No iPhone? No problem! Amazon just scored its first exclusive desktop software courtesy of DistinctDev, makers of the hit iOS game The Moron Test. You can now download the popular title to your PC or Mac, though if you don't own an iPhone to begin with, you may have already passed (Zing!). We jest, and actually, The Moron Test is also available on Android and Windows Phone 7, which still won't come as any consolation if you're rocking a feature phone.
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It’s getting to be a highly predictable pattern. A state starts working on a bill that would force Amazon to pay sales tax up front on its sales in said state. Amazon then starts playing hardball by cancelling business deals and ending associate programs, and that’s what’s happening in California today. 
The United States has a long history of fighting against unfair taxes (Boston Tea Party, anyone?), and while Amazon's battle is of a different sort than when the country was founded, the e-tailer feels as though it's the victim of greed by state officials who have the audacity to seek sales tax. Rather than comply with new laws that keep popping up around the country, Amazon has chosen to take its ball and run to different playgrounds, most recently turning its back on Connecticut.
Songs from the cloud? No, its not the name of a LSD-induced Beatles guitar-fest. It's the future of music, from the sounds of it, and it has all of the major players rattling their sabers and baring their teeth at one another. In an obvious grab at some of Apple's musical market share, Google and Amazon have both recently rolled out cloud-based services that let users upload music to company servers, then stream the songs to Internet-connected devices. Apple's response? "Pfah! Who needs uploading?"
The Justice League of America is a collection of super heroes working together to fight the evils of the world and protect us from those who would otherwise do us harm. And the Download Fairness Coalition, who we will henceforth abbreviate DFC? That's a collection of tech giants, cable operators, telecoms, and other entities whose common goal is a little more self-serving -- to fight against "discriminatory taxes of digital goods and services" -- but perhaps equally needed.
Amazon's Kindle wasn't the first e-reader on the market, but it's continuing the Amazon tradition of shattering sales paradigms – Amazon announced today that it now sells more Kindle e-books than traditional print books.
It seems that wherever Amazon goes, sales tax issues will follow. After pulling out of planned distribution centers in both South Carolina and Texas, the online retailer may now be leaving a planned facility behind in Tennessee. The company is usually unlikely to issue press statements on such issues, but this time Amazon is coming out swinging.
Following the recent outage at its Web hosting business that brought down several websites, both big and small, Amazon today offered an apology to customers and a long winded technical explanation of what went wrong. Amazon also said it would be giving affected custoemrs a 10-day service credit equal to 100 percent of their usage of EBS Volumes, EC2 Instances, and RDS database instances. The credit will be automatically applied to their next AWS bill, Amazon said.
Amazon earlier this month 
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