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Any seasoned tech watcher will have noticed that Amazon is quietly building a third mobile ecosystem, competing against Apple's iTunes and Google's Play. Starting with the original Kindle ereader, the environment has grown into tablets and currently the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" tablet sits at the top of the food chain. And very tasty it is too. Let's take a
The holiday shopping season has drawn to a close and now Amazon is revealing a bit of information on what took place over the past month. The retailer experienced record sales through its popular Prime service, which offers free two-day shipping on all purchases, as well as streaming video and a Kindle lending library. "More than one million customers around the
Last week Amazon Prime debuted its first original series in the form Alpha House. Today, the trend continues as Betas becomes available to subscribers -- no word on a potential Gamma show, yet. The retail giant is following the formula put forth with the comedy series Alpha House. In other words, it is releasing the first three episodes all at once, and
Podcasting has long been a multistep process for the majority of podcasters. There have been a few pieces of software written over the years that attempt to bring all of the podcasting tasks into single pieces of software, with varying results. Most podcasters have a physical mixer to plug their mic(s) into, an application that records audio and can spit
These are tough economic times and if you want to save yourself a few pennies, stop buying ebooks, join your local library and borrow ebooks for free. The OverDrive Media Console app lets you download and read ebooks offered by your local library for nothing, and if audiobooks are of more interest, the app can handle those as well. The
Amazon has announced that it will be offering something innovative in October of this year. Kindle Matchbook will launch. It isn't a new type of Kindle device. Instead, it is a very unique way of allowing people to access books. The Kindle (and other ebook readers) are fairly new, especially when you consider how long mass produced printed books have
Picture the scene....I'm on holiday, lying by the swimming pool, relaxing in the summer sun. It's a 4-star hotel, nothing fancy, catering to families from all round Europe; Britain, France, Germany, Norway. As I look around my fellow guests, I notice that many of them are reading from ereaders - Kindles, Kobos and the odd Nook. A few people are