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Amazon has just updated its Kindle application for Android devices. The e-reader that allows users to read books on their phones received a bug fix and a few new features. According to Amazon, the latest update addresses a critical bug where the app would not open on certain devices. Although it’s unclear wh... |
14 February 2012
07:18 GMT |
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Looks like people who want e-books from Penguin will have to buy them online, download them to a computer and then transfer them to their e-reader via USB.
For those that don't remember, Amazon's Kindle Library is just what its name implies: a service for free download of book.
Sure, users have to agree... |
13 February 2012
09:56 GMT |
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Amazon seems to have some serious expansion plans for its Kindle Touch eReader.After just week it quietly started shipping the device internationally, a recent reports now suggests that the online retailer is planning to launch the Kindle Touch in Japan this April.According to a popular Japanese newspaper quoted by e... |
11 February 2012
17:21 GMT |
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Listed by Amazon US since the middle of January, Acer’s Aspire One D270 netbook, based on Intel’s recently announced Atom Cedar Trail platform, just went on sale in both Europe and the US, with pricing starting at 259 EUR (about $343).
Acer’s creation doesn’t differ all that much from all the... |
10 February 2012
03:18 GMT |
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By the middle of this year, Amazon is expected to release a larger, 9-inch version of the original Kindle Fire tablet, as well as a refreshed 7-inch model, according to one analyst's forecast.
The introduction of the two tablets is expected to raise Amazon’s 2012 Kindle Fire sales from 12 million units to... |
10 February 2012
02:46 GMT |
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In the short time since it’s been out, Amazon’s Kindle Fire proved to be extremely popular among the Android hacking community, so it doesn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone to find out that MIUI 4 was ported to the 7-inch tablet.
If you were a fan of the previous iteration of MIUI, based on Andr... |
9 February 2012
19:01 GMT |
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You can't fight the truth, and that is precisely the sort of saying that Amazon's latest commercial runs on, much to Apple's chagrin.
Apple did Samsung a favor by so ferociously going after the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, since the whole thing got turned into positive marketing for the device.
Now,... |
9 February 2012
11:18 GMT |
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Rumors on the mysterious Nokia Lumia 910 have come and gone, but the Finnish company avoided any comments until recently.
When everyone thought that the Lumia 910 is real, Nokia’s Damian Dinning said a few days ago that a Windows Phone device with a 12-megapixel camera, allegedly called Lumia 910, simply didn... |
9 February 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Just a few hours after Nikon made the D800 official, Amazon, B&H and Jessop have all made the full-frame DSLR available for pre-order from their websites.
Amazon has actually listed the D800 not only on its US website, but also on Amazon.de and Amazon.jp, so Nikon fans all over the world seem to be covered.
In the ... |
7 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Four months after the Nikon V1 and J1 interchangeable lens cameras reached retail, Amazon started offering an important number of discounts on the kit versions of these mirrorless snappers, which enable users to buy them for up to $150 (114 EUR) less than before.
A full list of the Nikon 1-Series kits that the US-ba... |
6 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Without letting anyone know about it, Amazon updated the Kindle Touch WiFi product page to make its popular eBook reader available internationally.
A wide selection of shipping destinations are included for the $139.00 (about 105 EUR) eReader, which was introduced by the company in October of last year.
For those o... |
4 February 2012
06:45 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Brandon Watson, the head of the Windows Phone Developer Experience, is leaving the company for Amazon.
He announced the move on Twitter, and Microsoft themselves confirmed that he would no longer work for the company starting with the next week.
At Amazon, he will be the Director of the Kindle C... |
4 February 2012
05:56 GMT |
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The Kindle Fire is already one of the cheapest Android tablets that one can buy, but those looking for an even better deal can now get Amazon’s slate for $20 less by buying a refurbished unit.
While this definitely isn’t that much of a discount, the good news is that Amazon still offers the usual 1-year ... |
4 February 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Fujifilm might not have officially released the X-Pro1 yet, but this hasn’t stopped Amazon from listing the retro-looking ILC camera on its Website.Scheduled to arrive later this month, the X-Pro1 will apparently set you back a whopping $1,699.95 (about 1,290 EUR) for the body only, with the 18mm f/2.0 and 35mm... |
2 February 2012
17:31 GMT |
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Amazon and J&R have both recently started taking pre-orders for Samsung’s Series 5 Ultrabooks that was announced by the Korean company at the end of last year.
Two models are listed right now, one featuring a 14-inch screen and an optical drive for $949.99 (728 EUR) while the other sports a more compact 13.3-i... |
27 January 2012
06:11 GMT |
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The official Hotmail application for Amazon’s Kindle Fire is now available for download via retailer’s web store, offering fast and easy access to Microsoft’s service.
