No, this isn’t a closeup of a Cosby Sweater. Nor is it the result of those shrooms you ingested 20 minutes ago. It’s actually science’s newest means of mapping one of the Earth’s wildest and most remote regions. More »
Amazon’s Kindle ads have long gone after tablets over readability in sunlight, which is fair. But now that its Kindle Fire is a glare-prone LCD turbo-tab itself, the company has chosen a new battlefield: price. Hold on a sec! More »
A platform is useless without dedicated developers. Brandon Watson, former head of the Windows Phone Developer Experience, knows this better than anyone. Knowledge he will surely carry over to his new gig as director of Amazon’s Kindle Cross Platform team. More »
Some people still buy books — and even buy them in paper format. So Barnes & Noble’s decision to block books published by Amazon is fightin’ words! But how much does it matter, and who’s getting hurt? More »
Amazon, purveyor of fine mini-tablets and concrete mix and other sundries, announced today how much money it made last year and where and why. The only problem? Like most earnings reports, it’s completely indecipherable. Let’s try to break down what happened and why it matters. More »
We use polyurethane to make just about everything — garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local 99-cent store. It’s easy to produce, durable, and dirt cheap. What it isn’t is recyclable — there isn’t a single natural process that breaks it down. That is until a newly-discovered Amazonian fungus takes a bite. More »
We all read reviews and check star ratings on Amazon before we buy stuff. We’ve already seen that companies sometimes write reviews themselves, and they’re easy to spot by the way they’re written. But there’s a new trend among some less trustworthy Amazon sellers: bribing customers to write favourable reviews. More »
When asked today about how Apple was handling the competition from lower-priced tablets — specifically the Kindle Fire — Apple CEO Tim Cook said, effectively, that it isn’t a competition at all. Which would sound like hubris, if the numbers didn’t back him up so strongly. More »
I like using my ereader for things other than books, but aside from Instapaper, converting regular files into ereader format is more hassle than it’s worth. Now Amazon’s making it easier to send non-book files to your Kindle. More »
If you want to pick up some cheap Blu-rays, Xbox 360 games or anything else that has ridiculous region coding, you’ll be happy to know that Amazon UK is offering free super saver shipping to Australia (and NZ, India and South Africa) until January 15 when you spend £25. Given you can pick up the extended Lord Of The Rings Blu-rays for the equivalent of 60 bucks, this is an easy way to spend a lot of money. [Amazon]
