The big news yesterday in the cloud storage world was all about Amazon and Dropbox. They weren’t the only cloud services making some noise though. … Read more…
Amazon Prime is just that: Prime. Not only does the service offer free two day shipping on Prime eligible goods (which is basically everything), but they … Read more…
Folks, the new Kindle is here. Kindle is a long-standing frontrunner in the e-reader market. Even if you have a Nook or something else, chances … Read more…
Google has now overtaken Goldman Sachs’ political donation amounts in the United States, Goldman Sachs held the top slot at $1.4 million and Google slipped … Read more…
The popular box office-tracking site boxofficemojo.com has effectively disappeared from the internet and all its links are being directed to a generic IMDB page. It should … Read more…
Smartwatches aren’t the only area of tech to see growth this past year. Streaming dongles/media sticks have seen immense growth from an almost non-existent standpoint … Read more…
Rumors about the highly anticipated Super Smash Bros Wii U potentially coming out on November 21st have been floating around since early September, but a major online … Read more…
Before Amazon fully unveiled their Fire phone, we wrote about the things it would need to do to make a reasonable person want to buy … Read more…
Twitter announced today that they are rolling out a test phase of a potential “buy button” for their service. So now you could conceivably purchase … Read more…
Google is the second company who have settled with the FTC over supposed unauthorized in-app purchases made by children without authorization from the account holder. The order requires … Read more…
Google may have missed out on Twitch yesterday, but they’re not sitting idly by. Today, Google announced that they’ve purchased ZYNC, a visual effects and … Read more…
Update: It’s official – Amazon buys Twitch for a reported $970 Million, CEO Emmet Shear’s statement is below this article. The buzz around the web has been … Read more…
Today marks the first day of Amazon’s new entry into the smartphone industry and hopes are high for Jeff Bezos that it will be a success. … Read more…
The buffet style subscription has hit the reading world as Amazon has just announced they will be offering their entire Kindle library of over 600,000 … Read more…
It’s time for another Bundle Roundup, folks! This column will help you find some of the greatest bundles of games, comics, books, and sometimes even … Read more…
The Amazon Smartphone is out and it’s name is Fire. We told you about a few of the features it needed to succeed and why you would buy one if those feature were on the phone. Now that it is actually available and all the details are public, will you really buy this phone? Most of what Amazon revealed today in their mystery launch event was fairly expected by most people. Those specs are listed below courtesy of Amazon.com. I’ll review a couple specs here and then let you decide.
Reuters is reporting that Blackberry will be entering a deal with Amazon, Inc. to begin offering 240,000 Android apps through the Amazon App Store on newer Blackberry devices. This is supposed to happen soon after Blackberry performs an upgrade to its operating system later this fall. But is this enough to pull Blackberry out of the grave?
Amazon is poised to announce it’s latest device on Wednesday at an event in Seattle and judging by the reaction of everyone featured in the mysterious video posted by Amazon on the launch event page, you will want to buy it immediately.
Amazon turned on Music Streaming for Prime members and instantly became the top company for music streaming. That’s right, Amazon has more paying subscribers than any other music streaming service including Spotify and Pandora. Amazon Prime subscribers have access to streaming video and free 2-day shipping on a plethora of items on Amazon.com for $99 per year. With the push of a button they also received a free streaming music collection including most songs released 6 or more months ago.
There is an embarrassment of riches these days if you are a gamer. You can play high quality games at any time of the day … Read more…
We all know over the last several years the patent wars between major companies has been in the spotlight. The latest ignorant patent comes from Amazon in which they seek to patent photography against a white background. Well, we’re not the only ones who think Amazon is smoking dope, Stephen Colbert took to his show to discuss Amazon’s idiocy and file a patent of his own. Video after the break.
As recently as yesterday morning, several members of the Techaeris crew were lamenting the hands-off nature that some of the big names in tech were taking with this most recent Net Neutrality brouhaha. Leave it to those same big names to deliver an open letter to the FCC yesterday afternoon! The full text of this letter is listed below:
Been searching for that new tablet on Google lately? If so, Google may recommend, via Google Now, when you are near a store that carries it. They will even conveniently tell you the price. In one sense, this is the oldest rule of retail: the impulse purchase. High margin impulse purchase items with high turnover are kept near the front of the store, tempting you to snag that candy bar or soft drink you’ve been thinking about since you saw it on the way in.
Last week ComiXology, a digital comic books distribution platform, made some changes in the way they do business. They uploaded a new app to the Apple App Store to replace the app that they have had up for some time. The changes that were made were not minimal. They stripped out the in app purchase (IAP) system that they had been using and put in a cloud syncing option so that users could log in to the Comixology.com website to make purchases and then sync them to the app. Unsurprisingly, some people were upset.
ComiXology, the company that is at the top of the heap for digital comic book distribution was purchased by Amazon last week. Let’s take a look at the good, bad, and ugly.
Odds are pretty good that you’ve heard of Roku, even if you don’t own one. Roku is one of the most popular streaming set-top box makers in the world, bringing high definition video entertainment directly into your living room almost exclusively via a small, square, purple box.
The times are always changing, and the latest craze is streaming dongles like the Google Chromecast.
Amazon announced their new stream box, on Wednesday, beautifully named Fire TV. For $99 this compact set-top box boasts a Qualcomm quad core CPU, 8GB of internal storage, 2GB of RAM and dual band, dual antenna WiFi (because no one likes waiting for their movies to buffer). All you need is an HDMI cable and a high definition TV and you’re good to go! According to Amazon the specs alone makes it roughly 3x faster than both Apple TV and the Roku 3. Fire TV packs alot of…fire power (I know I know but I couldn’t resist).
Re/code is reporting that Amazon will be releasing a set top streaming box next week allowing users to stream Amazon content to their TVs, this pits them squarely against Apple, Google and Roku in the streaming space. Apple has reportedly sold 13 million Apple TV units while Roku is in a hot second with 8 million. Google brings up the rear, without a solid metric but said to be in the millions, with it’s wildly popular Chromecast. The set top streaming space has no clear leader at the moment, I think people are still feeling this market out.
