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What on Earth Is This? [Video]





No, this isn't a closeup of a Cosby Sweater. Nor is it the result of those shrooms you ingested twenty minutes ago. It's actually science's newest means of mapping one of the Earth's wildest and most remot...
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Amazon Attacks iPad on Price, Doofusism [Video]





Amazon's Kindle ads have long gone after tablets over readability in sunlight. Which, fair! But now that its Kindle Fire is a glare-prone LCD turbo-tab itself, the company has chosen a new battlefield: pr...
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Amazon Prime Now Has a lot More TV Shows Thanks to Viacom [Amazon Prime]





Like Netflix and Hulu before it, Amazon has inked a deal with Viacom to bring TV shows from all its networks (MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, BET, Spike, etc.) to the Prime streaming service. Beavis and ...
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Amazon Could Announce a Video Deal With Viacom This Week [Video]





There have long been rumors that Amazon wants to usurp Netflix as the video streaming service of choice. But new reports suggest that Amazon is about to announce a tie-in with Viacom that could make that a...
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Amazon's Latest Hire Could Mean More Apps For Kindle [Kindle]





A platform is useless without dedicated developers. Brandon Watson, former head of the Windows Phone Developer Experience, knows this better than anyone. Knowledge he will surely carry over to his new gig ...
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Get them by the data
Get them by the data: Gavin Clarke and Chris Mellor about AWS Storage Gateway:
Once you’ve got them by the data, of course, their hearts and minds will follow, and Amazon’s using the AWS Storage Gateway beta as a sampler for the rest of its compute cloud....
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Amazon's Earnings Report Translated Into English [Amazon]





Amazon, purveyor of fine mini-tablets and concrete mix and other sundries, announced today how much money it made last year and where and why. The only problem? Like most earnings reports, it's completely ...
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Barnes & Noble Declares Wimpy War on Amazon Publishing [Books]





Some people still buy books—and even buy them in paper format. So Barnes & Noble's decision to block books published by Amazon is fightin' words! But how much does it matter, and who's getting hurt? ...
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SlingPlayer Is Now Available for Kindle Fire [Kindle Fire]





SlingPlayer is arriving on the Kindle Fire today, which is great news if you're a fan of what Sling offer. The only downside is that the app alone costs $29.99. Is it worth it? More »

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Amazonian Mushroom Eats Indestructible Plastics [Science]





We use polyurethane to make just about everything—garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local 99-cent store. It's easy to produce, durable, and dirt cheap. What it isn't is recyclable—the...
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Barnes & Noble To Launch a New Nook This Spring [Nook]





Continuing its bold, brave and surprisingly successful e-Reader battle with Amazon, Barnes & Noble is soon to launch its fifth Nook device. More »



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Bellbot will make happy sounds every time you get a new user
I’m a big fan of simplicity, because it shouldn’t take rocket science to explain a service or product. One of the masters of simplicity is Philip Kaplan aka Pud, who has made some fun products that even your mom can understand.
One of his mos...
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Bribing Customers To Get Five-Star Amazon Reviews Is a New Marketing Low [Amazon]





We all read reviews and check star ratings on Amazon before we buy stuff. We've already seen that companies sometimes write reviews themselves, and they're easy to spot by the way they're written. But ther...
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Hotmail App For Kindle Fire Arrives, For Those Clinging to The 1990s [Blip]





Microsoft has just released a free Hotmail app to the Amazon Appstore, claiming to have optimized its existing Android app for the Fire. No doubt it probably works better that the Fires's native email clie...
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Apple Will Worry About iPad Competition When There Is Any [Apple]





When asked today about how Apple was handling the competition from lower-priced tablets—specifically the Kindle Fire—Apple CEO Tim Cook said, effectively, that it isn't a competition at all. Wh...
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Yahoo Reorgs U.S. Ad Sales After Talent Departure (Internal Memo, Natch!)

