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Amazon Branching Out Into Original Programming For Web And TV

Amazon Branching Out Into Original Programming For Web And TV

Amazon wants to try it’s hand at developing original half-hour TV programming for internet and TV viewers and to reach that goal the company has posted two new jobs on Amazon.com as it shops around for TV executives who can […]

UK and Ireland PS3 Users Wake Up To Netflix App Installation, No Service

UK and Ireland PS3 Users Wake Up To Netflix App Installation, No Service

It was a good day to be a Playstation 3 user in the UK and Ireland, that’s because users of that particular gaming system woke up this morning to find the Netflix App among the consoles many TV and video […]

Kindle Fire Singed iPad Sales For 2011 Holiday Season

Kindle Fire Singed iPad Sales For 2011 Holiday Season

The jury is still out as to whether Amazon’s Kindle Fire- at less than half the price and lacking some major Apple restrictions- is exactly an iPad killer just yet. The second big-deal entry to the growing by leaps and […]

Google Targeting Amazon Prime With 1-Day Delivery, Rumor Says

Google Targeting Amazon Prime With 1-Day Delivery, Rumor Says

As far as internet services go, Amazon Prime is up there when it comes to reasonably priced conveniences. Even when I was a struggling marketing assistant and single mom, I ponied up the $80 yearly fee to keep the Santa […]

Cyber Monday Deals on Amazon Will Make You Glad You Didn’t Get Up at 3am

Cyber Monday Deals on Amazon Will Make You Glad You Didn’t Get Up at 3am

If you stayed up drinking too late on Thanksgiving and missed all the doorbusters this morning, take heart. A ton of decent deals await on Cyber Monday, and technically, through the rest of the season here and there. Amazon is […]

Penguin Books says no to e-book library lending

Penguin Books says no to e-book library lending

I’m still debating the whole getting an e-reader thing but there is no denying that they are becoming increasingly popular which means people are looking for more ways to get books on them, and one of those ways has been […]

Fathoming Amazon: 9 Things to Know (Infographic)

Fathoming Amazon: 9 Things to Know (Infographic)

Just how big is Amazon? The following infographic explains the 9 things you need to know about Amazon. (via Frugaldad.com)

Amazon Kindle Fire To Offer Free 3-Month Subscriptions [Wired, New Yorker And More]

Amazon Kindle Fire To Offer Free 3-Month Subscriptions [Wired, New Yorker And More]

When the Amazon Kindle Fire goes on sale this Tuesday the company plans to offer more than 400 magazine and newspaper subscriptions to go along with various other Amazon App Store programs and now we’ve learned that some of those […]

Amazon Acquires Voice-To-Text Company Yap, Announces App Store For Kindle Fire

Amazon Acquires Voice-To-Text Company Yap, Announces App Store For Kindle Fire

Amazon in September quietly acquired voice-to-text company Yap a buyout that was recently revealed in the company’s financial filing. While Amazon is not directly named in the filing the company is said to have been purchased by an organization located […]

Amazon Launches Lending Library For Prime Customers

Amazon Launches Lending Library For Prime Customers

In an effort to lure more Amazon customers to its paid Prime membership program, Amazon has launched a book lending library for Amazon Prime subscribers. The service costs $79 per year (with discounted rates for students and moms) and entitles […]

Charter Aggregates Amazon, Hulu, Netflix Content on Charter.net

Charter Aggregates Amazon, Hulu, Netflix Content on Charter.net

Charter Communications is taking three of the most popular streaming services- Amazon, Hulu and Netflix- and pulling them together to pool the content for subscribers on Charter.net. The mish-mash of content from the three services will increase the amount of […]

Netflix and Amazon Both Secure Walt Disney Deals To Stream ABC and Disney Channel Shows

Netflix and Amazon Both Secure Walt Disney Deals To Stream ABC and Disney Channel Shows

In a sign of the changing times for television both Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com signed internet streaming deal with Walt Disney Co. over the weekend. Under the terms of their deals the two rival companies will be given permission to […]

Hearst and Conde in With New Kindle Tablet, Time Isn’t- Yet

Hearst and Conde in With New Kindle Tablet, Time Isn’t- Yet

Details about Amazon’s expected upcoming Kindle Fire tablet have been leaking like a wiki as deals are closed and the Wednesday morning announcement draws nearer. The device is thought to kind of straddle a line between the iPad and the […]

Amazon Inks Content Deal With Fox TV, Just Ahead of Anticipated Tablet Launch

Amazon Inks Content Deal With Fox TV, Just Ahead of Anticipated Tablet Launch

So, the long-awaited Amazon tablet is finally expected to be announced later this week at a scheduled Amazon press event, and by law I am obligated to use the phrase “iPad killer” at least once in this post. Indeed, the […]