As part of its mission to bring its music service "everywhere," Amazon announced the release of a dedicated Cloud Player app for desktop PCs Monday. The release comes less than a week after Amazon announced iOS compatibility with Ford Sync-enabled vehicles. PC users could already access Cloud Player through their web ...
Amazon Launches Amazon Coins, Gives Kindle Fire Users $5 Free
on 5.13.13
E-commerce leviathan Amazon is taking a step into social gaming: Amazon Coins, its new virtual currency, is now live in the U.S. To kick it off, Amazon announced that it would put $5 worth of the currency — equivalent to 500 Coins — into all Kindle Fire users’ accounts to use on apps and in-app purchases on its ...
Amazon Launches Cloud Photo Storage App for iPhone and iPad
on 5.10.13
Amazon has launched a Cloud Drive Photos app for iOS, letting owners of the iPhone and iPad join Android users in storing their photography on the company's servers. The app allows users to both upload pictures to their Amazon Cloud account and to browse the photos that are already stored there. Like Apple's built-in Photo ...
Amazon Working on a 3D Phone
on 5.10.13
For more than a year, there have been rumors that Amazon is working on a smartphone. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is actually working on two. The Journal reported that Amazon is "developing a wide-ranging line-up of gadgets," including two smartphones, one of which will have a 3D screen. Citing ...
Shelly Palmer Radio Report – May 2, 2013
on 5.2.13
If you’re like me, you tend to watch TV with a tablet or smartphone – or both! – in your hand. Amazon knows this, which is why it recently brought its X-Ray feature to TV. X-Ray originally worked with books, and told you how different characters related to the story. Amazon brought the feature to movies with the help ...
Amazon Adds Features to Help Blind, Visually Impaired Users on Kindle iOS App
on 5.1.13
Amazon announced a number of new features for its Kindle for iOS app that aim to make it easier to use for blind and visually impaired users. Wednesday's update, Amazon says, will make it easier for these users to use features like “X-Ray, End Actions, sharing, highlighting and bookmarking.” Amazon says these new ...
Report: Free Apps Downloaded 10x More on Google Play than Amazon Appstore
on 4.24.13
The number of device installs for free apps in the Google Play store is over ten times bigger than the Amazon Appstore in the United States, according to new research conducted by Distimo. The mobile app store analytics company found that the top 200 free apps in the Amazon Appstore were downloaded 16 million times ...
Amazon Names Alexandria, Va., as ‘Most Well-Read City’ in US
on 4.24.13
On Wednesday, Amazon released its annual list of the “most well-read cities in America.” The ranking is established using the total sales of books, magazines and newspapers, both in print and in Kindle formats, since June 2012. The list works on a per-capita basis in cities that count more than 10,000 residents. Just as ...
Report: Amazon Working on Set-Top Box for Streaming Video
on 4.24.13
Amazon is reportedly in the works to develop and release its own TV set-top box that will allow people to stream Internet videos right into their homes. Sources tell Bloomberg that a device is coming — this fall. If true, this would certainly make the industry much more competitive, especially as Amazon would go ...
Amazon’s New Pilots Were Its Most Watched Shows This Weekend
on 4.22.13
Amazon pulled a Netflix on Monday, in the sense that it’s now touting the release of its original programming as the “most watched” TV shows on the Amazon Video service since launch on Friday. Netflix previously issued the same statement about its original show, “House of Cards.” But it’s not exactly an ...
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