Jan 29
In early October, Scribd launched an ebook service that competes with similar offerings from Oyster, Amazon, and such. Today it has expanded its battleground into Amazon’s territory, making available an … Continue reading
Jan 28
Although not as hot a topic as it was a few years back, web apps, particularly those written with HTML5, have become more or less an established category, especially on … Continue reading
Jan 28
Do you think that the video game console market has gotten more saturated with Microsoft joining in the fray, or are the big three – Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony just nice, maintaining the balance of power perfectly among them? Word on the street has it that another player might yet make its way to the game console market, and that would be Amazon. This is certainly rather weird considering the nature of the company as well as the businesses that it is involved in. A new rumor through unnamed sources has pointed out that Amazon delayed the introduction of their Android-based console, although the company has promised a 2014 rollout with a price tag that is under $300.
Sub-$300 Amazon Console Reportedly In Development original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 28
Word has surfaced that Amazon plans to launch a gaming and entertainment device some time this year, which will run on Android and be pitted against big and micro consoles … Continue reading
Jan 24
Amazon has taken a hung chunk of business away from traditional brick and mortar stores like Walmart. Some of those traditional retail stores in the real world are looking to … Continue reading
Jan 21
It was reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier this morning that Amazon approached a minimum of three large media conglomerates, being on the lookout for rights to distribute their TV channels online, similar to the ones that are currently available via cable and satellite. All of that has been debunked, however, thanks to word from the proverbial horse’s mouth – Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener. Herdener emailed USA TODAY and mentioned, “We continue to build selection for Prime Instant Video and create original shows at Amazon Studios, but we are not planning to license television channels or offer a pay-TV service.”
Amazon Debunks Rumors Of Live TV Service original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 21
Sources familiar to the matter disclosed that Amazon has approached at least three major media companies in a bid to launch its own Online Pay-TV service. Rumors and acquisitions such … Continue reading
Jan 21
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A couple of years ago, Amazon broke into the video market by offering Amazon Instant Video, a pretty awesome feature for Amazon Prime subscribers who basically got a ton of content for free. Well it looks like that isn’t where Amazon’s plans end, but begin, because according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, they claim that Amazon is currently working on offering a live TV service that would basically stream over the internet. As it stands, the project is reportedly in its early stages and that Amazon has apparently approached three major media companies to begin working on a licensing deal that would allow them to broadcast content from these companies.
Assuming that this is true and Amazon’s service does launch, it would put them in competition with the likes of cable and satellite television providers. Amazon is not the first company to show interest in such a service as Sony has announced something similar this year at CES, and Apple too has been rumored to be interested in a similar service as well, especially with its rumored iTV hardware. In fact it was recently that Intel announced that they would be selling their internet TV service to Verizon partly due to the fact that they were unable to negotiate content from content providers, which ultimately made it difficult to launch such a service. In any case we’re not sure if Amazon will be much more successful, but until then take it with a grain of salt.
Update – Amazon has since debunked the rumors.
Amazon Rumored To Be Working On Live TV Service [Update] original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 21
Apple Falls Behind Sony, Samsung, Microsoft In Customer Satisfaction Survey
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When it comes to a company that makes you happy, which is it? Apple? Microsoft? Sony? Samsung? Well in the latest customer satisfaction survey, it has been found that Apple actually placed fourth in Forrester Research’s customer satisfaction survey. Based on the numbers, Sony actually took the lead with a score of 83, followed Samsung and Microsoft who tied at 82, followed by Apple with a score of 81, all of which are admittedly pretty close to one another. However it seems that none of these companies managed to beat out the likes of Amazon who score around the 85 mark, which according to Forrester Research meant that the company had entered into “Excellent” territory.
Sony’s customer satisfaction has actually been on the rise since 2012, jumping by around 10 points from two years ago. Both Samsung and Microsoft were rebounding from short dips and while Apple has been on the rise over the past year, it seems that they weren’t growing enough in the customer satisfaction department to beat out their rivals, Samsung, Microsoft, and Sony, and the way the graph is depicted, it looks like Apple will keep getting beat out by the rest unless something drastic happens, either on their end or on the end of the competition. In the meantime what do you guys think? Do you agree with the findings?
Apple Falls Behind Sony, Samsung, Microsoft In Customer Satisfaction Survey original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 21
The next company in a seemingly never-ending deluge of company working on some kind of online TV streaming service? It’s Amazon, according to a WSJ report.
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