All Entries Tagged With: "amazon"
Touch vs Fire
The Amazon Kindle Touch is doing well, but for an extra $20 you can get a fourth-generation standard Amazon Kindle Fire, so which is better? At first glance, the single difference between the two is that the Fire features single home button instead of the Kindle’s row of buttons. As for other buttons on the [...]
Amazon Kindle iOS app
Amazon Kindle app is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Host of new features have been added. Full-color magazines, text books, newspapers and other periodicals are now supported via Kindle app just like in Amazon Kindle Fire. Single issue or subscriptions can be purchased. Among other features most notable are zoom and pan [...]
Amazon Kindle Fire – Extend Battery Life
If you’re the sort of culture vulture who likes to have plenty of apps and books open whilst browsing the web and listening to music in the background, you might find battery life on Amazon’s new Kindle Fire less than spectacular. Amazon promises 8 hours of battery life for Fire, but that’s conservative use, and [...]
Amazon S3 Offers Best Cloud Storage For Business
Test results of the various storage providers’ cloud services suggest Amazon offers the best online storage services of any provider. An extensive study examined various online solutions as a primary storage solution, tested their data protection, and assessed their capabilities for disaster recovery. Amazon S3 service came out top. Nasuni provides data protection services valid [...]
Kindle Fire – Browser Accelerator Slows Down Browsing
When we reviewed the Amazon Kindle Fire we admired the clever Silk browser, which uses Amazon Cloud Cluster to accelerate downloads by offloading some of the rendering burden from your phone to their remote servers. Yet two weeks after launch, test results indicate Amazon Silk browser runs up to 50% faster with the accelerator feature [...]
Amazon Developing Own Answer To Siri
Amazon is a company that isn’t standing still right now. This week saw the launch of its Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch tablets, and Amazon Cloud storage goes from strength to strength. Recently they quietly bought up a speech recognition start-up named Yap, leading industry observers to speculate that Amazon plans to develop their [...]
5 million Kindle Fire for Christmas
Amazon pre-order figures suggest they will ship 5 million Kindle Fire units this quarter. Forecasts previously stood at 4 million, and it now seems the tablet could be a runaway success. In comparison Apple shipped 12 million iPad 2 in the last quarter. It is still unclear whether these feverish sales are due to consumers’ [...]
Amazon Kindle Fire tablet – closer look
The Amazon Kindle announcement gave some interesting details about the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire will feature a 7″ 1024 x 600 resolution Gorilla glass screen and run on a Texas Instruments OMAP 1GHz dual-core processor, supported by 512MB RAM. The Kindle Fire features 8GB of innerliche storage for all those books, [...]
Amazon Fire sold in Staples and Best Buy
Amazon is doing great with preorders of their new Amazon Fire tablet (over 100,000 already). New models of e-ink Kindle tablets will be dedicated for retailers like Staples and Best Buy. Amazon states that 40 percent of shoppers still prefer buying in brick and mortar stores. This is why Amazon decided to also supply stores [...]
Amazon Fire up for preorder
Amazon Fire tablet will take the entire tablet industry for a spin. Amazon has priced it at mere $199 hoping to recover the loss of profits by selling books on Kindle bookstore and from other products sold. According to eDataSource there were already 95,000 preorders made. Apple has sold over 300,000 iPads on a launch but [...]
