e dot dot dot 01 2010

Amazon Earnings Soar in Q4

The e-commerce giant tops estimates and says fourth-quarter sales were up 42 percent over a year ago.

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Small Businesses Embrace Web Payment Plays

American Express Open's Accept Pay and BillShrink.com's BillShrink for Business are a pair of new online tools that small businesses can use to streamline their accounting processes and improve their bottom lines.

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Apps Coming to Amazon Kindle

By taking a page from Apple's iPhone, App Store, and possibly, the widely expected Apple tablet, Amazon's move aims to broaden Kindle's capabilities for e-book publishers.

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Highlight Link Script

This script highlights the link by blinking the link when you roll over the mouse, just like the tag does to the text in Netscape. But, this one has an advantage: the blinking speed is customizable!

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eBay Blows Past Earnings Estimates

The ever-evolving e-commerce site credits PayPal revenue for its impressive fourth-quarter results.

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eBay Software Pirate Gets Jail Time

A federal judge sends one crook up the river, but it's a drop in the bucket when it comes to the massive amount of piracy claimed by the software industry.

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Cursor Link

Forget actually clicking on links anymore, if you put your cursor over them, you go there! (with this JavaScript at least) If you use this script, please remember that it can be annoying, even a pain for them to have to come back if they really didn't want to follow the link. With that said, go check out the code!

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Some Microsoft Volume Buyers Still Locked Out

Still apologizing, Microsoft scrambles to fix access problems to its volume licensing site.

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Big Brands Gravitate Toward Twitter

Major companies are taking to the microblogging service in record numbers for marketing, branding, customer support -- you name it. And at CES, a panel of experts explored their achievements.

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Online Holiday Spending Rebounds, Up 4%

Online retailers end the year on a positive note, posting a modest uptick amid a still-sluggish economy.

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Day of Week Redirection

If you would like to redirect your visitor to a different page for each day of the week, this script would be perfect. It will first detect what day of the week it is and then forward the visitor to the appropriate page. I also might mention that this is a perfect JavaScript example to learn from even if you don't use it. Just look at it!

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