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While Apple surely wants its customers to pay a premium for iPhone 5 dock port adapters from the company store, some savvy third-party manufacturers have already started undercutting Apple’s accessory. 9to5Mac reports that the first third-party iPhone 5 adapters have gone on sale at Amazon and are selling for between $10 and $18, significantly less Continue Reading →

Microsoft hasn’t been very forthcoming about what it plans to charge customers for its soon-to-be-released Surface tablet, but CEO Steve Ballmer told the Seattle Times that the device will be priced more to compete with Apple’s iPad than with low-cost tablets such as the Kindle Fire HD or the Google Nexus 7. Specifically, Ballmer said Continue Reading →

If you were banking on hacking a new Kindle Fire to take advantage of cheap hardware without Amazon’s modded Android OS, you perhaps better think again. Developers over at XDA are speculating that they expect the new range of Fires to be too sophisticated to hack. In particular, a forum post provides evidence which suggests Continue Reading →

Amazon Web Services and startups have always gone together like peanut butter and jelly, and Amazon wants it to stay that way. Toward that end the cloud services giant launched its sixth annual AWS Global Start-Up Challenge on Friday. For this round, Amazon seeks companies attacking big data and high-performance computing; gaming; consumer applications and Continue Reading →

The ever-increasing oddity of what’s going on between Nintendo and Amazon hit another milestone Thursday, as the world’s largest e-tailer informed customers it won’t have Nintendo’s latest console available for pre-order. “Thank for you signing up to be notified when the Wii U is available,” the email from Amazon to customers read. “Unfortunately the Wii Continue Reading →

Amazon has called its new Kindle Fire HD “The best tablet at any price.” But that’s far from the truth. Here are five reasons the Google Nexus 7 beats the Kindle Fire HD. Use both devices for a little while, and it’s clear that the Google Nexus 7 is zippier than the Kindle Fire HD. Continue Reading →

Just as Amazon’s Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos confirmed that the company is likely to go up against competitor eBay in delivering some products in one day, supply chain sources are stating that Kindle Paperwhite shipments could be in trouble. According to DigiTimes, the second half of the year could be difficult for Amazon to Continue Reading →

Apple would prefer agency pricing on ebooks — that, we know. In fact, Apple is likely to appeal the DOJ’s ebook pricing settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, which was approved last week. Turns out, though, that doesn’t mean Apple won’t play the price-drop game on their ebooks in the meantime. We saw Continue Reading →

Apple will announce its redesigned iPhone tomorrow. Ahead of that huge launch, Amazon has knocked down the price of the 16GB Galaxy S III to just $100 with a contract in an apparent attempt to unload as many of the phones as possible before everybody forgets about it. But don’t let the sheen of a Continue Reading →

Amazon has released a new version of its Kindle app for Macs, bringing support for Lion’s multi-touch gestures, such as panning and swiping. Version 1.10.3 also brings support for Kindle Format 8 books (which means richer formatting) and larger libraries, as well as the usual bug fixes and performance improvements. The update should be welcome Continue Reading →