Ep. 66: Amazon's Kindle may start a Fire

Release Date 29 Sep, 2011 in CNET

 
   
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Amazon's Fire Device Reignites Tablet Wars

Wall Street Journal - 29 Sep, 2011
Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos travelled to New York's Hell's Kitchen to unveil the Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday, marking the most high-profile challenge yet to Apple Inc.'s dominant iPad, which has beaten back other rival makers such as ...

Amazon Bargain Tablet to Grow Market Without Being 'IPad Killer'

BusinessWeek - 29 Sep, 2011
Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire is poised to help Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos lure bargain tablet-computer shoppers. It's unlikely to dislodge Apple Inc. from its perch at the top of the market. The Kindle's $199 price, ...

Amazon Bargain Tablet to Grow Market Without Being 'IPad Killer'

Bloomberg - Danielle Kucera, Sarah Frier - 29 Sep, 2011
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)'s Kindle Fire is poised to help Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos lure bargain tablet-computer shoppers. It's unlikely to dislodge Apple Inc. (AAPL) from its ...

Will tablets soon be free? Let's start with the Kindle Fire

ZDNet (blog) - Joel Evans - 29 Sep, 2011
Amazon finally unveiled its tablet offering: the Kindle Fire. The Fire is selling for $199 and comes with access to over 18 million movies, TV shows, songs, apps, games, books, magazines, and the web. ...

Dear Amazon: About that new Kindle Fire tablet

Washington Post (blog) - Alexandra Petri - 29 Sep, 2011
Fire! Fire! Fire! (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (Mark Lennihan - AP) Amazon, I have a complaint. It's not that I dislike you. You have a great thing going. Cheap music. Cheap books. Cheap video. And the new Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire ...

Kindle Fire: hot enough to rival the iPad?

BusinessWorld Online - 29 Sep, 2011
TODAY, Amazon unveiled a new range of Kindle devices including its much anticipated move into the tablet market with the announcement of the Kindle Fire. Amazon is going head to head with Apple and the iPad with a consumer-centric media consumption ...

Q&A at Kindle demo: What Fire can and can't do

The Seattle Times - Brier Dudley - 29 Sep, 2011
Amazon.com Kindle Vice President Dave Limp answers a few questions about the company's new device, the Kindle Fire. By Brier Dudley Dave Limp, Kindle vice president at Amazon, holds the Kindle Fire. Reporters could look but not handle. ...

Amazon unveils $199 Kindle Fire tablet

Kansas City Star - 29 Sep, 2011
Amazon is challenging the untouchable iPad with a smaller touch-screen tablet of its own. At a New York unveiling, CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the Kindle Fire, which connects to the Web, streams movies and TV, displays e-books and supports thousands of ...

The Kindle Fire's real threat is to Microsoft

ZDNet Asia - Jay Greene - 29 Sep, 2011
With plenty of early buzz, the Kindle Fire may well become the first legitimate tablet alternative to Apple's iPad. That could pose challenges for tablets running Microsoft's Windows 8. ...

Amazon's iPad killer?

Ninemsn - Susan Hely - 29 Sep, 2011
Tax Time 2011Doing your tax doesn't need to be daunting! Check out ninemsn Finance's Tax Time for tips and advice on how to make your 2011/12 tax return work for you. If you take one thing away from the unveiling of Amazon.com's new tablet it should be ...

Amazon's Tablet Leads to Its Store

New York Times - Jenna Wortham, David Streitfeld - 29 Sep, 2011
With a glossy 7-inch color touch screen and a dual-core processor, the Kindle Fire, a new mobile device introduced by Amazon on Wednesday, sure looks like a tablet, and one not so different from the Apple iPad. ...

Bezos Portrays Pocket-Sized Fire as Service, Not Tablet, in IPad Challenge

Bloomberg - Brad Stone - 29 Sep, 2011
Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., introduces the new Kindle Fire tablet computer at a news conference in New York on Sept. 28, 2011. Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com ...

Amazon, the Company That Ate the World

BusinessWeek - Brad Stone - 29 Sep, 2011
Jeff Bezos is channeling Steve Jobs. It's mid-September and the wiry billionaire founder of Amazon.com is at his brand-new corporate headquarters in Seattle, in a building named Day One South after his conviction that 17-year-old Amazon ...

Kindle Fire vs. iPad: Which is right for you?

CNN - Doug Gross - 29 Sep, 2011
(CNN) -- With Amazon unveiling its much-anticipated Kindle Fire tablet computer Wednesday, we may finally have a real tablet war on our hands. In the nearly 18 months since the iPad went on sale, tablet rivals have come and gone. ...

Amazon Fire may have 'nailed it,' but the name is a miss

Washington Post (blog) - Melissa Bell - 29 Sep, 2011
In light of the hoopla made when Apple announced the iPad, evoking a thousand sanitary napkin jokes, it's surprising how deadening the silence is over the name. Perhaps it's because people are referring to it as both the Kindle Fire and ...

