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Amazon.com is an American multinational e-commerce company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is the world’s largest online retailer. The company also produces its own consumer electronics, notably the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, and is a major provider of cloud computing services with its Amazon AWS service.
TomTom EASE portable GPS navigator
02/09/2010, While dedicated GPS navigation devices might be dying a slow death due to the proliferation of GPS capability in smartphones as well as equally able software, we would assume the inevitable might be still a long way off. TomTom’s latest [...]
PVI to bring faster and brighter e-paper this year
02/05/2010, The name PVI might not seem familiar to you, but it might just interest you if you know that PVI is the Kindle display manufacturer. According to PVI’s chairman Scott Liu, his company will be rolling out one of the [...]
Amazon acquires Touchco
02/04/2010, Amazon has purchased Touchco recently in order to boost their portfolio and strengthen their position as the top e-book reader seller at this point in time, as they are certainly feeling threatened with the Apple iPad’s recent announcement. Why Touchco? [...]
Creative Labs World of Warcraft Headsets Up For Pre-order
02/01/2010, Addicted to World of Warcraft (like everybody else on the planet)? These World of Warcraft headsets from Creative will certainly bring you closer to the game, and they’re up for pre-order now, with the wired version going for $119.99 and [...]
Amazon Relents On Macmillan Price Dispute
01/31/2010, Are you satisfied with the $9.99 price point of eBooks on Amazon’s Kindle, or do you think that publishers should be allowed to price the books higher? Every consumer wants to get the best deal, us included, unfortunately it seems [...]
More Than 3 Million Kindles Sold To Date?
01/30/2010, Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com claims that millions of people now own Kindles, and that certainly surprised many analysts, since most people thought that Amazon would probably have sold 2.5 million odd Kindles by the end of 2010. [...]
Could Amazon Be Thinking Of Acquiring Netflix?
01/30/2010, If you read the news on the Internet often enough, you’ve probably heard of rumors that Amazon might want to acquire Netflix. It didn’t seem all that likely back then, since Netflix’s strategy involving physical goods did not jive with [...]
Amazon UK prices Samsung OLED digital cameras
01/27/2010, Amazon UK has finally slapped some price tags on Samsung’s latest range of OLED digital cameras, with the HZ35W retailing for £299.99 when it hits the market this February 2nd, while the CL80 (aka ST5500 as seen above) will arrive [...]
Lenovo S10-3t Available For Pre-order
01/21/2010, We brought you news about the Pine Trail toting netbooks from Lenovo last month, and now it seems that the Lenovo S10-3t 10.1-inch netbook is available for pre-order on Amazon’s site for a cool $499.99. The downside is that this [...]
Amazon Announces Kindle Development Kit
01/20/2010, We’ve mentioned that application stores are all the rage nowadays, and it seems that even Amazon’s Kindle isn’t immune to the lure of application stores. Amazon has announced its Kindle Development Kit (KDK), which will allow software makers to build [...]
Amazon Announces 70 Percent Royalty Option For Kindle Digital Text Platform
01/20/2010, Amazon is looking to further tighten its stranglehold on the eBook market with its latest announcement of a 70 percent royalty option for its Kindle Digital Text Platform. This would mean that authors would stand to get a significant amount [...]
Amazon Expands Kindle Digital Text Platform To Authors Outside US
01/15/2010, Amazon has announced that authors and publishers around the world are now able to use its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers worldwide in the Kindle Store. Previously [...]
French retailers unhappy about eBooks success
01/14/2010, Almost everybody looks to be welcome the wave of E-book readers, and there have been a great many of those little devices at CES 2010. Book retailers on the other hand, are rather unhappy about the whole issue, and it [...]
