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Run For a Better World, Stack Some Blocks, and Crazy Pandas are Crazy

Running’s good for you. Running and jumping between buildings, not so much. I guess if you’re trying to save the world, and it’s free, and an app, it’s okay. If saving civilization seems like too much pressure for a Friday, you could snuggle up with some Tetris, or make a panda puzzle friend. Plus, if…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

HDR on the 3GS, Kill Space Zombies, and Are You Really Ready For Some Football?

Tired of your friends with the iPhone 4 and 4S showing you how awesome HDR is? Yeah, screw those jerks. You can get HDR for free today on your iPhone 3GS. That’ll show ’em. Dead Space won an award and now it’s cheaper and let’s play a football video game. No one’s ever thought of…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

The Best iPad Case Is Now Available For the Kindle Fire

Here’s the thing: most tablet cases are dumb. If you have a bag, you probably don’t need a case. It’s not your phone. You won’t drop it. But a great case can make it more aesthetically pleasing and useful. The Dodocase has always been the best-looking case for the iPad, hands down. Now the San…

Commerce Mat Honan

Take a RISK, Be the Bad Guy, and Wear That Ninja Mask

Board games are the ultimate family battle ground, if you don’t count dinner time. So gather ’round the kinfolk for the board game that made world domination fun. Plus, play as the bad guy for a change in dark RPG, and another ninja game gets all mystical, all in today’s app deals. iOS: RISK: The…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

Kindle Fire Wi-Fi Issues? You’re Not Alone.

The internet is all a-chortle with reports of Kindle Fire owners having trouble connecting to those self same internets. Amazon’s own forum is full of people who can’t connect to Wi-Fi, or can connect to Wi-Fi but not their network. It’s not entirely clear what the issue is and Amazon hasn’t acknowledged the problem in…

Commerce Brent Rose

Kobo Scrapes The Barrel and Offers a Free Book Each Month

It’s always amusing to see companies offering crappy offers in an attempt to boost sales. The latest is from Kobo, which is offering a free book every month to new Touch eReader owners. Amazon must be terrified. Clearly an attempt to compete with Amazon’s Lending Library, the deal starts in January and will allow new…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

Kindle Fire Auto-Update Scorches Roots and Potentially Shutters Android Marketplace

Amazon rolled out its newest software update for the Kindle Fire—version 6.2—last night. Initial reports indicate that it both de-roots your jailbroken device and removes access to the Android Marketplace. But don’t worry—the borking is reversible. Here’s how. Amazon has actually been rather sneaky about this update, providing very few details about the upgrade to…

Commerce Andrew Tarantola & Chris Beidelman

Amazon Hypes Its Kindle Success Without Actually Naming Any Numbers. Again.

Unsurprisingly, Black Friday was pretty successful for Amazon, which is shipping out Kindles at a staggering rate. As usual, though, we have no idea what that rate is. You dark horse, Amazon. Speaking to Business Wire, Dave Limp, Vice President of Amazon Kindle said: “Even before the busy holiday shopping weekend, we’d already sold millions…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

Price Check by Amazon: Make Sure You’re Really Getting a Good Deal

Tomorrow’s Black Friday. In the future, Thanksgiving will be known as Black Friday Eve. Families will condition their bodies to consume large amounts of poultry and starches to keep them fueled up for door-busting madness. While we await this dystopian future you can check out our Black Friday super chart and download Price Check by…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

Amazon Kindle May Be Damaged By Airport Scanners

Multiple users are reporting Kindles broken after going through airport x-ray scanners. Amazon is denying that x-rays can affect their electronic ink readers, but they are replacing the damaged units. The explanation may be another, according to Professor Daping Chu: I don’t think the radiation used in an airport scanner would ever be strong enough…

Commerce Jesus Diaz

Amazon Is Selling Nearly Every Smartphone for a Penny

If you buy a new Verizon, Sprint, or AT&T phone contract through Amazon Wireless in the next week, Amazon will sell you almost any of those carriers’ phones for a penny. (Guess which one’s left out). It’s not even Black Friday yet and Amazon is turning up the heat on it’s pre-holiday dealz. Turns out…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