Microsoft has been focused on making Hotmail work great not only on Windows devices, but also on those that run under other platf... |
25 January 2012
04:15 GMT |
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It’s been a while since we’ve last seen a new Facebook scam, but that doesn’t mean that they disappeared. We’ve come across another phony Amazon gift card offer the urges users to click on a shortened link to win "one free Amazon.com gift card."
Unlike other scams, this one doesn’t only... |
23 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet continues to be the retailer's best-selling product, but the post-holiday slow season doesn't seem to have spared it.
Since the Kindle Fire is one of the hottest products on the tablet market right now, market watchers are paying more attention to it than they do most ever... |
23 January 2012
04:10 GMT |
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Android 4.0 has been running on the Kindle Fire for quite a while now, but so far those users having the ICS port installed on the 7-inch tablet had to give up on one particularly important feature: audio.Fortunately for them, a new build of CyanogenMod 9 for the Kindle Fire was released a short while ago bringing wi... |
20 January 2012
18:41 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States just published a new paper in the top journal Science, describing how changes in sea temperatures can be used as a clear indicator for forecasting wildfires that will hit South America.
The team, led by experts from the University of California in Irvine (UCI) Dep... |
18 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Keeping with its strategy making small improvements to the Kindle Fire on a regular basis, Amazon has just released a new firmware update.Known as the 6.2.2 version by Amazon, the new update adds a button that lets you enable full screen Web surfing in the Silk browser, but this is pretty much all that you get accord... |
18 January 2012
06:53 GMT |
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Amazon, the biggest retailer in the digital space, has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the first person shooter from developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision Blizzard, has taken the number one position in a physical video games sales chart compiled by the company.Deus Ex: Human Revolution, from... |
17 January 2012
10:25 GMT |
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Zappos.com, an online shoe and clothing retailer acquired by Amazon in 2009 for $807 million (564 million EUR), suffered a data breach that may have exposed some sensitive information belonging to their 24 million customers.
Names, email addresses, mailing addresses and the last four digits from their clients’... |
16 January 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Nokia Lumia 900, the next flagship Windows Phone device from the Finnish mobile phone maker, is expected to go official as soon as this week, during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and to be launched in the United States on the airwaves of AT&T.
Nothing was officially confirmed on this, but accessories ... |
9 January 2012
03:34 GMT |
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You would think that a DSLR that retails for $6,000 (about 4,694 EUR) would be a tough buy for many, but this doesn’t seem to be the case with the Nikon D4 as Amazon has reached its pre-order quaota in less than an hour after listing it in its store.We don’t know how many D4’s were available when Am... |
6 January 2012
14:51 GMT |
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The latest product from BitTorrent is called Share and its purpose is easy to infer from the name itself. There are tens of sharing apps to choose from, so what’s so special about this one and how can it be among the top preferences of the users? Unlike the myriad of services out there, Share doesn’t imp... |
6 January 2012
08:04 GMT |
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Check Point Software Technologies reveal that their security gateways are now available to customers through Amazon Web Services. Firewall, intrusion prevention, application control, URL filtering, and other security systems are made available for companies to extend their security to the cloud. “Infrastructur... |
5 January 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Sony has denied canceling the 3G version of its PlayStation Vita, after Amazon marked the product as being “discontinued by manufacturer,” saying that it’s just an issue with the retailer.
While the PlayStation Vita is set to launch at the end of next month, both in North America and Europe, the de... |
5 January 2012
08:09 GMT |
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Asus’s Transformer Prime is one particularly hard to track down tablet, but Amazon seems to have a few of these slates on its website for sale.Just 20 units are available at this time in two different listings, one at $618.99 and one at $669.99 (478 and 540 EUR), both however featuring 32GB of storage space and... |
30 December 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Did you order a Sprint HTC Evo Android cell phone, or any other similar gadget from Amazon.com? If not, then you’re being targeted by the latest malware-spreading campaign that comes as an email allegedly sent by Amazon to confirm that the device is already paid for with your credit card. “We thought you... |
30 December 2011
04:47 GMT |
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Amazon's world domination plans are going well. Very well, in fact, the company boasts, it has sold a record number of Kindles this month, surprising no one, but the company is still not putting an actual number on sales, surprising no one.When it comes to digital content, Amazon's strategy is simple and it... |
29 December 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Customer satisfaction is fickle thing, one year you've got it the other you don't. But rising prices, making life harder for your customers and generally acting confused are guaranteed to get their attention and not in a good way.Netflix learned that the hard way, as a new consumer satisfaction report shows... |
29 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Amazon surely likes to brag with the success of its Kindle Fire 7-inhc tablet and earlier today it sent out yet another press release saying that its Kindle family has sold in millions of units during this Holiday season. As expected the most popular Kindle of the bunch was the Fire, as this has been the best sellin... |
29 December 2011
09:48 GMT |
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Although Nokia has yet to officially introduce the Nokia Lumia 800 in the United States, several retailers are already selling the device. Unfortunately, the smartphone was a bit overpriced at launch but thankfully, it has undergone multiple price cuts. Specifically, major retailer Amazon has just slashed Nokia ... |
28 December 2011
11:13 GMT |
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Miro 4.0.4, a multimedia platform that can be utilized to view, convert, transfer and even download videos, has been announced. Developed by Participatory Culture Foundation, Miro 4.0.4 only brings one update, and that is support for Kindle Fire, the new budget tablet from Amazon.The success of Amazon Kindle Fire mad... |
28 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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Amazon has a post-Christmas promotion going on for the Roku 2 XD that makes the streaming player just $62 US (about 47.4 EUR).This is quite a significant price drop for this $80 player that can stream Full HD 1080p video from services such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon.As Wireless Goodness reports, the palm sized devic... |
27 December 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Today, wireless services provider MetroPCS announced the availability of select handsets via Amazon.com.
