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A new ad from Amazon attempts to make fun of the cost of Apple’s iPad by highlighting the cheaper price of its own mobile devices. The 30-second ad takes place at a plush resort and involves an exchange between a bikini-clad woman (representing Amazon) and a slightly awkward-looking man (representing Apple). The 30-second ad begins with the Apple guy walking past the woman, shielding his iPad from the sun. She’s reading a book on her Kindle… Read More

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet has been out a few months now and while reports suggest it's selling well, Amazon has declined to give detailed information regarding precise numbers, going only so far as to say it sold a million units in December. An analyst at Barclays went further recently, claiming that the online retail giant had shifted around 5.5 million units over the holiday season, and estimating that it could sell as many as 18.4… Read More

Being awoken from a deep, soothing slumber by an alarm clock or wake-up call is bad enough, but being awoken by a fire on your bedside table would be something else altogether. It’d certainly get you out of bed in a hurry. According to Brazil’s techtudo website, a woman by the name of Ayla Mota had her iPhone 4 plugged in to charge overnight when it allegedly began to emit sparks and smoke as she slept (no, the picture on the right is not of the… Read More

Not to be outdone by Amazon’s early shipping of its new Kindle Fire tablet, Barnes & Noble has also decided to begin shipping its Nook Tablet a couple of days prior to its originally scheduled release date of November 18. According to a Cnet report, a Barnes & Noble spokesperson said that anyone who preordered the device will be able to pick it up from stores on Wednesday, with general sales of the new tablet beginning on Thursday. Those… Read More

Earlier in the week, when Barnes & Noble unveiled its new Nook Tablet, it proudly announced that Netflix, Hulu Plus and Pandora would come preloaded on the device, pointing out that Amazon’s Kindle Fire would not. But that was then. On Wednesday, Amazon took some of the shine off Barnes & Noble’s announcement when it released a statement saying that actually the Kindle Fire would be coming preloaded with Netflix and Pandora, together… Read More

It looks like Apple’s iPad finally has some serious competition on its hands. According to the results of a recent survey by consumer electronics shopping and review site Retrevo, shoppers in the US interested in buying an iPad this holiday season are outnumbered by more than three times by those interested in Amazon’s Kindle Fire – and it’s not even on the shelves yet. Of those considering purchasing a tablet, 44 percent said they would… Read More

When wildfires flare up, they can get out of control and engulf huge areas in a matter of minutes. And when firefighters arrive on the scene, they can only survey the situation from one place – the ground. A team of engineers from the University of Cincinnati realized how useful it would be if firefighters could view the blaze from high above, so they set about designing and building an unmanned camera-equipped flying machine that could be… Read More

Amazon took another step toward pulling its hardware and digital content into an increasingly tight package on Wednesday when it announced the launch of the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. As its name suggests, the new service, which allows users to borrow one digital book per month, is open to anyone with a Kindle device, such as its popular Kindle e-reader, or its soon-to-be-released Kindle Fire tablet. Users must also be a member of the… Read More

We don’t think that the new Amazon Kindle Fire will be an iPad killer, but it might just outsell the Apple tablet. The folks over at Cult Of Android got some leaked preorder numbers from Amazon, and the numbers look amazing. After only five days the Kindle Fire has amassed 254,074 preorders, which almost matches the original iPads first day sales. The original iPad sold 300,000 units on its first day of availability, and took a month to reach… Read More

Just hours after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced news of the new Kindle Fire tablet, Research In Motion (RIM) executives have given the green light for a substantial price cut for its PlayBook device. The tablet price war has begun. The 16GB PlayBook was, until a few hours ago, selling on the Best Buy website for $499. Amazon’s unveiling of the 8GB Fire tablet on Wednesday for $199 suddenly made the 16GB PlayBook look way overpriced. So RIM has… Read More

After a while in private beta, Yahoo's Brickhouse development group has set loose public beta of Fire Eagle, a new service that aims to be a centralized hub for users to tap into location-aware Internet applications. The idea is that users update their location info via Fire Eagle—ideally via a mobile phone, but using the Web works too—and a myriad of location aware services will all be able to pick up that information and… Read More

They call the data center in Texas The Planet, a place full of servers. But a large fire has taken 9,000 of the servers at The Planet offline, bringing down thousands of web pages around the world. An electrical short reportedly caused the blaze that destroyed three walls around the data center’s electrical equipment room. In a blog post, The Planet team wrote: "We have just been allowed into the building to physically… Read More

There have been several incidents of lithium-iron batteries catching fire, but they’ve mostly affected laptops. On Wednesday, however, 12-year-old Henry Clay from Detroit found that hisSony PSP burst into flames in his pants pocket, Vnunet reports.   On Click OnDetroit, the boy’s mother, Sheila Clay, explained,   "He said it wasn't a gradual heat. It really started heating up. He's always been taught burn… Read More

Samsung is the exclusive sponsor of a unique and exciting schedule of music programming on the INHD Channel through 2005.  This remarkable music series will debut in October and present suchartists as The Who, Peter Gabriel, Earth, Wind & Fire and Chicago.  The two companies promise details concerning the series debut andadditional high profile announcements in the coming months. As part of this effort, Samsung will use its… Read More