After recent buzz that a larger Kindle Fire is coming to tech town, a new report says that Amazon is developing an Amazon smartphone to take on the Apple iPhone.
The news comes from Bloomberg which says that Amazon is working with Foxconn International Holdings on an Amazon smartphone.
The publication attributes the scoop to two unnamed “people with knowledge of the matter”.
Foxconn is most famous for being the company which Apple tasks to assemble the iPhone.
Furthermore, the internet …

Computex 2012: Acer Embodies The Nvidia Kai Concept With a $ 200 Tablet. (Image via Acer @ Computex 2012)

Not even two weeks have passed since Nvidia announced its strategy for cheap tablets with quad core processors, and now it has already begun to introduce the first products developed after the new matrix, be it in the sample stage.
Among the hundreds, if not thousands, of new products launched at Computex 2012, without rolling out the red carpet, Acer presented at its stand two tablets …

Amazon’s Cloud Computing Is Getting Bigger Too / image via Yahoo! News

Giant Internet retailer Amazon is flexing another online muscle that promises to be as powerful as its web sales business – its cloud-computing infrastructure.
BGR News this morning quoted a research made by DeepFields Network, which showed that with little fuss, Amazon’s cloud computing system is starting to exert influence on as much as 1% of the total Internet traffic in North America.
In its research, the Network …

Mighty Amazon Gets Hit By Withdrawal of 1,800 Children Book Titles / image by Nick Oxford for NY Times

It’s only worth $1.5 million in annual sales, but it’s a big deal for the Educational Development Foundation or EDC when it decided to withdraw its 1,800 children’s book titles from online retailing giant Amazon in a protest over book pricing.
The New York Times Monday reported that EDC‘s chief executive Randall White formally announced the withdrawal from Amazon’s virtual …

Amazon To Cut E-Book Prices As Rivals in Book World Watch In Horror / image Brian Snyder/Reuters

In a new millennium horror story in the making – for book publishers that is, the largest bookseller in the US and Internet retailer Amazon, is set to cut e-book prices even as the US government prepares antitrust charges against the nation’s biggest publishers.
The New York Times this morning said the US Department of Justice is preparing to file charges against five major publishers and …

Amazon on Tuesday unveiled its in-app purchasing feature for the Amazon Appstore paving another way for developers to make money through their apps on the Amazon marketplace.
The in-app purchasing feature on the Amazon Appstore will also integrate the famed one-click technology of the internet commerce giant.
However, with the introduction of in-app purchasing for its app store, Amazon is now open to the litigious ways of a company called Lodsys which claims to have patents on the in-app …

It seems Google doesn’t want to leave any corner related to technology untouched. The search giant that has helped millions of businesses and retailers reach their targeted clients is all set to now step itself into a new role of retailing.
It is launching an online store, under which the company will sell its own brand of tablet PCs. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing its sources close to Google. It is understood that the tablets sold on Google’s store will be running …

Another Win for Online Entertainment: US Viewers Watch More Online Movies Than DVD

In another example of unstoppability, online entertainment gets another gold medal with a new report that said US viewers prefer watching movies online in 2012, rather than non-Web formats such as DVDs.
A US online research firm in New York released a new report over the weekend indicating that online movie transactions will hit 3.4 billion this early in the year, compared to 2.4 billion in physical videos on …

Giant online retail company Amazon has acquired warehouse robot making company Kiva Systems in a deal worth $775 million. The all-cash deal will see Amazon integrate Kiva, which makes robots that move around equipment in a warehouse, into its customer order fulfillment operations, which accounts for a huge chunk of Amazon’s operational expenses.
Amazon has made strategic acquisitions over the years, mostly in its order-fulfillment department, as it aims to leverage better economies of …

Researchers at International Data Corp (IDC), a Massachusetts-based research company that tracks technology sales, believe Android tablet unit sales will surpass those of iPad by 2015, reports Bloomberg. According to IDC experts, it will happen with increasing demands for Amazon’s Kindle Fire.
IDC also increased its estimate for tablet shipments in 2012 to 106.1 million. Last year’s tablet sales of 68.7 million were higher than IDC’s expectations.
The statement released by IDC says tablet …