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“Amazon”

Dec
9
2009

Analyst forecast: Apple Table will hit market by spring 2010

Here comes another hint for Apple Tablets. And this time the news brings with it not only the existence of Apple Tablets but also says that it may launch around March or April. As reported via Fortune, Yair Reiner, an analyst at Oppenheimer based on his supply chain sources has revealed that Apple is readying [...]

Dec
7
2009

Apple Confirms LALA Acquisition

Apple spokesperson, Steve Dowling, confirmed acquisition of the online music streaming and downloading website LaLa by the music major Apple on Sunday. LaLa brings Apple the ability to scan users’ hard drives, create a duplicate music library that owners can access from Web-enabled devices, and sell songs for a dime each. But the key reason [...]

Nov
29
2009

Cyber Monday deals already out to sale at Amazon, Best Buy

Cyber Monday is the day when most of shoppers glue to their work systems for an online shopping as many online retailers allows various discounts to attract more people to make purchases. Cyber Monday is the Monday after thanksgiving, 30 Nov this year, but many retailers have already opened up their discount showcase. Making it [...]

Oct
15
2009

Enjoy e-book reading with new Google Editions

Search Engine giant now gets ready to launch its Google Editions, online service for booksellers that will let book lovers buy books and download and read them on every gadget that has web browser. Google Editions differ from the existing e-book services as it would require no dedicated device like Kindle from Amazon or Sony’s [...]

Oct
5
2009

Amazon launches easy-to-go 1-click Mobile Payment Service

Customer-centric online retailer, Amazon today announced about the launch of its Mobile Payment Service (MPS) for developers, merchants, and distributors of mobile applications to extend the ease of online purchasing process for their customers. Amazon Mobile Payments Service provides developers and merchants with a payment option for their customer that is as easy and familiar [...]

Jul
31
2009

School student sues Amazon, Kindle ate my homework

A high school student has sued Amazon, claiming the retailer ruined his homework on George Orwell’s 1984 by deleting the electronic version of the book without warning from the teenager’s Kindle. Justin D. Gawronski, who lives in Michigan, filed the lawsuit Thursday in federal court in Seattle. He was joined in the complaint by Antoine [...]

Jul
9
2009

Amazon cuts price of its Kindle 2 e-reader

Amazon Tuesday dropped the price of its Kindle 2 e-reader by $60 — the first time Amazon has ever cut prices on the Kindle since the initial version of the device debuted in 2007. The Kindle price cut, which brings the Kindle from $359 to $299, didn’t happen with nearly as much fanfare as the [...]