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The Best Kindle Fire Covers So Far

The Kindle Fire’s not even a day old, but Amazon’s already pretty packed full of covers and sleeves. And with the Fire shipping today—a day early—we’ve rounded up some of the best to fit your particular needs. Standard Issue The official Amazon cover for the Kindle Fire is a simple nylon zip sleeve that comes…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

Kindle Fire Adds Hulu Plus and ESPN to Its App Bounty

Those concerned about Amazon’s curated Kindle Fire app approach have less and less reason to be concerned; in addition to the slew of games, Netflix, and Pandora announced earlier this week, Amazon’s got ESPN and Hulu Plus in its stable. https://gizmodo.com/kindle-fire-will-have-apps-for-facebook-netflix-pando-5857840 That takes care of a lot of heavy hitters, although the fact that Amazon…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Whoa: Amazon’s $79 Kindle Costs $84 to Make

That jaw-dropping $79 price point on Amazon’s new Kindle just got a little nuttier: It turns out the thing costs a $84.25 to manufacture, according to an exclusive report to Mainstreet by serial gear teardowner iSuppli. The $79 Kindle is the “special offers” version of Amazon’s ereader, which means it features localized advertisements on its…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

Why Does Amazon Need Its Own Voice Recognition Company?

Amazon has, apparently, ponied up for a speech recognition company called Yap, the Atlantic reports. Yap was an iPhone and Android app voicemail transcription service that would turn your audio voicemails into text, somewhat similar to Google Voice. It had generally positive reviews. It was purchased by a mysterious suitor in September, which CLT Blog…

Commerce Mat Honan

Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire: The Differences Add Up

We’ve just gotten a look Barnes and Noble’s new 7-inch Nook Tablet, and surprise! It’s very similar to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. But the differences that do exist—in specs, price, and usability—are telling. Here’s how it all breaks down. Let’s start with looks: the two both have 7-inch IPS displays, although the Nook Tablet is a…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

Amazon’s Shipping Lockers Are Live in NYC

Live in NYC? Hate waiting for your Amazon packages to arrive at your doorstep, or even worse, missing the delivery? Start using Amazon Locker, which routes your shipment to a nearby, publicly-accessible locale. https://gizmodo.com/did-you-miss-your-package-delivery-again-5788216 There are eight locations spread across Manhattan where you can route your packages to, provided they’re small and light enough (Seattle,…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Game Over: Amazon Prime Is Officially the Greatest Deal in Tech

Amazon’s Prime service began as a way to get your books and deodorant shipped to your door faster. Which was nice. Now, it’s turned into a cornucopia of digital everything: movies, TV, books. And as it’s grown, it’s turned into something else: the smartest digital ticket around. Amazon’s decision to give out free loaner Kindle…

Commerce Sam Biddle

Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Borrow Kindle Books for Free

This morning Amazon launched their Kindle Owners’ Lending Library which lets owners of their popular ebook reader, who also subscribe to their Prime service, choose from thousands of free titles to borrow without a due date. Like with books purchased from the Amazon store, the Lending Library can be accessed directly from the Kindle itself,…

Commerce Andrew Liszewski

Is Amazon Letting Publishers Ruin The Kindle (Updated)

Update 2: Last week, and throughout yesterday, I was unable to download 1Q84 on multiple devices, or share public notes and highlights. I can now, but largely thanks to this article. Amazon customer service initially identified this as an issue specific to the title. In fact, it now appears to have been an Amazon problem.…

Commerce Mat Honan

Find Out Which of Your Favorite Movies Are Streaming Right Now

A search engine that tells me if, and where, my favorite movies are available to stream right now. Oh hell yes! With the content licenses changing on a regular basis, having a dedicated search engine to find out if you can stream your favorite movies is a genius idea. CanIStream.it searches the movie libraries of…

Commerce Roberto Baldwin

Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To the Video Industry What the iPod Was To the Music Industry

Founding online video startups of his own and working as a principal analyst for Frost and Sullivan, Dan Rayburn is familiar with the inner working of tech companies. And he’s put this knowledge to good use on his blog StreamingMediaBlog.com. Today, Dan argues that the Amazon Kindle Fire will jumpstart a digital video revolution… Over…

Commerce Dan Rayburn

Amazon Sets the Record Straight on Silk’s Security

Silk, Amazon’s new “cloud accelerated” browser, has already drawn the ire of security experts and politicians alike since it funnels most of the tablet’s traffic through Amazon-controlled servers. Now, Amazon is providing additional details as to how Silk handles your data. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-silk-comes-under-congressional-fire-5849986 Silk operates by utilizing Amazon’s AWS cloud servers to download of web page…

