Category Archives: Amazon

Steve Jobs clears up rumors about iCloud

By doris | Published: June 6, 2011

Full Story at Gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com Today, Apple finally unveiled its Internet-based media service, iCloud, at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, where Steve Jobs opened up Apple’s biggest event of the year with a foreshadowing of news on several fronts, but no new iPhone.

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- Amazon’s working on an Android tablet?

By doris | Published: May 14, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com We’ve heard reports that Amazon is hiring Android developers and suspected that an Android Kindle or a multi-purpose Android tablet was in the works. Now, thanks to a casual remark by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, we’re even more convinced that the speculation was correct. In an interview with Consumer Reports, Bezos [...]

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Amazon announces e-book loans for the Kindle

By doris | Published: April 21, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — Want to check out e-books from the library and read them on your Kindle? That will be possible later this year as Amazon announced Wednesday that it would join a library loan program for electronic books. More than 11,000 libraries in the United States participate in this electronic-book-loaning program, managed [...]

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Amazon Cloud Player lets you play your music from anywhere

By doris | Published: March 30, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Mashable) — Amazon has just entered the streaming music business with the launch of Cloud Player, a music player that lets anyone upload their music to Amazon’s servers and play them via the web or Android. The new Cloud Player service adds a new “Save to Amazon Cloud Drive” button for [...]

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Apple sues Amazon over ‘app store’ name

By doris | Published: March 24, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (Fast Company) — Amazon just revealed its own specially curated version of the Android Marketplace, but has chosen to label it the “Appstore.” Apple, in turn, has now sued Android for trademark violation. The move is a not-so-subtle shot across Amazon’s bows. The suit was filed last week, but has emerged [...]

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Amazon Is Selling More Kindle Books Than Paperbacks

By doris | Published: January 27, 2011

Full Story at businessinsider.com Amazon included a few tidbits about its Kindle business in its Q4 earnings report (a revenue miss). Notably, the world’s biggest bookstore is now selling more Kindle e-books than paperbacks. And Amazon says it sold “millions” of its latest Kindle devices. (Without specifying, as usual. Though one analyst estimates Amazon sold [...]

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The 10 most significant gadgets of 2010

By doris | Published: January 1, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (WIRED) — When this year began, we were feverishly speculating about an Apple tablet, looking forward to 3-D TV sets, and optimistically waiting for the end of the cable companies’ cruel grip on our wallets. We had to settle for one out of three. While manufacturers did release a handful of [...]

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Amazon says Kindle holding its own against tablets

By doris | Published: December 27, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com Amazon.com said sales of its Kindle e-reader were strong over the holiday season amid competition from devices such as Apple’s iPad, a computer tablet that also has e-reader capabilities. Amazon, which has a policy of not divulging exact sales figures for the Kindle and digital books, said the most recent version [...]

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Amazon sells Droid phones for a penny

By doris | Published: November 20, 2010

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Amazon is currently selling all Droid phones for a penny when customers sign up for a new Verizon Wireless contract. The deal is good for all of Verizon’s (VZW) U.S. Droid phones, including the Droid X and new Droid Pro, through November 22. Customers starting new accounts [...]

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Amazon.com to hire thousands to fill orders

By doris | Published: November 14, 2010

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com NEW YORK – Amazon.com Inc. said Friday it is hiring more than 15,500 people to fill temporary holiday jobs at shipping centers around the country, more than it hired last year. The online retail giant said in news releases that it will hire more than 5,000 people in Phoenix and Goodyear, [...]

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Color E Ink comes to electronic readers

By doris | Published: November 9, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — E Ink screens, which are designed to be easy on the eyes, are used widely in electronic book readers like the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader. But they never featured color displays until now. A Chinese e-reader maker, Hanvon, will debut the world’s first color E Ink reader at [...]

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Amazon Offers a New Way to Shop — on an iPad

By doris | Published: October 27, 2010

Full Story at bits.blogs.nytimes.com Amazon on Tuesday released a new application for Apple’s iPad that it says offers “a complete rewrite” of Amazon.com designed specifically, and exclusively, to work on the iPad. The app, Windowshop, is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store. It makes it simple to browse Amazon’s millions of [...]

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