Tag archive: Oprah Winfrey

Sony Electronics has decided to amp up the electronic book competition with Amazon.com, announcing two new digital ebook readers as well as price reductions at its Sony eBook Store, all designed to lure consumers into Sony's world and away from the runaway success of the Amazon Kindle. "We firmly believe consumers should have choice in every aspect of their digital reading experience," said Sony Digital Reading Business… Read More

Amazon has had trouble dealing with demand for its Kindle ebook reader. First the company ran out of the $360 devices going into the end-of-year holiday season after an endorsement from Oprah Winfrey—creating no end of frustration—and the company has just run out of Kindles again, with the result that Amazon is now recommending customers pre-order to devices in order to, maybe, one day, get one. Eventually. Now, in a move that… Read More

Amazon's Kindle electronic reader may—or may not!—set afire the hearts of book lovers everywhere…but following a gushing endorsement in late October from none other than Oprah Winfrey—who named it her “favorite new gadget“—the Kindle's spark has gone out until at least February. According to Amazon.com, the Kindle will be out of stock for 11 to 13 weeks, so gift-givers looking to set… Read More

It's become an annual tradition: toward the end of every year, the major Internet search engines crunch their numbers, compile their statistics, and (it sometimes seems) just make stuff up in an effort to present an overview of Internet users' search habits for the year. Yahoo and AOL are first out of the gate this year, respectively announcing their 2008 Year in Review and 2008 Year End Hot Searches, respectively. And what… Read More

The power of Oprah Winfrey's book recommendations is well-known: if the wildly popular talk show host and business magnate selects a title for her book club, the tome is virtually guaranteed bestseller status—even if some of the books she's selected have led to their fair share of controversy. Oprah has decided to focus mostly on classic titles lately, but that doesn't mean she's turned her back on new… Read More

Folks were wondering what Amazon's forthcoming Internet-based video-on-demand service might mean for the deal the company had struck with TiVo and its existing Unbox service. Well, wonder no more: Amazon and TiVo have announced a new partnership called Product Purchase that will enable consumers to buy products from Amazon using their TiVo remote by way of onscreen links that will appear in selected programming. The first shows slated… Read More

The new "Oprah & Friends" channel will feature a broad range of talk programming including callers that can phone in to the show. XM Satellite will have exclusivety to the channel for now. Some of the guest appearances will include: Donald Trump, Julia Louis- Dreyfus, Annette Bening, Jon Bon Jovi, Nora Ephron, Carnie Wilson, Norman Lear, The New York Times' columnist Thomas Friedman, former presidential candidate Sen.… Read More

Internet advertising juggernaut Google and XM Satellite Radio have entered into an agreement which lets advertisers on the Google searchh engine insert advertising on XM's non-music satellite radio stations through Google's recently acquired dMarc network. Under the deal, Google Adwords would be able to place terrestrial and satellite radio advertisements through the company's dMarc media network when it is fully… Read More

Itching for more James Frey-esque moments while you drive? You're in luck, because Oprah and XM Radio have partnered to give Oprah her own talk show. The show called "Oprah and Friends" is part ofthe 3-year, $55 million dollar deal with the queen of daytime talk shows. XM said the Oprah deal will not affect its target to break even on a cash flow basis by the end of this year. So what can you expect from Oprah and her friends on this… Read More

Interest in Carbs, Cookies, Crockpots and Cocktails Soared in 2004 Which people, moments, news and trends captivated Americans in 2004? AOL(R) Search, America Online's popular search destination, announced the year's top searches based on what people and topics received the highest volume of online queries on the AOL service and AOL.com. Platinum recording artist and teen movie star Hilary Duff takes the crown for most… Read More