Amazon launches video transcoding service
Amazon Web Services has launched a beta of a new Web service that can execute in the cloud the heavy data-crunching job of transcoding video.
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Amazon to combine Lovefilm, Pushbutton design and dev teams in new Digital Media Development Centre in London
Eight-floor, 47,000 square foot centre will house "hundreds of employees".
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Amazon boosts Kindle Fire production
Amazon is boosting production of its Kindle Fire tablet, thanks to immense pre-order demand. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said the company is "increasing capacity and building millions more than we'd already planned."
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First Look: Amazon Kindle Fire
The wraps are finally off Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet. Its splashy entry into the tablet firestorm was hard to miss -- Amazon made quite a statement with its $199 price -- and yet I'm underwhelmed.
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Amazon unveils Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch tablets
Amazon's $199 (about £127) Android-based Kindle Fire tablet joins a crowded market, but could be serious competition for the iPad, analysts say.
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Book store apps capitulate to Apple, remove webs links
Several prominent book reading and purchase apps received updates on Monday that removed one small, but important feature: To comply with Apple's latest policies on selling app content outside of the standard in-app purchasing API.
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93% of tablets sold were iPads
4.5 million tablet PCs shipped during the third quarter of 2010. Of those, about 93 percent were Apple iPads.
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App Store subscriptions 'could draw anti-trust scrutiny in the US'
Apple could face anti-trust scrutiny in the US over the way its new subscription service within the iOS App Store works, it has been claimed.
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Amazon to unveil Kindle for the Web
Amazon plans to demonstrate a new version of Kindle for the Web, which will enable users to read full books in a web browser and allow any website to become a bookstore
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Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle 'must rethink design in order to stay relevant'
The Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle need to be reconsidered in order for e-reader devices to maintain popularity and relevance, a local web designer has warned.
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Gadgets: Amazon unveils sleek new Kindle
Third-generation e-reader’s lighter weight and better screen make it the most enticing Kindle yet.
