If you've got a Kindle or Kindle DX, your device is going to get a bit more social come late May.
At the top of the interest list for new Kindle features in Kindle Version 2.5 include connectivity ...
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Amazon on Wednesday night rolled out the Kindle 2.5 update, an option which provides Kindle users with new social networking capabilities. The update, which includes Facebook and Twitter options allows users to highlight sections of their books ...
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Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) booked a strong gain in earnings for the first quarter, but a less than stellar forecast for the coming quarter saw AMZN shares head lower.
Amazon reported a 68% gain in first-quarter earnings. with net ...
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Target announced yesterday that they will be the first bricks and mortar retailer to carry Amazon's bestselling Kindle e-reader.
Kindle has been a big success for Amazon, and remains the site most purchased and most gifted items. Priced ...
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Want a keyboard that's also a computer? There's a company for that! The Asus EeeKeyboard has been announced for pre-order at Amazon and comes with a price tag of $599.
The EeeKeyboard is a keyboard and PC all ...
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The iPad sold 300,000 units on opening day and 7.5% of those buyers told Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray that they were making the jump away from their Amazon Kindle devices.
The numbers above were reached based on ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Amazon today showed off their newest Amazon Kindle update, an option that provides users with 85% more battery life and support for PDF files which were previously left off the devices support file type list.
The battery update ...
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It's the battle of Early Black Friday Ads and the newest Amazon offer in my opinion takes the top prize in terms of the best early deal. Amazon users can pick up the Nintendo WII, Wii Fit ...
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One of the big topics today that I have picked up from my morning reading is the news that Amazon is going to help you become a Twitter spammer.
Yup now you will be able to populate your ...
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If there is one thing you can say about the Web it is that it is responsible for the disruption of more businesses than just about any recession. We hear daily about the newspaper industry facing annihilation, the ...
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