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I've had my iPhone for about a month now and for the most part I'm very pleased with it, but if I could have a meeting with Apple engineers, there are a few things I would tell them to change: 1 Protect the Glass Out of the Box Perhaps my biggest pet peeve is the exposed glass front.

I tried one of those silly protective plastic layers, but I couldn't get it to line up right or get rid of the air bubbles.

It ended up in the trash in about 2 minutes and I bought a Marware case from Amazon, which protects the glass in my pocket, but it adds significantly to the bulk.

It's a trade-off I was...

This is unusual. When I started as a journalist in the late eighties it went pretty much without saying that some territories would be ahead of my own home in the UK for technological take-up.

America and Japan would typically be three years ahead of us while Germany would be one or two. That seems to be changing a little.

Of course, mass communication means change is faster overall so the gap was always going to narrow. Then there are individual product launches in which companies decide we're going to get stuff later - we still don't have Amazon's Kindle or Microsoft's Zune, for...

It's been a year since Amazon released its Linux-based Kindle Ebook Reader into its online store and currently more than 200,000 people have purchased one.

Are you going to join the fray at almost 400USD or wait for my bombshell? I suggest you wait. There have been several articles surrounding the little Kindle lately but the most interesting one is on ZDNet titled Kindle Economics.

It's a good article but I think there's a better way. Amazon needs to revamp the Kindle into a more reader friendly sized device, perhaps a 9x6 inch screen (The entire Kindle is only about 7.5x5 inches).

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Brazil's government will authorize the construction of an Amazon hydroelectric dam as long as a series of environmental conditions are met.

Zephyr today launched version 2.0 of its namesake software test management tool, which is now available as a SaaS in Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud.

Zephyr gives development teams a Flash-based system for communication, collaboration, resource, document and project management, test-case creation automation and archiving, defect tracking and reporting.

The system was previously available only as a self-hosted system. "The advantage of a SaaS is that you need no hardware," said Zephyr CEO Samir Shah.

"It’s a predeveloped back-end up and running immediately with 24/7 availability, backup,...

Amazon has purchased Reflexive Entertainment, a computer game developer based in Lake Forest, California, founded 11 years ago.

Apart from actually developing games for PCs, Macs, and even the XBox 360, they own the popular site Reflexive Arcade, which offers downloads of PC games and Mac games, as well as online web games.

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The company explains how it uses Amazon's EC2 cloud product to help insurance companies detect fraud.

EBay was once an online juggernaut and Amazon.com its weaker rival. Things have changed.

Until 3Tera came along, EC2 customers could only choose among Unix-based operating systems, but couldn't run Windows or SQL Server applications.

A new digital reading device has been introduced by Plastic Logic to compete with Amazon's Kindle, offering a larger screen, lighter weight and sleeker design.