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Amazon Plans To Build Massive Biodome HQ, So No One Has To Leave

If you work for Amazon, you might soon have the option to feel like you’re working outside every day. Proposed earlier this week at Seattle City Hall’s Design Review Board, this trio of interconnected glass domes is the company’s plan for a space where employees could work and hang out.

10 May 2013

Gadgets

Last-Minute Mother’s Day Gifts

Yep, you read that correctly. Mother’s Day is on Sunday. If you still haven’t got your maternal figure anything to show your geeky appreciation of her efforts in raising you, we have some ideas for you.

Mobile

WSJ: Amazon Is Working On A Smartphone With A Crazy 3D Display

The WSJ reports that Amazon is devloping a battery of new devices including a smartphone that would use a crazy-sounding glasses-free 3D technology. If it’s true… what?

7 May 2013

Computing

Amazon Leaks The World’s First Small-Screen Windows 8 Tablet

Rumours have swirled recently suggesting that a new breed of small Windows 8 tablets would soon appear in the wild. Now, Amazon has managed to accidentally leak the first tablet of its kind.

27 April 2013

Gadgets

Why Is Amazon Packaging So Dumb?

We’ve all had it happen to us: order a small item from Amazon, only to have it arrive in what seems to be the world’s biggest box. What gives, Bezos?

Online

Should The .Amazon Domain Belong To The Company Or The River?

Amazon is busy trying to gobble up all kinds of top-level domains — .book, .read, you name it — but it also has its eye on .amazon too. Turns out that the Brazilian and Peruvian governments have something to say about that though and would rather snag it for the famous river.

22 April 2013

Entertainment

Amazon’s 14 Original Series Pilots Are All Online Now

Amazon just launched the 14 pilot episodes for its original series showdown — six kids shows and eight comedies. Surely at least one of these programs will be good. Actually, we’re pretty excited for a few of them. Here’s how you can get them in Australia.

19 April 2013

Software

Amazon Acquires Siri-Like App Company

Amazon has ponied up a cool $US26 million for a company that builds a voice-recognition app called Evi — yes, essentially a Siri clone — prompting speculation about a forthcoming phone from Bezos and co.

18 April 2013

Software

Amazon App Store Finally Opening To Australians

Tired of the Google Play Store? Then good news! The Amazon Appstore is finally coming to Australia. Here’s how and when you can get it.

6 April 2013

Software

Why Do We Keep Making Ebooks Like Paper Books?

Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. No one doubts the convenience, reach and flexibility of the ebook format, but it will never convincingly replicate the experience of a paper book — nor does it need to. Ebooks are a fundamentally new medium, stuck in an awkward growing stage.

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