Look out, iPad? Amazon hopes to win the hearts of parents, and their kids, with a new subscription service called FreeTime Unlimited for children’s books, shows and apps on Kindle… Read More
Amazon announced this morning that Cyber Monday was the biggest day on record for Kindle sales, and sales of the devices over the holiday shopping weekend were more than double… Read More
Yes, the holidays are almost here, and anyone looking to buy a tablet will be faced with a dizzying array of options. File this one under first-world problems, but we’re… Read More
Well, that was fast. The 8.9-inch version of the Kindle Fire HD is already shipping today and is backordered to Dec. 3rd. The arrival is a little ahead of schedule. Amazon originally planned… Read More
Apple lost market share in the worldwide tablet market in the third quarter, as potential buyers waited for the company’s iPad mini announcement, while Amazon and Samsung gained ground with… Read More
Amazon’s special messages to customers on its home page are usually very upbeat, touting the latest products and services from the company in positive tones. But the message appearing right… Read More
The big Kindle is going bye-bye. It appears that after slashing prices of the e-book reader, Amazon has decided to stop selling its Kindle DX altogether. No longer is the… Read More
At the Kindle launch event last week, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos spoke briefly about an effort to allow consumers to purchase physical goods from within applications. Now, we’re getting the… Read More
Posting from Santa Monica, Calif.: The new 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD was the one new device that Amazon didn’t let reporters handle during the demo period of the company’s event… Read More
Posting from Santa Monica, Calif.: I’m here this morning for Amazon’s big press event at an airplane hangar, where the company is expected to unveil a new lineup of Kindle… Read More
Here’s an important story to note, in the category of news you may have missed over the holiday. The Wall Street Journal, quoting anonymous sources, reported over the weekend that Amazon… Read More
Amazon.com has reportedly chosen Nokia to provide the mapping technology on the next-generation Kindle Fire, a device that is expected to be launched at an event in Santa Monica, California next… Read More
Amazon has sold out of its Kindle Fire one week before a news conference where the company is expected to unveil a follow-up to the tablet and other Kindle devices.… Read More
We’re still waiting to see how Amazon will upgrade its Kindle lineup, but at least now we know when we’ll know. Amazon sent out invites a short time ago for… Read More
Here’s some new evidence to support the theory that Amazon is coming out with a (roughly) 10-inch Kindle Fire to compete with Apple’s iPad. A device that could very well… Read More
Summer must be ending soon. Not only are the daylight hours shrinking, but so are the prices on many soon-to-be-out-of-date consumer electronics devices in the buildup to the launch of… Read More
Is Amazon almost ready to unveil this year’s Kindle lineup? Gizmodo believes the answer is yes — pointing to a steep one-day discount on the Kindle DX at the end of… Read More
Hey, Big Spender! Your iPad would probably like to spend some more time with you… According to a new report by comScore, iPad users tend to be younger (44.5 percent… Read More
What is a “personal computer” in 2012? Do tablets count? Most of the major technology research firms say no. As reflected in the chart above, they count PCs and tablets separately… Read More
Amazon shipped more than 1.2 million Kindle Fire tablets worldwide in the second quarter, up significantly from the first quarter, but strong sales of Apple’s iPad left the Amazon device… Read More
Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet launched last fall with just one option for buyers, a 7-inch model with 8 GB of storage, WiFi and no mobile broadband. That’s about to change,… Read More
Amazon.com has heard this one before. Stock analysts are turning bearish on the Seattle online retailer, the company that once was dubbed “Amazon.toast” during the dot-com bust (but later went… Read More
Rumors have circulated for weeks that Amazon.com is working on a new tablet computer, a larger Kindle Fire that would compete with Apple’s iPad. Now, here comes more ammunition that… Read More
Google’s Nexus 7 appears to be on a direct collision course with Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire as the two tech giants battle it out for second place in the expanding tablet… Read More
The Kindle Fire isn’t really known as a powerful gaming device. But Amazon.com is looking to change that perception with the launch of GameCircle, a new tool designed for developers… Read More
The next version of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet will come with a sharper and more vibrant display, in addition to a built-in camera and thinner and lighter hardware. That’s the… Read More
There’s been a lot of chatter (not to mention crazy PR stunts) this week around Google’s unveiling of the Nexus 7, a 7-inch tablet computer which by all accounts will… Read More
All eyes are on Google this morning as the company gets set for its keynote at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco. Much like Microsoft last week, the… Read More
Two classic newspaper comic strips, Doonesbury and Dilbert, are making their digital debut on Amazon’s Kindle Fire today with the release of two multi-volume anthologies that use Amazon’s new “Kindle… Read More
We’ve known for some time now that Amazon.com wants to get a bigger chunk of the high-margin advertising business, a counterweight to its low-margin e-commerce business. And here’s one very… Read More