Video footage of a Lime electric bike spewing flames on the University of Washington campus in Seattle this week is the latest in a string of battery-related safety issues affecting… Read More
Amazon’s worldwide tablet shipments spiked 48 percent last quarter while the tech giant passed Samsung for second place in vendor rankings. Research firm IDC released new tablet market data on… Read More
Amazon is now taking orders for the first Ultra High Definition (UHD) televisions that run on the Fire TV operating system and have digital assistant, Alexa, built in. It competes… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said earlier this year that the company’s goal is to make the benefits of its $99/year Amazon Prime program so numerous and valuable that it’s irresponsible not to be a… Read More
Amazon’s Alexa is coming to its Fire tablets, giving users quick access to the voice-enabled virtual assistant, and positioning the company to compete more directly with Apple’s Siri virtual assistant for the iPad.… Read More
Amazon’s budget friendly Fire tablet may not be the most powerful option, but you can probably find a use for it somewhere in your life. Now, Amazon is making the $49.99… Read More
Talk about a fast course correction. Less than 48 hours after pundits and security experts began blasting Amazon for removing the option to encrypt data on Fire devices, the company has… Read More
Amazon says sales of its first-party devices tripled during the first holiday shopping weekend of 2015, compared with the year before, setting new records for the company. Following its traditional practice, the company… Read More
The first computer system incorporating IBM’s TrueNorth computer chip was conceived in Deer Valley, Utah last month, in a mere four days at the Future in Review conference. Under the… Read More
The world is full of overpowered technology — gadgets with capabilities well beyond what we need. For me, it’s a $400 iPad mini 2 that I use almost exclusively to watch TV before… Read More
Got $250 to spend? That won’t get you even one new iPad, but it’s enough for six Amazon tablets. The company this morning unveiled a new $49.99 Fire tablet as part… Read More
Vancouver, B.C. drew the eyes of a record 20 million viewers yesterday, as the U.S. Women’s Soccer team won the FIFA Women’s World Cup. But, not to be outdone, Mother Nature put… Read More
While many people may have forgotten about it altogether, Amazon hasn’t left the users of its Fire smartphone behind. The company just released an update to the device that’s based… Read More
Despite new tablet launches and the holiday shopping season, tablet sales fell in the fourth quarter of 2014, according to new data from market research firm IDC. That’s hardly surprising,… Read More
Amazon says unit sales of its Fire tablets tripled and sales of its Kindle e-readers nearly quadrupled on Black Friday this year, compared with Black Friday a year ago. The company,… Read More
This morning some Amazon customers woke up to a new homepage design. While the new look is very subtle, the changes say a lot about what products and services it wants to emphasize. For example, high on… Read More
Consumer Reports has finished subjecting Amazon’s Fire smartphone to its litany of tests, and has found it wanting. While CR praised the Fire’s new and innovative features like its Dynamic… Read More
Bargain shoppers with Android phones have 30 reasons to give Amazon’s Appstore a shot over the next two days. The company is offering a suite of apps worth more than… Read More
Users of Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Fire Phone now have a new way to take notes. Microsoft announced that it has released a version of its popular OneNote note taking… Read More
Amazon is offering Android developers up to $15,000 in Amazon Coins digital currency to attract more apps to the Amazon Appstore for its upcoming Fire smartphone, which the company announced earlier… Read More
The Kindle DX is making a comeback. After disappearing from the Amazon storefront last October, it looks like the Seattle online giant is once again selling the 9.7-inch tablet for… Read More
From now until June 8, Amazon is discounting its Kindle Fire HD tablets by $20 for a Father’s Day sale. You can get $20 off the 7-inch Kindle Fire HD ($199), the Kindle… Read More
Firefighters rely on real-time communication when responding to emergencies, so having a robust wireless system could mean the difference between life and death. Working in conjunction with In Motion Technology,… Read More