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We've already reported that Google is interested in getting into the in game advertising business, with Google AdSense for Games being launched in public beta, with the intention of targeting Flash, downloadable and casual games. Now, YouTube, which is owned by Google, also reveals that, in order to create new w... |
9 October 2008
08:39 GMT |
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As you might know from one of our previous articles on the subject of Amazon's Kindle portable eBook reader, rumor has it that the company is preparing the launch of a successor to this device, designed to mend everything that was wrong about the first one and add a few extras on the side. And while Amazon itsel... |
6 October 2008
02:26 GMT |
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Despite being best-known as one of the biggest players on the e-commerce market, Amazon.com has also attempted a (rather successful) foray into the portable electronic device market, launching back in the first half of 2007 the Kindle, an e-book reader like no other before it. And that's because this rather unat... |
26 August 2008
08:16 GMT |
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Amazon.com has just launched two new pay services for firms. Checkout, the first of the two, offers different features, such as the 1-click experience. Whenever people are searching for something to buy on an Amazon.com partner website, they are given the possibility of placing the order without leaving the page. The... |
30 July 2008
04:17 GMT |
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For a while now, the general opinion has been that ASUS is the worldwide leading vendor of netbooks because of its vast Eee PC lineup. But nothing can prove that better than the Bestsellers in Computers and PC hardware list on Amazon.com. According to this chart, five out of the many Eee PC models available are among... |
28 July 2008
07:03 GMT |
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Many people feel the impulse to buy a product when they see it being advertised during commercial breaks in their favorite TV show or in the show itself. Until now, there were two solutions in such a case. The first meant running to the computer and ordering the product in the middle of the broadcast, while the secon... |
23 July 2008
05:25 GMT |
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The tropical Atlantic Ocean could become a net carbon dioxide sink, say the results of a study which found that seasonal blooms of ocean plankton fertilized by the waters of the Amazon river absorb more carbon dioxide than previously estimated. The waters extending from the mouth of the Amazon into the Atlantic ocean... |
22 July 2008
04:08 GMT |
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Out of the 3.7 billion searches conducted in Germany in May 2008, an average of 80.5% was performed with Google sites. Google's supremacy puts to shame the rest of the top ten sites. eBay is second, with 6.2% of the market share, followed by a German property, ProSiebenSat1, whose sites account for 2.4% of the p... |
9 July 2008
08:11 GMT |
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Last week a team of anthropologists and uncontacted tribe experts revealed a series of images showing what is considered to be one of the one hundred or so uncontacted tribes currently living around the world. The pictures were taken during a flight over the tropical jungle located near the border between Brazil and ... |
3 June 2008
05:20 GMT |
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According to Reuters, Amazon.com, the largest Internet retailer, is expected to launch a streaming video service in the weeks to come. The company plans to use the new product in order to augment its digital offerings.Nevertheless, while speaking at The Wall Street Journal three-day conference, which was held north o... |
29 May 2008
10:22 GMT |
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Google has just rolled out what seems to be the most powerful web service for Amazon: App Engine. It is addressed to developers around the world and allows them to "run their applications on Google's infrastructure," as the provider explained in a press release published today. "In the same way that Blogger made... |
8 April 2008
02:17 GMT |
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If you were looking forward to getting yourself an iPod touch, you might want to consider taking your business to Amazon, as the giant online retailer is now offering two iPods for the price of one. Buy a 32GB iPod touch ($494) and get a 1GB iPod shuffle ($49) for free."You qualify for a free 1 GB iPod shuffle with t... |
26 February 2008
03:08 GMT |
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The digital music store that Amazon is building added another category and provider to its offerings, late last week. And an expensive one at that, with 300 million dollars being paid for Audible Inc. The company adds to bigger names from the music industry that have partnered with Amazon MP3, such as Warner Music Gr... |
5 February 2008
04:33 GMT |
