Jeff Bezos is toying with our emotions.
Speaking to Consumer Reports, the Amazon Chief Executive delicately suggested that there’s a tablet in the works. “Stay tuned,” Bezos said when asked directly whether Amazon is making a tablet.
But don’t call it a Kindle killer. Should Amazon launch a tablet, Bezos said, it would be …
Google’s apparently decided they’re going to unveil its music service – with or without the support of music industry execs. Let’s get ready to rock ‘n roll.
According to several reports, Google’s is preparing to show off its cloud-based music service, Music Beta, during today’s I/O conference in San Francisco. We’ve …
Apple is on a roll. Not content with becoming the biggest tech company in the world, the company has also ended Google’s four year reign as the world’s most valuable brand, according to a new study of global branding. And that’s not the only upset at the top of the chart.
Apple rose a stunning 84% in value globally to take the top …
As the saying goes, Spring is here, and so online booksellers’ thoughts turn to romance. Well, Amazon’s do, apparently; the online giant has announced the launch of Montlake Romance, the fourth imprint from its publishing arm.
Named after a neighborhood in Seattle, Montlake will, Amazon promises, “publish a broad range of front list …
For trendy shoppers who like to snatch up designer styles from the comfort of home, here’s another site to bookmark for your morning fashion crawl: Amazon’s MyHabit.com.
The Internet retailer is launching a membership-only shopping site that will offer daily deals of up to 60% off select designer-brand items for women’s, men’s …
It’s no stretch to consider that Amazon could really shake things up with a tablet just like it did with its Kindle e-book reader. And it’s looking more and more like an Amazon tablet will be an inevitability.
Word out of the Far East is that the Seattle-based retailer has placed tablet production orders with Quanta Computer, a …
For years, Apple’s iTunes has ruled the music-downloading world, conquering unsuspecting tweens one song at a time. But imagine if a new day were to come – one where Amazon would dominate, and you could get the most popular songs for a fraction of the normal price.
Only possible in an alternate reality? Not exactly. Amazon has a …
Last Thursday’s Amazon SC2 cloud outage made life on the Internet more difficult than usual (what do you do? #1stworldproblems), and as the dust begins to clear we’re finally getting a better survey of the damage done.
The Register is reporting that 0.07% of the Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volumes comprising the US-East Region …
The ongoing trademark war over the rights to the term “app store” just had another interesting turn. This time Amazon’s assertion of the phrase’s genericness cites a few key phrases used by Steve Jobs himself in a recent conference call.
GeekWire is reporting that the Seattle-based retailer has asked that Apple’s complaint be thrown …
Another day, another staggering mess for Amazon’s cloud-based web service, on the fritz since yesterday and causing chaos for sites like Foursquare, Hootsuite, Quora, and Reddit. As of this post, it looks like Reddit’s partly back, as is Box Office Mojo, but determining who’s up or not (or by how much) is like picking through a …
In technology’s newest arms race, it appears Apple may have beaten out Google in the dash to the cloud.
According to a new report from Reuters, Apple has finished working on a new iTunes-based music service that would allow users to transfer their music libraries onto remote servers. In addition to freeing up valuable hard drive …
For those of you keeping score: We got the first iPad about a year ago, then nothing for a long time, then a brief and expensive blip on the radar called the Samsung Galaxy Tab, then nothing for a long time, then the Motorola Xoom, followed a couple weeks later by the iPad 2, and now all hell’s breaking loose. The BlackBerry Playbook is …
