All the stories tagged with Amazon
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.
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD tablet has been rooted despite fears of it being hack-resistant
09/18/2012, So yesterday we reported that according to several XDA developers, they have expressed their worry that Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablets might be hack resistant due to the locked bootloader and extra security measures implemented by Texas Instruments. Well it [...]
Kindle Fire HD Unboxing (7-inch)
09/17/2012, A Kindle HD 7″ has landed in the office, and we are clearly going to publish a full review of the device. In the meantime, here is a video and some photos from the unboxing session. To be frank, there [...]
Amazon Kindle Fire HD gets the teardown treatment
09/17/2012, While new tablets and smartphones are almost always great, there are users out there who might be more concerned over other aspects of the device and not just on its features and hardware specs. These other aspects include issues such [...]
Amazon’s new Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD might be hack resistant
09/17/2012, The good thing about Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablets is the fact that they are not overly expensive compared to alternatives such as the iPad which will set customers back a few hundred dollars more. Of course the specs are different [...]
Kindle Fire HD update arrives shortly after release
09/14/2012, Boy, don’t you think that everything is moving a little bit too quickly? I mean, Amazon has just rolled out their spanking new 7” Kindle Fire HD and the first update is already out, now how about that? Let me [...]
E-book prices decline on Amazon after publisher settlement
09/11/2012, Recently, a U.S. court approved the settlement of some major e-book publishers. The publishers had been accused of price fixing and it was accused the many publishers had lobbied to maintain unfairly high prices of the e-books they published. While [...]
Amazon Kindle Mac app updated, boasts of gesture support and new Kindle 8 format
09/10/2012, Amazon has just updated their Kindle Mac app which makes perfect sense actually, after the recent announcement of their updated Kindle e-reader devices. We did take a look at the Kindle Fire HD and came away rather impressed, but that [...]
Amazon: New Kindle Fire lets you opt out of ads
09/07/2012, Amazon had quite a smashing press event yesterday morning (read our round up about it, from where you can continue on to the individual device details), but that does not mean that we know all there is to know about [...]
Kindle Fire HD Hands-On
09/07/2012, Yesterday, at an event in Santa Monica CA, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle Fire HD. The device comes in two flavors, 7-inch and 8.9-inch, and they will retail for $199 and $299, respectively, with the former shipping from [...]
Amazon Kindle press event round-up
09/06/2012, All right, so there was no Kindle smartphone announcement after all, but now that the dust at the Amazon Kindle press event has settled, what’s hot and potentially not? Let us give you a quick summary here so that you [...]
Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE at $499
09/06/2012, Amazon has had a pretty good run with their Kindle Fire tablets, and this morning, the Kindle Fire HD certainly had us sit up and take notice – but when you offer Amazon $499 in exchange for a tablet, what [...]
Kindle Fire HD is official, comes in 7-inch and 8.9-inch models
09/06/2012, At last, the main event for today. The Kindle Fire HD has just been announced, rightfully taking its place as the rumored new Kindle Fire which does seem to flirt with iPad-like sizes as well. We are looking at an [...]
Kindle Fire updated, doubles up on RAM and speed
09/06/2012, The Kindle Fire has just received a shot in the arm which might just see it eventually own more than 22% of tablet sales in the US alone. What can we find in the souped up version of the Kindle [...]