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Put this one in the category of games that we've never thought we'd see on some consoles... We were surprised to hear that Gears of War had received a PC port and we were surprised to hear that we'll probably see Far Cry on the Wii. However, this here piece of info announcing a PSP Oblivion manages to... |
21 January 2008
04:35 GMT |
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By this point you must have heard about Amazon.com and in case you haven't I just hinted you where it's at. Pepsi, one of the leading brands in the world when it comes to cola, is no stranger either. Now they've teamed up and by their powers combined… no, there's no Captain Planet racing across t... |
15 January 2008
05:47 GMT |
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One can easily consider this a very good, if not the best, financial year for Apple. After the launch of the iPhone, Apple has only seen the good side of life on the financial market. Its products have been waited for mainly due to the innovative multi-touch interface introduced by Steve Jobs in January. At that mome... |
28 December 2007
07:47 GMT |
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The download part of the music industry is pretty much divided, but somewhat monopolistic. I know that sounds weird, but it's pretty much comparable to the situation Yahoo! and Google have going on between them, when it comes to covering the Internet services that each provides.The top dog is, of course, Apple&#... |
28 December 2007
06:28 GMT |
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If you were thinking of getting one of the fancy Amazon's wireless reading devices, you'd better think again. Apparently, Philippe Starck's remarks (" Kindle is almost modern", "its interface just wasn't well done") haven't affected its popularity that much. Amazon announced Kindle as being t... |
27 December 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Amazon's e-book reader gadget has often been sized up against Apple's portable media players, a rather futile comparison considering the very different purposes of the devices. However, it looks like this has given Apple an impulse, to add new book reading functionality."The Hindustan Times" reports that A... |
10 December 2007
09:31 GMT |
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Several Amazon buyers who connected to the service to buy books could be invited to the police station for investigations after the federal prosecutors demanded private details about their activity on the Amazon website. However, the prosecutors decided today to cancel the request after a judge considered that it may... |
28 November 2007
04:19 GMT |
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Parents sometimes find it hard to get into the minds of their offspring and offer them what they want for Christmas, or for their birthday. Even though they know kids (and especially boys) love video games, they still have trouble in choosing what's right for them. That's why WhatTheyPlay.com has issued thi... |
27 November 2007
06:07 GMT |
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It seems we are not going to see any e-book readers fight too soon, as Sony and Amazon share something in common. Remember Taiwan-based Prime View International, also known as the PVI? Apparently, the same company is supplying the electronic-paper (e-paper) display Amazon used in the Kindle manufacturing process.The ... |
21 November 2007
09:56 GMT |
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The eBook format made its entry in the computer world a while ago, although the result was less than expected. It's somewhat difficult to replace the paper feeling while reading a digital book but all it takes is some good technology to switch to. The revolutionary portable reader from Amazon, Kindle, has just b... |
20 November 2007
03:09 GMT |
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We all know that the online shopping industry grew up a lot and it is going to become even more popular very soon, the analysts think. Market researcher JupiterResearch said that it expects to see a huge number of US online shoppers in the upcoming holiday season which might spend no less than $39 billion on the thin... |
23 October 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Microsoft hasn't even managed to roll out the official specs list for the newly announced Xbox 360 Arcade and a well known website has already unboxed the machine, thanks to tipster Emanuel. The respective console still needs to be dated for launch but engadget.com claims you'll be able to pick one up for $... |
15 October 2007
07:07 GMT |
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Amazon.com officially released Amazon MP3, a new web-based service which sells music content to the Internet users for prices starting at 89 cents. According to the parent company, the digital store currently has no less than 2 million songs created by approximately 180,000 artists so the collection might also includ... |
25 September 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The famous website Amazon rolled out Amazon Widgets, a simple way to customize your blog or page with tiny utilities which provide valuable information related to this service. For example, you can create a product cloud or a wish list related to Amazon and publish it straight on your blog. Obviously, for free. As fa... |
