Amazon Kindle Meets iPad With Revamped Look

If you can't beat em, join em. That's exactly what Amazon has done with the announcement of their Amazon Kindle iPad App.  The Kindle app is a free offering which has been completely redesigned by a team ... continue

Amazon To Give Free Kindles To Prime Subscribers [Rumor]

Amazon Prime customers tend to be some of the most loyal for the company and now a rumor is circulating that Amazon may reward those customers with a free Amazon Kindle...of course certain conditions would be applied. Currently ... continue

No, The iPad Isn’t Cheap – Not In Europe

We've written a few posts about the Apple iPad. Duncan asks if the iPad is really that cheap? Steven confirms that iPad doesn't save old media and Kim doesn't know what an acceleromter is. Now get ready ... continue

Will free e-books kill the book industry or save it?

Much ado is being made about the best-selling books on Amazon being skewed by the prevalence of free books. By my count on the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon, 59 books are either free or cost a cent. ... continue

Kindle Book Sales Stronger Than Physical Book Sales Over Holiday Shopping Season

The Amazon Kindle has taken the book publishing world by storm and over the Holiday's Amazon reported that Kindle users had bought more electronic copies of books than the company had sold in physical form. The push in ... continue

The worst case of short-sightedness by anyone in 2009

There have been a number of reactions by media and entertainment industries right across the board that showed how short-sighted they can be when it comes to the changes that new technology brings to the table. In ... continue

DDoS Brings Down UltraDNS, Amazon

A DDoS attack on DNS provider UltraDNS took down Amazon and other major sites Wednesday afternoon US Time (December 23.) Amazon users on Twitter reported problems starting on the site at around 5pm PST (noon AEDT Thursday.) Reports ... continue

Israeli dude hacks Kindle DRM

An Israeli hacker responding to a message board challenge has cracked the DRM protections on Kindle for PC, allowing users to convert books to a more portable Mobi format. Amazon is expected to find and patch the security ... continue

Asus Eee Box EB1501 Now Available For $479 Pre-Orders

The Asus Eee Box EB1501 with it's NVIDIA Ion graphics chipset and HDMI connector is now available for $479 with an Intel dual-core Atom 330 processor, 2GB RAM and a 250GB hard drive. The unit which is available ... continue

Amazon Unveils New Kindle Features For The Vision Impaired And Blind

In their ever increasing attempt to reach every demographic imaginable, Amazon has announced new features for users who are vision impaired and those who are blind. continue

Buy a Wii at Walmart, get $50 back

Black Friday and Cyber Monday have been and gone, but Walmart is still bringing the bargains. Between December 5 and 12, the company is giving away a free $50 Walmart gift card to anybody who buys a ... continue

Black Friday? Amazon Always!

In case you don’t live in America, or you do and choose to ignore social calendars, this week holds the holiday of Thanksgiving on Thursday, a mixed-message celebration of the arrival of the Pilgrims, and is followed ... continue