It's "friggin' huge," as my colleague Jared Newman recently quipped, and Samsung's Galaxy S III is also going to be friggin' expensive if you're in the U.S. and want firsties. While the phone's stateside launch date is still "early June," Amazon has started taking pre-orders for the international version.
Last year, Google announced that it was taking its Street View cameras to Brazil. It mounted its state-of-the-art cameras on two vehicles — a small motorboat and a tricycle — and explored what the jungle had to offer. The results of the company’s efforts are available today.
The only surprise about Amazon’s move to acquire Kiva Systems for $775 million is that it didn’t come sooner. Kiva is a robotics company focused on making warehouses more efficient. Amazon spent $4.6 billion on warehouses last year. The expression “no brainer” seems fitting.
The long-awaited Galaxy Nexus just went on sale today at Verizon for $300 with a two-year contract. Amazon, however, has already discounted the phone to $150 in its own wireless store.
Amazon revealed that it’s selling Kindle e-book readers like hotcakes: over a million per week for the past three weeks.
So you’re a tweaker, and you’d like to do more with the Kindle Touch than Amazon allows, but the previous methods of jailbreaking Amazon’s e-readers don’t work anymore. Fortunately, a new exploit allows you to hack the first-generation Kindle Touch in three easy steps.
With being tasered and pepper-sprayed apparently on the menu for those brave and potentially misguided souls who braved the post-Thanksgiving Black Friday sales in person this past weekend, perhaps it’s no surprise that online sales during the day went up 26% from last year, with an estimated $816 million being spent by Americans online during that one day alone.
And the crazy rollercoaster ride that is Netflix’s fortunes continues: The company announced yesterday that it has agreed to sell around $200 million in shares plus an additional $200 million in convertible bonds via private placement in an attempt to raise cash, while simultaneously revealing that it expects to spend the entirety of the next year in the red.
The 7-inch tablet market just got a whole lot more interesting, with the newly-released $199 Kindle Fire and the $249 Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. So which one is best?
Now that Amazon’s in the tablet business with the Kindle Fire, the rumor mill is starting to make noise about a Kindle Phone to follow.
The endlessly curious, deconstructive folks at iFixit have had a look inside Amazon’s just-released Kindle Fire and returned to tell the tale: It has the heart of a Playbook.
