Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’

Amazon has quietly launched its Kindle Reader desktop application for Mac OS X, without so much as any advance notice or a press release. This follows last month’s launch of the reader application for RIM’s BlackBerry lineup.
The desktop Kindle Reader application allows users to purchase books from Amazon as well as easing sync between [...]

In response to the recent price drop of the Pixi Plus on Verizon, Sprint has responded by dropping its version down to $149.99 after new 2 year agreement before an additional $100 mail-in rebate, bringing the total to $49.99.
In related news, Anazon has a discount of its own, repricing the Sprint Pixi to $24.99 after [...]

Amazon.com and the Amazon Wireless storefront are currently offering the Verizon Motorola Droid at a 50% from Best Buy Mobile’s current pricing after new agreement or upgrade.
The $49.99 Motorola Droid does have a major caveat in that if the agreement is ended before the first 181 days of service, both Verizon’s $350 ETF for advanced [...]

Amazon has released a new beta version of their Kindle app for RIM’s BlackBerry series of devices.
The Kindle app is identical to the other apps released on competing platforms, with access to purchased books on the device, bookmark/chapter sync and annotation support.
Currently the application is only available in the US and supported on the BlackBerry [...]

Amazon has posted the long-awaited and forthcoming Archos 5 Android-based Internet Tablet series for pre-order.

The Archos 5 features a 4.8 inch capacitive widescreen touch display at WVGA resolution, storage choices between 8GB of flash memory all the way up to a 500 GB hard disk drive, Android with the custom Archos frontend featuring Super Widget [...]

Amazon.de now features a placeholder listing for the long rumored PS3 Slim system revision. This follows a conference call in Japan on Thursday where a Sony executive was quoted as stating that the manufacturing costs for the console were reduced by an incredible 70% from its initial cost in 2006, where each PS3 was sold [...]

The Amazon Kindle is renowned for its superb ability to read literature and news on the go however, sheet music is not readily seen as a must have document on such a device.
FreeHand System aims to allow Kindle users to download sheet music from a selection of 130,000 titles.   Their music library is contained [...]

The $489 Amazon Kindle DX started shipping two days ago on June 10. Merely two days later, Amazon announced that it was out of stock, and they would be receiving a new shipment by June 17.
If you don’t remember what exactly the Kindle DX is, here is a quick comparison to Amazon’s [...]

The Amazon Kindle reign over the e-book market may be rivaled another internet king, Google, by the end of 2009. Since its release of the Kindle, Amazon has tried to corner the e-book industry by buying copies of new books from publishers at a loss and selling them cheap and solely for the Kindle at [...]

Hey Jeff I have a problem. No, I’m not asking you for money this time. I have a reading list of about 3,499 books. Did you say George W. Bush? Coming out with his memoirs? Ok so 3,500. Even though I have all the time in the world to read those books, I don’t have [...]