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Live from the Amazon Kindle 'Fire' and 'Touch' unveilings
A first peek at Amazon's answers to the iPad, priced from $79 to $199
The setting is a soundstage on Manhattan's West 37th Street. Four TV satellite trucks parked outside. A full battery of cameras. A tent full of journalists cooling their heels.
The event was scheduled to start at 10 a.m., but this is Amazon (AMZN), not Apple (AAPL), and we are running late.
10:03 The lights dim. A video of Amazon MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Sep 28, 2011 10:04 AM ET -
Amazon: A tale of two tablets
For months, analysts have been expecting an iPad-like device worthy of taking Apple head on. Now it seems Amazon may have cooked up something very different -- and that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
[UPDATE: Bloomberg News reports that Amazon's new Kindle is indeed called Fire and will retail for $199. The tablet reportedly sports a 7-inch color screen but lacks a camera or microphone. The device will have MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 28, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, Apple, BlackBerry Playbook, iPad, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, Kindle Fire -
Today in Tech: A peek at Amazon's new Kindle
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"I am TechCrunch and TechCrunch is me." -- Michael Arrington (The New York Times)
* David Carr over at The New York Times looks at TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's path to becoming a venture capitalist and how his latest move -- Crunch Fund -- further complicates TechCrunch's editorial MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 6, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Amazon Kindle, Android, AOL, Apple, Cover Flow, Gamestop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Jonathan Ive, Jony Ive, Justin Bieber, Michael Arrington -
Forrester: Amazon's tablet will bury the iPad
"A year from now," it predicts, "'Amazon' will be synonymous with 'Android' on tablets."
The last time I looked closely at a research report from Forrester's Sarah Rotman Epps I took her to task for predicting in June 2010 that total U.S. tablet sales from all manufacturers that year would be a modest 3.5 million -- despite the fact that Apple (AAPL) had already sold 2 million iPads worldwide in the previous MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 29, 2011 3:36 PM ETPosted in: Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, Android, Apple, Forrester, Forrester Research, Google, iPad, Lenovo, Sarah Rotman Epps, Tablets, Toshiba -
Today in Tech: Amazon launches Cloud Reader
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* Smartphone maker HTC is investing $300 million in Beats Electronics, the same company that releases various Beats by Dr. Dre audio products. HTC reportedly plans to incorporate the technology into future handsets. (All Things D)
* Twitter is updating the social network with two new features. Replacing the "@Mentions" MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 11, 2011 7:00 AM ET -
How Apple drove Amazon's Kindle from the App Store
The new Kindle Cloud Reader paves the way for others to sidestep Apple's 30% tax
Steve Jobs made no friends on Publishers Row last February.
After flying to New York City in early 2010 to sell book and magazine publishers on the wonders of the iPad as a reading device (see Enter Steve Jobs with top hat and iPad), he announced subscription rules a year later that he said would "delight" readers MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 10, 2011 10:34 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Facebook for business?
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* Facebook launched a new "Facebook for Business" Web page that teaches smaller merchants how to set up a profile and create Facebook ads and deals. The move comes a week after Google+ shut down company-created profiles, restricting the social network to individual users. (GigaOm)
* Fox Broadcasting (NWS) plans to limit MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 27, 2011 11:30 AM ET -
Apple to book readers: Our way or the highway
Over the weekend, the Kindle, Nook and Google Books apps got crippled. Thanks, Steve.
"The fact is," Steve Jobs famously told the New York Times in 2008, trying to convince them that Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle was a nonstarter, "that people don't read books anymore."
What Jobs really meant, we discover three years later, is that people don't get to read books on his iPads or iPhones unless they buy them from his MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jul 27, 2011 7:20 AM ETPosted in: Amazon Kindle, App Store, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, Google Books, iPad, iPhone, Kobo, Mobile, Steve Jobs, Tablets -
Barnes & Noble's simple, new Nook
It's not an iPad, or even a Nook Color. But that's the whole point of Barnes & Noble's newest e-reader: it's not supposed to be.
FORTUNE -- Just six months after launching its well-received Android-based Nook Color tablet, Barnes and Noble (BKS) unveiled a major hardware update to the original e-ink-based Nook e-reader that cuts down on bulk, weight, and physical buttons.
Here's the important thing to note right off the bat MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 15, 2011 10:31 AM ETPosted in: Amazon Kindle, Android, Barnes & Noble, Barnes & Noble Nook Color, iPad, Mobile phone, New York City, Nook, Wi-Fi -
Explaining Kindle's success: it's very simple(minded)
Jeff Bezos's strategy of giving customers the best e-reader and e-bookstore possible is paying off for Amazon -- not that it's saying by how much.
FORTUNE -- Sales of the Kindle and of e-books are so good, and growing so fast, that they are now becoming a driver of Amazon's overall growth, says Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney.
We can't know for sure how many Kindles Amazon (AMZN) is selling, because the company MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jun 8, 2011 11:49 AM ET
