Newsletter Archives
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Amazon’s new ‘same-day nodes’ will displace postal deliveries
Posted on February 22nd, 2021 at 01:06 Comment on the AskWoody LoungePUBLIC DEFENDER
Amazon’s new ‘same-day nodes’ will displace postal deliveriesBy Brian Livingston
The market dominance of Amazon in online retail is well known. But what’s less understood is the effect the corporate giant’s expansion into superfast delivery services will have on the US Postal Service and private parcel companies.
Marc Wulfraat has extensively studied Amazon’s plans in the United States and 22 other countries in his role as president of MWPVL International, a logistics consulting service based in Montréal, Québec.
In the past year, Amazon has built eight new “same-day fulfillment centers” in the US.
Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.7.0 (2021-02-22).
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Mehedi Hassan: Amazon shipped more than a billion products this holiday season
Posted on December 26th, 2018 at 11:18 Comment on the AskWoody Lounge… and I think half of them went to my front porch.
A real eye-opener from Mehedi Hassan on Thurrott.com.
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The scale of tech winners
Posted on October 14th, 2017 at 16:01 Comment on the AskWoody LoungeFascinating piece from Ben Evans:
Microsoft was working on smartphones and mobile devices 20 years ago, and now it’s killed Windows Mobile, acknowledged that the PC is going the way of the mainframe and, like IBM, has to make its way in a market shaped by other companies. There probably won’t be a technology that has 10x greater scale than smartphones, as mobile was 10x bigger than PCs and PCs were bigger than mainframes, simply because 5bn people will have smartphones and that’s all the (adult) people.
Check it out.
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Amazon Echo Show – gonna be hard to beat
Posted on May 10th, 2017 at 08:02 Comment on the AskWoody LoungeNo doubt you’ve been reading about the Amazon Echo Show – Alexa with a screen — that’ll ship on June 28.
https://www.recode.net/2017/5/9/15594724/amazon-echo-show-connected-speaker-touchscreen-smart-home
I’ve ordered two. Even if I only use them as intercoms, they’re worth $230 each.
I look at Microsoft’s efforts in the same niche and, frankly, I’m embarrassed. Microsoft is so far behind the mark, and the products they’re just now announcing (but not releasing!) seem antiquated right out of the starting gate.
(By the way, y’all know that Charlie Kindel, the “director of Alexa Smart Home” and driving force behind Alexa, was once the GM for Windows Home Server, yes? Brilliant.)
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Amazon S3 cloud storage is down on the east coast
Posted on February 28th, 2017 at 12:49 Comment on the AskWoody Lounge“Amazon Web Services is scrambling to recover from a cockup at its facility in Virginia, US, that is causing its S3 cloud storage to fail.
The internet giant did not provide details on the cause of the breakdown that is plaguing storage buckets hosted in the US-East-1 region. The malady has led to major sites, including Imgur and Medium, falling offline, missing images or running like treacle. Just to stress: this is one S3 region that has become inaccessible, yet web apps are tripping up and vanishing as their backend evaporates away.”
I haven’t seen any problems with AskWoody yet, but my fingers are crossed, wood duly knocked.