Tag: AMAZON.COM

Grab some popcorn and pull up a chair because this is gonna be good. Amazon just edged ever closer to world domination by offering a free cloud service that lets customers access their music from a range of devices. It's basically a huge eff-you to the record labels, with whom Amazon is still in negotiation over streaming rights. One anonymous executive put it to Reuters this way: "[It's] ...

Google and Verizon have already taken plenty of heat for their recently unveiled joint-proposal on how to apply Net neutrality ideology to regulatory policy. Now, Facebook has joined the chorus of boos by formally announcing its opposition to the plan. As the New York Times reports, the social network is raising concerns about any plan that would exempt wireless carriers from Net neutrality rules, ...

The Kindle may be facing stiff e-reader competition from Apple's iPad, but, when it comes to printed books, at least, Amazon's reader seems to be dominating the market pretty handily. The company says it sold approximately 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books sold over the past three months, and that gap is continuing to widen. Last month alone, for example, Amazon sold 180 Kindle books ...

If there's one thing every college student loves, it's saving money. So, as good companies do, Amazon has decided to seize upon this demographic consumer tendency by offering a new program called 'Amazon Students.' The program gives any student with an .edu e-mail address a free, one-year subscription to the company's Amazon Prime service, which normally costs $79 per year. (Non-collegians can ...

If you're an avid reader or a compulsive video-on-demand customer, chances are that your inbox sees a pretty regular flow of e-mails from Amazon. Not all of them, though, are legit. A recent wave of malware has been sneaking its way into inboxes, under the guise of Amazon's trustworthy name. The e-mails appear to be order confirmations from the online store, but beneath that facade lies a nasty ...

Roombas hold a special place in their owners' hearts. They're kind of cute, make maintaining a clean house effortless, and are infinitely hackable. But a new study from Georgia Tech's College of Computing indicates that some people may be forging bonds with their gadgets that are normally reserved for pets. [Edit. Note: It appears the Amazon reviews of the little bot confirms this. We've read ...

We're big fans of Amazon's amazonmp3; the online superstore's music download service offers DRM-free digital music downloads at prices that are usually at least $.10 per track cheaper than the main competition, Apple's iTunes. Amazon also offers video on demand (or VOD) services for movies and television episodes, but now the service looks ready to expand to high definition offerings sometime in ...

It's a good time to be a Sony Reader owner. Google has just made 500,000 titles from its massive public-domain book collection accessible to users of Sony's popular e-book reader. This is the first time Google has made these resources available to such a device, effectively pushing Sony's Reader past Amazon's Kindle (which offers about 240,000 titles) in terms of books available for the ...

We'll admit it. We've been chased out of a big box retailer or two for taking pictures of products and writing notes on prices. It seems comparison shopping isn't something these stores want their customers to be doing. But in comes Amazon.com to the rescue. The giant online retailer announced a new service called TextBuyIt for a little comparison shopping and buying, and it's as easy as ...

We continue to be impressed at how quickly Amazon's amazonmp3 store has come in just a few months. What was a plucky little start-up recently became the first digital music vendor to offer copy protection-free tunes from all the major music labels, all in a format playable on nearly any digital music player in the world. The only thing holding it back it was geography, but that's set to change ...

Amazon.com has done it. In less than six months since its launch, the amazonmp3 service has gone from nothing to establishing a position as the only place on the web to legally download DRM-free music from every major American music studio. It was just a few weeks ago that Warner signed up, leaving Sony as the odd company out, something we predicted would change quickly. We didn't figure it'd ...

It sure looks like DRM, the record industry's digital music copy protection technology, is really dying. Wal-Mart is pushing record labels to ditch copy-protection from their tracks, Paul McCartney publicly hates the stuff, and even iTunes, which has sold more DRM-laden music than anyone else, is shifting away from protected tracks. Now Warner Music is joining in as well, finally selling tracks ...