Tag: amazon
Amazon’s Kindle Line Finally Released In China
While the Kindle has grown to be an incredibly popular product within North America and Europe with the past several years, some markets, like China,...
Amazon Accuses Apple’s Agency Model Of Hindering Kindle
Amazon’s Vice President of Kindle Content Russell Grandinetti testified during the third day of Apple’s eBook price fixing suit yesterday. According to Grandinetti, publishers involved with...
Amazon Adds More NBC Shows To Prime Instant Video Streaming Cataloge
Amazon has announced that it will be bringing more NBC shows to its Prime Instant Video thanks to an expanded content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal...
Amazon To Take On Apple’s iTunes With Cloud Player For Mac
In what’s probably a giant tell about the value of a web app versus a native application, Amazon will soon be releasing its cloud media...
Amazon Working On A 3-D Smartphone, Other Hardware
It seems like Amazon may be looking to expand its hardware offerings beyond its Kindle tablets and eReaders. The company is reportedly working on an...
Kindle App Update Lets You Read Your Books With Your Ears
Enjoy reading with your ears instead of your eyes? Amazon has just updated its iOS Kindle application to include text to speech features that will...
Twitter Has Your Back When It Comes To Protecting User Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) releases a report every year that tests how well big tech companies protect users from government data demands, and this...
Amazon Releases Pilots For 14 New Original TV Shows
Amazon has been talking for a while about how it wants to get into the world of original programming to compete with rival Netflix and...
Amazon AutoRip Comes To Vinyl Record Purchases
Amazon has added AutoRip functionality to all vinyl record purchases. People who have previously purchased records via Amazon.com should see MP3 versions of their record...
Amazon Working On Private Cloud For CIA
Whether you knew it or not, Amazon powers a massive amount of all the popular websites on the Internet. The company sells cloud storage space...
Apple Named World’s Most Admired Company, Beats Out Google And Amazon
For the sixth straight year, Fortune has named Apple as the world’s most admired company. The top 50 list includes a wide variety of companies...
Amazon Takes On iTunes With Native iPad App
Amazon clearly still plans to take on iTunes. Today’s launch of its Cloud Player for iPad suggests that the company isn’t giving up the fight, despite...
Amazon Accidentally Creates Evil Book Burning Kindle Update For iOS
Amazon is warning users of its Kindle app for iOS to refrain from downloading the most recent update that’s available in the App Store. While...
Not To Be Outdone By Bitcoins, Amazon Announces Its Own Moola
Because trading goods for real currency is so hard, Amazon has decided to circumvent the dollar, and begin offering up its very own ‘Amazon Coins’...
Kindle Fire HD Compared To Retina iPad Display In Amazon’s New TV Commercial
Since releasing the new Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has been pretty open about comparing it to Apple’s Retina display iPads. Well, that’s probably the only...
Apple No Longer Among Top 20 In Privacy Trust Rankings
Apple dropped six spots in Ponemon Institute’s 2012 Most Trusted Companies list, which is a first in three years. Once listed among the top ten...
Amazon Extends In-App Purchasing To Mac, PC, And Web-Based Games
Amazon has just announced that it is expanding in-app purchasing to games for Mac, PC, and Web platforms, which lets players buy virtual currency, characters,...
Amazon Flips Off Apple, Makes MP3 Store Available In Mobile Browsers
Amazon announced today that the Amazon MP3 store has now been “optimized” for the iPhone and iPod touch. Though Amazon’s iOS Cloud Player app has...