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• Amazon.com stock soars

  Online retail titan Amazon.com has seen its stock price soar after the release of quarterly earnings figures that trounced forecasts, with sales skyrocketing in the first three months of the year.

  By AAP | 27 April, 2012 09:26

  Tags: amazon.com, business, Jeff Bezos, kindle

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  A tablet for under a Benjamin?

  Product names are tricky, there's no doubt about it. If you're not going to use a meaningless string of characters such as "X77-P73" then you've got your work cut out for you because it's hard to find a good name that isn't already taken by some other company. Even internal project names have to be researched, checked that they are OK to use and vetted by lawyers for liability.

  By Mark Gibbs | 14 January, 2012 02:36

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• Amazon announces $199 tablet, new Kindle E-readers

  After months of hype, Amazon today announced the Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet with a $199 price tag. Amazon also refreshed its line of e-readers with a $149 Kindle Touch 3G, a $99 Kindle Touch without 3G, and a non-Touch $79 Kindle.

  By Jared Newman | 29 September, 2011 02:33

  Tags: amazon.com, Android, apple ipad, applications, browsers, consumer electronics, e-books, Google, hardware systems, kindle, smartphones, software, tablet PC, tablets

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  Amazon Kindle Tablet: Android tablet or eReader on steroids?

  Amazon is expected to unveil its Kindle Tablet at a press event in New York on Wednesday. From what we know so far about the device, it seems like it might be the first tablet rival capable of really competing with the Apple iPad. Based on the size and use of the Kindle brand, though, it is reasonable to wonder whether the Kindle Tablet is a true tablet PC, or just a Kindle with some tablet features.

  By Tony Bradley | 26 September, 2011 23:42

  Tags: amazon.com, Android, consumer electronics, hardware systems, kindle, smartphones, tablet PC, tablets

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  Amazon Kindle tablet announcement likely coming Sept. 28

  On September 28, the company will hold a press event in New York City, where it'll likely announce a tablet that's smaller but also much cheaper than Apple's iPad. Although the invitation doesn't say what Amazon will be talking about, the company rarely holds press events for anything other than new Kindle hardware.

  By Jared Newman | 24 September, 2011 05:31

  Tags: Apple, apple ipad, hardware systems, kindle, nook, tablet PC, tablets

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  Here's how Kindle tablet could shake up the market

  Amazon's unveiling of a Kindle tablet would shake up the industry and pose one of the biggest threats to the Apple iPad -- which is why the technology world has its eyes on the online retailer as it prepares for a media gathering in New York this week ahead of the holiday season.

  By Tony Bradley | 26 September, 2011 02:37

  Tags: amazon, Apple, apple ipad, Barnes and Noble, e-books, hardware systems, kindle, Lenovo, Motorola, nook, samsung, tablet PC, tablets

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  Amazon Kindle E-Book lending program: What it needs

  Amazon's plans to create a subscription-based lending library of e-books on the Kindle is just, at this point, a rumor -- but, despite the novelty of the idea, it's already running into problems, namely from major book publishers.

  By Brennon Slattery | 13 September, 2011 03:47

  Tags: amazon.com, Apple, consumer electronics, e-readers, kindle, netflix

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  Domain name suggests new Kindle will have stylus

  Readers who like to follow the bread crumb trails that gadget makers leave prior to the announcement of a new product might want to digest this morsel uncovered today in the whois registry: kindlescribe.com. This domain name, registered by Amazon.com Holdings, could be a tip-off that a stylus may be the future of the company's best selling e-reader.

  By John P. Mello Jr. | 23 August, 2011 08:29

  Tags: amazon.com, consumer electronics, e-readers, kindle

• Amazon.com sales leap, profit drops

  Amazon has reported that its profit slipped as revenue leapt on hot sales of Kindle electronic readers subsidized by advertising.

  By AAP | 27 July, 2011 10:38

  Tags: amazon, business, kindle

• 20 events that shaped the Internet, part 1

  Today we all use our smartphones and our broadband-equipped home and work PCs to instantly access information and data on just about any topic via the Internet.

  By Todd R. Weiss | 04 April, 2011 23:42

  Tags: broadband, craigs list, ebay, Facebook, Google, internet, iTunes, kindle, media streaming, networks, nook, Telecommunication, twitter, web, youtube

• 20 events that shaped the Internet, part 2

  We take the Internet for granted now, but a lot of developments helped to make it the gargantuan shopping, socializing, commerce-helping, video-sharing behemoth it is today.

  By Todd R. Weiss | 04 April, 2011 23:43

  Tags: broadband, craigs list, ebay, Facebook, Google, internet, iTunes, kindle, media streaming, networks, nook, Stanford University, Telecommunication, twitter, web, youtube

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  eBookFling brings digital libraries to Kindle, Nook

  When e-book lending came to the Nook - and then eventually to the Kindle - it opened the gates for e-reader owners to connect and spread the wealth of literature. But despite the popularity of e-readers, chances are that not all of your book-loving friends owned one, or they "went tablet," so swapping was limited-until eBookFling.

  By Brennon Slattery | 28 January, 2011 03:59

  Tags: amazon.com, consumer electronics, e-readers, kindle, netflix

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  Apple pushes color e-books; Where's Amazon?

  Playing up one advantage of the iPad over E-ink readers, Apple said on Tuesday that it will launch more than 100 color e-books in its iBookstore. And not just children's books, either -- among Apple's new offerings are "Ad Hoc at Home," a cookbook by famous chef Thomas Keller; "Beginnings," by photographer Anne Geddes; and Ansel Adams' photo collection, "In the National Parks."

  By Jared Newman | 16 December, 2010 09:12

  Tags: amazon.com, Apple, apple ipad, Barnes & Noble, consumer electronics, e-books, e-readers, kindle, tablets

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  Like it or not, the iPad is a Kindle-killer

  Results of a survey conducted by ChangeWave indicate that the Apple iPad is killing the Amazon Kindle in the e-reader market. However, the two devices are actually not direct competitors, and the ChangeWave survey results reflect a different reality than what it might seem at face value.

  By Tony Bradley | 03 December, 2010 06:29

  Tags: amazon.com, Apple, apple ipad, consumer electronics, e-books, e-readers, hardware systems, kindle, laptops, tablet PCs, tablets

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  iPad gains on Kindle in e-reader race, but does it matter?

  The race to become the most popular e-reading in the United States is down to Apple's iPad and Amazon's Kindle, according to a recent survey of 2,800 e-reader users by ChangeWave Research. ChangeWave found that Kindle's market share dropped in November by 15 percentage points to 47 per cent of the market compared with the results from a survey ChangeWave conducted in August. Apple's iPad, meanwhile, has jumped by 16 points to take up 32 per cent of the market.

  By Ian Paul | 02 December, 2010 01:34

  Tags: Apple, apple ipad, ChangeWave Research, consumer electronics, Handhelds / PDAs, kindle, sony, tablets