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Amazon’s Prime Instant Video Goes Live: Netflix Need Not Worry (Yet)

Amazon’s Prime Instant Video Goes Live: Netflix Need Not Worry (Yet)

Amazon Prime subscribers have received a bit of a treat, as Amazon just flipped the switch for Prime subscribers to...

Amazon, Not Developers, Will Set Pricing On Android App Store

Amazon, Not Developers, Will Set Pricing On Android App Store

It actually happened a while ago and nobody noticed until now. Here's how it will work. A developer can set...

How Physical Media Can Still Have a Future

How Physical Media Can Still Have a Future

It has become common wisdom that retail stores that carry physical media - CDs, books, movies in particular - are,...

1 Down, 2 to Go: Facebook Passes Yahoo! As World’s Third Largest Website

1 Down, 2 to Go: Facebook Passes Yahoo! As World’s Third Largest Website

On the Internet, size is everything. From May, 2008 to May, 2009, Facebook started knocking off established sites and moving...

Kindle Ad Burns The iPad In Direct Sunlight

Kindle Ad Burns The iPad In Direct Sunlight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUjF8qPZrUg I'm a fan of the Kindle, I really am. With books on the whole going by the wayside, the...

12 Websites That Stood The Test of Time

12 Websites That Stood The Test of Time

Millions of websites have had to go through hell and back to survive long enough to reach profitability, but there...

Apple, Amazon to be Probed for, Um, ‘Probing’ Competition

Apple, Amazon to be Probed for, Um, ‘Probing’ Competition

So, the Kindle Store and iBooks are going to save books, right? With writers and publishers getting paid and readers...

How Amazon Just Trumped Apple and iBooks in the eBook Wars

How Amazon Just Trumped Apple and iBooks in the eBook Wars

To the surprise of almost no-one, Amazon updated the Kindle recently. It's thinner, more sleek looking - and, most importantly,...

Magazines On Your iPad? It’ll cost ya

Magazines On Your iPad? It’ll cost ya

With the death of print in full swing with the popularity of e-books and e-newspapers on the rise, magazines will...

Thinner Kindle Coming Soon?

Thinner Kindle Coming Soon?

Amazon may be working on a third Kindle model with a thinner form factor, sharper screen and more responsive screen....

Apple Controls 70% of Digital Music Sold; 28 Percent of All Music Sales

Apple Controls 70% of Digital Music Sold; 28 Percent of All Music Sales

Apple’s iTunes music store controls a dominant share of the US digital music market with a 28 percent share of...

iPad May Exceed Sales Forecast Figures of 4 Million

iPad May Exceed Sales Forecast Figures of 4 Million

Apple recently announced that they hit the one million mark on sales of the iPad without the device even being...

Amazon, Barnes & Noble Plan eBook Apps For iPad

Amazon, Barnes & Noble Plan eBook Apps For iPad

Amazon and Apple may be actively engaged in an eBook war, but that hasn’t stopped Amazon promising a Kindle eBook...

Beta Kindle App Released for Mac

Beta Kindle App Released for Mac

Amazon's Kindle service is nearly fully Mac-compatible, as Amazon today launched a beta of their Kindle app for Apple computers....