Tag: amazon
Amazon updates Kindle app for Retina goodness
Amazon has rolled out an update to its Kindle application today, bringing the application sweet iPad Retina display compatibilities. It may not sound like much...
Apple rejects Seth Godin’s book because of links to Amazon store
Marketer extraordinaire Seth Godin has released a new book, titled Stop Stealing Dreams, but you won’t be seeing it on the iBookstore anytime soon. Apple...
Amazon targeting the iPad based on price in the latest Kindle ad
Amazon is directly targeting Apple’s iPad 2 with its latest Kindle ad. The main argument? Price. The ad goes like this: A man walks alongside...
Amazon and Viacom partner to take down Netflix
Netflix is seeing some heavy competition from Amazon. Today, the Seattle-based online retail behemoth announced that they have struck a deal with Viacom for a...
The Bluelounge Minidock is the world’s simplest iPhone dock
Hate having your favorite iOS devices cluttering your kitchen counter while they charge? Yeah, me too. Audio docks are great, but if all you need...
Watch out Amazon Kindle Fire, a $299 iPad 2 might shake things up a bit
When I first laid hands on the Kindle Fire, I was blown away. Not because of Amazon’s surprising ingenuity in the tablet industry, but rather...
Apple and Amazon rate high consumer satisfaction, Netflix not so much
Apple and Amazon have a lot to celebrate as 2011 comes to a close, but Netflix might just like to forget it ever happened.
New Kindle Fire vs iPad comparison chart tells more of the story
Amazon has been pushing the release of their Kindle Fire tablet pretty hard with a comparison chart that makes the iPad look pretty lame, but...
Everyone says Apple will make a 7-inch tablet. Except Apple.
In the world of tech journalism, there are two kinds of articles you can always count on: The ones that say “Apple has to do...
Create Christmas wish lists on your iPad with Amazon Santa
‘Tis the season for holiday shopping and Amazon has a gift for all of you hotsy-totsy iPad users. The Amazon Santa app allows kids to...
Unlike Amazon, Apple offers free shipping until December 22nd
Ho ho ho! Apple is getting in the Christmas spirit by offering free shipping for all orders from the online Apple Store in the US...
People want tablets 130 percent more today than some other day, apparently
Apple Insider reported today that a survey of 3,034 consumers shows that Apple’s iPad as well as the Kindle Fire from Amazon are poised to...
Apple throws Kindle Fire into the App Store lawsuit mix
Apple wants it to be very clear that they own the words “App” and “Store” when used in conjunction. It’s been noted that Apple has amended their...
Amazon drops the price on Apple TV 2 and renames it
Just when we thought Apple was afraid of lower prices, the Apple TV price tag dropped! Yes, you read right: Today, Amazon cut the price...
Could Kindle Fire be the first actual challenger to the iPad?
I hate to be the kind of journo who says things like, “Demand for the upcoming Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is ablaze,” but I gotta...
Amazon buys Yap, a Siri-like speech thingie
Amazon picked up a little piece of voice-recognition software called Yap that some pundits are saying could eventually be their answer to Apple’s Siri. Whatever...
Apple: Kindle Fire will further fragment Android
Tim Cook and Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, respectively, have expressed a lack of concern about Amazon’s Kindle Fire competing...
J.P. Morgan says the Amazon Fire is “Noise”
J.P. Morgan, the international financial firm that has the ear of investors everywhere, says the new Kindle Fire is just “noise” and doesn’t pose a...