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- Can we let the Kindle/1984 thing go already?
- $150,000. That's how much Amazon has agreed to pay the kid whose Kindle ate his homework. Sure, he's donating the money to charity after paying his legal fees, but really? $150,000? We get it already: Amazon still owns the books we all thought we were buying. ...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Public Relations, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Litigation, Digital Media, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Security, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- David Byrne: 'Inevitably someone will hack the Kindle'
- You know David Byrne, right? Founder of the acclaimed (and Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame-worthy) Talking Heads, solo musician, artist and author? Apparently he's a sometime-technologist, too. Byrne decided to plunk down the "almost $500!" for...
- Tags: Record Company, Amazon.com Inc., David Byrne, Digital Music, Digital Media, Tablets, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- FSF petitions against Amazon's Big Brother attitude
- The Free Software Foundation has a new campaign - Defective by Design - and an online petition over Amazon's Orwellian take-back of "1984" from Kindle customers. Sign it here: We believe in a way of life based on the free exchange...
- Tags: Free Software Foundation, Amazon.com Inc., Petitions, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Government, Monitors & Displays, Digital Media, Security, Hardware, Components, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Ridiculous lawsuit against Amazon
- Don't like DRM and Amazon's ability to access your Kindle? The solution is easy: Don't buy a bloody Kindle! The blogosphere and regular news outlets are buzzing again with a rekindled pun definitely intended story of the young man who lost summer work when Amazon deleted his...
- Tags: Lawsuit, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Justin Gawronski, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property, Digital Media, Security, Research & Development, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Will Apple's rumored tablet be an 'iPod touch DX'? It's all about perception
- In the race to bigger, more powerful mobile devices, Apple ought to take a lesson from Amazon. First, the rumor: Apple's rumored touchscreen tablet device got more traction today in a Financial Times article stating that the device will...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Device, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Tablets, Notebooks, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
- Amazon CEO apology: 'Stupid,' 'thoughtless' to remove e-books from Kindle readers
- A rare thing occurred yesterday: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologized. Quite the Kindle user flareup ensued after the company decided to remotely remove copies of popular George Orwell novels 1984 and Animal Farm -- yes, the irony was immediately apparent -- after it determined that it sold...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), E-books, Advertising & Promotion, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education
- The phrase "Amazon ate my homework" may certainly have been uttered on more than one occasion since the New York Times reported on Amazon's deletion of specific editions of George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 from Kindle e-book readers (and no, the irony wasn't lost on anybody). Unless you...
- Tags: Education, Digital-rights Management, Student, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Amazon shows us why DRM is a bad idea
- I wonder if anyone at Amazon thought it ironic to use the remote wipe feature built into each Kindle device to wipe copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm that users had purchased. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Digital-rights Management, Amazon.com Inc., Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2009-07-18
- Rumor mill: Netflix would be a good fit for Amazon, but...
- Options traders are betting that Amazon will buy Netflix and the idea makes a lot of sense. According to Bloomberg, Netflix shares jumped on speculation that Amazon will buy the company. The rumor at this point seems pretty thin and some analysts doubt the move because of...
- Tags: NetFlix Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Options Trader, Video On Demand (VoD), Sales Strategy, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sales, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Amazon on the record: Device limits set by publishers
- I queried Russ Grandinetti, vice president, Books, at Amazon about the lack of clarity about how many devices can access a Kindle book or how many times a buyer can expect to download a title from the Kindle Store. He referred me to Drew Herdener, director of communication at Amazon,...
- Tags: Device, Amazon.com Inc., Title, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Amazon CFO fields Kindle questions, mum on digital video, music expansion
- Amazon fielded a number of questions this morning during a presentation at the Credit Suisse First Boston conference. But what attendees really wanted to know more about, gauging by the questions they were asking, was the Kindle e-book reader, the company's plans to expand digital music and video offerings and...
- Tags: Digital Video, Amazon.com Inc., Video, Camera, Kindle, Szkutak, Camera Phones, Corporate Communications, Sales Strategy, Digital Media, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sales, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Amazon Album Art widget 2.13 (Mac)
- Search Amazon's catalogue for album art, then import it into the selected tracks in iTunes at the click of a button. It's that simple! Great for filling in the gaps in your imported CD collection.
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Amazon.com Inc., Digital Music, Digital Media, Desktops, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-05-28
- Amazon Fast Audio Converter 2.1.1 (Windows)
- Amazon Fast Audio Converter is a easy and flexible tool used to extract audio from avi, mpg, vob, wmv, asf, dat, rm, rmvb, mp3, ogg, wma format medium files. You can get your favorite audio from video files, and also you can convert audio to other formats and save to...
- Tags: Audio, WMA, OGG, Microsoft Windows, Amazon.com Inc., WAV, Amazonx, Amazon Fast Audio Converter, Digital Music, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-05-22
- Kindle for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)
- Buy a Kindle book from your Mac, PC, or iPhone using a Web browser and wireless transfer the books to your iPhone, read first chapters of any book for free before you buy, download the Kindle books you already own for free they are automatically backed up on Amazon.com, adjust...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iTunes, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-05-20
- Forget the Kindle; University "requires" iPhone
- There goes the need for a Kindle. Incoming freshmen at the University of Missouri's School of Journalism will be required to have an iPhone or iPod Touch for class lectures and lessons - not Amazon's e-book reader that just announced a deal with textbook publishers. Techmeme ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Lecture, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- Are Amazon and Real one-upping Apple?
- Twice this week, I've engaged in conversations about Apple missing the boat on potentially sweet markets that would have fit right into its iTunes growth strategy. The first conversation came after the release of the Kindle-DX, which apparently has a pretty healthy legion of fans who are...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, DVD, E-books, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
- Amazon Kindle DX: The solution to a problem that doesn't exist
- From the first moment I picked up Amazon's new large-format e-reader, the Kindle DX, I liked it. The plastic was smooth to the touch, the flat e-ink screen was easy on the eyes, and the large 9.7-in. screen only magnified just how thin the...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Magazine, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle DX, DX, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Amazon Kindle's $489 price tag makes iPod Touch a better buy
- Four hundred and eighty-nine dollars?!?! For an e-reader... That's not even in color. And doesn't come with Wi-Fi or games or apps or music playback or... Tell me again why I would buy one of these new Amazon Kindle-DX devices. Because I have a cool $500 burning...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPod Touch, Netbook, Amazon Kindle, Wireless LANs, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Tablets, Digital Music, Wi-Fi, Digital Media, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Sony partners with Google to battle Amazon for eBook readers
- Google and Sony are expected to announce a non-exclusive digital books partnership today, a move that goes directly at Amazon and its new Kindle reader. The deal, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, is the first in what's bound to a number of digital book partnerships that will likely...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc., E-books, Business Structures, Hd Dvd, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Finance, DVD, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- Is Amazon's Kindle iPhone app crippled or companion? CFO says companion
- Ed Burnette raises an interesting question about Amazon's Kindle application for the iPhone and iPod touch: Did the e-commerce giant cripple the iPhone to keep selling Kindles? Ed writes Techmeme: The wireless downloads are nice, and the way it synchronizes your current page with the page...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Ed, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
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