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Amazon Lands Disney-ABC Streaming Content
Amazon continues to put pressure on Netflix. Today, Amazon Instant Video announced a streaming deal with Disney-ABC that mirrors a deal that Disney-ABC has with Netflix. Once again, Amazon is giving customers reason to drop Netflix.
The Disney-ABC streaming content involved in the Amazon deal includes Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Phineas and Ferb, Felicity, Greek and X-Men Evolution.
Netflix announced a similar deal with Disney-ABC, however that was just more of the same; Netflix was already showing Disney ABC streaming content.
Since raising prices,… More »
Amazon Tablet to Challenge the iPad?
Many made fun of the iPad when it was announced by Apple. But about 30 million sales later, no one is laughing. Instead, the rest of the tech world is trying to catch up.
Enter Amazon.
On Wednesday, Amazon is expected to announce a new Amazon tablet that will compete with the iPad. While the new Amazon tablet will be called the Amazon Kindle, it will be a big change from the Kindle product we currently know.
The new Amazon Kindle will be… More »
Apps & games coming to Kindle
Amazon has taken the wraps off of a new development kit (KDK – “Kindle Development Kit”) for active content on the Kindle. Translation: apps and games are coming to the world’s most popular ebook reader.
A beta is expected to begin for use of the KDK in February, when select software designers will be allowed to try their hand at creating interactive content for the Kindle. Amazon envisions this as an opportunity for developers to deliver something more than reading material…. More »
Online Retail Bright Spot in Sales
Over the past year or so, retail sales have taken a hit. The economic climate has consumers rethinking their spending habits, and looking for ways to save money and cut their budgets. As a result, the unnecessary spending that comes with retail has plunged. But it’s not all bad news. Online retail is providing a bit of good news. CNN Money reports on the bright spot that is online retail:
“Even in this tough economic climate, e-retail continues to be the… More »
Stuck Between a Nook and a Kindle
One of the items on my Christmas wish list for last year was an Amazon Kindle. I still don’t have one, and probably for the better because they’ve come out with a larger format version in the Kindle DX. Now there’s another player in the market with Barnes & Noble releasing their eBook reader, the Nook. The images above are not to scale of each other, but the center image is the Kindle DX which you… More »
Amazon on Relational Databases
Amazon has been at the forefront of cloud computing for the longest time and they have offered various cloud computing products like storage services & database services to the enterprise.
Another additional product on the Amazon web services is the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) which Amazon feels would help streamline processes of settings up, scaling and operating relational data over the internet.
Amazon vice president of web services, Adam Selipsky, have noted that they have been working on the relational database… More »
Kindle is Amazon’s New Cash Cow Item
Every company regardless of industry has their own cash cow product that propel their organization to the next level. Nike have their Jordan sneakers, Microsoft has windows, Google has their search engine, Hasbro has the Monopoly board game and the list goes on.
Amazon is a company built by Jeff Bezos named on the Amazon river which means they would carry everything on the planet. They launched their company on books but later on ventured on every possible item they can… More »
Barnes & Noble prepping Kindle challenger?
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the world’s biggest bricks-and-mortar bookseller, Barnes & Noble, is planning to take on Amazon.com in the ebook market with the pending release of its own B&N branded ereader device. Kindle, look out. You may finally be getting some serious competition.
Does Barnes & Noble have what it takes to take down the Kindle? If anyone can, it’s B&N, because they’ve definitely got the library of titles to supply an ereader device with… More »
Kindle drops to $259, goes international
Amazon has just announced another price drop for the Kindle 2, bringing the device down from $299 to $259. Amazon is also adding a new device to the Kindle family — which includes the Kindle 2 and the more recent Kindle DX with its larger reading screen. The newcomer is the Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless, which is available for pre-order now at $279, and will ship on October 19th.
The $40 price drop follows a similar cut back in… More »
Asus Plans Cheap, Double-Pane eBook Reader
The market for ebook readers grows daily, thanks to the success of Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s eReader, and now inexpensive tech maker Asus is preparing to enter the market with its own device. Here’s the twist: Asus plans to deliver more bang for the buck — at about half the price of Amazon and Sony’s products.
How they’re going to manage that remains a mystery, but Asus “Eee Reader” is said to have not one but two screens, both with full… More »
A Great Case for Kindle
Amazon Kindle is an awesome device that allowed users to store tens of books at a time on it’s device. I have been contemplating on buying Kindle for the longest time but since the wireless capabilities doesn’t apply in the Philippines, I have been holding off on buying this device. Although, I have noticed my book shelf has dramatically crowded over the past year, I am feeling good on getting a Kindle for myself. Another great… More »
Sony adopts ePub to challenge Amazon Kindle
Sony is dropping its own proprietary ebook format in favor of the open source ePub format, in a bid to take on Amazon’s dominance of the ebook market. Sounds kind of like the digital music industry trying to keep up with Apple’s iTunes, doesn’t it?
The ePub format was created by a consortium of major publishers, including Random House and HarperCollins. Sony will adopt the ePub format for all of its ebook readers — existing and new. The format is an… More »
Kindle erases George Orwell’s Books
It was right out of Orwell’s novel 1984, when Big Brother (aka Amazon.com in this instance) without warning its customers, erased the books Animal Farm and 1984 from its Kindle ebook inventory. And from the Kindle devices of those who’d paid for the books as well.
Oh, didn’t you know? They can do that. (Continues below image.)
The problem stemmed from the fact that one of Amazon’s digital publishers, a company called MobileReference, had placed the two books for sale on Amazon,… More »
Amazon Certificate for Your Coins
My drawer is filled with tons of coins, and often times they are already valued a lot. You can exchange your coins for bills but most probably you’d have to pay for an 8.9 percent fee. We want to save money especially when we are eyeing that favorite game ahead of us. How about the Madden 2010? NBA Live 2010? Anyways, go ahead and check Coinstar for locations of these machines where you can exchange your… More »
Tax on Amazon
NY Judge has decided to rule against the appeal of Amazon and Overstock about the new ruling which requires online retailers to collect sales tax.
In the current setup, online retailers are exempted from getting sales tax from people are transacting business where they do not have physical presence in the place.
Amazon and Overstock are hoping that the judge would not require the seller to pay taxes but Judge Bransten contends that out-of-state resellers should also shoulder their fair share of… More »
