Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on January 02, 2008 by CyberNet.

Amazon.com has just released their “Best of 2007″ lists which include products in different categories that were bestselling, reviewed most positively, products that appeared most often on Wish Lists of Amazon customers, and most popular gift products. While they cover many, many different topics, we’ll just take a look at the technology related “Best of” items for 2007.

Bestselling products on Amazon.com in 2007:

• Electronics: Canon PowerShot A570IS 7.1MP digital camera
• Computers: Nokia Internet tablet PC
• Software: Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
• Video Games: Nintendo Wii

Most-Loved Products reviewed positively by Amazon.com customers in 2007:

• Electronics: Garmin nuvi 350 3.5-inch portable GPS navigator
• Computers: Apple MacBook notebook PC
• Software: Apple Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard
• Video Games: Nintendo Wii

Most Wished-For Products:

• Electronics: Apple 4 GB iPod nano (3rd generation)
• Computers: Asus Eee 4G-Galaxy 7-inch PC mobile Internet device
• Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
• Video Games: Nintendo Wii

Most Popular Gift Products:

• Electronics: Apple 4 GB iPod nano (3rd Generation)
• Computers: Apple MacBook notebook PC
• Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 6
• Video Games: Super Mario Galaxy

Obviously from this list we can tell what products were in-demand.  Notice that Nintendo Wii was on the list three times, while Apple’s 4GB iPod nano was both a most wished-for product and the most popular gift? Additionally, the Apple MacBook notebook PC was a most-loved product and a most popular gift. After looking at these lists, I think it’s safe to say that both Nintendo and Apple had a huge year!

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Uncle Sam’s been making his way into the cloud, spurred on in part by the inherent billion dollar cost efficiencies, and Amazon’s looking to help with the move. The Seattle-based company recently announced the launch of its new AWS GovCloud, a federal government-only region that offers a remote server solution for organizations bound by high-level data constraints. The service makes use of FISMA, FIPS 140-2 compliant end points, SAS-70, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS Level 1 security controls, providing a secure host environment that adheres to stringent “regulatory and compliance requirements,” and restricts physical access to the US-only. NASA’s JPL and the US Recovery and Accountability Transparency Board are just two of the 100-plus government agencies already employing AWS’ remote servers, with more destined to join Washington’s velvet-roped cloud. Jump past the break for Amazon’s official PR spiel.

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Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud puts federal data behind remote lock and key originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If we take a can of Spam and call it “Engadget’s precooked pork meat product,” you’ll still know it’s the same mystery meat you ate for lunch, right? Under the idea of “private label rights,” authors can do just that: sell their works to others who can rebrand and resell them. This week, Amazon cracked down on duplicate ebooks in its Kindle Store, pulling titles because they “diminish the experience for customers.” One copycat who got the smack down called it a “kick in the pants” when his 22 titles got yanked. He did, however, admit he had the swift one coming. Aping authors can expect more book banning Kung Fu as Amazon continues to rid itself of “undifferentiated or barely differentiated versions of e-books.” Hi-yah!

Amazon axes copied content, duplicate Kindle Store ebooks get the boot originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Angry and outraged that Apple forced Amazon to pull the link to the Kindle e-book store from within its Kindle iOS app? So was Amazon, but instead of just sitting and whining about it like you and me, Amazon decided to do something. Behold, the Kindle Cloud Reader, a web app that behaves just like a slightly slow native app.

A “web app,” at least on iOS, means a web page that stores itself and its data locally on your iPhone or iPad. It has an icon on your home screen and when you tap it the app launches, usually without the browser bar at the top of the screen. It looks and behaves like a native app — with some limitations — and because it is really a web page, it is exempt from Apple’s App Store rules.

Cloud Reader is clunkier than the regular Kindle app, but sleeker than some actual hardware e-readers. It will store selected books for offline reading — press and hold over a book cover thumbnail to save — as well as automatically cacheing any book you are reading. You can change font size and color, access bookmarks and notes made on other devices, and while you can add new bookmarks, you can’t add highlights, notes or search within a book.

If you hope that this app will replace the native app as your go-to e-reader, you’ll be disappointed. Page turns can be slow when you flick through the book, although if you read at regular speed, the app has time to caches the next page and flipping is instant. The web app also lacks some essential features.

But this is really about the store, and the Cloud Reader store is great. It’s a lot easier to use than the full-on Kindle web pages. It opens up right in the app, just like Apple’s iBooks Store, and you can browse, search and buy. Better still, you never get presented with non-Kindle titles, and buying is a one-click process.

Sampling books, though, isn’t so good. The sample section loads up right there in the store section, and looks just like the regular reader. But you’ll have to read it right there and then. While quitting the app and relaunching brings you back to the sample, you can’t send it to your library to read later. I often queue up a few samples on my Kindle and read them later. Try this with the Cloud Reader and you’ll be disappointed: Flipping back to your library completely resets the Store section to its front page.

Still, it’s free, easy to install and also runs in Chrome and Safari on the Mac and PC. It doesn’t yet work on the iPhone. Sadly, it will only be downloaded by nerds who know about these things. And as we all know how to open the Kindle store in a browser and buy a book, it’s hard to see this as more than a proof of concept, and maybe a little poke at Apple.

Kindle Cloud Reader [Amazon via MG Siegler]

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Honestly, we’re not sure what to make of all the rumors and leaks surrounding Amazon recently. It’s safe to assume the company is working on a tablet, and we’re long overdue for an update to E-Ink Kindle. But, a recent round of domain registrations has sent the interwebs into a tizzy with some suggesting a new product, dubbed the Kindle Air, is in the pipeline. Though Amazon’s name doesn’t appear anywhere in the registrant information for Kindleair.com, the name MarkMonitor does — the firm Bezos and crew just used to register kindlesocialnetwork.com and kindlesocialnetworking.com. Now, companies pickup domains all the time just to protect their brand, and it seems a bit odd that Amazon would choose a moniker so similar to a particular sliver of aluminum and silicon out of Cupertino. Unfortunately, we’ll just have to wait and see if an even lighter and thinner e-reader is on its way from the Seattle company.

Amazon snatches up Kindle related domains, Kindle Air rumors start circulating originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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