Amazon's 'atomic bomb' salvo at iPad

CNN International (blog) - 29 Sep, 2011
New York (CNN) â€" Amazon didn't just light a fire to the tech world Wednesday, it threw out an atom bomb â€" a tablet for $199, less than half the price of the cheapest iPad. Not only that, CEO Jeff Bezos also announced a new line-up of better, ...

Why New Kindles Will Supplement, Not Replace, My iPad

BusinessWeek - Mark Crump - 29 Sep, 2011
As much as I'm tied into Apple's ecosystem for hardware and apps, my e-book loyalty lies with Amazon.com. A big reason for that is when it comes to e-books, I like the flexibility that comes with a vendor that makes it easy for me to read ...

Amazon takes on iPad with $199 Kindle Fire

Times of India - 29 Sep, 2011
Amazon .com, the world's largest online retailer , unveiled its Kindle Fire tablet computer, taking aim at Apple's bestselling iPad with a device that's smaller and less than half the price. The Kindle Fire will have a 7-inch display and sell for $199, ...

Business Highlights

Washington Post (blog) - 29 Sep, 2011
By AP, NEW YORK â€" Amazon is taking on the untouchable iPad with a touch-screen tablet of its own. The company introduced its entry in the rapidly expanding market for handheld computers â€" a device called Kindle Fire that connects to the Web, ...

Amazon unveils Kindle Fire tablet for US$199

ZDNet Asia - Roger Cheng - 29 Sep, 2011
Amazon's tablet will retail for US$199 and could mark the first significant competitor to the iPad. Amazon unveiled the Kindle Fire, an Android-powered tablet that acts more like a color ...

Amazon unveils iPad rival

DAWN.com - 29 Sep, 2011
Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO of Amazon.com, introduces the Kindle Fire at a news conference. â€" AP Photo NEW YORK: US online retail giant Amazon launched a touch screen tablet computer, the Kindle Fire, on Wednesday that costs $199, less than half the ...

Kindle Fire Won't Kill the iPad--But It Will Kill More Retailers

Forbes - 29 Sep, 2011
More than 15 years after the first banner ads appeared on the Web, Internet technologies and upstarts are disrupting advertising and media faster than ever. With this blog, I hope to suss out what's coming next from major players such as Google, Yahoo, ...

New Kindle Fire: Amazon introduces tablet for Everyman (and every kid)

Christian Science Monitor - Gloria Goodale - 29 Sep, 2011
The new Kindle Fire's low price aims to vastly expand the tablet-buying population, and positions Amazon for the future of e-publishing and e-commerce. Merry Christmas! By Gloria Goodale, Staff writer / September 28, 2011 Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO ...

Amazon's Silk Browser May Not Be Smooth When It Comes to Privacy

PCWorld - David Daw - 29 Sep, 2011
The most interesting feature on Amazon's newly announced Kindle Fire tablet may be its Silk web browser. The browser promises to improve webpage loading performance by using Amazon's servers to help render ...

Amazon unveils Kindle Fire tablet computer for $200

Los Angeles Times - David Sarno - 29 Sep, 2011
The device can do nearly everything the Apple iPad can do, but at less than half the cost. Analysts say the Kindle Fire may quickly become the strongest competitor yet to the iPad. An Amazon.com employee displays the company's new Kindle Fire tablet ...

Magazines Join With New Tablet Challenger

Wall Street Journal - Suzanne Vranica - 29 Sep, 2011
Magazine publishers have been anxious to find a true rival to Apple Inc.'s iPad. Some say they may have finally found it with Amazon.com Inc.'s new Kindle Fire. Amazon has struck accords with several large publishers including Condé ...

Amazon's Kindle Fire may have a hidden 'app tax'

Computerworld (blog) - Jr Raphael - 29 Sep, 2011
I wrote earlier about Amazon's new Kindle Fire and how the gadget is truly more of an Amazon media device than a Google Android tablet. From the interface to the app ecosystem and service selection, Amazon has effectively ...

Amazon Kindle Fire Meets Enterprise: Security Advice

InformationWeek - Michael A. Davis - 29 Sep, 2011
How do you secure these devices, and prevent them from accessing the network, without help from your mobile device management system? By Michael A. Davis InformationWeek Amazon announced its new 7-inch tablet this week to much fanfare. ...

Amazon tablet fires its ambitions

Financial Times - Richard Waters, Barney Jopson - 29 Sep, 2011
At one point on Wednesday, a deadpan Mr Bezos pulled up a giant image of a white USB cable, which millions of consumers have used to send content between their laptops and Apple's iPods and iPads. Members of the audience chuckled because they guessed ...

 

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