Posts Tagged ‘amazon’

Quorus, a social shopping site that facilitates better conversation between customers, merchants and customers friends, has had its entire team acquired by Amazon.  We covered the service a year ago, and chatted with the CEO, and are happy to see the smart team being picked up.  It’s not known whether Quorus itself will be utilized [...]

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I have found a way to access my Google Calendar information on the Kindle Fire other than by using the web browser. Unfortunately, the solution does require you to spend $9.99 to buy a key to use Exchange By Touchdown beyond 30 days, but you can try out the app for a month free first [...]

In a piece titled “How Amazon Is Making A Sucker Out Of Google” writer Mike Elgan suggests that Amazon is taking advantage of Google’s open policy towards Android and in the process could be destroying the Android ecosystem. Google provides Android for free as open source, which allows developers like Amazon to take Google’s work [...]

While Amazon wisely included a mail app on the Kindle Fire, I have been less than satisfied with it. The main problem I have with the Fire’s mail app is that it doesn’t work well with Gmail. Fortunately, I have found a free alternate in the Amazon Appstore called K-9 Mail that I think is [...]

Sharing a conventional paper book has been one of the most basic sharing activities for a long time. Sharing comes in the form of informal person-to-person lending or institutionalized library loans. This simplest and most basic of sharing activities has been, however, something that has not been easily adopted for digital books. The latest ebook [...]

Last week, Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney published a report identifying that Chinese suppliers of Kindle hardware are also in preparations to build an Amazon Kindle Phone.  This comes soon after Amazon’s launch of their $200 Kindle Fire device and signals that Amazon is serious about extending their reach to customers to include not just the [...]

Much has been written about how the Kindle Fire is essentially a portable door to the Amazon store. I think today’s free app on the Amazon Appstore clearly shows the strength of the ecosystem behind the Kindle Fire. Today you can get a free copy of a license key for the full version of Documents [...]

I received my new Amazon Kindle Fire yesterday and today I spent most of my time with it exploring the applications available for it in the Amazon Appstore. One shocking discovery is that none of the official apps from Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ are available for the Kindle Fire.

The online bookseller became the world’s largest retailer, and hit its $50 millionth sale in record time – half the time it took Walmart.

When we first learned about the iPad, it was promoted as a content consumption device. Given the iPad’s on-screen keyboard that can be challenging for typing a lot of words, I can understand the emphasis on content consumption. However, when you turn on an iPad what you see is a grid of icons that don’t [...]