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Paramount Bringing Hundreds Of Movies To Amazon Instant Video
Amazon.com’s Prime Instant Video service is continuing to grow as evidenced by a recent partnership with Paramount Pictures. Paramount is bring hundreds of new movies to the service. Amazon was able to add 3,000 new titles when they signed a deal with Discovery two months ago. Some of the big name movies being added as a result of the Paramount partnership include Clueless, Mean Girls, Braveheart, Star Trek, Top Gun, The Truman Show, The Italian Job, Forrest Gump, etc. Amazon Instant Video will now offer over 17,000 movies and TV episodes for unlimited streaming for Amazon Prime customers. Amazon Prime customers pay $79 per year, which also includes two-day shipping and access to the Kindle Lending Library.
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Samsung Galaxy S III Pre-Orders On Amazon Available For $799.99
The official phone of the London 2012 Olympics known as the Samsung Galaxy S III is now up for pre-order at Amazon.com. The Galaxy S III is selling an international version of the phone for $799.99 in either blue
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Amazon.com Kindle Fire Welcome Screen Ad Price Starts At $600 Grand
The Amazon.com Kindle Fire is the company’s best selling device according to their Q1 release. The Amazon.com sales team is pitching ad space for the welcome screen. Ad agencies are being told that they would have to spend $600,000 for any package that includes an ad on the welcome screen. The ad would run for two months and includes inventory for Amazon.com’s “Special Offers.” For $1 million, ad agencies would get more inventory and would be included in Amazon’s PR push. However it is unknown whether the ad space is for the current or the next generation Kindle Fire reportedly arriving in July.
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Amazon Updates Cloudfront CDN To Handle Interactive Web Content
Amazon.com has updated their Cloudfront to handle dynamic and interactive web content. CDNs help websites get web pages faster by caching popular pages closer to likely user. CDN providers like Akamai have moved on from static pages to streaming video. Amazon has been working closely with Zynga for traffic bursts of their online games. Amazon’s CDN has only been dealing with delivered static and streaming content for business customers, but relied on Akamai for dynamic content. The company has now made several changes to Cloudfront to speed up delivery.
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Harry Potter Hitting Kindle Owners’ Lending Library On June 19
Harry Potter is one of the few book franchises that has stayed off electronic forms offered through Amazon or Barnes & Noble up until March. “Wizardry is on the way,” said a tagline on Amazon.com. Starting June 19th, all seven Harry Potter books will be added to the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Amazon Prime will members will be able to borrow the books for free.
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Amazon To Host Part Conference In Las Vegas This November
This November, Amazon will be hosting a conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas. The company has posted a “save the date” for the three-day AWS re:invent show on their blog. The event will run between November 27-November 29. Amazon recently launched the AWS partner program, which offers incentive programs. AWS re:invent is for developers that want to learn about AWS architecture, configuration management, performance optimization, etc. There will “all day coding challenges” as well. The conference will also be for Amazon to encourage startups looking for cloud infrastructure and enterprise IT. Sounds like another reason for nerds to take over the Las Vegas strip.
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Amazon Kindle Fire Shipments See Massive Drop
The Amazon Kindle Fire has been looked at as being one of the biggest rivals to the Apple iPad. However the Fire did not have much of an impact on Apple’s iPad sales for the March quarter. Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said that Apple is selling new iPads “as fast as we can make them.” Global shipments of the Fire has dropped from 4.8 million units in the fourth quarter of 2011 to less than 750,000 last quarter.
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Twenty Percent Of Zynga’s Traffic Handled By Amazon
Before Zynga launched FarmVille in 2009, they did not have much trouble dealing with servers. When the game really gained popularity on Facebook, the company had a hard time maintaining their servers. “We couldn’t get power fast enough. We couldn’t get servers fast enough. We just couldn’t scale our infrastructure to match the needs of FarmVille,” stated Zynga CTO of infrastructure Allan Leinwand in an interview with Ars Technica. Zynga became dependent on Amazon’s cloud services to keep things running smoothly, but eventually they had to build their own data centers to have more control of their infrastructure. Zynga’s own data centers now handle 80% of their gamers and the remaining 20% is run by Amazon. Zynga would not have been able to scale without Amazon’s help like when Alec Baldwin revealed that he was addicted to “Words With Friends.”
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Amazon Studios To Produce Original Sitcom Programming
Amazon.com is getting ready to launch their own original sitcom programming. “Amazon Studios” has dabbled a bit in the movie business, but now Amazon Studios Roy Price said that the company is soliciting scripts for new productions via the Internet. An option will be paid $10,000 and there is $55,000 if a show gets produced plus royalties if Amazon likes the content. Amazon Studios will then make the shows and distribute them through Amazon Instant Video. Amazon Studios sends movie scripts to Warner Brothers.
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comScore: Amazon Kindle Fire Now Has Over Half Of Android Tablet Market
Today comScore has announced the next generation of their Device Essentials service. Device Essentials is based on comScore’s Unified Digital Measurement (UDM) data, which uses census-level information from tagged web page content. Device Essentials includes reporting of brand and operating system for digital devices and Internet page views from computers, smartphones, and tablets. Using this new method of analysis, comScore has reported that the Amazon Kindle Fire has doubled its share of the Android tablet market in two months, giving them the lead in the Android tablet market. Check out the graph below to see a breakdown of the Android tablet numbers.
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