Tag: AMAZON

Ah, our shopping Padawans. Yesterday, we got you on , but today, we are going to teach you to be savvy shoppers on-the-go. Most mass retailers have dedicated apps, but if you had an app for every store you've ever shopped, your phone would be groaning under its own consumerist weight. So, for today, we've listed our five best shopping apps and a couple basic suggestions, so you can score rad ...

This year's Free Shipping Day was so successful, Amazon has decided to do it all over again. From now until Wednesday, last-minute holiday shoppers can purchase thousands of products from the online retailer, and receive free, one-day shipping. To take advantage of the offer, you'll have to ship all your items to a single address, and make sure that every product you purchase qualifies for the ...

It might not be enough to make BlackBerry the must-have smartphone platform, but RIM has scored a major victory by finally bringing the Amazon MP3 store to its devices. Users will be able to buy and download music over Wi-Fi and 3G, and share tracks using BBM. The app is in beta right now, but you can download it here to give it a whirl. ...

Forget Roe v. Wade. Forget Miranda v. Arizona. Forget 'The People vs. Larry Flynt.' They're all milestone cases, to be sure, but they all pale in comparison to the virulent ideological divide that's ravaging today's Supreme Court: iPad v. Kindle. In a recent interview with C-SPAN, Justice Elena Kagan confessed that she reads many of her court briefs on her Kindle, where, presumably, she can ...

In a scam discovered by security firm GFI, crooks are targeting Amazon this busy holiday season by using software to create fake Amazon receipts. The scammers then present the receipts for the bogus purchases to Amazon, claiming they never received their order and demanding a refund. Apparently a rather trusting company, Amazon assumed that, for whatever reason, the order was not processed ...

A group of pro-Wikileaks hackers has claimed responsibility for taking down MasterCard's website this morning, in an apparent retaliation against the company's decision to suspend payment operations to Julian Assange's notorious whistleblowing organization. The MasterCard site reportedly fell prey to a distributed denial of service (DDOS) campaign, which flooded the site with so many requests ...

Ah, the difference a year makes. Last holiday season, we struggled to find nice things to say about many members of the first e-reader generation. Fast-forward to this August, when we revisited the topic, and we were blown away by how things had (and in some cases hadn't) changed. New models have appeared since, but, for us, Amazon's most recent Kindle continues to be our hands-down pick. ...

Share As with the holiday season in general, the post-Thanksgiving shopping panic just keeps getting longer. What started out as a one-day discount bonanza known as Black Friday has now spawned an online-only counterpart in Cyber Monday. This year, though, retailers are offering steep discounts early and often. Many outlets are now adding Thanksgiving Day to the holiday shopping schedule, and ...

If you've been tempted to switch over to Verizon, now might be the time to act. Until November 22, you can pick up a Droid 2, Incredible, Pro or X through Amazon for just $0.01, and you'll even get a refund on the activation fee. Of course, the deal is only for new customers signing a two year contract, so Verizon upgraders need not apply. ...

Back in October, Kindle users got the ability to lend e-books to friends, and, now, just in time for the holidays, Amazon is introducing e-book gifting. Lazy shoppers, rejoice! You can delay your shopping until Christmas morning, and just purchase and send e-books gifts to anyone with a Kindle reader or app. ...

So much crazy stuff happens on Election Day that it can sometimes take weeks to properly pick through it all. That's why we're only just getting around to telling you about this doofus who mistook his own Amazon delivery for a bomb. The police, we're sure, were thrilled to help -- just as much as they loved this lady. Put those tax dollars to work, people! ...

When a book offering guidance on how to be a pedophile inexplicably landed in the Kindle's list of Top 100 Paid Bestsellers, Amazon suddenly found itself at the center of a brewing national controversy. Thousands of users posted comments of anger and disgust, and many even threatened to boycott the retailer. Through it all, Amazon held firm, and steadfastly refused to remove the title -- until ...

Amazon may make getting gifts around the holidays a lot more enjoyable -- and perhaps a lot more awkward. The company was just granted a patent on a "system and method for converting gifts" which, in other words, is a way to exchange gifts before they've even been shipped (or ordered). The proposed system will allow users to set up rules that catch crappy gifts in the carts of clueless (but ...

By the year 2014, the Web will be nothing but Like buttons. We were foolish to assume that the Like button (that simple and clickable way of telling everyone, regardless of OS or site of origin, that you really thought the article about those miniature cupcakes with the little kitten faces was so damn likable) had hit the zenith of its usefulness on Facebook. But things can never be that easy. ...

Yes. It's people. We get it. It's also a novel way of addressing complex writing problems. Soylent is an add-in for Microsoft Word that crowdsources tasks, like shortening copy and proofreading text, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk marketplace. You pay a small fee to enlist the hive mind to help you out. You can even assign complex tasks, like changing the tense of an entire paragraph. Video after ...