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Just 24 hours after it shared the news that its Prime shipping service is now more popular than its free Super Saver delivery option, Amazon has followed up with the news that titles exclusive to its Kindle marketplace have been downloaded over 100 million times. Amazon says that its Kindle store now features 180,000 exclusive Continue Reading →

We hope your heart wasn’t set on snagging a Kindle Touch before heading off to school this fall. Both the WiFi and 3G versions of the reader are no longer available as new devices from Amazon’s US pages — if you want one at all in the country, you’ll have to swing past a retail Continue Reading →

Amazon’s news as of late has been focused on its media partnerships (and future device launches), but Monday  the company has an impressive statistic to share regarding the usage of its Prime shipping service, which is now more popular than its free Super Saver Shipping option, seven years after it launched. In those seven years, Continue Reading →

Eons after it appeared in the US, Amazon’s Cloud Drive is at last available in the UK. Brits can manage the service from within their Amazon account online, or get the free standalone Mac or PC app for desktop dragging and dropping. It slipped in with nary a peep from Amazon, sporting the same US Continue Reading →

Apple is expected to introduce the iPhone 5 Sept. 12—after which it’s going to be no easy feat for its competitors to grab a headline or pull attention away from the smartphone that Apple fans have been waiting for since essentially last October. Because of this, you can expect a whole lot of news to Continue Reading →

Internet giant Amazon Friday morning announced that it has reached an expanded content licensing agreement with NBCUniversal Cable & New Media Distribution. Under the terms of the deal, hundreds of TV episodes from shows like Parks and Recreation, The Starter Wife, Heroes and Battlestar Galactica will be added to Prime Instant Video. Amazon says Prime Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120824_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] September is almost here and it is going to be a doozy for product announcements. Nokia, Amazon, Apple and Nintendo all have big events planned and some of the announcements are still a complete mystery. First, on September 5, Microsoft and Nokia will hold a joint event, Continue Reading →

Amazon has sent invitations to the media for a Sept. 6 press conference in Santa Monica, Calif. The invitation offers absolutely zero hints. The full text states: “Please join us for an Amazon Press Conference.” The timing is just days before Apple is expected to host its event, where it historically has announced a new Continue Reading →

Indian consumers haven’t been cut off from Amazon’s world of e-book goodies, but their experience is about to get a lot more native with the launch of a local Kindle Store. The prices of over a million books are now available in rupees, and if you’re in need of hardware, the latest bare-bones Kindle can Continue Reading →

Not one to be left out of all the buzz surrounding the upcoming US presidential election, Amazon has unveiled its Election Heat Map which it will be updating each day to show the best-selling political books by state. The map is separated into blue (liberal) and red (conservative) categories, and it lets you click on Continue Reading →