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You Can Now Explore the Amazon with Google Street View
Let us venture deep into the heart of the Amazon like Klaus Kinski. It won’t be easy; you’ll need to sit in your chair and, possibly, grab another Mountain Dew from the fridge. That’s because Google has finally brought the Amazon …
Amazon’s $775 Million Acquisition of Kiva Systems Could Shift How Businesses See Robots
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 …
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How to Jailbreak Your Kindle Touch for Future Customization
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 …
Black Friday Online Spending Up 26%, Apple and Amazon Increase Sales Fourfold
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 …
Netflix Sells Shares to Raise $400M, Admits 2012 Will Be Financial Bust
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 …
Two-Minute Video: Nook Tablet or Kindle Fire?
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. According to what you may have read, both of these tablets will surely kill the …
Let the Kindle Phone Rumors Begin!
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.
In a research note, CitiGroup’s Mark Mahaney says “we believe an Amazon Smartphone will be …
What’s Inside Amazon’s Kindle Fire: A PlayBook
iFixit gazes into the heart of Amazon’s Kindle Fire and finds it packs a few surprises.
Amazon’s Free Lending Library Ignores Contracts with Publishers, Authors?
Amazon’s Kindle Lending Library–which allows Amazon Prime customers to “borrow” one free e-book at a time from a selection of more than 5,000–may have been warmly received by Kindle users when it was announced last week, but …
