Amazon has posted a new TV ad for the Kindle Fire HD 8.9, which comes with a larger 8.9-inch display rather than a 7-inch display. In the ad, they’ve compared the Kindle Fire HD’s 8.9-inch display with the iPad’s Retina display and say that you can’t really differentiate between the two. This is certainly not [...]

Amazon has recently launched a new service called AutoRip that is actually pretty neat if you are someone who has purchased physical media from the company. You see, AutoRip gives customers a free online version of any album they buy or have bought on Amazon within the last 15 years. This service will definitely appeal [...]

According to a new survey by Chitika Insights, customers in North America used the Kindle Fire more than the iPad to browse the web. Apple’s iPad usage fell during the month of December, which is kind of weird because the iPad Mini sold like hot cakes. The data analytic company performed this survey between December 1st and [...]

Yesterday we brought to your attention a massive iOS app sale from EA Games. It looks like Gameloft also will be joining  EA Games in discounting some of their most popular iOS titles. For a limited time in celebration of “turkey day” Gameloft will be slashing the prices of games like The Amazing Spider-Man and Gangstar [...]

Amazon has begun to take their first serious forays into game development, with the founding of Amazon Game Studios, and their release this summer of a Facebook-only game called Living Classics. Now, they’re moving further into the realm of actual gaming, with the release of their first iOS/Android title, Air Patriots.  The game, along with a launch trailer [...]

Earlier this week Amazon posted a giant ad on their homepage comparing the iPad Mini with their Kindle Fire HD. The ad titled, ‘Much more for Much less’, attacked the iPad Mini for being priced too high and not having features as good as the Kindle Fire HD. In the comparison, it was mentioned that the [...]

If you head over to Amazon’s homepage, you’ll be greeted with a giant Kindle Fire HD vs iPad Mini ad. The ad is titled ‘Much More for Much Less’ and lists all of the strong points of the Kindle Fire HD and how you can get all that for just $199. Yes, the iPad Mini [...]

Apparently sales of Kindle Fire HD’s weren’t affected by the release of Apple’s 7.9-inch iPad Mini tablet. According to Amazon, they saw a record number of Kindle Fire HD sales on the day after the iPad Mini announcement. No statistics were released to confirm this, so we’re not sure what ‘record number’ means, but it [...]

There’s no denying that Amazon is a big fan of the processors coming out of Texas Instruments these days; the company has provided the CPUs for several Amazon devices recently, including the new Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD. It may come as no surprise, then, that Amazon is considering by that whole division of [...]

In August The Verge managed to get their hands on some pictures of Microsoft’s Windows 8 packaging. It featured a very Metro-style boot screen logo, with very sharp looking colors and typography. With the Windows 8 release date (October 26th) drawing near, it makes sense that online retailers would be preparing for the launch. This is [...]