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Amazon Buys Text-to-Speech Software Vendor IVONA
By Cynthia Harvey | Article Published January 24, 2013
Does the purchase signal an intention to challenge Apple's Siri?
Tags: Amazon, software, Kindle, voice, Siri, merger and acquistion activity
Survey: Tablets on Over Half of US Consumers' Holiday Shopping Lists
By Pedro Hernandez | Article Published November 26, 2012
A survey reveals what users are looking for as they shop for tablets. Plus: who's doing more self-gifting with tablets, men or women?
Tags: Android, mobile, iPad, tablet, Kindle
Amazon's Q1 Stronger Than Expected; Is It the Kindle Effect?
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published April 27, 2012
The Fire accounts for more than half of all Android tablets sold.
Tags: Amazon, earnings, Kindle, fire
Amazon's Kindle Devices Selling More Than 1 Million per Week
By Datamation.com Staff | Article Published December 16, 2011
Sales of the company's tablets have been increasing every week for the past three weeks.
Tags: Amazon, Kindle, tablets
Don't Believe Hype (or Backlash) about Apple, Google, Amazon
By Mike Elgan | Article Published December 07, 2011
When it comes to making decisions about your own tech purchases, there's no better qualified expert than you.
Tags: Amazon, Google, Apple, Kindle, Siri, google+
How Amazon Is Making a Sucker Out of Google
By Mike Elgan | Article Published November 23, 2011
It’s time for Google to change its self-defeating, anything-goes policy on Android before Amazon makes a fool it.
Tags: Amazon, Google, Android, Kindle, tablets
Why There's No Such Thing as a Cheap Kindle
By Mike Elgan | Article Published September 28, 2011
Kindles are sold at a low price point, when in fact you're being seduced into a long-term relationship where you'll pay and pay and pay.  
Tags: Amazon, iPad, Apple, Kindle, kindle fire
Amazon Debuts Cheaper Kindle With Wi-Fi
By Andy Patrizio | Article Published July 29, 2010
Facing a slick competitor, Amazon cuts the price of its new generation of e-book readers.
Tags: Amazon, Wi-Fi, Kindle, Amazon Kindle, e-books
Amazon Taking Kindle DX Global
By Kenneth Corbin | Article Published January 06, 2010
E-commerce giant upgrading largest version of popular e-reading device with global wireless connectivity.
Tags: handheld, media, Publishing, Kindle, Amazon Kindle
Why iPhone and Kindle Will Continue to Rule
By Mike Elgan | Article Published October 21, 2009
Tech prognosticators are making faulty predictions based on an over-estimation of a link between product "quality" and unit sales, and an underestimation of the power of human nature on the decision-making process.
Tags: Linux, Microsoft, iPhone, iphone apps, Kindle
Amazon CEO Decries Kindle Book Removal
By Michelle Megna | Article Published July 25, 2009
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologized for how the retailer handled illegally sold copies of e-books on the Kindle.
Tags: Amazon, wireless, smartphones, Kindle, e-Mail
Steve Jobs Gets Pwned
By Mike Elgan | Article Published May 07, 2009
Apple fumbled hugely by allowing the Kindle to dominate the rapidly growing eBook device market.
Tags: software, wireless, iPhone, Kindle, ebooks
Would You Like Some Heroin To Go With That Crack(Berry)?
By Chris Nerney | Article Published March 12, 2009
Would You Like Some Heroin To Go With That Crack(Berry)?
Tags: Amazon, Blackberry, Kindle, ebooks, eReader
Apple's Epic E-Book Fail
By Mike Elgan | Article Published March 04, 2009
Amazon's new Kindle for iPhone represents a massive exploitation of the short-sightedness of Apple. Apple should have read this market better.
Tags: iPhone, Apple, Kindle
Authors to Kindle: Please Shut Up
By Judy Mottl | Article Published February 15, 2009
Copyright concerns prompt a writers' advocacy group to push for disabling the text-to-voice feature.
Tags: Google, services, Copyright, Kindle, voice
Is Amazon Prepping a Kindle Redux?
By Judy Mottl | Article Published January 31, 2009
The e-tailer is staying mum, but word has it that a new version of the e-book reader is coming Feb. 9.
Tags: wireless, iPhone, smartphones, Kindle, e-Mail
Three Bad Tech Products We Love Anyway
By Mike Elgan | Article Published January 28, 2009
Facebook, the Kindle and Digg are each horribly designed and conspicuously flawed – yet earn our kudos nonetheless.
Tags: Facebook, consumer, social networking, Kindle, Digg