News tagged with amazon
Amazon fungi found that eat polyurethane, even without oxygen
(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now polyurethane has been considered non-biodegradable, but a group of students from Yale University in the US has found fungi that will not only eat and digest it, they will do so even in the absence ...
Feb 03, 2012 |
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Amazon announces it’s ready to accept e-books in new KF8 format
(PhysOrg.com) -- Amazon has announced that it is now ready to allow publishers to submit e-books to its Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) site in what it is calling Kindle Format 8 (KF8). Doing so will allow publishers ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 13, 2012 |
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Internet address expansion set despite ".worries." (Update)
Bidding will begin this week for words and brand names such as ".sport," ".NYC" and ".bank" to join ".com" as online monikers.
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Glooko app offers diabetics easier self-checks
(PhysOrg.com) -- A consumer health management app has joined an ever-growing list of Apple App Store items; Glooko helps diabetics check their blood sugar daily. Glooko is a Palo Alto startup that presents ...
Nov 11, 2011 |
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Separate species, shared genomes: Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous sharing of large regions of DNA code
A landmark effort to sequence the genome of a South American butterfly has revealed the key behind its unusual ability to mimic other butterflies.
May 16, 2012 |
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Google ahead of Facebook in mobile space: US study
Google is leading Facebook in the race for smartphone users, a US survey showed Monday.
May 07, 2012 |
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Apple iPad outmuscles Android in global tablet sales
Apple's iPad outmuscled its Android-powered tablet computer rivals in early 2012, in a global market suffering from post-holiday hangover, a survey showed Thursday.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 03, 2012 |
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Study: 800-year-old farmers could teach us how to protect the Amazon
In the face of mass deforestation of the Amazon, we could learn from its earliest inhabitants who managed their farmland sustainably. Research from an international team of archaeologists and paleoecologists, ...
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Google plans low-price tablet computer
Google is teaming with Asia-based hardware makers on a low-priced, 7-inch tablet computer to challenge offerings by Amazon.com and Apple, reports said.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Google opens Amazon wilds to armchair explorers
Google's free online map service on Wednesday began letting people explore portions of the Amazon Basin from the comfort of their homes.
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Birds' diverse traits survive Amazon fires
Research in the Amazon has shown that wildfires are less of a threat to the functional diversity of rainforest birds than you might expect.
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Holding out hope for a surprise with next iPad
With Apple expected to unveil the next version of the iPad early next month, I worry that I'll feel like a kid on Christmas who weeks before found the unwrapped presents hidden in the closet.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 23, 2012 |
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Browser bypasses put Google in privacy cross hairs
Privacy advocates, lawyers and powerful rival Microsoft were piling on Google on Tuesday for sidestepping Web browsing software to tailor ads for people signed into its online services. ...
Feb 22, 2012 |
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You can't do the math without the words
Most people learn to count when they are children. Yet surprisingly, not all languages have words for numbers. A recent study published in the journal of Cognitive Science shows that a few tongues lack number words and as ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Apple testing smaller screen tablet: WSJ
Apple is testing a tablet computer with a smaller screen than the hot-selling iPad, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of runner up Staples, Inc.
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an on-line bookstore but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, etc. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Japan. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.
On January 15, 2009, a survey published by Verdict Research found that Amazon was the UK's favorite music and video retailer, and came third in overall retail rankings.
For more information about Amazon.com, read the full article at
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