Users in the United States interested in the purchase of a device with support for the wireless carrier’s network can now head over to Amazon’s website for that. The online retailer has a series of ph... |
27 December 2011
09:59 GMT |
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Amazon can safely say that it has one of the largest and most versatile cloud networks in the world, especially given its ownership of a supercomputer.
The queer thing about Amazon's so-called supercomputer is that it is not really a supercomputer.
In fact, whether or not it exists depends on what Amazon deci... |
27 December 2011
07:27 GMT |
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We're happy to announce the launch of a new firmware version for Amazon's latest gadget, the Kindle Fire. Users can upgrade to firmware 6.2.1 using a WiFi connection or a computer.
For those appeased more by the computer update, we have the 6.2.1 software update package. All they have to do is make sure t... |
22 December 2011
09:51 GMT |
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Well, this was reasonably fast. Looks like the unfortunate tendency of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet to bar users from the Android Market website has expired.
Or at least it will expire once the new update, 6.2.1, is installed.
We mentioned about a day and a half ago that, because of a hidden utility file called ... |
22 December 2011
04:00 GMT |
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The Asus Transformer Prime availability saga just got another chapter as it now seems that some users who have pre-ordered the tablet from Amazon won’t get it until the end of January 2012.Amazon’s estimate places the delivery of the tablet between January 25th and February 8th, 2012 according to an e-mai... |
21 December 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Amazon has now announced a special promotion for those users who still have some last minute Christmas shopping to attend to, and is now offering free 2-day shipping for their Kindle eReaders and the Kindle Fire tablet.The offer is available for those customers who place their order by 8 pm PT on December 21, and the... |
21 December 2011
08:24 GMT |
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While the changes introduced in the recent 6.2.1 software update for the Kindle Fire brought good news to many, there were still those who were disappointed by the fact that the firmware will break root on their system.Fortunately, a user on the XDA Developer forum came up with a solution for the latter category as i... |
21 December 2011
04:55 GMT |
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Earlier today Amazon started sending the 6.2.1 software update over the-air to Kindle Fire’s everywhere, but this isn’t all good news as some users have reported that this latest firmware version breaks root on their device.But this is just the tip of the iceberg for those of you with superuser access on ... |
20 December 2011
09:56 GMT |
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After a long wait, US retailers have finally started to ship the Transformer Prime to customers who have pre-ordered the tablet in the last month or so, but it now looks like the rest of us are pretty much out of luck as Asus announced that availability isn’t expected to reach normal levels until January of 201... |
20 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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It appears that Amazon was particularly serious about the Kindle Fire being just a means to facilitate sales of its web content, as it has taken to forcing somewhat annoying redirects.
Amazon could be said to be restricting the amount of apps that owners of its Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet have access to.
Being a devi... |
20 December 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Amazon kept up to its promise and it recently unveiled the 6.2.1 software update for the Kindle Fire which is supposed to fix some of the issues reported by users and improve the tablet’s performance.After the update is done, users should be able to remove books, apps or other content from the carousel of recen... |
20 December 2011
03:16 GMT |
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Amazon has now started shipping the keenly awaited Asus Transformer Prime to its customers who are expected to receive the 10.1-inch tablet in the first part of this week.As Phandroid reports, the orders that have started shipping are for those clients who have pre-ordered the Prime on Amazon’s website in the p... |
19 December 2011
08:47 GMT |
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Starting today, Asus customers in the US who pre-ordered the Transformer Prime from one of the retailers that had the tablet listed were expected to receive their orders, but it now seems like at least some of these stores have postponed their shipments, including Amazon and Best Buy.According to engadget, who has re... |
19 December 2011
03:09 GMT |
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