[TimeOnline UK] - According to a TimeOnline's article, Amazon's employees will be fired if they take more than five days off sick even if they have legitimate doctor's note. In addition, they are forced to work a 10.5 hour overnight shift at the end of a five-day week that means they have to work every day of the week. Here some other regulations applied to the staff, said the article: - Set quotas for the number of items to be picked or ...

The download site of the infamous Firefox add-on "Pirates of Amazon" which offers users a download link to pirated copies of products from The Pirate Bay when you visit Amazon online store is offline now illustrated with a sinking ship. After installed, the add-on will add "Down 4 Free" button into the Amazon product page when the same title is also available at The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay, however, has no relation with the add-on owners. "We are not affiliated ...

Today Amazon launched the beta version of its content delivery network service called CloudFront that aims at taking the company into the same club as Akamai and Limelight. In contrast to other CDNs, CloudFront is described as "a self-service, pay-as-you-go web service for content delivery." Amazon will charge a usage-based fee, rather than a long-term contract that hopes to bring CDN to smaller web publishers who don't have the scale to negotiate lower prices. "(CloudFront) provides low latency, inexpensive content delivery and ...