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#BlackFriday Tech Winners, #CyberMonday Deals
As the focus shifts to digital sales on Cyber Monday, you may be wondering: What products scored wins on Black Friday? Retailers are already seeing how shopping on mobiles and tablets is changing our buying behavior.
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Amazon Updates Fire OS to 3.1, Announces Cloud Streaming Games
Kindle Fire users can update their tablets. Amazon is bringing a major refresh to the device's operating system that offers improved management of books, newspapers, magazines and apps.
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November Brings the Perfect Storm for Tablet Buyers
October saw its traditional raft of mobile device launches, but November is when the sales will really fly. It's when all those buying for the holidays enter the market. With Black Friday looming, expect buy buttons to be clicked and registers rung at record speeds.
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Apple Confirms iPad Unveiling Event for Next Week
Apple has confirmed that it will host an event next week where we will likely see the new iPad models unveiled alongside new Mac models with OS X Mavericks.
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The New Apple iPads Shrink and Stretch in the Wash
As the new model iPhone excitement recedes, Apple revs up for October with a fresh batch of iPads, preceded by the usual host of leaks from China before the big day.
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Amazon Unveils Kindle Fire HDX Tablets With Built-In User Support
Amazon's new Kindle Fire HDX tablets are devices for everyone, so one of the new features is an automatic video help system to provide tech support. That and an improved screen and specs should see further growth in Amazon's content empire.
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Amazon EC2 Dedicated Instances Price Drops
Amazon continues to put pressure on the compute on demand market by once again dropping the price of its EC2 Dedicated Instances this week by as much as 80%. The Importance of Scale Because Amazon employs such a huge cache of networked servers, it can afford to consistently drop prices
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Microsoft and BlackBerry Look to Step Up the Tablet Battle
Having received modest interest and a total bath on their first tablet products, Surface and PlayBook, various reports suggest Microsoft and BlackBerry will be trying again to compete with the tablet giants soon.
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Amazon Extends "Send to Kindle" Button to Websites, Blogs
So much to read online and still no one has come out with an app to stretch time. Workarounds for non-elastic time include several kinds of “read it later” apps. And now, Amazon is extending its “read it later” functionality, with a Send to Kindle button for Websites and WordPress
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Amazon Cuts Pricing of Kindle Fire HD 8.9", Launches In Europe and Japan
The big brother of Amazon's Kindle family has received a price cut in the U.S., while it arrives in new territories to tempt users looking to expand beyond their 7" small-screen borders.
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Amazon's Earnings Highlight the Consumer Transition to Digital
Amazon posted its earnings last night with sales up 22% on the quarter. But the key trend highlighted is the massive move to digital reading and consumption on Kindle devices, with physical book sales at their slowest growth since Amazon's founding.
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Amazon Gets Talkative With Ivona Text-to-Speech Acquisition
The latest company to invest in voice, Amazon already uses Ivona's technology in its Kindle Fire audio reader, but will look to challenge Siri and Samsung's S Voice in future products by acquiring the Polish company. Talk To Me Even the quick demo on the front page of Ivona's site
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Appcelerator Reports: Not all Mobile Devices Expected to Have a Good 2013
With the release of its "IDC Q4 2012 Mobile Developer Report," Appcelerator has announced its mobile predictions for 2013 that stem from trends during the latter half of 2012. A mobile development platform, Appcelerator and the International Data Corporation (IDC), surveyed 2,837 of Appcelerator Titanium developers from November 15 to
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Amazon Appstore for Android Developers Get A/B Testing #appnation
Android developers building apps for the Amazon Appstore have a bevy of new tools to help leverage the rapidly growing Kindle Fire tablet ecosystem, Aaron Rubenson, Director Amazon Appstore for Android said at the AppNation conference this week. Kindle Fire is the best selling item on Amazon.
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