Amazon Big Brother patent knows where you’ll go (Erik Sherman/CBS News)
Erik Sherman / CBS News:Amazon Big Brother patent knows where you’ll go — Location tracking has become a hot privacy issue. Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), and Microsoft (MSFT) have all stepped into massive PR messes over the question. Now there’s a new entry: Amazon (AMZN). — A patent, made public last week …
Don’t buy it! Amazon email scam let loose
Let the holiday shopping scam season begin! Fraudulent emails claiming to be from Amazon have been finding their way into inboxes, claiming that your account with the online retail giant is “about to expire and will be deactivated,” the security …
Amazon attack claims your account is about to expire
Have you received an email telling you that your Amazon.com account is about to expire? Does the message urge you to confirm that you need to confirm “wether” (sic) you wish to continue to use the account or risk deactivation? Well, hold up a …
Amazon reveals its patent lawsuits are on the rise (BBC)
BBC:Amazon reveals its patent lawsuits are on the rise — Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet is subject to a lawsuit filed by SmartPhone Technologies — Amazon has revealed that 11 companies have filed patent lawsuits against it since the start of the year – more than three times as many as in all of 2010.
Interview: HP’s Stephen DeWitt and Jon Rubinstein on webOS, the death of Palm, and partnering with Amazon (Joshua Topolsky/This is my next)
Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:Interview: HP’s Stephen DeWitt and Jon Rubinstein on webOS, the death of Palm, and partnering with Amazon — As you may have read over the past few days, there’s a new sheriff in town when it comes to webOS at HP. Stephen DeWitt, a man formerly responsible for the [...]
Amazon updates Cloud Drive and Cloud Player with unlimited music space, free storage for Amazon MP3s, iPad web player (Todd Haselton/BGR)
Todd Haselton / BGR:Amazon updates Cloud Drive and Cloud Player with unlimited music space, free storage for Amazon MP3s, iPad web player — Moments ago Amazon announced that it has made a number of enhancements to its Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player services. First — for a limited time — anyone who signs up [...]
Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too (Mathew Ingram/GigaOM)
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:Hey Apple, Sony and Amazon: Crisis Response is Real Time Now Too — We’ve seen a trifecta of failures and/or screwups over the past couple of weeks, from three of the world’s technology giants: Apple was shown to be keeping a log of the location of millions of iPhone users …
Amazon faces backlash over “music locker” service (Phil Wahba/Reuters)
Phil Wahba / Reuters:Amazon faces backlash over “music locker” service — (Reuters) – A new Amazon.com Inc service that lets customers store songs and play them on a variety of phones and computers is facing a backlash from the music industry that could ignite a legal battle. — Amazon’s Cloud Drive …
Amazon cloud can help hack WiFi networks: expert (Jim Finkle/Reuters)
Jim Finkle / Reuters:Amazon cloud can help hack WiFi networks: expert — (Reuters) – A security researcher says he has figured out a quick and inexpensive way to break a commonly used form of password protection for wireless networks using powerful computers that anybody can lease from Amazon.com Inc over the Web.
LivingSocial Confirms $175 Million Amazon Investment (Alexia Tsotsis/TechCrunch)
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:LivingSocial Confirms $175 Million Amazon Investment — The rumors are true! Amazon and daily deals site LivingSocial have just officially confirmed their partnership, with the e-tailer investing a whopping $175 million in the latter. This comes at an interesting time for both companies …