18 September 2007
05:26 GMT |
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HTC Advantage has just hit the market and also received pricing. As expected, the device is quite expensive, although Amazon is currently offering it at a lower cost, as part of a special offer.This HTC smartphone is more of a laptop than a handset, if considering its sizes and performances. Still, it runs on Windows... |
8 August 2007
06:14 GMT |
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The iPhone has been spotted on the website of a German supermarket, Media Markt. The electronics retailer has advertised Apple's phone as a sure thing to come towards the end of the year in their shops.The title for the iPhone announcement states that "Touching is Believing", which shows that the retail store ha... |
24 July 2007
05:18 GMT |
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It's hard to believe that Amazon, the famous website that allows you to buy all sorts of things, would turn to spamming in order to advertise some of the products and increase its number of clients. But when the company sends emails to the registered members even if they didn't subscribe to the newsletter, ... |
12 July 2007
06:35 GMT |
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So, it was the price that was holding it back after all. Of course, many blame the lack of titles as well (myself included) but when Sony cracks that nut, I reckon the PS3 will make record sales. I mean, Punch Jump posts the following: "Sales for Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 increased 700 percent at Amazon.com fol... |
10 July 2007
06:33 GMT |
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I think it safe to say that not many gamers have heard of Echelon Software. Nevertheless, they are announcing Black Powder Red Earth, a multiplayer-only first-person shooter, combining fairly good visuals with fast-paced tactical action and sporting a persistent virtual marketplace and social network. They say it... |
27 June 2007
17:31 GMT |
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There is a debate that has been going on for quite some time now: which is the world's longest river: the Amazon or the Nile? In the 20th century, consensus "granted" the title to the Nile. But now, Brazilian researchers claim the Amazon River, not the Nile, is the longest in the world. The Amazon is by far the ... |
19 June 2007
05:31 GMT |
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With powerful racers such as Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition, the Project Gotham Racing series, Forza 2 Motorsport and NFS Carbon, Xbox 360 gamers are sure to get bored of the 360's classic controller, even if it is wireless. Thus, for racing fans, the Xbox 360 Wireless Steering Wheel is the best controller they co... |
28 May 2007
02:49 GMT |
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Amazon prepares a major hit for the DRM companies because the firm plans to launch a DRM-free music shop to sell unprotected MP3s. It seems like Amazon wants to release the store in the upcoming months and will allow the download of millions of songs without any limitation. According to Engadget, Amazon will sell mu... |
16 May 2007
10:58 GMT |
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OK, let's see how the PS3 doing today. First of all, you should know that figures available in this article are coming from PriceGrabbers, a UK established shopping comparison site that keeps in touch with only leading retailers such as Amazon, Comet and Play. I'm sure you already know that Sony's PS3... |
24 April 2007
09:40 GMT |
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Given that Amazon sells tons of books over the Internet and they've already started selling their own "materials", it's no surprise they had a brainstorm and decided to follow the market's torturous path. The company is now revealing the e-book concept. Details about the "Kindle" reader have been made... |
24 April 2007
04:29 GMT |
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To further prove how much buzz the iPhone has created, and that several companies are clearly taking advantage of its popularity in order to make some money, an iPhone for Dummies book has now shown up on Amazon, long before the iPhone will even come out. The iPhone for Dummies fills users in on everything they'... |
5 April 2007
07:00 GMT |
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A short piece of news at the end of this hour, directly related to music and especially dedicated to all classical music lovers. Amazon proudly announces the launch of its latest online store, the Classical Music Blowout Store offering more than 2,000 titles comprising almost the entire area classical music could mea... |
14 March 2007
08:30 GMT |
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TiVo announced yesterday that the new Unbox on TiVo service had become available, after being announced only a month prior the launch. The service enables customers to watch Amazon movies directly on their Series 2 or Series 3 TiVo. Like Apple TV, this will bring downloaded content to the living-room.This service is ... |
8 March 2007
06:19 GMT |
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