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Dpreview.com Launches Challenges: User-Generated Photography Contestsby Andrew Redfern @ 3rd March 2009 4:41 pm Amazon
Dpreview.com, a comprehensive global resource for reviews and original content regarding digital photography and cameras, and an Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) subsidiary, today announced the launch of its new feature: “Challenges.” Challenges offer photographers the opportunity to create, participate in and judge photographic competitions. The feature was launched in beta in December 2008 and already more than 19,000 images have been submitted and more than a quarter of a million votes have been cast by the community. “Dpreview has long been known for having vibrant online photographer communities,” said Phil Askey, founder of Dpreview.com. “Now it’s even easier for photographers to show off their work, garner feedback from their peers and collect acclaim from the community through their votes and ratings.” Dpreview.com welcomes submissions from professionals and amateurs alike. Any Dpreview.com user can create a Challenge and establish his or her own rules and guidelines. Then, anyone can upload submissions for the Challenge set forth. Once the Challenge is complete, the photos are voted on by the community and submissions are ranked with the winners announced. “This is the first set of new features we are developing for our photographer community. We are very excited by how quickly our community has already embraced this service, even while still in beta, and the amazing quality of the initial images submitted,” continued Askey. “Challenges has already become one of the most trafficked areas of the site.” Follow our Micro Blogging Twitter Feed on http://twitter.com/hitsearch Would you like to know about Internet Marketing? If so, contact Hit Search, Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click & Social Space Marketing specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. Amazon Web Services Launches Amazon EC2 for Windowsby Andrew Redfern @ 24th October 2008 5:36 pm Amazon
Amazon Web Services LLC (NASDAQ: AMZN), today launched a public beta of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud providing greater flexibility for deploying solutions in the AWS cloud. Additionally, AWS today announced that Amazon EC2 is now Generally Available, having successfully exited its beta period and now offers a Service Level Agreement (SLA). Launched in beta in August of 2006, Amazon EC2 is the popular AWS service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud for businesses and developers. “When we launched Amazon EC2 over two years ago, the idea of accessing computing power over the web was still a novel idea. Today a diverse array of businesses drawn by the benefits of cloud computing — cost savings without giving up speed, reliability, flexibility, and performance — are running EC2 for all types of applications,” said Peter De Santis, General Manager of Amazon EC2. “We’ve listened closely to our customers for the past two years and worked backward from their requirements, adding important new features such as those we are announcing today — Windows support and a Service Level Agreement.” Eli Lilly and Company is a leading pharmaceutical company with a history of innovation. As a part of Lilly’s efforts to find new and improved methods to support research, Lilly recently began using AWS. “Amazon EC2 has given us the ability to easily spin up tailored computing environments that can quickly and cost-effectively process tremendous amounts of research data,” said Dave Powers, Associate Information Consultant at Eli Lilly and Company. “This is a huge step forward in maximizing our results relative to IT spend, and now that Amazon EC2 runs Windows and SQL Server, we have even greater flexibility in the kinds of applications we can build in the AWS cloud.” New Features for Amazon EC2 in 2009 To help customers better plan their future hardware and software investments, AWS today announced plans to release several new features in 2009 that will make managing cloud-based applications even easier. Thousands of customers employ the massive compute power of Amazon EC2 to build highly scalable and reliable solutions. AWS will deliver additional features that automate customer usage of Amazon EC2 for more cost-efficient consumption of compute power and provide greater visibility into the operational health of an application running in the AWS cloud. These features include: Load Balancing - Enables customers to balance incoming requests and distribute traffic across multiple Amazon EC2 compute instances. Would you like to know about Online Marketing with Microsoft? If so, contact Hit Search, Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click specialists, on 0845 643 9289. Remember, its a big world out there, make sure you become visible. Amazon Announces Release-Date for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09by Andrew Redfern @ 26th August 2008 10:45 pm Amazon
Online Gamers have been asking for it and Amazon has answered the call. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that it will offer release-date delivery for “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09,” “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed,” “Fable 2″ and “Gears of War 2.” For $5.98, Amazon customers can upgrade their shipping option for guaranteed delivery of these titles on the first day of availability to all addresses within the continental United States. Additionally, Amazon Prime customers will receive release-date delivery for free. “We are excited to delight Amazon customers by offering guaranteed release-date delivery of these new video game titles so that the games can arrive at their doors the first day they’re available,” said Greg Hart, vice president of video games and software at Amazon.com. “This means that thousands of gamers across the country can start playing the games they love on the day they’re released without having to stand in long lines or stay up all night to do it.” “Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09″ will be released on Aug. 26, 2008. “Star Wars: The Force Unleashed” will be released on Sept. 16, 2008. “Fable 2″ will be released on Oct. 21, 2008. “Gears of War 2″ will be released on Nov. 7, 2008. To browse Amazon’s entire selection of video games, visit www.amazon.com/videogames. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as books, movies, music & games, digital downloads, electronics & computers, home & garden, toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes & jewelry, health & beauty, sports & outdoors, and tools, auto & industrial. Other Related Stories That May Be Of Interest:
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