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Did you ever come upon a news story that sounded interesting enough to pursue? It happened today with the Reuter’s story that the Amazon streaming movies service was flawed and allowed users to download the entire movie without paying for it.

Amazon has announced the launch of CloudFront, a new content delivery network service built on top of the company's cloud storage platform.Read More...

Amazon has added yet another way for you to buy its products from anywhere, at any time. The new TextBuyIt feature lets you shop Amazon.com via SMS from your mobile phone, making those impulse purchases even easier. Ars gives the service a spin and reports back.Read More...

Amazon's Kindle may have had uncertain prospects when it debuted, but new sales figures suggest that the Kindle is a license for Amazon to print money. With updates soon to come, Amazon is taking steps to foster its newest revenue source and bring more content to Kindle's growing library, even as it picks up used book service AbeBooks.Read More...

With rumors swirling lately about a new-and-improved Kindle, one analyst says that Amazon sees an opportunity in the education market and plans to target students. We've got some tips for Amazon should it get serious about pursuing college students with the Kindle.Read More...

Joshua writes about cool interesting stuff over on his own blog Extendably. Feel free to check it out, I’m sure you’ll like it.
 
No matter what your opinion is on MySpace, the announcement of the MySpace Music store and service is big news.

Following a tsunami of negative reviews and DRM-focused protests on the official Amazon.com Spore product page, Amazon has deleted all customer reviews for the game. Read More...

Rockstar and Amazon have teamed up to bring a unique method of digital music distribution to the blockbuster title Grand Theft Auto 4. Gamers will be able to buy music in game, but listen to it on their iPods, PCs, and other devices—not just in the game.Read More...

Half of the mobile users trying to access NBC's streaming Olympic content are new to the technology, NBC has found, and millions more are watching video on NBC's Olympic website. Considering that NBC was previously scared of offering content online, it looks like the "billion-dollar research lab" is being put to good use.Read More...