Amazon’s Giving Away Free Music in Exchange For Longer Delivery Times

Some of us have to have everything right now. Others couldn’t give a crap if their new DVD turned up this week or next. Starting today, Amazon is rewarding its Prime users by offering free music store credit in exchange for longer shipping times. At the check-out, Prime member just have to select “FREE No-Rush…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

The Nook Tablet Is Better Than the Kindle Fire (But Only If You’re Clumsy)

Prone to dropping your electronics? Watch this pair of awkwardly dressed tech journalists dropping tablets onto concrete. Yes, it’s annoying. Yes, it’s waste. No, it’s not actually journalism. But it does turn out that the Nook Tablet is best if you’re a clutz. All that said, both the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet cope just…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

Amazon Loses $2.70 On Every Kindle Fire Sold

There had been rumors that the Kindle Fire cost more to build than Amazon was selling it for, and that rumor is true. According to iSuppli, every one of those tiny tablets costs 201.70 to build. The display is the most costly component in the Kindle fire, costing $87 to build. Other components, such as…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Amazon Might Make a Kindle Phone—But It Really Shouldn’t

The Kindle Fire is a success—tech-press bleating, a derision best summarized by the image of tears streaming down their faces onto an iPad. Amazon is a gear company now. Is a phone next? Please, no. The reasons why the Fire is a great machine are few and simple. It’s a conduit for Amazon Prime—it jacks…

Commerce Sam Biddle

Amazon Powers Silk With One of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers

All the hype surrounding Amazon at the moment centres on the Kindle Fire. But behind the scenes, they’ve been developing one of the world’s most powerful super computers — and it powers the Fire’s browser, Silk. The list of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers came out this week. The top 10, as usual, are owned…

Commerce Jamie Condliffe

Amazon Puts Kindle Fire Source Code Up for Download

There’s source code everywhere! A few days ago, Google released the source code for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and now Amazon’s released the code for its new Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire is pretty awesome, but it’s got a feeeew little UI quirks. The release will let hackers dig in and customize the…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

Watch the Kindle Fire’s Guts Dissected

The mad dismantlers at iFixit have their prying hands on the Kindle Fire, which means it’s time to rip that thing apart. If the silicon sadist inside you enjoys such things, read on—lots of pretty tablet innards await. There aren’t any surprises so far, but the team does not the Fire has a “monstrous” battery,…

Commerce Sam Biddle

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on CNN International

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined CNN International on December 15, 2011 to discuss Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Watch the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Commerce Scott Kidder

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on Bloomberg News

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown joined Bloomberg News on November 14, 2011 to talk about the Kindle Fire. Watch the clip above! For media requests, contact Kevin Prince at [email protected].

Commerce Scott Kidder

Run For a Better World, Stack Some Blocks, and Crazy Pandas are Crazy

HDR on the 3GS, Kill Space Zombies, and Are You Really Ready For Some Football?

The Best iPad Case Is Now Available For the Kindle Fire

Take a RISK, Be the Bad Guy, and Wear That Ninja Mask

Kindle Fire Wi-Fi Issues? You’re Not Alone.

Kobo Scrapes The Barrel and Offers a Free Book Each Month

Kindle Fire Auto-Update Scorches Roots and Potentially Shutters Android Marketplace

Amazon Hypes Its Kindle Success Without Actually Naming Any Numbers. Again.

Price Check by Amazon: Make Sure You’re Really Getting a Good Deal

Amazon Kindle May Be Damaged By Airport Scanners

Amazon Is Selling Nearly Every Smartphone for a Penny

Amazon’s Giving Away Free Music in Exchange For Longer Delivery Times

The Nook Tablet Is Better Than the Kindle Fire (But Only If You’re Clumsy)

Amazon Loses $2.70 On Every Kindle Fire Sold

Amazon Might Make a Kindle Phone—But It Really Shouldn’t

Amazon Powers Silk With One of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers

Amazon Puts Kindle Fire Source Code Up for Download

Watch the Kindle Fire’s Guts Dissected

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on CNN International

Gizmodo’s Joe Brown on Bloomberg News

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