After the departure of top Yahoo advertising sales exec Seth Dallaire, who decamped to Amazon this week, Yahoo did a little reorganization of its U.S. sales team.
(I promise to stop with the LOLcat images after this one for a while, but it is purrfect.)
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As Weak Q4 Earnings Loom, Yahoo Freezes Hiring and Also Contemplates Layoffs

According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has instituted a hiring freeze across the company and is considering a reduction in force in support units of the company.
While the details of any layoffs — which are expected to be small and sel...
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Uh-Oh: Yahoo Loses a Top Sales Exec to Amazon

According to sources, Yahoo has lost one of its top advertising sales execs to Amazon.
Seth Dallaire, who was in charge of Yahoo’s important midmarket advertising accounts unit, will take a newly created role of VP of North America sales at the onl...
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New Kindle Fire Update Unleashes Full-Screen Web Browsing [Amazon]





Amazon rolled out the second update to its Kindle Fire 6.2.2 firmware today. In addition to a few minor bug fixes and performance tweaks, this update grants Amazon's Silk browser access the Fire's entire s...
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Kindle Just Turned Into an Instapaper for Your Files [Kindle]





I like using my ereader for things other than books, but aside from Instapaper, converting regular files into ereader format is more hassle than it's worth. Now Amazon's making it easier to send non-book f...
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Hollywood's Digital Movie Locker Finds a Home in Amazon and Samsung's Hallways [Streaming]





The UltraViolet Initiative hasn't exactly been the iTunes-killer Hollywood had hoped for. The File-Locker system, designed to simplify the process of owning one piece of content across multiple formats, ha...
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Amazon releases iPad optimized version of the Kindle Store
Amazon realizes that while its Kindle devices might be selling really well, there are a whole lot of people who prefer to read their books on an iPad. Because of that reason, Amazon has released an iPad optimized version of its Kindle Store that looks and...
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SolarKindle Cover Frees Your eReader From Charging Cables For Three Months [EReaders]





It's time for the iPad 2 to get off its high horse because there's a new leader in the burgeoning market of covers that don't just cover: The completely self-explanatory SolarKindle which harnesses the sun...
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If you want to know what’s in theaters, check out WhatsOutt
I’m a big fan of simplistic design and when it comes to web apps, I want to know important things up front without having to click around a lot. If you’re a fan of minimalist web app design, and also a movie buff, this app might be exactly what you’...
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Amazon could be trying to break into your living room with Casa.com
The eagle-eyed folks at Domain Name Wire noticed a domain transfer of note today. Amazon, which purchased a company called Quidsi in 2010 for $540 million, seems to be creeping its way into your home one room at a time. When Amazon purchased Quidsi, it ac...
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Barnes & Noble Ditch Publishing To Focus on eBooks and Tablets [Barnes And Noble]





Barnes & Noble have been in publishing since the 1970s, but in recent years they've been squaring up to Amazon in the world of digital reading. Now, they're selling off their paper publishing division to f...
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Amazon's Silk Browser Might Just Run on More Than the Kindle Fire [Amazon]





When the Kindle Fire arrived, the Amazon Silk web browser received much hype for its ability to use the cloud for processing and rendering power, thus making the web experience smoother on the $200 device....
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Final Tech Stock Tally for 2011: Rout-Roh!

Last week, I posted on the so-so overall performance of tech stocks in 2011.
Most were in the negative numbers going into last week, and they stayed that way for the full-year comparison.
Bottom line: Tech was a bad investment if you started buying stock...
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Here's Amazon's Final Damage Report for the 2011 Holiday Season [Amazon]





Chances are the holidays have driven you mostly insane by now, so Amazon's gone ahead and packaged its Christmas shopping postmortem (they sold lots of Kindles!) with some goofy facts that will appeal to t...
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The 7 Things Your Friends and Family Should Have Gotten You From Amazon [Toolkit]





Sorry, you didn't get what you asked for. You didn't even get what you could politely pretend to use. Luckily, Amazon's a trove of exchangeriffic items, and we've got seven picks for you at every budget. S...
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Survey Sez: Consumers Still Miffed at Netflix, But Give Even Bigger Kiss to Amazon

It’s not clear if Netflix’s recent series of snafus are Amazon’s gain or not. But in a just released report be ForeSee, one went up and one went down.
It’s an easy guess which was which.
In the well-known customer satisfaction sur...
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Viral Audio: A Look Back at Tech in 2011 and Forward to 2012

I was on San Francisco’s public radio station today talking about this past year in tech with “Forum” host Michael Krasny, with fellow panelists former TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy and CNET’s Molly Wood.
2011 was a big year, as it...
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Amazon Built 42nd Fastest Computer in the World Without Trying [Amazon]





For the past several years, Amazon has been quietly building one of the fastest cloud networks in the history of computers. Except it doesn't exist in any room—it's spread across the entire world. Vi...
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Most Tech Stocks Were Naughty, Some Nice and Only Apple Merry, as Year Ends

