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Cheaper Amazon Kindle DX an iPad Competitor

July 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon.com announced a new, updated version of its large-screen Kindle DX e-reader. While the original 6-inch Kindle has undergone price cuts in recent weeks, the Kindle DX had remained untouched–but increased e-books competition from the Apple iPad may have poked Amazon to release the new DX. – Amazon.com is announcing a new, cheaper version of the
Kindle DX, its large-screen e-reader, in a bid to remain competitive against
both rival devices and Apples iPad. Despite slashing the price of the original
Kindle, and increasing the supported devices for its Kindle software, Amazon
had left…


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Google Editions Allies with ABA in Ebook War vs. Amazon, Apple

July 1st, 2010 | No Comments

Google Editions is rolling out this summer with the American Booksellers Association (ABA) as a key partner, the New York Times said June 29. The ABA plans to make Google Editions the main source of ebooks on the Websites of hundreds of independent booksellers around the country. Google’s any Web browser, any device model is a departure from the proprietary format and device approaches favored by Amazon with its Kindle e-reader and Apple with its iBookstore for the iPad and iPhone. – Google Editions, the search engine’s effort to follow the
trail blazed by Amazon’s Kindle in the market for electronic books, is rolling
out this summer with the American Booksellers Association (ABA) as a key
partner.
With Google as an ally, the ABA
plans to make Google Editions the main sourc…


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Amazon Releases Kindle for Android App

June 29th, 2010 | No Comments

The release of Kindle for Android adds to the number of devices capable of running Amazon.com’s e-reader software. The application requires Android OS 1.6 or higher, allowing it to run on the newest Android phones such as the Motorola Droid X, and includes the ability to adjust text size. Amazon.com recently enabled its Kindle app for Apple mobile devices to play embedded video and audio, possibly trying to appeal to readers who opt to purchase an iPad rather than a Kindle e-reader. – Amazon.com announced the release of Kindle for Android June 28, porting
its e-reader software to yet another family of devices. As competition in the
e-reader space continues to heat up, Amazon.com finds itself pushing Kindle
software and hardware updates in an effort to stay ahead of its
ever-…


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Amazon Adds Video, Audio to Kindle Apple Apps

June 29th, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon.com added embedded auto and video clips to its Kindle e-reader applications for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Amazon continues to aggressively back the Kindle e-reader device, which displays text on a grayscale e-ink screen, but a robust Apple app would conceivably allow the online retailer to carve off a certain percentage of readers who opt instead to purchase an iPad. Multimedia-enhanced e-reader applications will allow readers to listen to narration during a tour, for example, or watch a demonstration video for a cookbook or home-repair volume. – Amazon.com has added embedded audio and video clips to its Kindle e-reader applications for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch a feature seemingly designed to leapfrog not only Apples own e-reader, but also those of competitors such as Barnes amp; Nobles Nook. The new Amazon feature bakes more multimedia…


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Amazon, Rivals’ E-Reader Prices Have a Bottom: Analyst

June 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble may be engaged in an intensifying price war for their respective e-readers, with prices for the Kindle and Nook dropping, respectively, to $189 and $199. While some pundits have predicted that prices could drop even further, pressured by the companies competition with each other and the Apple iPad, one analyst suggests that e-reader prices can only fall so far, and the technologys slow evolution might inhibit increased sales. Stripped-down e-readers currently sell for just under $150. – Amazon.com and Barnes amp; Noble might be heating up the
e-reader wars this week, with tit-for-tat price cuts on their respective Kindle
and Nook devices, but at least one analyst thinks the companies current
strategy can only extend so far.
On June 21, Barnes
amp; Noble announced a price red…


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Google, Yahoo banned in Pak

June 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon, for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material. Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a man named [...]

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Amazon CTO Vogels: The Cloud Has Arrived

June 23rd, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, introduced by event emcee Joe Weinman of AT&T as "Mr. Cloud," was the most influential luminary on the Day 1 agenda of the GigaOm Structure 2010 conference in San Francisco. – SAN FRANCISCO — June 23, 2010 was a particularly busy IT news day in Silicon Valley.

Not only were two major IT conferences (GigaOm Structure 2010 and
O’Reilly Velocity) being held concurrently, but the motorcade of
visiting Russian President Dmitri Medvedev clogged the Bayshore 101
freew…


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FCC Prepares for Broadband Regulation Inquiry to Joy of Google, Amazon

June 18th, 2010 | No Comments

The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 June 17 to solicit feedback on ways to regulate broadband access. The key proposal includes FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s plan to define broadband access as a telecommunications service subject to "common carrier" obligations, which calls for all data traffic to be equally treated. Approved by Web services providers such as Google and Amazon.com, this "light touch" aims to strike middle ground by rejecting the enforcement of legacy phone regulation to broadband, as well as the elimination of broadband oversight by the FCC. – The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 June 17 to court feedback on
ways to regulate broadband access, with Democrats winning out over the
Republicans in a classic partisan matchup over the future of the Web.
The key proposal includes FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s plan to define
bro…


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Amazon Speeds Up Data Transfer for S3 Storage

June 10th, 2010 | No Comments

AWS Import/Export speeds up the movement of large amounts of data into and out of the Amazon Web Services platform by using portable storage devices for transport, Amazon.com says. – Amazon Web Services, which had the online storage market largely to itself
back in 2006 and 2007 but is seeing a lot of new competitors, is spiffing up
the data transfer apparatus for its Simple Storage Service.

