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Cloud is the new buzzword in office computing. To those of us who started our careers in the 90s or early 2000s, we've grown up in an office filled with computers that were becoming more and more a part of how we worked, and until now, we can barely imagine doing without them.

City officials are not yet formally negotiating a sales-tax agreement with Amazon as the Internet retailer prepares to open a distribution center here, but the company has broached the subject of tax concessions.

Amazon is an excellent company that you should be pleased to own. It has recently been improving fundamentally, but recently the price has begun to pull back.

In the tech industry it's a well-established fact that major U.S. companies will sometimes test a service in other, international markets before introducing it to domestic customers.

It isn't the sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's the important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages are high in fact or only high in name.

One of them is Stevie, a girl who ignites a spark in Lee. Can Stevie restore Lee's hope that Hong Kong is not totally void of lesbians? This short story is set before the novel 'Come and Go' starts and has some of the same settings and characters .

Rather than kick their feet up this Memorial Day weekend, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be unloading cargo from the first private spacecraft ever to visit the orbiting lab.

May 27, 2012 -- Shaun Cousins of JP Morgan notes that Myer Holdings' proposed investment in online retailing is well below that of global retailers such as Amazon, Macy's and Nordstrom.

Monday evening bring us a first quarter moon, offering U.S. skywatchers a chance to close out the Memorial Day holiday with a lunar treat and the fading planet Mars.

Apple's biggest competitor in the mobile-ad space is turning out to be Amazon, with its fast-growing Kindle device and a burgeoning mobile-ad offering.

Final chapter in e-book selling? http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/Opinion/2012/05/28/Final+chapter+in+ebook+selling These articles are reproduced with permission from China Knowledge@Wharton . The trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.

The third-generation Apple iPad iPad includes a stunning new screen, matched by a quad-core graphic processor and the world's largest app and media store to feed it content.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 27--All the buzz in retail these days is about the explosive growth in e-commerce. Traditional chains such as Costco and Nordstrom have made online business a top priority as Amazon.com reigns supreme.

Northwest business news round up: Nordstrom amps up its Internet presence; Amazon shareholder meeting interrupted; and thoughts on Seattle's film scene May 25, 2012 -- Here's a quick roundup of business news around the Northwest.

A few weeks ago in a column about libraries and books, I mentioned that my wife and I gave each other for Christmas a Kindle electronic reader.

This week Apple responded to the DOJ e-book antitrust charge by throwing down the gauntlet.

When it comes to the cloud and Amazon Web Services, IT administrators often buy far more than they need and fail to adjust to realities once they have a good understanding of their deployment's needs.

The debacle in Facebook over the past week should have easily been foreseen given that the IPO pricing was giving a $100B valuation on a company with less than $5B in revenues.

Amid pressure from public advocacy groups, the online retail giant has announced that it will not renew its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council - the right-wing lobbying group that has been working behind the scenes to promote conservative legislation since the early 1970s.

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