Tag Archive | "kindle"
Apple blew away sales records on Black Friday
Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year and Apple was an active participant with attractive deals across its entire product line, save for the iPhone of course. And so the start of the busiest holiday shopping period began with a bang for Apple who, according to Seth Weintraub of 9to5Mac, recorded its [...]
Continue reading...Amazon introduces $199 Kindle Fire
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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Bloomberg broke the news this morning regarding Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire Tablet. With a surprisingly low pricepoint of just $199, the Kindle Fire may prove to be the first real competitor to the iPad we’ve seen in the marketplace. Sporting a 7-inch display and running Android underneath the hood, Amazon is hoping to leverage their [...]
Continue reading...Amazon prepping $250 7-inch Kindle tablet with color, multitouch support, and a whole lot more
Saturday, September 3, 2011
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Amazon has been rumored to be working on a tablet version of the Kindle for some time now and we can now say with certainty that it’s 100% real and is coming sooner rather than later. While initial reports claimed Amazon was working on a family of Android-based tablets in time for a 2011 holiday [...]
Continue reading...Amazon expected to sell 8 million Kindles this year
Thursday, December 23, 2010
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Bloomberg reports that Amazon may very well sell as many as 8 million Kindles this year, an exceptional figures that easily dwarfs analyst estimates by upwards of 60%. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg estimated, on average, that the company would sell 5 million Kindles in 2010. Last year, Amazon sold about 2.4 million Kindles, said one [...]
Continue reading...New Kindle Ad takes shot at the iPad [Video]
Monday, September 13, 2010
Check out this great ad from Amazon touting the Kindle over the iPad and its ever so annoying reflective screen. The lady in the bikini ain’t half bad either. Job well done, Amazon.. and central casting.
Continue reading...Amazon planning to release thinner Kindle this Summer; multitouch and color not on the agenda
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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Citing sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that Amazon is eyeing August as a launch window for the next iteration of its Kindle e-book reader. The device will be thinner and have a more responsive screen with a sharper picture, the people said, who didn’t want to be identified because the plans aren’t public. [...]
Continue reading...Amazon prepares refreshed Kindle app for upcoming iPad
Monday, March 22, 2010
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Amazon may be looking to compete with the iPad by making serious improvements to its Kindle device, but it’s smart enough to know that it better get on the iPad bandwagon before getting left behind. That being said, Amazon today unveiled a new preview page on its website highlighting their forthcoming Kindle app for the [...]
Continue reading...Amazon looking to upgrade the Kindle’s web browser
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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A new job listing for Lab126, Amazon’s Kindle division, suggests that Amazon is looking to implement some serious changes to the browsing experience on the Kindle.
Continue reading...As Steve Jobs stood on stage unveiling the iPad, Amazon was frantically calling publishers
Saturday, February 27, 2010
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As Steve Jobs still stood on stage unveiling the iPad on January 27th, Amazon executives frantically began calling a slew of publishers looking to glean as much information as possible about the type of content deals they struck with Apple. According to a recent report in the New York Times, Amazon recently began trying to [...]
Continue reading...Amazon buys multitouch company, looks to make Kindle more appealing
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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It looks like Amazon won’t be taking Apple’s iPad lightly. The New York Times reports that Amazon recently purchased a New York based company named Touchco that specializes in touchscreen technology, a feature which the Kindle obviously lacks. Amazon will reportedly merge Touchco’s employees and technology into its Kindle hardware division, a move which is an obvious [...]
Continue reading...Updated Kindle app enables landscape viewing and more
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Owners of Amazon’s Kindle app for the iPhone should be pretty thrilled with a recent update that now allows them to view content in landscape mode. Previously, content was only viewable in portrait mode, which for some people made reading more of a chore than a pleasant experience. In addition, the Kindle app now lets [...]
Continue reading...CNBC reporter is pissed at Amazon for introducing new Kindle
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera of CNBC is pretty pissed that Amazon had the audacity to come out with a new and improved Kindle after the second model was released just 3 months ago. And because she hates buying tech products that will inevitably be supplanted by superior models, she writes that she hasn’t bought an iPod in [...]
Continue reading...Amazon to launch Kindle for textbooks
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon is planning to unveil a larger version of the Kindle with a “larger screen and other features designed to appeal to periodical and academic textbook publishers.” Beginning this fall, some students at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland will be given large-screen Kindles with textbooks for chemistry, computer [...]
Continue reading...Amazon purchases company that developed “Stanza”
Monday, April 27, 2009
Amazon has purchased Lexcycle, the makers of the free iPhone and iPod Touch e-book reader “Stanza.” Since its release, Stanza has been an extremely popular application, garnering nearly 500,000 downloads in just the first 3 months it was available on iTunes. Fans of Stanza often claimed, and rightfully so, that the app turns any iPhone [...]
Continue reading...A quick thought on why Amazon released a Kindle app for the iPhone
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Early reviews of Amazon’s Kindle app for the iPhone and iPod Touch have been overwhelmingly positive, but it also begs the question as to why Amazon would willingly offer iPhone users the Kindle experience completely for free. Not only might this cause existing Kindle owners to use their Kindle less (assuming they have an iPhone), [...]
Continue reading...Amazon releases free Kindle app for the iPhone and iPod Touch
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Amazon yesterday released a “Kindle for iPhone” app that lets users download Kindle books from Amazons vast library and then transfer them to either their iPhone or iPod Touch. According to the app description, interested users won’t be able to peruse Amazon’s large e-book and newspaper catalog from within iTunes, but will instead have to [...]
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Monday, November 28, 2011
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