Articles tagged "Amazon"

In 2004 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos created a team to build an ebook reader – in 2007 the Kindle was born and it went on to dominate its market. Then in 2011 the Kindle Fire Android tablet arrived and...

The Amazon Photos app for Android has finally received a big redesign today, a full year after the iOS app first got the same treatment. Talk about discriminating between mobile platforms! Anyway,...

Huawei released a court notice about the infringement of its patent rights. The claim is against Amazon and e-ink display manufacturer Compal Electronics, as well as several of their...

Amazon's October Prime Day deals are here. Mind you, this isn't the full-blown Black Friday, that's coming next month along with Cyber Monday. These are October 11 and 12 deals that are not...

Amazon today announced three new models of the Echo Dot, the standard Echo Dot, the Echo Dot with Clock, and Echo Dot Kids. The three models are basically identical for the most part. The standard...

Amazon today announced the third generation Fire TV Cube, the company's flagship media player. The updated model features a new design, faster processing, and improved connectivity. The new...

Amazon today announced the Kindle Scribe, the company's largest Kindle yet and for the first time with pen input for reading and writing on the go. The Kindle Scribe features a large...

The Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet lineup is now updated for 2022 featuring three new versions that all come with a thinner and lighter design, 30% faster processors and more storage. Tap to Alexa is...

Two retail giants in India will be offering big discounts starting on September 23 (Friday next week) – Amazon is launching the Great Indian Festival, Flipkart will be busy with The Big Billion Days....

Amazon announced its Kindle 2022 with a redesigned look, sharper display and USB-C charging. The latest entry-level Kindle gets much of the features found on the more expensive Paperwhite model such...

Amazon has begun rolling out the redesigned UI for its Prime Video app with the primary goal of making content finding easier for its users. And the first step in that direction is a simplified main...

Those of you who use a Kindle ebook reader but don’t buy books from Amazon know the hassle of converting from the widely-accepted EPUB format into something that the Kindle can actually read –...

2020 was a banner year for tablets with record shipments in the fourth quarter. This was driven by the surge of people who work or study at home due to the pandemic. Now with the pandemic easing off,...

According to a report by MIDIA Research, the music streaming market continues to grow with Spotify still in the lead with a significant market share of 31%. The data is somewhat old covering Q2 of...

Italian antitrust watchdog fined Amazon €1.13 billion (about $1.28 billion) for abuse of market dominance, Reuters reports. According to the European country, Amazon.it leveraged its dominant...

As Android 12 becomes more widespread, a growing number of users can't access their apps from Amazon's Appstore and some believe that the company's DRM is to blame. It doesn't play well with Google's...

Italy’s antitrust authority has fined Amazon €68.7 million and Apple €134.5 million for anti-competitive practices. Both companies will be appealing the fine. The problem lies in an agreement...

Verizon introduces a new feature called “Number Share - Home” which allows for Verizon subscribers to pair their phone number up with an Alexa-enabled speaker. The carrier implies the feature is like...

After strong growth in the past year, tablet shipments have dwindled in the July-September period and are down 15% compared to Q3 2020. As per Canalys, a total of 37.7 million tablets were shipped...

The Amazon Music service rolled out limited support for spatial audio in 2019, today it adds support for more devices and even more albums you can listen to. This feature is free for subscribers on...