Amazon has pulled the plug on its affiliate program in Colorado thanks to a new state regulation on sales tax collection. The company sent a notice to its Colorado-based affiliates Monday morning to let them know about the decision, urging residents who depend on the affiliate program to contact their lawmakers if they want the program back. Most states only require retailers to collect sales tax if they have a sufficient enough brick-and-mortar presence thanks to a 1992 Supreme Court decision on Quill Corp.
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Amazon kills affiliate program in Colorado thanks to taxes
Filed under: Apple Corporate , iPad The iPad television ad that appeared during Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony showed off more than the iPad’s functionality. It revealed some book pricing, too
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iPad ad reveals book pricing and NYT button
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MSI’s Wind U160 netbook up for grabs in the US
Apple’s lawsuit against HTC may have been the talk of the Internet for most of the week, but Valve’s teasers for Steam coming to the Mac took the prize for most exciting news.
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Week in Apple: Steam on the Mac, Apple flings poo at HTC
Slowly but surely, HTC’s latest trifecta of handsets is making its way westwards. After appearing on Amazon’s Deutsche hub with a pre-order value of €519 ($707), the Desire has now reached the UK with an even steeper ?528 ($795) price and an estimated arrival time of April 1
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HTC Desire, Legend and HD Mini show up on Amazon UK, expected to arrive on April 1
Filed under: Steve Jobs The Berkley Repertory Theater is producing a play titled The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs . The play will be a monologue monologuist piece that “dives into the epic story of a real-life Willy Wonka whose personal obsessions profoundly affect our everyday lives” The play isn’t all roses in it’s portrayal of Jobs , though. It follows the trail to China where millions toil in factories to create iPhones and iPods – something Apple has been under pressure for lately.
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Life of Steve Jobs to be a play
Apple has allegedly been pressuring music labels to ditch Amazon MP3’s “Daily Deal” promotions, lest they be excluded from being promoted through the iTunes machine. According to anonymous executives speaking to Billboard , Apple has always been uncomfortable with the labels double dipping with both iTunes and Amazon, but the company has ramped up its complaints lately in an attempt to retain its lead in the online music market. Though Apple still remains in the number one spot among all music retailers , the move is indicative that Apple takes competition from Amazon very seriously.
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Apple stepping up pressure on music labels to snub Amazon
Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) platform, which offers on-demand scalable access to Linux, Solaris, and Windows-powered computing facilities, has launched a couple of new options for customers. First, the company offered a new, even larger, more capable kind of compute node , the “High Memory Extra Large.” This offers access to substantial amounts of memory (17.1GB) and storage (420GB), along with processing power approximately equivalent to two Opteron or Xeon (Pentium 4-era) cores at about 3.5GHz each
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Amazon gives EC2 a boost and broadens Windows support
