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Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Apple are readying new devices for later this year

Susan Wilson — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:33:31 +0000

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Amazon eyeing up chain of retail stores

Dave Parrack — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:57:39 +0000

When a company which has single-handedly killed off many bricks-and-mortar retailers plans a chain of retail stores itself, you know the world has gone mad.

Amazon can be blamed for forcing many companies out of business. They, and the [...] Related posts:

Cloud services are vying for government business

Susan Wilson — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:33:48 +0000

While many people are still trying to figure out what “cloud computing” really means, [...] Related posts:

Amazon Kindle tops ‘Unused Xmas Gifts’

Dave Parrack — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:13:00 +0000

By the new year I had pretty much used, consumed, worn, or broken everything I had been bought for Christmas. The same cannot be said of most people.

According to a survey conducted by MyVoucherCodes (via PC Advisor) a great [...] Related posts:

Kindle Fire: Normal is as normal does

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:51:36 +0000

Oh my goodness gracious, Kindle Fire sales are expected to plummet — plummet, I say — this quarter. Are the good times over, the end nigh? Actually, a big fall off after the holiday quarter is perfectly normal and Amazon’s tablet-ish media slate has a case of the post-holiday blues. But how blue [...] Related posts:

Amazon’s Zappos deals with hacking fallout

John Lister — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:53:16 +0000

An Amazon footwear subsidiary has reported an estimated 24 million customers are affected by a security breach. But while it’s only the sloppy password brigade who’ll suffer among the public, it’s Zappos itself that’s getting the most hassle.

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Solar Kindle charger brilliant but unnecessary

John Lister — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:55:49 +0000

Successful tech products usually meet two criteria: they involve a solution that while technically complex to carry out, is based on a simple concept; and they solve a genuine problem, even if the marketing team sometimes have to make customers [...] Related posts:

Amazon owns Christmas, future of retail

Dave Parrack — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:42:20 +0000

Amazon owned Christmas 2011, and now owns the future of retail. All thanks to its Kindle range of eBook readers and tablets.

Amazon has seen fit to issue a press release bragging about how well it did over the [...] Related posts:

Kindle Fire: High sales and high returns

Ronald O Carlson — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:44:57 +0000

Remember Christmas 2010 when Samsung bragged how many Galaxy Tabs it shipped only to waffle about the number it sold? Ultimately, Samsung sold very few and a big percentage of those that did were returned to stores by consumers. Technology watchers are now asking whether Amazon’s Kindle Fire is experiencing similar problems.

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Kindle Fire a loss leader

John Lister — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:14:05 +0000

If you wondered how Amazon could sell a reasonably decent tablet computer for two hundred bucks and still make a profit, the answer is that it doesn’t. A breakdown of the Kindle Fire’s components gives the clearest insight yet that the company is taking a financial hit on sales [...] Related posts: