Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced AWS GovCloud, a new AWS Region designed to allow U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. According to Amazon, the new offering, Amazon Web Services GovCloud, will meet a host of strict regulatory requirements specific...

Online retail giant Amazon introduced a discounted version of its Kindle electronic reader for $114, $25 less than the current lowest-priced model. But in return you need to view ads for getting that lower price. Initial sponsors of Kindle screensaver adverts include US car maker Buick, credit card company Visa, and the beauty product Olay. Anyway it is sure that more...

  Warner Bros. has launched an application allowing users to rent and watch movies directly on Facebook. The service will launch with Batman sequel The Dark Knight and will initially only be available in the U.S. Additional titles will be available for rental or purchase in the coming months. Though online movie rentals have been available for more than a decade,...

HTC, the Taiwanese maker of Google Inc. Android and Microsoft Corp. Windows-based mobile-phone handsets, unveils Flyer a tablet which runs a heavily customized version of Android Gingerbread and not Android 3.0 Honeycomb. The HTC Flyer tablet computer can be used either with a finger or with a battery-powered “pen” for drawing and note-taking. The device is...

Tencent, the biggest social network in China, bought a majority stake in Los Angeles online-game publisher Riot Games. Tencent is the third most valuable internet company in the world after Google and Amazon. This is the biggest ever investment by a Chinese tech company in the US. Tencent announced last month that it plans to launch a five-billion-yuan fund to invest...

According to online measurement service Experian Hitwise, Facebook topped Google with 8.9 percent of all U.S. visits between January and November 2010. Google came in a close second with 7.2 percent of all visits. Facebook, a site launched only six short years ago by Mark Zuckerberg, has quickly ascended to number one position with over 500 millon users. According to...

Whether you get disappointed on every holiday season by undesirable gifts? Don’t worry. Amazon is with you to automatically exchange items before you receive them. For this, Amazon.com has filed a patent for returning unwanted gifts before a recipient receives them, a system that would eliminate the need for regifting. The system allows Amazon members to create a...

Amazon has been raging war in the e-reader market with its Kindle series. The tiff between the company and Barnes & Noble in recent times surely caught everyone’s interest. But the latest dosage from Amazon’s pocket is shaking the pants off every competitor. For just $139, a measly sum compared to other mainstream e-reader lying around, Amazon is offering the...

What happens when the largest online retailer decides to team up with the most popular social networking site? Yes, you are right: a masterpiece. Amazon has teamed up with Facebook to make shopping all the more special. Of course, the biggest grouse online shoppers might have about the process is that it pushes the familiar fellow-shoppers out of the picture. After all,...