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Front-lit Amazon Kindle to debut in July?

Posted May 19, 2012 - 7:35 am

Rumors of Kindle upgrades are a dime a dozen, and many aren't from the most reputable of sources. But one new report sounds quite likely: Amazon will launch a front-lit version of its Kindle eReader in July, and a new model of its Kindle Fire color tablet closer to the holiday season, Reuters reports.
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Refer.ly: recommending products for personal profit

Posted May 16, 2012 - 11:13 am

Startup redirects affiliate payments to those who recommend products, gives them slice of $3 billion in affiliate commerce.
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iPad Mini draws strong consumer interest

Posted May 10, 2012 - 7:50 am

More than half (52 percent) of consumers would consider purchasing a hypothetical iPad "Mini" this year if it were priced between $249 and $300, according to a survey released Friday by online comparison shopping site PriceGrabber.com.
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Has the Apple iPad snuffed the Kindle Fire?

Posted May 9, 2012 - 10:50 am

The Kindle Fire burned hot during the holidays, shipping 3.9 million units. But Kindle Fire sales dropped to 750,000 for the first quarter of 2012.
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Apple's e-store satisfaction score jumps, thumps Microsoft's

Posted May 9, 2012 - 7:35 am

Apple's online store scored the highest satisfaction rating of any computer-related company, and handily beat rival Microsoft, a consumer pollster said today.
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Jeff Bezos and Amazon: Forging new frontiers, or lost?

Posted May 7, 2012 - 10:39 am

Selling Kindles at a loss, selling books at a loss, and now selling industrial supplies makes some wonder if Amazon is lost.
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Nook Simple Touch and color e-reader prices slashed for Mother's Day

Posted May 5, 2012 - 7:30 am

Barnes & Noble is dropping its Nook e-reader prices for a limited period leading up to Mother's Day, May 13 for its Nook Simple Touch and Nook Color. The price drops come on the heels of news that B&N will take a $300 million investment from Microsoft to do battle against Amazon and Apple and craft a Nook app for Windows 8.
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Hands on with Amazon Cloud Drive for Mac

Posted May 5, 2012 - 7:00 am

The roster sort of sounds like Santa's reindeer roll-call: On Dropbox, on SkyDrive, on iCloud, on Google! And now, Amazon becomes the latest company/sleigh-puller to dive into the Desktop Cloud Storage Wars of 2012.
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Amazon releases desktop app for its cloud storage service

Posted May 3, 2012 - 7:47 am

If you have an Amazon account, you also have five gigabytes of free online storage for your files at your disposal through the Amazon Cloud Drive service. You may not have known that, though, because accessing that space hasn't been as easy as it is with services like Dropbox and SkyDrive.
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Retail tablet wars: Target to expel Amazon's Kindles from store shelves

Posted May 3, 2012 - 7:41 am

Target was the first brick-and-mortar store to sell Amazon's Kindle, but now the two companies are severing ties.
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Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

Posted April 30, 2012 - 11:45 pm

That apple ain’t green.
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Kindle Fire now accounts for more than half of U.S. Android tablets

Posted April 26, 2012 - 9:10 pm

When people refer to "Android tablets" they may soon just be referring to the Amazon Kindle Fire.
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Amazon releases Send to Kindle software for Mac

Posted April 24, 2012 - 7:11 pm

Amazon released the Mac version of the Send to Kindle application on Tuesday, bringing Mac users into parity with a Windows application that was released a few months back. Send to Kindle makes it easier to move documents into your Kindle reading cloud or onto a specific device, joining Amazon's earlier email service.
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Greenpeace's sign to Amazon, Microsoft: 'How clean is your cloud?'

Posted April 21, 2012 - 7:49 am

Activists at Greenpeace intensified their environmental criticism of Amazon and Microsoft by posting signage near the Seattle offices of both companies questioning the cleanliness of the companies' clouds.
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Amazon CTO: 'You should be able to walk away' from cloud providers

Posted April 21, 2012 - 7:23 am

At an Amazon Web Services summit event in New York City on Thursday, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels said one of the core philosophies related to the company's market-leading suite of infrastructure as a service products is that customers should be able to opt out whenever they want.
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Amazon cloud accessed daily by a third of all 'Net users

Posted April 19, 2012 - 9:35 pm

DeepField Networks, a cloud intelligence company operating in semi-stealth mode, offered up some eye-popping findings Wednesday about the breadth of Internet activity Amazon is now responsible for.
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Amazon cloud set stage for rapid Pinterest growth

Posted April 19, 2012 - 2:37 pm

The explosive success of the social networking service Pinterest wouldn't have been possible without the easy scalability of the Amazon cloud services, an executive for Pinterest said.
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Apple vs. Amazon: Who is really fixing e-book prices?

Posted April 18, 2012 - 7:57 am

A brouhaha is shaping up: Apple and book publishers square off against Amazon and the DOJ over the price of an e-book. Who's right? CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige looks back to a Whiz Kid from the '90s for answers.
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Amazon will now buy your CDs

Posted April 14, 2012 - 7:36 am

For an easy way to trade-in old tech gear, it's hard to beat online services that offer cash or store credit for your unused phones, PCs, music players, video games, and DVDs. A variety of big-name sites, including Best Buy, eBay, and Gazelle, accept trade-ins.
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The new Kindle Touch upgrade: How to get it now

Posted April 14, 2012 - 7:02 am

Amazon plans over the next few weeks to roll out a software upgrade for its Kindle Touch e-reader that includes several useful enhancements via Wi-Fi. But why wait?
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Kindle rumors hint at major upgrade in the works

Posted April 10, 2012 - 7:47 am

Will the next generation of Amazon's Kindle eReaders feature a dramatic innovation, possibly a color or lighted display? Recent rumors suggest significant changes are coming for the venerable e-reader, which currently has an e-ink display without backlighting or color.
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Amazon to provide Indian cloud services over Tata infrastructure?

Posted March 24, 2012 - 12:43 pm

Amazon could be preparing to launch cloud services in India, after it emerged that the company has been buying up infrastructure from telecommunications provider Tata Communications in its home markets.
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Amazon uses nearly half a million servers to power EC2, researcher estimates

Posted March 18, 2012 - 7:40 am

Although most end users never get a clear view of the infrastructure underlying the services they consume via Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, Accenture Research Manager Huan Liu recently estimated that a whopping 454,400 individual blade servers are currently being used to power that product.
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Amazon hails era of 'utility supercomputing'

Posted March 11, 2012 - 8:18 am

Cloud computing giant Amazon Web Services is heralding the era of utility supercomputing, whereby massive computational resources and storage requirements can be accessed on demand.
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How to install the Silk browser on any Android phone or tablet

Posted March 11, 2012 - 8:15 am

One of the coolest features of the Kindle Fire is Amazon's proprietary Silk browser, an application designed to leverage Amazon's massive server resources by precaching Web pages and delivering them to you faster--in theory--than any other browser. It works by preloading all the content (including music, images, and video) on popular websites to Amazon's remote servers first, and then delivering the entire package to your mobile device in a single stream of data. Amazon calls it a "cloud-accelerated" browser, and it's the first of it's kind.
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