Neowin News Feed for: Amazon

Rumor: 3D smartphone in development at Amazon?

John Callaham — Thu, 09 May 2013 22:10:59 +0100

A Wall Street Journal report claims Amazon is working on a smartphone device that will include some kind of 3D display that can be seen without glasses, but it's possible the project could be shelved. Read more...

Is Amazon planning to launch a TV set-top box?

John Callaham — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:54:08 +0100

Amazon is rumored to be developing some kind of TV set-top box for a launch later this fall, which if true will join an already crowded field of similar hardware products. Read more...

Amazon Kindle Fire tablets now support Xbox SmartGlass

John Callaham — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:52:51 +0100

Amazon's Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD tablets now support the Android version of Microsoft's Xbox SmartGlass app, allowing even more tablets to access the Xbox 360 with a "second screen". Read more...

Jeff Bezos: Profits are not important to Amazon, customers are

Max Slater-Robins — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:18:46 +0100

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, has written a letter to shareholders outlining his aims for the company. Bezos says that Amazon innovates even when there is no need, putting customers above profits. Read more...

Amazon hires former Microsoft Windows Phone exec for secret project

John Callaham — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 03:18:26 +0100

Charlie Kindel, who worked at Microsoft for 21 years, including as the general manager of the Windows Phone third party apps division, has confirmed he is now working at Amazon on a secret project. Read more...

Send to Kindle buttons now available to publishers

Stephen Robinson — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:38:12 +0000

Amazon has released Send to Kindle buttons for Wordpress bloggers and web publishers that allow users to send an article directly to their Kindle devices for later or offline reading. Read more...

Amazon cuts prices of Kindle Fire HD 8.9 models

John Callaham — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 08:10:00 +0000

Amazon has announced that it has cut the prices of its two Kindle Fire HD 8.9 models, along with word that the Android-based tablet will now be sold in parts of Europe and Japan. Read more...

10 Million people use Amazon Prime, accounts for a third of total income

Ben Buffone — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:50:40 +0000

Amazon's 'Prime' service, a premium scheme costing $79 annually which offers free two-day shipping and unlimited movie streaming, has reportedly hit 10 million subscribers. Read more...

Amazon's bid for domains is "anticompetitive"

Max Slater-Robins — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:06:17 +0000

Amazon has come under fire for their applications for the new TLDs, such as .book, .author and .read, with some calling it "anticompetitive" or a way to further their own business. Read more...

Amazon Appstore giving away iMediaShare for free today

Christopher White — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:34:56 +0000

We live in an increasingly connected world, and today's free app from Amazon's Android app store improves that connectivity by letting you stream anything from your phone/tablet to your television. Read more...

Amazon finds loophole around Apple's walled garden

Christopher White — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:45:49 +0000

It looks like Amazon has found a way to sell MP3s to iPhone users without the need to pay Apple 30% of all sales. How long before Apple changes their policies to block it? Read more...

Amazon moves your old CDs into their cloud with AutoRip

Christopher White — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 02:47:35 +0000

Amazon has just announced a new service, AutoRip, that converts music you've purchased on physical CDs (now and in the past) into MP3s and stores them in the Amazon cloud, free of charge. Read more...

Amazon: human error caused Netflix's Christmas Eve outage

John Callaham — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:01:52 +0000

Amazon Web Services has now admitted that one of its developers deleted data in one of its systems and that caused the Netflix outage on Christmas Eve that affected millions of users. Read more...

Ad network impressions shows iPad dominates, Surface has work to do

John Callaham — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:20:37 +0000

A new report from an online ad network shows that impressions from Microsoft's Windows RT version of the Surface tablet rank well below other tablets that have been previously released. Read more...

The current top 10 most downloaded free Windows 8 apps are ...

John Callaham — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:55:00 +0000

We list the current most downloaded free Windows 8 apps in the Windows Store, with Xbox SmartGlass holding onto the number one slot, followed by Skype, Netflix and Google Search. Read more...

Do tweets show the true sales of Microsoft's Surface?

John Callaham — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:58 +0000

A new check of Twitter messages on Christmas Eve show that the Surface was referenced just 30 times for a person's "first tweet", compared to 1,795 tweets from a new iPad. Read more...

Kindle app for Windows 8 updated with in-app store; Nook also updated

John Callaham — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:14:57 +0000

Amazon has released a new update for their Kindle eReader app for Windows 8 and RT that finally adds an in-app store to purchase eBooks from the retailer, along with other improvements. Read more...

Amazon cuts price of Kindle Fire HD 8.9 by $50 for today only

John Callaham — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:40:42 +0000

Amazon has cut the price of all of the models of the recently launched Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet by $50 for one day only if you put in the special code FIREHD89 at checkout on Amazon.com. Read more...

Shocker: Lots of people shopped online Thanksgiving Day

John Callaham — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:45:00 +0000

New data shows that Thanksgiving Day was a busy one for online retail stores, with one report claiming that traffic to retail websites increased by 71 percent compared to 2011. Read more...

Windows Server 2012 added as option for Amazon Web Services

John Callaham — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:18:21 +0000

Amazon has announced that it has added support for Microsoft's recently launched Windows Server 2012 OS to the cloud-based Amazon Web Services, along with added support for .NET 4.5 Read more...