Amazon.com on June 10 launched AWS
Import/Export for S3 to accelerate data transfe…


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HTC EVO 4G creates new sales record

June 8th, 2010 | No Comments

The HTC EVO 4G has established a new record in sales as it clocked sale of 320,000 units of the smartphone on its first day of launch on June 4. Earlier, Sprint held the record for the sale in the U.S.
This estimate of sales has been reported by research firm FBR Capital Markets. [...]

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Amazon.com’s Kindle In All Target Stores June 6

June 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon.com plans to release its Kindle e-reader in all Target stores starting June 6, creating a bricks-and-mortar sales channel to complement its online device sales. The Kindle competes against Barnes & Nobles Nook and the Apple iPad. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos recently suggested that his company’s strategy to combat the iPad would be to focus on the Kindle’s e-reader capabilities and its proficiency as a dedicated device. According to an online report, the Kindle will retail at Target for $259. – Amazon.coms Kindle e-reader will debut in all Target stores
June 6, creating a new bricks-and-mortar sales channel for the device.
According to a June 2 Reuters report, the Kindle will retail for $259.
The broader rollout implies that Targets more limited
Kindle offering, which started in late A…


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Amazon Kindle Focus Remains Ebooks, Bezos Says

May 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos says the Kindle e-reader will compete against the Apple iPad by remaining dedicated to the e-reader experience, which seems in keeping with the mobile device’s Version 2.5 software update, which will include social networking features, but only in an ebook context. By contrast, Barnes & Noble seems to be attempting to offer more PC-like functionality in its Nook e-reader with a beta Web browser and Android-based games. – Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos indicated
during an annual shareholders’ meeting that the online retailer’s Kindle e-reader
would compete against the Apple iPad by focusing on the e-reader experience.
Although the Kindle remains a strong seller, it faces increased competition
from Apple’s tablet devic…


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Asus Puts Amazon Kindle for PC on Netbooks, Notebooks

May 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Several Asus netbooks and notebooks sold by Amazon.com will now come with the Amazon Kindle for PC application preinstalled. Among other features, the app allows users to sync their e-books across their Kindle, PC or Mac, or to enjoy e-reader features without actually owning a Kindle. – Asus announced May 24 that the Amazon Kindle for PC application will
come preinstalled on several lightweight Asus netbooks and notebooks
for sale on Amazon.com.

The Kindle for PC application acts as a stand-in Kindle e-reader,
allowing users to sync pages and pick up where they left off o…


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Amazon S3 Launches Cheaper Level of Online Backup

May 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is designed to store noncritical, reproducible data and files at lower levels of redundancy than Amazon.com’s standard storage, meaning fewer replications on less-expensive disk storage in the S3 data center. – Amazon Web Services, perhaps feeling pressure from a spate of competing
services from conventional storage companies as well as startups, came out May
19 with what amounts to a price cut option for its Simple Storage Service cloud
backup service.

Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage is
design…


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Amazon Updates Kindle for PC App

May 19th, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon announced updates to its free Kindle for PC application, including the ability to edit notes and marks, change background color, and activate a full-screen reading mode. The announcement comes a day after the online retailer announced a version of its Kindle software for Google Android smartphones. Amazon’s pace of announcements suggests an internalized need to stay competitive in the face of strong rivals such as Apple’s iPad and the upcoming Google e-books storefront. – Amazon.com announced updates to its free Kindle for PC
application, a day after announcing that the e-reader software would become
available “soon” on Android-based devices. The rapid-fire pace of Kindle
announcements suggests that Amazon is looking to build out its e-reader
franchise at a time …


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Kindle for Android Coming, Says Amazon

May 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Amazon.com announced the upcoming release of its Kindle e-reader software for Google Android devices, which will run on any device loaded with Android OS 1.6 or higher and equipped with an SD card. Free Kindle software is already available for Windows PCs, Macs, iPhones, iPads and the BlackBerry franchise, suggesting that Amazon sees spreading its Kindle software just as important as selling the actual Kindle device. The announcement comes as Amazon faces competition not only from the Apple iPad, but also Googles plans to sell e-books via Google Editions. – Amazon.com may emphasize in every venue it can the popularity of its Kindle e-reader device. But with the May 18 announcement that free Kindle e-reader software will be available “soon” for Google Android smartphones, it seems the online retailer is paying just as much attention to porting Kindle fu…


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Amazon Helps U.S. Government Move to the Cloud

May 14th, 2010 | No Comments

The U.S. Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has announced that it has moved its Recovery.gov site to a cloud computing infrastructure powered by Amazon.coms Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for potential benefits such as more efficient computer operations, improved security and reduced costs. – <p>The U.S. Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has announced that it has moved its Recovery.gov (http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/home.aspx) site to a cloud computing infrastructure powered by Amazon.coms Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for potential benefits such as more efficient computer ope…


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Google all set to introduce its eBooks service this summer

May 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Google has announced to launch the Google Editions soon this summer. The eBooks service from Google will enable the users to download eBooks on variety of devices like mobile phones, eBook readers or PCs. Google Editions was introduced last year at the Frankfurt Book Fair which is now expected to bring have half a million [...]

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Google Editions Launching This Summer to Challenge Amazon, Apple

May 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Google will begin selling electronic books online as early as June through Google Editions, a Webstore geared to challenge online books offered through Amazon’s Kindle e-reader and Apple’s iPad. Amazon has sold more than 3 million Kindles to date, while Apple has shipped 1 million iPads through less than a month. Those devices keep digital books tethered through digital rights management software; Google Editions aims to lets users read books from practically any desktop, laptop or mobile gadget that features a full Web browser.
– Google will begin selling electronic books online as early as June, vying
with the likes of Amazon and Apple in the effort to make money from digital
content.
Google will sell some of the 12 million-plus books its has scanned online
through Google Editions, a Webstore geared to challenge online …


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