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Feb
23
2010

Amazon and Microsoft to share their patents

Microsoft and Amazon have announced on Monday the signing of an agreement under the terms of which each of the two companies can access the catalog of patents owned by one another. Fiscal terms of the partnership were not specified, but Microsoft says that Amazon will pay a sum of money not provided in return [...]

Jan
12
2010

Amazon Kindle DX start shipping on 19th Jan

Amazon.com announced that the “Global Wireless” version of e-book reader Kindle DX will be on sale from Jan19th in many countries. Kindle DX Wireless Reading Device (9.7″ Display, Global Wireless, Latest Generation) is priced at $489.00 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Amazon has already experienced strong sales of electronic books [...]

Jan
6
2010

Amazon launched its Kindle DX in 100 countries at once

On January 19th Amazon will release their new reader in 100 countries at once and no doubt the Kindle DX is much better than the others in each and every aspect. The biggest improvement is to admire the pictures on a big screen big . Apart from that the download is still roaming via 3G [...]

Dec
29
2009

Books to meet similar fate of the newspaper!

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read, said  G.K. Chesterton – one of the most prolific 20th century English writer also hailed as the Prince of paradox. But the amazing feat of technological brilliance aided [...]

Dec
29
2009

Apple gains on iPhone sales and Tablet report

Speculators and investors make the most of numbers floating around Brisk sales of Apple iPhone this holiday season prompted analysts to upgrade Apple’s share target price. Apple iPod touch 8 GB along with the Kindle Wireless Reading Device and Garmin nuvi 260W 4.3-inch GPS were the best selling electronics devices, according to Amazon during the [...]

Dec
29
2009

Kindl(e)ing a mania

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Dec
28
2009

Amazon’s Kindle Is Its Top Selling Holiday Product Ever

Kindle most purchased device on Amazon, followed by iPod. Not good news for publisher The Kindle has become the most purchased item given as a gift in the history of the powerful e-commerce site, Amazon.com. And, Amazon announced that “On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.” [...]

Dec
26
2009

Celebrations shopping hit with DDoS attack

Before the celebrations, shopping sites in Northern California were affected by an attack from DDoS service outage. Neustar Inc. runs UltraDNS service provides DNS service to Amazon.com and Amazon Web Services. The sites were blocked because their DNS provider Neustar was hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Wednesday. During the denial-of-service [...]

Dec
23
2009

BT Signed Five Millionth Broadband UK Customers

BT Signed Five Millionth Broadband UK Customers – BT annunciated that it has signed up five millionth broadband UK customers. And, that lucky five millionth customer is a woman named Elizabeth Patterson of East Kilbride situated in Glasgow and on 9 December, she was presented with a trip to Winter Olympics to see people acting [...]

Dec
14
2009

Kindle for iPhone App available in more than 60 countries: Amazon

Today Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced happily that Kindle for iPhone App for iPhone and iPod touch is now available from the Apple App Store in more than 60 additional countries. Now users can synchronize reading between Kindle, computer iPhone or iPod touch with the help of Kindle for iPhone App. This application allows user [...]