Tag Archives: Amazon

Disruption: Technology or Business Model? Definitively, not Laws

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Kindle books have now overtaken paperback books as the most popular format on Amazon.com, according to the quarterly results just released. For every 100 paperback sold, Amazon sold 115 Kindle books For every 100 hardcover sold, Amazon sold 300 Kindle … Continue reading →

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Bezos on Amazon Web Services

Posted on June 1, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Om Malik got an interesting interview with Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO. Bezos explains how they worked tough at Amazon to develop a hard interface between their network engineering group and their applications programmers group. Once they had architected a set … Continue reading →

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Internet TV or IPTV? Who will win the battle?

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

While Internet TV enjoys the hype, the reality is that Telco’s IPTV is growing steady, while Apple and Amazon keep mum on their movie download service numbers. Every week we have news of players entering Internet TV or existing players … Continue reading →

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Cloud Computing: Welcome to Google’s Cloud

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Google has just launched App Engine, the service to give developers access to Google Cloud, or in other words, to the same Google infrastructure that runs G-Mail, Google Apps or Google Earth. App Engine provides a number of tools to … Continue reading →

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Kindle is to ebooks what iPod is to mp3

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Jose Miguel Cansado

Amazon, as usual, has got it right and Kindle is a great device. Once you get to know the detailed specs, you realize it is not just  another ebook reader. Kindle is to ebooks what iPod is to mp3. Not … Continue reading →

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Will e-books kill the bookstore stars?

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Jose Miguel Cansado

It seems that finally Video did not actually kill the Radio star, but both co-existed as friends, and keep evolving in the Internet era. That is not the same case for the Music industry. CD’s killed the vinyls and now … Continue reading →

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