Amazon doubles profits
Published in Cloud
Friday, 27 April 2018 11:21

Amazon doubles profits


Thanks to cloud


US president Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump's favourite US company, Amazon, more than doubled its profit on Thursday and predicted strong spring results – the outfit was so pleased with its results it jacked up the price for its US Prime subscribers.

Amazon plots home robots
Published in IoT
Monday, 23 April 2018 17:32

Amazon plots home robots


Strike a light

We've had robot vacuum cleaners for quite a few years, but now it seems Amazon is working on a more ambitious project.

Trump goes for Amazon's jugular
Published in News
Thursday, 29 March 2018 16:31

Trump goes for Amazon's jugular


President goes postal

The president of the United States read out a litany of complaints against Amazon using his usual transmission mode, Twitter.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X shows up briefly on Amazon.de
Published in PC Hardware


Said it should ship on April 19th

German Amazon has leaked one of the AMD's upcoming Pinnacle Ridge CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2600X, with the shipping date set for April 19th.

Look out Apple, Amazon is going to steal your crown
Published in News


It could not happen to a nicer multinational

Apple is about to lose its crown as the world's most valuable publicly listed company and will be beaten by Amazon.com to the $1 trillion mark.

Amazon takes aim at supermarket market
Published in News
Monday, 05 March 2018 16:13

Amazon takes aim at supermarket market

Ants in your pantries

An article in a French newspaper quotes the boss of Amazon France saying his company does have plans to compete with supermarket chains to deliver groceries in Europe.

Amazon acquires Ring
Published in News
Friday, 02 March 2018 14:52

Amazon acquires Ring


One billion dollars

Amazon literally wants to enter into your house and now it controls the front door too.

Apple's great cloud failure
Published in News
Tuesday, 27 February 2018 10:59

Apple's great cloud failure


And still the problem increases

One of the good things about being a huge company which makes piles of dosh over a couple of products is that no one notices what you are doing wrong in a smaller part of your empire, and this is precisely what has been happening with Apple and its cloud.

Qualcomm signs up Amazon and JD.com to Windows 10 on Snapdragon
Published in AI


Ten new carriers signed too

Qualcomm has managed to get industry heavyweights Amazon and JD.com to start selling its Windows 10 on Snapdragon 835 devices. Microsoft will carry the devices in its retail stores too. At the same time, it locked down 10 world carriers to announce the data plans for such devices.

Alexa will get Amazon's own custom chips
Published in News
Wednesday, 14 February 2018 12:00

Alexa will get Amazon's own custom chips

Watch out Nvidia and Intel

Amazon is designing a custom artificial intelligence chip that would power future Echo devices and improve the quality and response time of its Alexa voice assistant.