Tag: amazon

Amazon Kindle app now comes with cheat sheets and landscape view

Amazon has rolled out an update to their iOS application today. Along with being able to view the books in portrait mode, you’re now able...
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Amazon starts selling iPads

Still having a hard time getting your hands on an iPad through official Apple channels? In addition to checking out your local Target, you might...
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Kindle kicks the iPad where it hurts in new advertisement

It’s hard to roll with the punches when a punch lands in a soft spot. We can’t argue at all with the advertisement from Amazon,...
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Amazon selling ABC and Fox shows for 99 cents, but they still don’t get it.

Amazon, in an attempt to try and steal Apple’s thunder yesterday, have decided they’ll be selling ABC and Fox shows for 0.99 in the short...
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12 charged in iTunes and Amazon song royalty fraud

So you and your mates are at the pub one night, and you hatch a brilliant plan to make some cash. You’re going to get...
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Kindle eBooks outselling Apple iBooks 60 to 1?

Why’s iTunes so damn successful? And what’s different between the iBooks store and the iTunes music store? Availability. Typing an obscure band into iTunes will...
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iLife 10 shipping in September?

iLife 09 is getting a little bit long in the tooth, and we’d fully expect an update sooner rather than later. Apparently we’re not the...
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Logitech Rechargeable iPod dock on sale

We don’t normally toss up information on sale items, but this one’s too good to pass up, and since I’m in the market for a...
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First Look: Amazon releases iPad app for shopoholics

If you can’t wait until you get home to buy something on Amazon, you’re in luck.  Amazon’s decided that they needed to release an iPad...
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iPad’s at Best Buy Saturday at 9 AM, but don’t get too excited.

So far we know that the only place to get an iPad on launch day is at the Apple Store, or if you pre-ordered one...
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Kindle App includes Color e-books

Woke up this morning to an interesting screenshot of the Kindle app that is going to be released on the iPad as well as other...
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Amazon set to take on Apple’s ebook app by releasing OS X software.

It’s a happy day today for competition. Today, the largest e-book vendor on the market has announced that they’re going to be releasing an application...
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All the signs hint at a MacBook Pro refresh

Evidence has begun to suggest that we’re on the verge of a MacBook Pro refresh. Some of the most telling evidence has come from retailers...
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Amazon is slowly increasing ebook prices to be more in line with the Apple model

In the case of a free market economy, prices are supposed to rise and fall with the numbers of players in the system, and the...
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Amazon’s Kindle is making bold choices to compete with Apple’s iPad

When you hear the word “Kindle,” most people think of the eBook reader from Amazon. With its E Ink display, buttons to turn pages, and...
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3 reasons why the iPad’s going to put ebook readers out of business.

It’s taken me a couple of weeks to really come around to the opinion that the iPad is going to cannibalize ebook reader sales. I...
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An iPad to kill the Kindle?

So, the keynote is over, the lights have come back up, and now comes the punditry. Everyone’s spouting off that the iPad is going to...
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Amazon Announces Kindle Development Kit (insert fart app jokes)

On Thursday Amazon announced the February launch of a limited beta Kindle Development Kit (KDK), opening the popular e-reader to third-party developers. Many analysts and...
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