Posts Tagged ‘amazon’
AP – Brazil’s president said Thursday that “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world’s largest tropical rain forest.
PC World – Amazon has the Samsung PD-P3600 Blu-ray player, which sells for $219 with free shipping; that’s $80 off the retail price and about $20 lower than competing retailers’ prices. This Blu-ray player made waves earlier in the year for its slick design, 1GB of internal flash memory for BD-Live content, and support for Netflix and Pandora streaming over Wi-Fi.
PC World – In a battle between AT&T and Verizon Wireless that never seems to end, AT&T’s partner Apple now appears to be getting into the mix with two retaliatory iPhone TV ad that air Monday night. The ads comes hot on the heels of AT&T’s TV ad campaign that aimed to “set the record straight” around Verizon’s “there’s a map for that” campaign.
AP – Amazon’s Kindle can read books aloud, but if you’re blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup.
PC World – Apple’s iPhone is quickly becoming the ebook reader of choice for many, and could steal market share from Amazon’s Kindle, according to a report from market research firm Flurry.
A Brazilian military transport plane disappeared today as it was flying over the Amazon, the air force said in a statement without specifying the number of people on board.
AFP – Amazon crowned a new bestseller on Thursday — the Kindle, its electronic book reader.
If you’re like us, you have managed to create your own mini-library of books, magazines, games, CDs, software titles, and movies. It is difficult to sort through all of them to see which ones you have on file, or to find where you last shelved a particular one. Librarian Pro is a complete personal inventory system! Organize items into smart collections, add them to the in-program Amazon shopping cart, mark them as lent out to friends, and even export for the web or your iPod! Librarian Pro also supports importing from other cataloging applications like Delicious Library and DVDpedia
Reuters – Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon’s Kindle.
Macworld.com – Western Digital on Tuesday announced a new, updated version of its Mac-centric external desktop hard drive, the My Book Studio. Available in capacities up to 2TB, the drive has both FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connections, and comes pre-formatted for the Mac. A FireWire 800 to FireWire 400 connector is included for compatibility with older Macs.