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Amazon UK has announced that pre-orders for Windows 7 have set the record for biggest pre-orders ever, even beating out Harry Potter. According to Amazon UK,  Windows 7 pre-orders — in the first 8 hours — beat out the number of Vista sold during the entire pre-order process.
A recent article also states:
“The launch of Windows [...]

Back on September 20, 2009, I wrote a piece about the new Amazon house brand called AmazonBasic. [See here] I had mentioned that I had ordered Amazon’s 100 pack of DVDs and would report back on what I thought about these disks. Since I ordered the disks I noticed on the Amazon site that the [...]

Profitability has been elusive for the publishing companies but they may have stumbled on a way to turn things around.  The people over at Time Inc. have come up with the idea of a Hulu for publishing. Time Inc, seems to be attracting some other notables like publishers of Hearst and Condé Nast may [...]

I received a comment from reader Kim who asked me what books I would recommend for someone who was new to computers? It is hard to believe that in a day and age where computers are so common that there is anyone who doesn’t know how to use a computer. But there are some folks [...]

Amazon is slowing gearing up for the introduction of its own house brands. I took a look at the slim offerings when one product caught my eye. Amazon was offering 100 DVD-R blank disks for only $18.39, which is a great price. I am not sure how much shipping cost is because I have an [...]

The traditional mad shopping day known as Black Friday could turn out to be one of the best ever. With the economy in the crapper, retailers could be offering super deals to entice buyers either into their brick & mortar stores or to their shops online. Yesterday I received an early email notification from Black [...]

Amazon is introducing a new web site that is for Wireless plans and phones. The current site is still in beta and only offers services from At&T and Verizon. They will be adding Sprint and T-Mobile services soon.
Here is what their press release states:
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. 9, 2009– Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced the beta launch of [...]

Best Buy and TiVo have formed a partnership to promote each other in a way that could benefit both companies. On the one hand, Best Buy will expose consumers to the benefits of TiVo compared to DVR services that satellite companies provide. Best Buy will benefit in that they will be able to advertise their [...]

Death and taxes. Two things none of us can avoid. But some online retailers are trying to avoid collecting sales tax in states that have enacted or are about to enact laws requiring that taxes be collected. In response some online retailers like Overstock, eBay and others are dropping their affiliate programs in states that [...]

It happens to all of us. Some yo-yo opens their car door and bangs your paint job. Or a shopping cart dings your car while you are shopping. It happened to me with the KIA Sportage I had and already with the new Nissan Rogue. So when I went looking for a scratch remove I [...]