Category: Amazon
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…
Kindle Fire HD Teardown Shows Small Profits Compared to Competition
When the original Kindle Fire was introduced, it was a huge shock to see such a powerful device offered for so little money. It was literally the device that changed…
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD Ad Highlights iPad Mini Deficiencies
Amazon recently chose to run an ad comparing the Kindle Fire HD to its iPad Mini competition. Specifically, this ad called out the inferior display that Apple has decided to…
First Japanese-Language Kindles Coming Next Month
The move away from physical keyboards gave Amazon an easy route into any number of non-Anglophone markets for the first time. They’ve made good use of that since the Kindle Touch…