Apple has again lost a battle in its war for exclusivity to the “App Store” phrase after a U.S. judge had denied the request for an injunction to stop Amazon from using “Appstore” for its web applications marketplace.
According to reports, Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for Northern California denied on Wednesday Apple’s request for an injunction which would have forced Amazon to immediately stop using “Appstore” in its trade.
“The court finds that Apple has …

Amazon is heating up the cloud music service scene by offering unlimited storage for the Amazon Cloud Player service.
According to reports, MP3 and AAC files now do not count toward the storage limit of its Amazon Cloud Player service across all paying Cloud Drive plans.
However, people who would want to take advantage of the new move by Amazon should get their plans now because the company is reportedly offering the unlimited storage for the Amazon Cloud Player for only “a limited …

Apple would definitely hope that they have more than a shot of winning the motion for temporary injunction versus Amazon about the name “Appstore” but if the comments of the judge hearing the case are any indication, it seems that the Cupertino, California-based company might just be beaten on this one.
The iPhone maker has earlier filed suit against Amazon and also sought a temporary injunction on Amazon in using the “Appstore” name for one of its market places.
Reports say that U.S. …

Amazon has disclosed that its Kindle ebooks sales have surpassed the sales of its print books including paperback and hardcover books.
This disclosure has come as no surprise to experts who expect further rise of digital media and decline of printed content in the coming years.
Amazon started selling hardcover and paperback editions in 1995. Kindle was introduced in 2007. The Kindle book sales outnumbered hardcover book sales in July 2010, and now Kindle book sales have surpassed the paperback …

Software company MasterObjects has added Microsoft to the list of companies it is suing over a patent it owns over a patent it owns regarding internet searches.
US patent no. 7,752,326, which is owned by MasterOjects describes a method to display potential search keywords in search boxes as the search query is still being typed.
The small software company has previously been taking on technology giants which includes Amazon and Google which were sued March this year.
According to reports, …

Amazon dropped the price of AT&T’s HTC Inspire 4G to as little as $30, ramping up its effort to ward off competition.
The HTC Inspire 4G has been available for a while now, which started in February, and is AT&T’s version of the HTC EVO 4G but devoid of the WiMax speeds, however, Radio Shack has had the Inspire 4G available for $30 for a little bit now, and Amazon has just now made up its mind to follow suit.
Before, the HTC Inspire 4G priced at $99 on Amazon’s store, so grabbing …

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Internet retailer Amazon is preparing to release two tablet PCs, one of which will be a quad. This was reported by BGR, citing an anonymous source familiar with the plans of the company.
One tablet will run on dual-core processor Nvidia Tegra 2, and the second will be based on NVIDIA T30 ‘Kal-El’ platform. The junior model received the code name Coyote, and the elder one is likely to …

Amazon may be out to challenge Apple’s dominance in the tablet industry with a reported tablet in the works which may be released by the end of this year.
Citing “sources from upstream component makers”, Taiwanese publication Digitimes reported that Amazon has placed an order to Taiwan-based Quanta, reported to also be a current tablet PC OEM partner of RIM and Sony, which may ship the device as early as the second half of the year.
“Quanta Computer has recently received OEM orders …

Amazon recently filed a countersuit seeking to dismiss a case filed against it by tech industry giant Apple regarding the purported illegal use of the term ‘app store’.

Apple has sued several large tech companies for using the term in the iPhone-maker’s fight in the courts to trademark ‘app store’.
However, Amazon contends that it has not licensed the use of ‘app store’ from Apple, and that it does not need to because the two terms and their combination is generic, an argument …

The sudden failure of a datacenter owned by Amazon has resulted in difficulties in reaching some popular websites on Thursday.
Among those affected by the Amazon datacenter outage were FourSquare, HootSuite, Quora and Reddit.
According to The Associated Press, Amazon data center near Dulles Airport outside Washington was where the problems began. The AP said that the problems were “widespread, but they varied in severity”.
Mashable’s Ben Parr said that Amazon’s datacenter in northern …