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Will Amazon's Dash Button Make Us Worse Shoppers?
2015-04-07 04:19:15| IT Services - Topix.net
Amazon.com, Inc. announced, on the day before April Fool's Day, that it would provide free "Dash Buttons" to Amazon Prime members , allowing users to automatically reorder items at the push of a button that's mounted on the product itself in the member's home. The Amazon Dash Button is available for select household goods - think laundry detergent, paper towels, coffee canisters, etc.
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Drought Weakens the Amazons Ability to Capture Carbon
2015-03-09 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: During drought, trees across the Amazon continue to stretch their limbs. But they shirk one of their more important, planet-saving tasks: inhaling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In the drought of 2010, the ability of the Amazon's trees, shrubs, bushes and vines to absorb carbon was greatly diminished, according to new research that used on-the-ground measurements for the first time. That data reveals a slightly higher estimate than recent computer and satellite studies and paints a worrisome...
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Cold, snowy weather leads to more online shopping -- and more jobs at Amazon's distribution centers
2015-03-04 12:19:11| IT Services - Topix.net
This season's frigid weather has kept more shoppers inside, and that's good news for Amazon as well as local residents who are seeking employment. Integrity Staffing is hiring 2,000 temporary workers for Amazon's distribution centers in the Louisville area to keep up with the online retailer's demand, WDRB-TV reports.
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The myth about how Amazon's Web service started just won't die
2015-03-02 19:33:14| IT Services - Topix.net
There's a rumor that goes around cloud circles about how Amazon.com created what is now the multi-billion dollar infrastructure as a service cloud computing industry in the early 2000s. Some people wrongly assume that Amazon had spare, excess computing capacity from their ecommerce site that was used as the basis for Amazon Web Services' cloud.
Quirky Winds Fuel Brazil's Devastating Drought, Amazon's Flooding
2015-02-26 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: In So Paulo, Brazil, which is suffering its worst drought in almost a century, Maria de Fátima dos Santos has lived for days at a time with no water, relying on what she had carefully hoarded in bottles. But in the Bolivian Amazon, about 1,800 miles (2,897 kilometers) away, Nicolás Cartagena recalls the day almost a year ago when floodwaters rose to the thatched rooftops of Indian communities, destroying crops and washing away homes. The drought in South America's biggest city and the flooding...
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