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Twitter Links to Amazon and iTunes Now Showing Previews

Whenever you link to an item on Amazon or iTunes, Twitter is now offering a preview of the content, with a little widget embedded in the tweet. This will likely help users, while netting Twitter some cash. [TheDigitalReader via SlashGear]

Commerce Kat Hannaford

Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core

When ShiftyJelly had one of its apps featured as Amazon’s Free App of the Day, they thought they may have hit the jackpot. Turns out to have been more like highway robbery. About three months ago, we set off on a little experiment into the world of the Amazon App Store. Back then people were…

Tech News ShiftyJelly

Amazon Prime Streaming Now Has 2,000 New Movies and TV Shows from NBC Universal

Amazon has announced a deal with NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution to bring over 2,000 new movies and TV shows to its Prime instant streaming video service. Some highlights include “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Being John Malkovich”. [Engadget]

Commerce Michael Zhao

Amazon and Barnes & Noble Give Up on In-App Purchases For iOS

Looks like Amazon and Barnes & Noble are finally bending to Apple’s new rules regarding in-app purchases. Both the Kindle and Nook apps have been quietly updated to remove the links to their respective ebookstores. https://gizmodo.com/apple-frees-publishers-and-users-from-app-stores-dracon-5810251 This comes shortly after Kobo, Inc. and the Wall Street Journal both announced they would no longer sell ebooks…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Amazon Instant Video Just Got 2,000 Shows Less Terrible

Amazon Instant Video: it’s nice if you’re an Amazon Prime customer, because it’s free and is incapable of causing physical harm. That’s been about the only upside though, given how shoddy its offerings have been. Enter CBS, who’s just made things slightly less miserable over there. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-amazon-instant-video-5767054 The Amazon-CBS deal will beef up the Instant…

Commerce Brian Barrett

You Can Rent Textbooks on Your Kindle for Cheap Now

Buying textbooks in college are annoying! They’re expensive, heavy, and instantly useless after finals. Amazon is trying to change the game with Kindle Textbook Rentals, it’s a service that lets students rent Kindle textbooks to save tons of money. Students can customize their textbook rental period (anywhere from 30 to 360 days) and from the…

Commerce Casey Chan

How to Ditch Netflix and Still Watch (Almost) Everything You Want

You’re outraged (OUTRAGED!) that Netflix’s price hike has stolen your cheap movie rentals. In fact, you’re going to delete your subscription. Forever. Now what? Here’s how to replace Netflix in your life, from streaming to shiny plastic discs. https://gizmodo.com/dear-netflix-its-time-to-get-your-shit-together-5820815 Here’s what you get with the new Netflix: Unlimited streaming is $8 a month. Unlimited, one-DVD-at-a-time…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Amazon’s Android Tablet Is Way More Than Just a Kindle

The Kindle isn’t the only special plastic rectangle Amazon wants you to buy: the WSJ claims the book-and-deodorant-and-virtually-everything seller is readying its Android tablet by October. And that’s besides the long-gestating touch Kindle. https://gizmodo.com/what-the-amazon-kindle-tablet-might-be-like-5785099 The proper tablet’ll be a nine-incher, forego a camera, and plug straight into Amazon’s media bank. But, the Amazondroid (keeping my…

Tech News Sam Biddle

Amazon Kindle 3G with Special Offers Gets Even Cheaper, Only Costs $140

The Kindle 3G with Special Offers—the one with the ads—is getting its price slashed by $25 (courtesy of an AT&T sponsorship) and will now only cost $140. That makes it $50 cheaper than the regular Kindle 3G. [AT&T]

Commerce Casey Chan

Hone Your Chopstick Skills With These Adorable Pandas

Chopstick newbies in training need to toss thier trainer sticks and pick up a Panda Darake practice kit instead. Besides improving your finger dexterity, it’s about the most adorable gadget I have ever seen. The kit includes chopsticks, a balancing tire and 12 tiny pandas in a variety of cute poses that just scream “pick…

Commerce Kelly

Your Kindle NY Times Subscription Finally Gets You Free NYTimes.com Access

As it was promised, so it has been given: those who (totally inexplicably) subscribe to the New York Times on their Kindles now have carte blanche access to the Grey Lady’s website. Congratulations! Although honestly why weren’t you just doing this the whole time? https://gizmodo.com/kindle-ny-times-subscribers-get-nytimes-com-for-free-5786578 Kindle New York Times Subscriptions Now Include Access to NYTimes.com…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Take That, Apple! Amazon Can Call Their App Store “Appstore” For Now

The war over the “App Store” name is far from over, but Amazon’s been granted a small reprieve by a US judge, having denied Apple from requesting a preliminary injunction on the use of the term. While the judge didn’t agree with Amazon’s claims that “App Store” (or even “Appstore,” as they phrase it) is…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Amazon Brings Its Cloud Player To The iPad, Adds Unlimited Storage

