Tag: Amazon
Amazon Joins With HTC to Enter Smartphone Market
It appears that the long-rumored Amazon smartphone will become a reality at some point in 2014. We have heard talk and speculation about it since as early as 2011, but…
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…
Amazon Domain Grab Could Signal Kindle Feature Expansion
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is basically the company that controls how things are named on the internet. They decide whether a country has its own…
The Kindle and Tracking: Why Owners Aren’t Outraged
It is practically a given to many people that some amount of what you do on the internet is being tracked. There is occasional outrage over this, such as when…
Macs Get Send-to-Kindle Option
It hasn’t been all that long since we first saw the release of the Send-to-Kindle program for the PC, but it has already proven to be a huge improvement to…
Will Newly Revealed iPad 3 Kill Kindle Fire? Is Apple Even Trying?
After months of speculation and rumor about Amazon and Apple going head to head in an all-out Kindle Fire vs iPad 3 (or Mini, or HD) confrontation, we finally have…
Amazon Kindle vs Acacia: Patent Troll Tries Again
By now Kindle users have become familiar with the idea of sponsored screen savers on their eReaders when the devices are on standby. They are generally unobtrusive, don’t get in…
“Send to Kindle” Simplifies Kindle File Transfers
Users of both the Amazon Kindle and PCs in general may be pleased to note that Amazon has released a new software tool for the PC that will make it…
Audible Promo Makes Kindle Touch & Kindle Fire Even More Affordable
Amazon’s audiobook subsidiary, Audible, has a long standing promotion for new subscribers that could make your next Kindle upgrade significantly more affordable than expected. It is not a new thing,…