One would have assumed that Amazon, the Web services cloud giant, would already have had file syncing available for its personal cloud storage service, Cloud Drive. Turns out that the digital lockers didn't have that capability until recently. The Verge reported today that the company has quietly rolled out the new feature ...
Amazon Acquires Goodreads to Make Kindle Reading More Social
on 3.28.13
Amazon has announced that it is acquiring social book recommendation site Goodreads, an obvious move that should offer strong synergy with its ecommerce business. “Amazon and Goodreads share a passion for reinventing reading,” Russ Grandinetti, Amazon Vice President, Kindle Content, said in a statement. “Goodreads has ...
Amazon X-Ray Feature Expands to TV Shows on Kindle Fire and Wii U
on 3.27.13
Amazon just announced that it is adding its X-Ray feature to TV shows. The feature already worked with movies thanks to data from IMDb, but the company will now use this very same data for other video content. The entire Kindle Fire family will receive the feature and the Amazon Instant Video app on Wii U will get is as ...
Barnes & Noble Announces Nooks Will Soon Get In-App Purchases
on 3.25.13
Almost two months after Amazon revealed a new ‘Coins’ virtual currency for Kindle Fire app purchases, Barnes & Noble has now announced that Nook-users will soon be able to make in-app purchases too. The media giant has partnered with Fortumo for this roll-out, which means that developers will now be able to monetize ...
Amazon Greenlights Zombieland TV Series, Based on Film
on 3.25.13
Continuing its investment in original content, Amazon announced on Monday it is greenlighting “Zombieland,” a new comedy series based on the Columbia Pictures movie of the same name, which will be made available for free to Amazon Instant Video and LOVEFiLM UK subscribers. This is the seventh original comedy series ...
Amazon May Add a Subscription Music Service
on 3.20.13
Subscription music services have yet to profit but that hasn't stopped some of the internet's biggest media distributors from jumping into the business. Amazon, the web's biggest retailer, is the latest to inquire with various music companies about starting a subscription service, multiple sources have told The Verge. ...
Amazon Adds ‘Send to Kindle’ Button to Many Large Sites
on 3.20.13
Amazon just launched the Send to Kindle button, which clips Web content and saves it to Kindle readers and apps, for Web developers and WordPress bloggers. The button is also now available on The Washington Post, TIME, and Boing Boing. The Send to Kindle suite, which Amazon launched last year with its Send to Kindle button ...
Report: Amazon is Building the CIA’s Cloud-Based Computing System
on 3.20.13
The CIA has reportedly signed a massive cloud computing deal with Amazon, worth up to $600 million over the next 10 years. FCW reports that its sources have told it Amazon will build a private cloud infrastructure for the CIA, to help it "keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner not ...
Rumor: Amazon is Working on a $99 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD
on 3.20.13
How low will Amazon’s tablets go? We’re now hearing that a $99 Kindle Fire 7" tablet is in production, and will be shipping this year. At a price that low, the Kindle Fire would be able to more easily compete at the tail end of the Android-based tablet market – an area which is today dominated by low-cost tablets out ...
Amazon’s Whispercast Now Lets Schools Easily Distribute Apps
on 3.19.13
Amazon introduced Whispercast for Kindle back in October of 2012, and now the service is getting an update that allows it to deploy not just books and documents, but also apps. that means organizations like schools and businesses can now widely deploy apps across a number of Kindle Fire devices quickly and easily. The ...
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