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More than 500 high-definition TV shows and movies will be available on demand from Amazon, the Seattle-based company announced Tuesday. Titles from Warner Bros. Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, and Showtime Networks include recent releases such as Frost/Nixon, Twilight, Yes Man, Californication, The Tudors, Smallville and Gossip Girl.

Blu-Ray 'Quaking in Its Boots'?

The first reaction many people have to Twitter is befuddlement. Why would they want to read short messages about what someone ate for breakfast?

It's a reasonable question. Twitter unleashes the diarist in its 14 million users, who visited its site 99 million times last month to read posts tapped out with cell phones and computers.

Individually, many of those 140-character "tweets" seem inane.

An independent panel of scientists has just confirmed the latest report from a court-appointed expert on damages done to Ecuador's Amazon by Chevron. The company dumped the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste over an area of the Amazon rain forest "roughly the size of Rhode Island." Damages include contaminated groundwater and cancers caused to the people of Ecuador due to exposure hydrocarbons.

An independent panel of scientists has just confirmed the latest report from a court-appointed expert on damages done to Ecuador's Amazon by Chevron. The company dumped the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste over an area of the Amazon rain forest "roughly the size of Rhode Island." Damages include contaminated groundwater and cancers caused to the people of Ecuador due to exposure hydrocarbons.

An independent panel of scientists has just confirmed the latest report from a court-appointed expert on damages done to Ecuador's Amazon by Chevron. The company dumped the 18 billion gallons of toxic waste over an area of the Amazon rain forest "roughly the size of Rhode Island." Damages include contaminated groundwater and cancers caused to the people of Ecuador due to exposure hydrocarbons.

What do you get when you cross the leading e-commerce destination with the most popular smartphone on the market? Amazon.com is betting on one thing: Revenue.

Amazon on Monday announced that its Amazon application for the iPhone and iPod touch is now available on Apple's App Store, just in time for the holiday shopping season.

The Vendyak

Justin E. H. Smith

The Vendyak

Justin E. H. Smith

The Vendyak

Justin E. H. Smith

The Amazônia-1 is keeping an eye on deforestation in the Brazilian forests and urban expansion around the world. Brazil announced it will launch the satellite in 2011 and will use a high-resolution camera to capture potentially illegal activity in forests, particularly in the Amazon and Congo rainforests.