Offline Shopping is Alive and Trampling
Sixteen years since Amazon launched. Well into an era when we can buy anything with a click. Why are there still Black Friday headlines about shoppers trampled in a mad effort to get their mitts on the latest offline deal? Take it from a guy named Keith who nearly bought it at the entrance to…
Where Should You Buy Beatles Music?
With all the hoopla around The Beatles’ arrival on iTunes, you’d think it was the first time their music was available anywhere. Not so! And while iTunes prices the Fab Four’s box set competitively, how does it do with albums? https://gizmodo.com/the-beatles-are-now-on-itunes-5691238 Even though Apple’s got digital distribution rights locked in at least partway through 2011,…
Amazon’s 3G Kindle Leaps China’s Great Wall of Censorship
Chinese users of Amazon’s Kindle get an unexpected bonus along with being able to read The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo—they can use the device’s Whispernet 3G powers to leap over the Great Firewall of censorship. Amazon’s Kindle 3G Whispernet service is pulling a fast one on the Chinese censorship-happy government, and giving Chinese Kindle…