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February 8, 2013

Tablet Wars: Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Advert That Scoffs At iPad’s Price

In what will undoubtedly invoke some sort of backlash from Apple, Amazon has gone for the jugular in their latest advert for the Kindle Fire HD which openly mocks the iPad’s price.

The advert places both items side by side in a split screen as a narrator tells the viewer that they might “not be able to tell the difference” between the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 and the iPad, but their wallet will certainly be able to notice the distinction. The prices for both products are then displayed on either screen, with the iPad advertized at $499 and the Kindle, a much more affordable $299.

The chasm between the different prices of the two products is indeed quite sizeable, however many argue that the iPad is, overall a much better device and worth paying that little bit extra for. For people who have to balance their budgets however – the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 does look like an impressive product and may well end up stealing some of tablet market away from Apple.

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February 1, 2013

Amazon Predator Drone Toy Hit With Hundreds Of Highly Satirical Reviews

Amazon Predator Drone Toy Hit With Hundreds Of Highly Satirical Reviews

Everyone knows that if you are buying something online, it’s always worth checking out the customer reviews. They can help you get beyond the sellers BS and hype to get insights from people who have actually bought and used the product – to help you discover if it really does do what it says on the tin so to speak!

Sometimes however reviews, especially on high profile online retailers like Amazon, can take on a life of their own, with satire and surrealism taking over from the mundane reality of a product description! Sometimes these reviews are simply humorous, like the guy who did not heed Veet’s warning and ended up with excruciatingly painful private parts! Continue Reading

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January 23, 2013

Amazon Throws Down The Musical Gauntlet To Apple

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The launch of Amazon’s HTML5 web-based store that means the Amazon Music Store can be accessed from an iOS device will no doubt get backs up over at bitter rivals Apple.

Not content in going shoulder to shoulder with Apple in the tablet market with their Android powered Kindle Fire tablets – this is another bold move that will definitely heat things up between the two competitors.

Forbes’ Ewan Spence said that despite the fact that the HTML5 is not as user-friendly as the iTunes Music Store and iOS music player – its launch is a win/win situation for web giants Amazon.Continue Reading

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January 16, 2013

Amazon Offers Previously Puchased Music Through AutoRip

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Ever bought a CD from Amazon only to lose it or later or have your roommate sit on it a week later? Well then Amazon’s newest feature, AutoRip, may be of interest to you.

AutoRip gives you access to the MP3 version of any CD you purchased from the site after the year 1998. Not only that, but from now on whenever you purchase a CD off of Amazon, you’ll be provided with a free MP3 version of the CD that will download to your computer before your purchase even ships. Having access to previously purchased music is nice, in case you’ve lost any over the years, and while getting free MP3 song files for a CD that’ll arrive in the mail in less than a week may seem like a bit much, it’s nice to see Amazon’s attempting to go the extra mile. All you have to do is go to Amazon, sign into your amazon.com account, and go tot he AutoRip portion of the site. and then just sit back, relas, rock out, and enjoy.

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December 19, 2012

Amazon & The Two-For-One Replacement Scam

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Htmlist’s Chris Cardinal has written a detailed account of what he believes to be a “replacement order scam” striking Amazon.
Cardinal is, by his own admission a regular Amazon user and first released that something fishy was going on with his account after receiving emails regarding online chats with customer service reps.

After some investigation, Cardinal discovered that he was a victim of what he has dubbed the “two-for-one Amazon.com’s socially engineered replacement order scam.”

By gaining access to his order numbers, some sneaky person managed to order “replacement” products of things he had ordered and received successfully, including some incredibly expensive camera equipment. Continue Reading

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October 12, 2012

New Kindle Paperwhite Now Available For Preorder In UK, Germany & France

New Kindle Paperwhite Now Available For Preorder In UK, Germany & France

Amazon’s new E-reader, the Kindle Paperwhite is now available to preorder in the UK, Germany and France in both 3G and WiFi-only models. Shipping will commence on October 25th and demand is expected to be high with Amazon limiting orders to 2 per customer.

The latest E-reader from Amazon users E Ink’s latest e-paper display that comes with a front-lighting system making the screen clearly visible even in low-light conditions without the usual glare that you might get from a LCD or AMOLED tablet. You can see how the front-lighting system works in the video clip.

The Kindle Paperwhite is priced at £109 (WiFi-only) and £169 (WiFi & 3G) in the UK. In France and Germany it will set you back €129 and €189 respectively.

The Kindle Paperwhite release in the US was considered a success and shipping estimates soon stretched out by almost 6 weeks. The addition of Amazon’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to the UK, Germany and France will no doubt mean that demand for the item increases. Continue Reading

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October 12, 2012

European Launch Of Amazon Kindle Owners’ Lending Library To Take Place In October

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Amazon has confirmed that European Kindle owners will now be able to borrow books from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library once it is launched later in October.

The US version was launched in November of 2011 and allows Amazon Prime subscribers access to a wide range of books available to borrow on their Kindle devices. Subscribers can borrow up 1 book a month but there is no limit on how long this book can be kept on the device. Becoming a prime subscriber in the UK costs £49 each year and you will obviously need a Kindle device, the cost is similar in France and Germany.

Amazon claims that the library has more than 200,000 titles for subscribers to choose from. They come in a wide range with things like local-language ebooks as well as bestsellers like the Harry Potter series.

Publishers and authors will be pleased to hear that the Kindle Direct Publishing Platform will support Kindle Owners’ Lending Library inclusion too. The KDP Select fund – which pays out royalties to the authors for each book borrowed, has been injected with funds to support the predicted increase in demand. In October the fund was dramatically increased from $100,000 to a whopping $700,000 and Amazon say another increase is on the cards for November.

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September 8, 2012

Amazon Launches 8.9-Inch Kindle Fire HD

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The new larger-sized Kindle Fire was launched by Amazon at a Los Angeles press conference yesterday. The eagerly awaited and dramatically improved Kindle Fire boasts 8.9-inch 1920 x 1200, 254ppi display and has a HD camera, stereo speakers, Bluetooth connectivity, HDMI output, a laminated touch sensor and promises 25 % less glare.

It is powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP 4470 Processor which Amazon claims will perform much better than the Tegra 3.

A 4G LTE model of the Kindle Fire will also be available with 32GB or 64GB of storage, but the company has also made major improvements for the Wi-Fi networking by introducing a dual-band 2.4GHz/5GHz receiver, 2 antennas and MIMO radio technology. The Wi-Fi only model comes with either 16GB or 32GBs of storage. Continue Reading

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July 18, 2012

What Would Happen If Amazon Could Ship Your Product To You Yesterday

The news that Amazon are in the process of launching a same-day shipping option, (which would be the first for an online retailer) inspired Ben Stadler and The Bilderbergers to put together this comedy sketch musing over what would happen if Amazon launched ‘Yesterday Shipping’.

The sketch shows how bizarre life and shopping would be if somehow these giants of online retail figured out how to traverse the laws of time and space and get the product that you wanted a day before you actually decided you wanted it and put the order in. Trippy stuff indeed…

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