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• Apple iPad vs Kindle DX: Which is better for education?

  If the iPad doesn't succeed as a consumer electronics device--its initial target market--it may find a successful second career as an electronic textbook reader.

  By Jeff Bertolucci | 02 February, 2010 01:31

  Tags: amazon, amazon kindle, Apple, apple ipad, ebook, iPad, kindle

• Amazon's Kindle for PC app: 10 things to know

  Amazon's extending its electronic bookstore onto your desktop. The company announced plans for a Kindle for PC desktop application at Microsoft's Windows 7 launch event Thursday.

  By JR Raphael | 23 October, 2009 09:12

  Tags: amazon, amazon kindle

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  Inside Amazon's Cloud: Just How Many Customer Projects?

  There's been a lot of discussion the past couple of days about an analysis by Guy Rosen, in which he estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is provisioning 50K EC2 server instances per day. He created this estimate by examining EC2 resource IDs and doing a time-series analysis on how much the IDs are incremented per hour.

  By Bernard Golden | 30 September, 2009 07:52

  Tags: amazon, amazon ec2, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, Virtualization

• Google's move into e-books could be explosive

  E-books may have been a niche technology so far, but Google Inc.'s entry into the market could burst the online business wide open.

  By Matt Hamblen | 02 June, 2009 08:16

  Tags: amazon, e-book, Google, kindle