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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
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
It seems that some of the biggest players in the industry are suffering from a recent rash of problems. Last week Microsft's Outlook.com email service suffered a rather long downtime that lasted for a good portion of the day and into two more days. Then Google had a similar, but much shorter outage that resulted in a forty-percent dip in
Single-copy print magazine sales plunged by another 10% in the first half of 2013 according to the AAM's (Alliance for Audited Media) 2013 half-year report. Extensive details can be found on their website here at this link to their report. I remember back in the 1980's subscribing to print magazines such as Stereo Review, Digital Audio & Compact Disc Review,
Everyday the Amazon App Store offers a "free app of the day" and, during special occasions, the retail giant frequently offers extra deals -- either additional free apps or steep discounts. While there seems to be no special occasion indicated for today's offer, it is still something that many Android faithfull will wish to take a look at. Today the store
There are literally hundreds of Android tablets on the market, many of which you have never heard of. Of that group, it is likely that you that you do not wish to hear of most them, but do not get the impression that makes the market bad. While I can not recommend you grabbing that no-name $79 tablet, as it