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Amazon Cloud Front – Flash Media Server Review

For content creators like me that have 3-4 live shows a week, there have been few affordable live streaming options. While there are literally hundreds of companies in the live streaming business, their pricing plans are designed to support their significant capital costs in running those services. Generally the pricing, terms, caps and limitations they set in their offerings are

Amazon Cloud Drive and Cloud Player

Earlier today Amazon announced their new storage service in two parts - Cloud Drive and Cloud Player.  At first glance one may wonder how Cloud Storage differs from Amazon's already-existing S3 storage.  The answer lies in the Cloud Player part of the announcement.  While S3 is just storage the new combo is much more media friendly.  You can not see

Amazon App Store and Angry Birds Rio Hit the Market

The Amazon App Store for Android was released today and it brought along Angry Birds Rio for the ride.  Even better, Angry Birds Rio is free for a "limited time".  We haven't yet heard what that limited time is.  The app store can be downloaded from here.  It's a pretty fast download and install, but before you get started you

Amazon App Store Launching March 22

This past Friday we got some information on the new Amazon App Store, which will, supposedly, be launching on Tuesday March 22nd.  The store will be available on the Amazon website and also as a mobile app. Mostly what we know are still rumors.  Amazon will take the same 30 percent as other app stores like iTunes, Google, and Microsoft. 

Kindle to Add Page Numbers, Sort Of

One of my biggest beefs with the Kindle (I have the Kindle DX first gen) is that I cannot see page numbers.  Considering the DX was made for textbooks and professional manuals, the lack of a page number of any kind makes the device relatively useless.  "Turn to page 329 in your text" does nothing for me, I have to

Amazon Reviews – Gaming the System?

I'm always looking for quick, easy ways to boost my income or get points to get things I want.  I'm a busy mom and wife in addition to working a full-time job, and life can get expensive.  I have a debit rewards card from my favorite gas station that saves me 2 cents a gallon gas and gives me 1%

LG SmartTVs and SmartTV Upgrader

Jeffrey talks to Mark of LuckyGoldstar, sorry, LG about their foray into connected devices and smart TVs during 2011. Mark reckons that there are four key principles for smart TVs. first, premium content providers and LG has over 20 including NetFlix, Vudu, Hulu, Amazon, NHL, NBA; second, apps and LG will be launching its online apps store with over 200