Use your Kindle for kindling

Oct 21, 2011
Amazon just announced it will accept your old Kindle as a trade in for anything on their site (a Fire mayhaps?). So now all you e-Ink-ers who are...

Amazon inks DC Comics deal

Oct 19, 2011
Shortly after Amazon announced that the digital versions of DC Comics will be exclusively sold in Kindle Fire format, Barnes & Noble and Books...

Markey concerned about privacy on Amazon's Kindle Silk browser

Oct 17, 2011
Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) kind of reminds me of a book of Mad Libs sometimes. He's always firing off STRONGLY WORDED LETTERS to tech companies about...

Sick of Kindle ads? Pay up

Oct 6, 2011
That new $79 Kindle that Amazon just announced is ad supported, as befits a screaming deal. But if you just don't want to see the dang ads any more...

Kindle Fire gets a jab

Oct 3, 2011
On Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update segment, Seth Meyers mentioned the Kindle Fire, the $199 tablet computer Amazon introduced last week. "It's...

Amazon to grab WebOS?

Sep 30, 2011
Today's big rumor is that Amazon is in serious talks to buy the whole Palm brand and attendant technologies off of HP. In fact, Venture Beat says...

For public good, not for profit.

Wait, what's up with Silk?

Sep 29, 2011
The big news of the Kindle Fire announcement was the price point. $199 ridiculous dollars for something that doesn't offer nearly the power and...

Also: WHAT THE--? New prices on Kindles

Sep 28, 2011
The Kindle Touch will go for $149 for 3G model, $99 for Wi-fi model. The regular old Kindle? $79. Again, we've talked about this before but a...

Amazon just changed retail

Sep 28, 2011
Here's what Amazon is doing. Here's the top line. It's taking all of its entertainment content and making it available through one device. The Fire...