| Amazon mislead customers over Vista OEM upgrade | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:04:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | Online shopping giant Amazon has admitted that it may have misled consumers into buying OEM versions of Windows XP with free upgrades to Vista, which they aren't entitled to. Last week, IT PRO's sister publication PC Pro revealed how angry PC owners are turning on Microsoft after their upgrade vouchers for Windows Vista were deemed ineligible. Customers who bought OEM versions of Windows XP, complete with an upgrade voucher for Vista, are being told they don't qualify for the upgrade unless the operating system was installed on a brand new machine by a system builder. Microsoft claims the OEM versions should only be sold to system builders and not the general public, but online retailers such as Amazon have been making the OEM software freely available to consumers.... | |
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| | | 'The Fish Man' set to swim the Amazon | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 3:08:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | ATALAYA, Peru, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Long-distance swimmer Martin "The Fish Man" Strel prepared himself in Peru Sunday for his greatest challenge yet, swimming the length of the Amazon River. The 52-year-old will start his 3,375-mile journey along the Amazon, a swim that has never before been attempted due to the extreme dangers, later this week, The Sunday Times of London reported. Strel, a Slovenian, has already swum the Danube (1,877 miles), the Mississippi (2,360 miles) and the Yangtze (2,487 miles). On his trip, which is equivalent to swimming the Atlantic, Strel will have to deal with venomous snakes, crocodiles, rapids, whirlpools and a 13-foot tidal wave called the Pororoca. He will also have a support team of three boats traveling with him.... | |
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| | | Timex Ironman Triathlon 30-Lap Traditional Fullsize Watch #T53151 | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:00:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | Keep your sports training focused with the traditional, full-sized Timex T53151 Ironman Triathlon multi-function, performance sport digital watch, which features a 30-lap memory recall, all-day Indiglo display feature, top pusher for easy access to lap and split times, polyurethane strap, and black resin top ring within a dark gray case. Sport timing features include a 100-hour chronograph with lap or split option, 24-hour countdown timer with countdown/stop and countdown/repeat functions, and 99-lap counter. It also features daily/weekday/weekend alarms with 5-minute back-up, two time zones, built-in setting reminders, and water resistance to 100 meters (330 feet). The Indiglo night-light uniformly lights the surface of the watch dial using patented blue electroluminescent lighting technology. It uses less battery power than most other watch illumination systems, enabling your watch battery to last longer. The Night Mode feature allows you to illuminate the Indiglo night-light for 3 seconds with any button press, regardless of the mode or function.... | |
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| | | Amazon.com Unveils an Exclusive First Performance from Norah Jones ... | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:17:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Norah Jones and Blue Note Records have teamed up to offer the eight-time Grammy-winning singer's many fans a first listen to her third studio album Not Too Late, with a performance of "Rosie's Lullaby." Premiering on Amazon.com today is an exclusive performance of "Rosie's Lullaby," one of the thirteen deeply personal songs on Not Too Late, all of which were written or co-written by Norah Jones herself. Fans can watch this video by visiting http://www.amazon.com/norah. "Norah Jones is among the top three best-selling musical artists of all time on Amazon.com," said Peter Faricy, vice president of music at Amazon.com. "Our customers love her music, and we're delighted to offer them this exclusive first listen from her latest album." Many familiar faces from Norah Jones' previous albums return for Not Too Late, including Norah's longtime songwriting partner Lee Alexander as producer, guitarist Adam Levy, vocalist Daru Oda and drummer Andy Borger.... | |
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| | | Peru: Campaigner Investigates Amazon Tribes | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:06:44 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Survival campaigner has recently returned from a trip to the Peruvian Amazon to identify areas inhabited by uncontacted tribes. David Hill, 28, travelled to the remote upper reaches of the Las Piedras, Yurua and Curanja rivers, gathering information about uncontacted peoples and the threats they face. Hill says, 'The purpose of my trip was to find out as much as possible about these people without actually meeting them, although some uncontacted Indians did arrive unexpectedly one night in the village I was staying in. 'Illegal mahogany logging is the biggest threat. I was shocked by reports of loggers regularly killing Indians, and by how open the mahogany trade is. Oil exploration is the other big threat. It opens up remote parts of the rainforest to outsiders, including more loggers, who introduce fatal diseases to the isolated tribes.... | |
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| | | Amazon checks into Microsoft's Office | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 3:35:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | Microsoft announced a partnership Tuesday with retail giant Amazon.com under which the software giant will add links to Amazon services within its new Office applications. Amazon.com Research Service for Microsoft Office System will be a free download available through the Office Marketplace, a clearinghouse for third-party services and applications that tap into new Extensible Markup Language (XML) capabilities in the upcoming update of Office. Office 2003 and other applications within the newly designated Office System are set to go on sale next week. The Amazon tools will let Office users access Amazon information from within an Office document, using the research pane that's included in most applications. A writer who's typing a bibliography in a Word document, for example, could click on the name of a book to get catalog information or cover art from Amazon.... | |
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| | | Amazon debuts online storage initiative | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:20:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- The head of Amazon.com Inc. told participants at San Francisco's Web 2.0 Summit that his company will sell online storage and computing power. Jeffrey P. Bezo, Amazon's chief executive, explained how he aims to transform the Internet retailer into a provider of Web-based storage, computing power and other logistical services for corporations, the Washington Post reported Thursday. While nowhere as dominant as Google and Microsoft at selling services via the Web, Bezos said Amazon has quietly developed a now-marketable expertise at storage. "We have to be very efficient at Amazon.com in order to offer the kind of pricing and free shipping we do. We always operate our infrastructure with that mentality," he said.... | |
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| | | Goodbye quarterly reports? | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:39:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Six financial heavyweights have called for companies to overhaul financial reports to make them more suited to the internet age. This could mean scrapping the traditional quarterly and annual reports. The companies, including Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers, have joined forces to produce a report proposing a real-time reporting system to allow users to access and choose business information as easily as buying a book on Amazon. Business Intelligence: another oxymoron? Take a look at silicon.com's BI Cheat Sheet for information on how businesses gather data and make decisions.. Details on what this new reporting model would look like are still hazy. But digitisation and the internet could enable users to customise the company information they receive and choose how it is presented, said the report.... | |
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| | | ValueVision to Launch Store on Amazon.com | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:16:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | Television home shopping retailer ValueVision Media Inc. said Tuesday it signed a deal to launch a ShopNBC store on Amazon.com in late November. "Selling ShopNBC products on Amazon is a great way to extend our presence on the Internet and introduce our products to Amazon's extensive customer base," said William Lansing, CEO of ValueVision. ShopNBC products ranging from watches to electronics will be featured on Amazon at the ShopNBC store and also through traditional Amazon product search. .... | |
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| | | Pilots from Amazon collision stuck in emotional, legal limbo | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 7:25:09 AM by Blog57 Team | | Two American pilots involved in Brazil's worst air disaster have been virtual prisoners since the crash, isolating themselves in their hotel rooms just steps from Copacabana beach, their lawyer said Friday. The two men face possible criminal charges in the accident and remain in the odd emotional limbo reserved for the few people lucky enough to have a collision in the sky and live to talk about it. Not that they talk much — Joseph Lepore, 42, of Bay Shore, N.Y., and Jan Paladino, 34, of Westhampton Beach, N.Y., have tried to avoid discussing their feelings about the Sept. 29 collision, their lawyer said Friday. The accident killed all 154 people on board Gol Airlines Flight 1907 when the jet crashed into the Amazon rainforest. Despite damage to the wing and tail of a smaller jet the Americans were piloting, they managed to land safely, and all seven on board survived.... | |
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