Author: matthew
Amazon Picks Up Goodreads For Kindle Social and More
A few weeks ago, Amazon announced that they were going to acquire Goodreads, one of the most popular social sites on the internet for book lovers. Goodreads has become a…
Amazon Acquires Ivona Software
Amazon announced today that they will acquire Ivona Software. Ivona is the company that currently supplies the Kindle Fire line of tablets with its speech recognition capabilities. Although there is…
Kindle Fire HD 8.9” First Impressions
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 8.9” tablet is now shipping out to many of those who got their preorders in early. While new customers will have to wait until at least…
Kindle Fire HD 8.9” Takes on iPad But May Face Other, Unexpected Competition
We’ve recently talked about the release of the new Kindle Fire HD 8.9”. It’s a solid device that gives every indication of being worth an investment. While not quite as…
Amazon Offers Unity Plugins to Kindle Fire Developers
Amazon has been making an effort to interest app developers, especially game developers, in their distribution platform lately. As has been mentioned here in the past, their GameCircle will allow…
Kindle Black Friday Specials for 2012
Every year Black Friday sales get more hyped and involve more ridiculous deals. In some cases that’s a bad thing, especially when it involves camping outside stores for silly amounts…
Amazon Kindle Turns 5
As of November 19th, the Kindle is five years old. Since its first incarnation we have watched it go from a fairly clunky attempt at introducing something new into the…
Send to Kindle Becomes Browser Staple
For the most part Amazon’s “Send to Kindle” program has worked out extremely well for them. It creates a convenient means to send just about any readable content you have…
Amazon Expands Android Game Development With “Air Patriots”
It’s clear that Amazon has an interest in building popularity for their gaming features through the site’s Appstore for Android. Social gaming is a huge attraction for customers as evidenced…
Kindle Paperwhite Hands-On Review
Having used the Kindle Keyboard for quite some time and enjoyed it to the point of returning my Kindle Touch when it didn’t quite meet the same standards (it was…