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Amazon and Netflix spar over streaming with Disney-ABC deal

, Oct 31st 2011 Discuss [0]

Netflix and Amazon have each bolstered their streaming media catalogs, as the two rivals continue to spar over which has the fullest offering of TV shows and movies. Netflix announced an extension of its Disney-ABC deal that will see new and back-catalog titles including Alias and Switched At Birth added to the roster, while Amazon has revealed a Disney-ABC deal of its own that will see many of the same shows available to Amazon Prime customers and Kindle Fire users. Read The Full Story

OfficeSuite for Android free today in Amazon Appstore

, Oct 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

Get your documents all in order today on the Amazon Appstore with OfficeSuite Professional 5, an Office editing app that's normally $15, completely for free. As you may or may not know, the Amazon Appstore is a place where you can pick up apps on your Android device, this app store completely separate from the official Google version, that being called the Android Marketplace. If you'll take a look at your humble narrator's original Android Community 101: Amazon Appstore, it will all become abundantly clear. Today the Amazon Appstore is giving away no less than your one-stop shop for everything Office. Read The Full Story

Amazon.com Third Quarter 2011 report has net sales up 44%

, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

The team at Amazon.com have released information surrounding their third quarter sales as well as reporting to stock holders that their four new Kindle devices will blow away consumers for the holidays. Financial results for the third quarter ended in September 30, 2011 showed operating cash flow increasing by 19% to $3.11 billion for the 12 months trailing that date, while the 12 months in that timeframe ending at September 30 in 2010 ending up just below that number at $2.62 billion. Net sales had a similar jump at 44% to $10.88 billion in the third quarter while the same quarter last year yielded $7.56 billion. Read The Full Story

Amazon profit dip predicted over Kindle Fire loss-leading

, Oct 25th 2011 Discuss [3]

Amazon's loss-leader strategy with the Kindle Fire ereader tablet, as well as a growing US sales tax bill, could lead to significantly reduced income this quarter analysts have predicted. The retailer is expected to announce earnings figures today, but already there are concerns that Amazon's net income may be just half of Q3 2010, according to an estimate average crunched by Businessweek. Part of the issue is the $199 Kindle Fire, hardware sales of which Amazon is believed to be taking a loss on, and instead relying on subsequent digital media sales to buoy profits. Read The Full Story

iPad mini offers small price not small screen tips analyst

, Oct 12th 2011 Discuss [16]

Here we go, the furor over the iPhone 4S isn't yet done and already the next round of Apple rumors are floating by. The latest rumor isn't of the next iPhone, but of a future iPad that is supposedly coming to fight the Kindle Fire and its $199 price point. According to this rumor there is an iPad mini coming in 2012. The source is specific on the "mini" though. Read The Full Story

Kindle Fire tablet sales hit 250,000 over five days

, Oct 4th 2011 Discuss [12]

According to some leaked sales data, the total number of Amazon Kindle Fire tablets sold since being launched 5 days ago is hovering just over 250,000 units. Sales may have slowed down a bit since it was last estimated to have reached almost 100,000 units on its very first day, but it's nonetheless impressive, considering how other tablet rivals have fared. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle Fire sales near 100,000 on first day

, Oct 3rd 2011 Discuss [6]

It is according to one digital marketing firm, eDataSource, sales of the cloud-based Amazon Kindle Fire Android-based tablet have reached 95,000 in its first day on the market - all of those sales being pre-orders. That's not quite one-third of the 300,000+ first-gen iPads sold on the first day back when it was released in April of 2010, but 100,000 is no number to scoff at. The Kindle Fire will officially be shipping on November 15th, just in time for you-know-what, and retailers are currently having heart attacks over its low price tag at $199 standard. Read The Full Story

Can Little Companies Still Get Ahead?

, Oct 1st 2011 Discuss [12]

When we think about the state of home entertainment today, we typically talk about companies like Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Sony, and others. After all, they’re the firms that are performing so well in the space right now, and they’re the companies that, at least for the time being, will continue to set the benchmark by which all others are judged.

But all that talk of big companies seems to leave out smaller firms that have some unique ideas but don’t seem to be able to get ahead.

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Amazon Kindle originally based on CEO Bezos’ BlackBerry

, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [7]

There's no doubt the original Kindle, although popular, wasn't all that attractive. It had an angular design with a split keyboard and an odd scroll wheel. And now we know why. According to the NY Times, who spoke with an early Kindle hardware designer, that original version was so ugly because it was modeled after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' BlackBerry smartphone. Read The Full Story

Amazon Kindle Fire tablet costs $209.63 to make

, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [17]

According to an estimate by research firm IHS iSupply, Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet costs about $209.63 to produce. That's $10 more than the surprisingly low retail price that Amazon announced of $199 and not quite as a bad as the $50 loss per tablet that analysts have suggested previously. Read The Full Story

Watch out iPad: Even indirect Fire can cook Apples

, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [68]

Analysts and pundits are queuing up to point out the Kindle Fire‘s shortcomings, and how Amazon’s entrant to the tablet market is “not a true iPad competitor.” Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster went so far as to estimate Amazon was swallowing fifty bucks loss on each Kindle Fire sold, crossing its fingers that multimedia sales would make up for it, and highlighted the slate’s lacking storage, absent cameras and non-existent 3G option. The idea, it seems, is that because Amazon hasn’t photocopied Apple’s strategy – or, indeed, followed Android tablet manufacturers in trying to compete on specifications alone – and since the Kindle Fire’s price is thus less than half that of the iPad, they “target different segments” and the iPad is in the clear. That seems pretty short-sighted.

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Kobo Vox caught online ahead of Kindle Fire challenge

, Sep 30th 2011 Discuss [2]

Ereader manufacturer Kobo's alternative to the Kindle Fire, the Kobo Vox, has been prematurely revealed, an Android-based tablet expected to retail at under CA$250. Spotted on a hurriedly-yanked product page at Canadian retailer Future Shop (still visible in Google's cache), the 7-inch Vox runs at 1024 x 600 resolution with WiFi b/g/n and will supposedly hit shelves on October 17. Read The Full Story
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