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Having trouble online today? Blame Amazon.

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Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive

While it’s not clear what exactly prompted Trump’s criticism, the tweet did spark a wave of debate as to whether the Postal Service is indeed failing and, if so, whether Amazon is to blame ... release... read more

Tech Q&A: Is streaming music to blame for slow internet?

That could reduce your 10-megabit internet speed to 5 megabits, and the two Amazon music streams would be using 10 percent of it. While using 10 percent of your internet capacity might not seem like . ... read more

President Obama, Gov. Nixon, an Anonymous Cop: The Internet Looks for Blame in Ferguson

Ryan was working on his laptop in ... truer when the barrel-owners happen to own Amazon.com and AOL.com. But the story is moving at Twitter-speed, and there is little time to waste before assigning po... read more

Why I'm Not Streaming On Twitch Today

Websites across the internet, including our own, will be festooned with promotions from Amazon highlighting some ... Given the field I work in and my lack of control over corporate mandates, it may no... read more

Amazon Tests Out Two Tools to Help Keep Its Cloud Secure

Amazon ... working. Our security objective here is to stop data exfiltration from AWS." The tools provide a one-two punch. Tiros maps the connections between network mechanisms, and is particularly us... read more

Amazon: Friend or Foe? You Decide.

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Mitch Albom: Angels' Mike Trout not worried about being a brand

The point is, you can have a brand, even one that brings you tens of millions of dollars, and not ... work and accomplishments can speak for themselves. Tell that to the branders who comprise TIME Mag... read more

The everything contractor: Amazon Web Services takes over Washington

Founder Jeff Bezos laid it all out almost 20 years ago, in the now famous shareholder letter he wrote after the fledgling e-commerce company went public in 1997: “Amazon.com uses the Internet to ... “ ... read more

How to watch Amazon Instant Video on Chromecast or Android TV

Streaming quality is up to 1080p, but will be determined by the quality of your internet connection and speed of ... so almost any web video will work, not just the ones on Amazon. When you’re finishe... read more

Russia’s Alternate Internet

Russia has nearly completed an alternative to the Domain Name System — the common “phone book” of the internet that translates numerical ... Spy Cam (If You Really Need One) The Amazon Cloud Cam is no... read more

Shopping online at work? Feel free to blame your boss

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