymore. We still watch content day and night, but the access to our favorite shows doesn’t run exclusively through the living room television anymore. Tablets and smartphones grow in popularity as online streaming services develop apps that allow us to watch our favorite shows and movies on the go. A CNET study discovered that “real-time entertainment” like streaming videos from Netflix or Hulu consists of nearly 66 percent. That means more than half of all Internet consumption is some sort of video entertainment—a huge number when you think about the scale of the Web, and mobile streaming is only becoming a larger part of the picture.

Tips for Your New Kindle Fire Tablet

September 29, 2014October 23, 2012 by Guest Blogger

The Kindle Fire tablet has quite a few things going for it, including a nice entry price that is much less than the cost of some of the other tablets out there. However, the Fire does have some differences, so if you’ve used other tablets in the past, then you might find that the Fire is a bit different. The following tips should help you get up to speed with the tablet quickly though.

Free Self-hosting for Your WordPress Blog on Amazon Web Services

August 15, 2013May 7, 2012 by Guest Blogger

Hosting a website is cheaper and simpler than it has ever been. You can host a WordPress blog for free on wordpress.com, but that approach comes with significant limitations on using your own domain and monetizing your site; eventually WordPress will want you to start paying for things.

Using other hosting providers often entails signing up to a year-long contract, and unless you are prepared to pay for more than a basic account, the level of control you have is limited.

3 Good Tips For New Kindle Fire Users

August 15, 2013March 15, 2012 by Guest Blogger

The Kindle Fire came out in late November of last year and it’s not showing any signs of a slow down in 2012. The tablet from Amazon is a full color magazine reading, web surfing, book reading, music playing, 7 inch power house that can easily be carried in your backpack, briefcase or purse. Making it an ideal portable fun machine.

Amazon Kindle Fire: A Comprehensive Review

August 2, 2012February 22, 2012 by Guest Blogger

At the end of 2011, Amazon had released the Amazon Kindle Fire, a revolutionary gadget that offered Android tablet capabilities with a very affordable price. This is probably the most popular Android tablet right now, and it is predicted that this will be still popular in 2012. Now, there are lots of people bought this gadget – there are 13,174 user reviews in Kindle Fire alone.

In this article, I will try to summarize those reviews in one article, and I hope it will help the folks who are interested in buying the Amazon Kindle Fire to decide whether this gadget is suitable for them or not.