Amazon sweetened its Cloud Drive service by adding support for the iPad and giving both its free and paying customers unlimited storage. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-cloud-player-goes-live-will-let-you-upload-and-5786628 iPad owners can play their music by opening the web-based Cloud Player in mobile Safari. The web player is not as elegant as a native app, but it’s better than nothing. Amazon…

Tech News Kelly

Brazilian Ranchers Using Agent Orange to Illegally Clear Out Rainforests

Agent Orange is a forest-clearing herbicide that killed over 400,000 people during the Vietnam War. Almost 40 years later, ranchers in the Amazon region of Brazil are still using the substance to illegally clear out 440 acres of rainforest. According to Treehugger and the Brazilian environmental agency IBAMA, ranchers have turned to Agent Orange as…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Apple’s Secret Cloud Weapon Is Already Inside Your Phone

The battle for the cloud. That’s what keeps Google, Amazon, and Apple execs and engineers up at night. That’s where the next generation of tech dominance is going to be won or lost. Unless, as the WSJ suggests today, Apple’s already won. Google Music, Amazon Cloud Drive, and Apple’s iCloud may sound similar, but the…

Tech News Brian Barrett

AmazonFresh Lets You Order Groceries From Your Windows Phone

If you live in Seattle and use a Windows Phone 7 handset, you’re one of about 40,000 people that can take advantage of Amazon’s new AmazonFresh mobile application [Windows Marketplace]. AmazonFresh is the retailer’s grocery delivery service. It’s only available in Seattle and only available on the Windows Phone platform as a native app. iPhone…

Tech News Kelly

Best Buy Is Joining the Cloud Music Party

Best Buy has joined Amazon, Apple, and Google in the Great Cloud Race of 2011 by announcing their own Music Cloud. Sign up and you’ll get both a Mac or PC application as well as an app for your iPhone, Android, or Blackberry handset. After that, you can stream your favorite music both online and…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Rumor: Amazon Tablet Launching as Early as August

With Amazon’s big man Jeff Bezos himself confirming there’s a tablet in the works, we’ve moved on from hypothesizing over the likelihood of one, and started guessing what’s inside. Digitimes reckons suppliers have told them it’ll run on a TI processor, and use its movie-streaming service to lure people in from August/September when it’s supposedly…

Commerce Kat Hannaford

This Clock Built Into the Texas Mountains Will Tell Time For 10,000 Years

Right now, a clock that will tell time for the next ten millenia is being built into the Sierra Diablo Mountains in Western Texas. But why build a clock so monumental in scale? Because we can. The idea for a 10,000 year clock is now a classic. Computer scientist Danny Hillis dreamt it up back…

Commerce Kwame Opam

Kindle’s Most Prolific Self-Publishers Are Spammers

Amazon’s Kindle hasn’t just revolutionized the publishing industry by making dead tree tomes increasingly obsolete. It’s also opened the door to thousands of self-made Shakespeares, self-publishers who sell their written wares—sometimes very lucratively—online. Oh, and spam. Lots and lots of spam. https://gizmodo.com/this-26-year-old-makes-millions-writing-kindle-only-boo-5772384 The “books” are swarming the Kindle store in the thousands every month, powered…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Twitter Links to Amazon and iTunes Now Showing Previews

Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core

Amazon Prime Streaming Now Has 2,000 New Movies and TV Shows from NBC Universal

Amazon and Barnes & Noble Give Up on In-App Purchases For iOS

Amazon Instant Video Just Got 2,000 Shows Less Terrible

You Can Rent Textbooks on Your Kindle for Cheap Now

How to Ditch Netflix and Still Watch (Almost) Everything You Want

Amazon’s Android Tablet Is Way More Than Just a Kindle

Amazon Kindle 3G with Special Offers Gets Even Cheaper, Only Costs $140

Hone Your Chopstick Skills With These Adorable Pandas

Your Kindle NY Times Subscription Finally Gets You Free NYTimes.com Access

Take That, Apple! Amazon Can Call Their App Store “Appstore” For Now

Amazon Brings Its Cloud Player To The iPad, Adds Unlimited Storage

Brazilian Ranchers Using Agent Orange to Illegally Clear Out Rainforests

Apple’s Secret Cloud Weapon Is Already Inside Your Phone

AmazonFresh Lets You Order Groceries From Your Windows Phone

Best Buy Is Joining the Cloud Music Party

Rumor: Amazon Tablet Launching as Early as August

This Clock Built Into the Texas Mountains Will Tell Time For 10,000 Years

Kindle’s Most Prolific Self-Publishers Are Spammers

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