The stock market is closed today, as part of the Christmas holiday. But it is doubtful — barring any major announcements — that the vastly different performances seen by a range of tech companies will change much.
Which is to say, some compan...
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Set Up Your Kindle Fire for Tiny Tablet Awesomeness [How To]





Huzzah, your bookworm reputation precedes you, and some kind soul gifted you a shiny Kindle Fire. Here's how to set it up properly—so you don't get burned. More »






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Amazon Now Allows Third-Party eReader Apps on The Kindle Fire [Kindle Fire]





The latest Kindle Fire update, 6.2.1, has had mixed reviews. It brings plenty of improvements for normal users, but makes rooting more difficult. Now it's become apparent that it also allows third-party eR...
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Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal, Besting Microsoft and Yahoo
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.

Earlier this week, Google and Mozilla said they had struck a deal to renew their search royalty agreement for another three years.
What the pair declined to add: The search giant will pay just under $3...
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Best Buy screw-up means customers won’t be getting all their presents by Christmas
Some shoppers are having a very frustrating holiday season, thanks to retailer Best Buy. Some of their gifts aren’t going to make it in time for Christmas, according to Moneyland. In what can only be explained as a complete “Grinch” move...
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The Kindle Fire Update: Everything Bad Is Better [Kindle Fire]





Amazon dropped the anticipated and somewhat clamored for first update to its Fire. The bad news: it's a bit of a pain in the ass to install. The good news: it's completely worth it. The entire tablet feels...
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The Kindle Fire's First Update Should Give It Some Zip (Updated) [Kindle Fire]





Amazon's shooting back at its critics (and shooting help at its users!) with the Kindle Fire's first software update. It's free, available over the air or via download—right now. More »...
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Amazon Was Almost BlackBerry's White Night [Rumors]





As RIM continues to stumble down the long stairway to oblivion, Reuters reports that the company had an unlikely suitor this summer that could have saved them: Amazon. Wait, what? Or more importantly... wh...
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New Kindle Fire Update Breaks Root And Stops You Re-Rooting [Kindle Fire]





Amazon's rumored software update for the Fire is here, and like the last one, it breaks root. But it also disables the current easiest way to re-root the device, SuperOneClick. More »

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Christmas tablet war; iPad for the boys, Nook for the girls?
Meltwater Group released a study today about tablets based on conversations it has tracked on the web using its tool called “Meltwater Buzz”. While the iPad is the clear winner this holiday season, it looks like the Kindle Fire and Nook were t...
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The Best Stuff Amazon's Shipping Free Next-Day [Amazon]





Amazon's got free one-day shipping starting tomorrow and lasting through the 21st—enough time to get your last-minute shopping done or pick up something for yourself before you head home for the holi...
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The Top Tech Quotes from 2011 Are Actually Entertaining [Quotes]





The New Yorker has a list of the top ten tech quotes of 2011. Instead of the usual boring quotes about how awesome a product is, they're insights into the dirty underbelly of the world of technology. M...
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People Hate Kindle Fire So Much They're Buying Millions of Them [Kindle Fire]





It's a shame that the Kindle Fire is such a maligned and buggy horror product, because nobody is buying them, right? Actually, Amazon is selling "millions of units, and [are] building millions more to meet...
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Will Amazon Soon Spy On You Through Your Kindle? [Privacy]





We don't need to tell you how big an issue tracking software is. What we do need to tell you about is a new patent from Amazon that lays out its plan to track and predict your movements via mobile devices....
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Samsung Hires Former AOL and Google Content Exec David Eun to Lead Renewed Media Push

South Korean consumer electronics giant Samsung Electronics has hired former AOL and Google exec David Eun to lead a new push to create more media offerings, the company said.
In a press release, the maker of a wide range of devices — from televisi...
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Don't Know How to Use Amazon.com [Amazon]





One of the cardinal rules of Hollywood is that in order to be a very good looking actor, you also have to be very smart. So, we're confused as to why Brangelina seem to be breaking that rule. INTERENT HARD...
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Can a Substantial Kindle Fire Software Update Silence Its Critics? [Kindle Fire]





Since its launch the Kindle Fire has received mixed reviews, though it must be said: we like it. But in the past few weeks software bugs have been piling up — and Amazon hopes to fix that with an imp...
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