If you're a fan of Amazon's LOVEFiLM streaming video service in the UK, you have some new programs to enjoy. Amazon has announced a new deal with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution that will add new top-quality television content to the instant streaming video content service. The new streaming content is available as of today to UK subscribers.
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LOVEFiLM announces new deal with Warner Bros. International TV distribution
Amazon AutoRip now supports vinyl records
Amazon launched its AutoRip service back in January, allowing you to get a free MP3 version of a music CD that you bought from Amazon, going back as far as 1998 with the purchase history. Now, the e-tail giant is offering vinyl record owners the same deal. If you've ever bought a vinyl record on Amazon in the past, the company will give you a free MP3 version for your digital needs.
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Amazon files patent for wirelessly powered “remote displays”
A patent filed by Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, and Amazon's Vice President, Greg Hart, shows that Amazon may be launching a new, and different series of cloud-based Kindles in the future. The patent filed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office shows a remote display that will wirelessly receive its power and its data from nearby base stations. It also shows that the new "remote display" can potentially be implemented into car windshields and possibly a device similar to Google Glass.
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Ex-Windows Phone GM joins the Amazon team
Amazon has just hired the ex-General Manager of Windows Phone to work on a "secret" project. Charlie Kindel left Microsoft back in August of 2011 after working there for 21 years. He left Microsoft in order to launch his own startup, BizLogr. While he will still be the founder and owner of the startup, Kindel will hand over the reigns to the startup's co-founder, Stefan Negritoiu, so that he can dedicate all his time to Amazon's new project.
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Amazon Cloud Drive updates with file syncing
Amazon's Cloud Drive service hasn't been around for too long -- about a year now, but it's already starting to feel like a viable replacement for Dropbox, especially considering that the company just added file-syncing capabilities to Cloud Drive today, allowing you to access your files from different devices anywhere.
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Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G LTE for AT&T will be available April 5th
The 4G LTE version of Amazon's Kindle Fire HD 8.9 will arrive at select AT&T stores all across the nation starting on April 5th. The carrier will be the first carrier to sell the Kindle Fire HD tablet at its retail locations, and with an optional two-year contract. This comes at a perfect time because earlier in March, Amazon had slashed the price of its Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablets, reducing the 4G version by up to $100.
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Walmart considers crowd sourced shipping
Walmart is the largest retailer in the world. The retail giant has put more than one small business out of business around the country because it's almost impossible to compete with the prices Walmart offers. However, Walmart and many other retailers are now feeling significant pressure from online giants such as Amazon.com.
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Amazon acquires social reading site Goodreads
Social reading website Goodreads has been providing book recommendations for quite some time now, but it seems that an even bigger force in the book industry is taking over. Amazon announced today that they have acquired Goodreads for an undisclosed amount of money, but the deal should close by the end of Q2 2013.
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Amazon expands X-Ray feature to TV shows
Back in September, Amazon announced a new feature for Kindle devices called X-Ray, which essentially gives users more information about the movie they're watching using data from IMDb. However, Amazon announced today that the feature is now expanding to include TV shows, meaning that you can now find out more information on that new television series you just started watching.
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Amazon reportedly in talks about a subscription music service
Amazon is reportedly thinking about starting its own subscription music service. Perhaps it wants to jump on the bandwagon all of the other big companies, like Google and Apple, are on. Sources have told The Verge that Amazon is aiming towards creating a service that's similar to Spotify's, where users can choose which song or artist they want to listen to, instead of creating a radio streaming service like Pandora's.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recovers Apollo 11 rockets from the ocean
Last year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced that he would be hiring a team of explorers to locate the remains of the Apollo 11 rocket and recover them from the ocean floor. Almost an exact year later, Bezos has announced that the Apollo 11 rockets have indeed been recovered and are in the process of making their way back to land where they'll be put on display.
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Amazon: $99 Kindle Fire HD “not happening”
Though there was a lovely little rumor very recently surrounding the Kindle Fire HD and a bottomed-out $99 USD price point, today an Amazon representative has spoken up to dispel such madness. Speaking with SlashGear about the possibility of a $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet, Amazon said that their current price point was as low as it was going to go. They did add that "that hardware" was what was tied to the price point, however, perhaps suggesting that a newer model may be in the pipeline.
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