Amazon launched Fire TV, a streaming media player for watching Netflix, Amazon Prime video, games and more. Amazon’s Fire TV can be plugged in to a HDTV and stream media content. Fire TV costs $99 and it is ready to be shipped. Fire TV is powered by a powerful quad-core processor, dedicated GPU, 2 GB […]
Amazon Drops Price of its AWS Services: EC2, S3, RDS, ElastiCache, and Elastic MapReduce
Amazon Takes a Dig at Apple iPad Mini with a Front Page Ad on Amazon
Amazon is taking a dig Apple’s iPad mini with a special front page ad on Amazon.com. Amazon’s front page ad uses a quote from Gizmodo’s take on iPad Mini You just made a 7.9-inch tablet, and you’re dissing 7-inch tablets as compromised? Not only that, as we showed earlier, your 7.9-inch tablet has far fewer […]
Amazon Begins Shipping Kindle Paperwhite
Amazon announced that it has started shipping Kindle Paperwhite Wi-Fi+3G starting from 1st October. Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon’s new “non-tablet” 2-point multi touch 6-inch e-reader. Kindle Paperwhite features Amazon’s paperwhite technology that offers higher resolution reading in all conditions. Amazon’s patented “buit-in from light” technology allows lighting towards the display from above instead of projecting towards […]
Amazon Introduces a New Family of Kindle Fire Tablets and Kindle Readers
It is a Kindle rain from Amazon. Amazon launched three new Kindle Fire Tablets and two new Kindle e-readers at a special event in Santa Monica, Calif.. The three new Kindle Fire tablets comes in all price and size ranges and officially taking on the Apple’s high-end tablet market. Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ 4G LTE, […]
Amazon Launches Print Textbook Rental Program For Students
Amazon announced that it will offering print textbooks for rent to college students. Amazon’s textbook rentals offers thousands of books to college students and a great opportunity to save money. The flexible rental program allows one to keep the textbooks for a semester. The program even allows students to write/highlight to some degree (Although it […]
Amazon Acquires Kiva Systems for $775 Million
Amazon.com announced that it is acquiring Massachusetts based Kiva Systems, a material handling technology company for $775 million. Kiva Systems was founded in 2003 by current CEO Mick Mountz with the goal to develop material handling equipments and technology. Kiva Systems website says that Mick sought the help of two engineering and robotics Professors Peter Wurman from […]
Amazon Black Friday Kindle Sales Increases 4 Times Over Last Year
Amazon announced it had the best Black Friday Sales for its Kindle portfolio. And Amazon Kindle Fire is the best selling product since it was launched eight weeks ago. announcing the best thanksgiving sales Amazon Kindle Vice President Dave Limp said Even before the busy holiday shopping weekend, we’d already sold millions of the new […]
Amazon Reduces Kindle DX Price by $120
Kindle Fire Unboxing Photos
Amazon Kindle Fire has landed. Amazon has started accepting Kindle Fire orders a day earlier than it said. And for those who pre-orderded immediately after it announced Kindle Fire, Amazon made sure that Kindle Fire reached in time as promised. Kindle Fire’s reviews has also started pouring in. Overall it is a mixed bag of […]