Commerce Andrew Tarantola

Amazon’s Kindle E-Books Welcome HTML5 With Open Arms

The ePub e-book standard has always been built on top of HTML. As has MOBI. But now, Amazon is taking it one step further with their Kindle Format 8 standard, supporting HTML5-based formatting options. Future Kindle Fire owners, be happy. As TechCrunch points out, this means that devices utilizing KF8 will have a wider range…

Commerce Adrian Covert

Jeff Bezos Is Basically Lex Luthor

Remember that Google engineer who shit-talked his own company? He’s back! And this time he’s saying nice things—he’s had a personal run-in with Jeff Bezos, and is here to report just how insanely smart (and insane?) he is. https://gizmodo.com/google-engineer-calls-google-a-pathetic-afterthought-5849061 The account, ironically posted to Google+, describes a presentation he gave to Bezos, in a company…

Commerce Sam Biddle

Bartering Kindles, Biking Desks, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. After the Kickstand Desk Will Be the Kegstand Desk Because your work day doesn’t involve enough monotony…

Commerce Brian Barrett

Amazon Adds Streaming PBS Shows Aplenty

Perhaps to counter the recent addition of 24 and Ally McBeal, Amazon’s Prime Instant Video just snatched up a ton of smarty pants video from PBS. The terrific news series Frontline, classic Kens Burns docs, NOVA, and more. Amazon’s touting over 1,000 episodes of new PBS stuff ready to stream, which is great news—both Prime…

Commerce Sam Biddle

Barnes & Noble Might Be Ruining Comic Books for Everyone

Comic books on tablets are great. They’re one of the best parts of owning one, actually. But the backlash from DC making a bunch of its most popular graphic novels exclusive to Amazon could muck things up for everyone. After the deal went public, Barnes and Noble and Books-a-Million (the third-largest bookseller) pulled the 100…

Commerce Kyle Wagner

Amazon Silk Comes Under Congressional Fire

Amazon’s new web browser lets Amazon’s cloud servers do the heavy web processing so the Kindle Fire doesn’t have to. Now some legislators are concerned about the personal data Amazon will be able to collect in the process. https://gizmodo.com/what-is-amazon-silk-5844663 Amazon Silk is very intelligently designed—not only does it lower the price of the Kindle Fire…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

Amazon Places Kindle Fire Products In New “Seesaw” Spinoff

Presumably meant as a way to improve investment opportunities into the upcoming Kindle Fire tablet and other related products, Amazon has spun that device and the Fire brand into a new company called Seesaw LLC. Amazon has not made any public comments yet, but its trademark filings have confirmed that the company did indeed file…

Commerce Jack Loftus

The Kindle Fire Is So Cheap Because Amazon Built It That Way

The Kindle Fire is a huge deal in part at least because it’s so cheap. But reports that Amazon is taking a loss to make the tablet a bargain have been greatly exaggerated. The Kindle Fire is inexpensive by design. From the looks of it, the Amazon Kindle Fire is going to be amazing, and…

Commerce Mario Aguilar

The Best Kindle Fire Covers So Far

Kindle Fire Adds Hulu Plus and ESPN to Its App Bounty

Whoa: Amazon’s $79 Kindle Costs $84 to Make

Why Does Amazon Need Its Own Voice Recognition Company?

Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire: The Differences Add Up

Amazon’s Shipping Lockers Are Live in NYC

Game Over: Amazon Prime Is Officially the Greatest Deal in Tech

Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Borrow Kindle Books for Free

Is Amazon Letting Publishers Ruin The Kindle (Updated)

Find Out Which of Your Favorite Movies Are Streaming Right Now

Amazon’s Kindle Fire Will Become To the Video Industry What the iPod Was To the Music Industry

Amazon Sets the Record Straight on Silk’s Security

Amazon’s Kindle E-Books Welcome HTML5 With Open Arms

Jeff Bezos Is Basically Lex Luthor

Bartering Kindles, Biking Desks, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Amazon Adds Streaming PBS Shows Aplenty

Barnes & Noble Might Be Ruining Comic Books for Everyone

Amazon Silk Comes Under Congressional Fire

Amazon Places Kindle Fire Products In New “Seesaw” Spinoff

The Kindle Fire Is So Cheap Because Amazon Built It That Way

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