Amazon’s most recent Kindle Fire marketing effort is the introduction of Amazon Coins. They’ve released their own digital currency that can be used to purchase apps and games from the Amazon Appstore. On the surface it’s a confusing move, given the larger trend of companies moving away from internally controlled currencies, but there’s a lot [...]
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Introducing Amazon Coins: A Digital Currency for Kindle Fire Owners
Posted by on May 21st, 2013
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No Comments »Amazon Picks Up Goodreads For Kindle Social and More
Posted by on May 18th, 2013
A few weeks ago, Amazon announced that they were going to acquire Goodreads, one of the most popular social sites on the internet for book lovers. Goodreads has become a great place to go for sharing reviews, recommendations, ideas, and more since its debut in 2007. While this is certain to be mutually beneficial in [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Goodreads, Kindle, more, Picks, Social No Comments »Amazon Acquires Ivona Software
Posted by on January 30th, 2013
Amazon announced today that they will acquire Ivona Software. Ivona is the company that currently supplies the Kindle Fire line of tablets with its speech recognition capabilities. Although there is little in the way of details regarding the terms of purchase, we can be certain that this signals an increased emphasis on audio input in [...]
Amazon Offers Unity Plugins to Kindle Fire Developers
Posted by on December 19th, 2012
Amazon has been making an effort to interest app developers, especially game developers, in their distribution platform lately. As has been mentioned here in the past, their GameCircle will allow for all sorts of social features to be integrated into just about any game without much trouble. Before this, many of the more popular Android [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Developers, Fire, Kindle, Offers, Plugins, Unity No Comments »Amazon Expands Android Game Development With “Air Patriots”
Posted by on December 2nd, 2012
It’s clear that Amazon has an interest in building popularity for their gaming features through the site’s Appstore for Android. Social gaming is a huge attraction for customers as evidenced by the popularity of Achievement systems on various gaming platforms and the success of Farmville and its many imitations. In order to draw developers into [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Android, Development, Expands, Game, Patriots”, “Air No Comments »Amazon Kindle Turns 5
Posted by on November 25th, 2012
As of November 19th, the Kindle is five years old. Since its first incarnation we have watched it go from a fairly clunky attempt at introducing something new into the market to an elegant piece of technology that continues to deserve its position at the top of the same market it helped popularize. We’ve been [...]
Amazon Caps Kindle 3G Use at 50MB/Month
Posted by on August 15th, 2012
The Kindle Keyboard has been the overall recommendation of this site, and myself in particular, since it was first introduced. It stands out from the current generation for a couple reasons, but mostly due to its unrestricted internet access. The Kindle Touch 3G has its cellular connectivity restricted. Apparently that sort of freedom was costing [...]
Amazon Kindle Smartphone Rumor Spreads
Posted by on July 29th, 2012
According to people with knowledge of the situation, Amazon is planning to bring out their own smartphone to compete with Apple’s iPhone line. A Bloomberg revelation provided that information recently. The idea of a Kindle phone is something that has been touched on here before, particularly during the days leading up to the formal announcement [...]
Say Goodbye to OpenFeint, Amazon Introduces GameCircle for Kindle Fire
Posted by on July 19th, 2012
One of the biggest problems with making games for Android devices like the Kindle Fire is that it can be very difficult to create a framework around them. Yes, there are plenty of stand-alone titles to choose from, but if you’re talking about anything competitive or social then that means potentially huge investments in technology [...]
Posted in Digitalbooks And Readers Tags: Amazon, Fire, GameCircle, Goodbye, Introduces, Kindle, OpenFeint No Comments »Amazon Brings HBO GO to Kindle Fire
Posted by on June 15th, 2012
Beginning immediately, Kindle Fire owners are able to take advantage of the new HBO GO app. This app, downloadable from the Amazon Appstore for Android, lets HBO subscribers watch their favorite content on demand right from their Kindle. This means immediate access to, among other things, over 1,400 episodes of HBO’s original content. You’ll find [...]
