There's no doubt that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet is force to be reckoned with in the tablet wars. Coming out of nowhere in Q4, 2011, Amazon sold an estimated 4 million tablets by Christmas. I don't care who you are (excluding Apple of course), that's an impressive entrance into the tablet market space. According to research ...
Estimates for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet have just been bumped up from 12.7 million to 14.9 million by Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartley. The reason for the jump in forecast is none other than the expected arrival of a new 7 inch Kindle Fire tablet along with a larger 9 inch model, both of which are ...
Interesting leaked photo from the USA Today shows that USA Today app for the Kindle Fire has been downloaded twice as much as all other USA Today Android tablet apps combined. It's important to note this doesn't mean all apps have the same figures associated with their download volume, but because the USA Today app has ...
Amazon has given a new spin on hot ladies in bikinis reading a Kindle device in bright sunlight. This time, Amazon goes straight for the jugular of Apple by attacking the iPad on price. That's right - we all know that Kindle Fire can't hold up to the iPad on specs, but I've been a ...
Amazon just struck a huge deal that opens up thousands of new TV shows for Kindle Fire owners who subscribe to Amazon Prime. The deal with Viacom will give Kindle Fire owners access to a massive inventory of TV shows from popular stations such as MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and ...
The Kindle Fire is booming in the U.S., but with Amazon holding off on an international release, some in the UK are growing restless. People in the UK and Canada are not pleased whatsoever with the fact that Amazon has yet to release the popular Kindle Fire tablet in their respective countries. Up to this point, ...
Rumors are popping up today that Amazon has plans in the making to open a local retail shop in their hometown of Seattle, Washington. The Amazon retail store is expected to not be a large operation like Walmart or Target, but instead a small boutique operation where Amazon can push their Kindle Fire tablet along ...
Amazon has been quietly posting jobs for game developers. This new interest in developer has, up to now, flown under the radar. It seems as though Amazon is trying to position itself for the next frontier with its Kindle Fire tablet, and that is social gaming. Can the Kindle Fire because the next big console for ...
Amazon's entire Kindle Fire strategy is (or was) to sell the tablet at a loss, which will help get the tablet into more customer's hands, which in turn will facilitate the consumption of more content that can only be found on Amazon.com. And according to a new study released by Change Wave Research, Amazon succeeded. Change ...
Buy SlingPlay on Amazon now The new SlingPlayer app allows you to watch live tv, and record DVR, right from your Kindle Fire Amazon tablet. Just in case you don't already have enough content to consume on your new Kindle Fire slate, then how about adding some live TV and DVR recording capabilities to boot? I know, as ...
When it comes to Android based tablets, developers are really only saying one thing... "SHOW ME THE MONEY!" So if I'm a developer working on the Android platform, it's only natural that I'll want to develop apps for tablets that have the most profit potential. Well that tablet is starting to look more and more ...
Amazon was initially expected to sell between 3 - 4 million Kindle Fire tablets leading into the holiday season. Then, just after the Christmas holiday's, analysts started to believe their estimates were way low and so the expected numbers were revised upward to around 5 million. But now today Jordan Rohan, and analyst with Stifel ...
It's always interesting to me when another CEO comments on competitors in a direct manner. And that's exactly what Tim Cook, new CEO of Apple, did when talking about the iPad compared to Android tablets. Tim Cook was quoted as saying, when asked by reporters about the impact of Android tablets on the iPad marketshare, "I ...
Las Vegas isn't typically branded as the city where you can get something for nothing. In fact, it's quite the opposite. But when Capel Rugs showed up at the manufacturer and importer's showroom at World Market Center in Las Vegas, they were not playing around whatsoever - they are ready to give away some Kindle Fire tablets. Visitors ...
Amazon's angle with the Kindle Fire tablet is much different than most other tablet manufacturers. While tablet competitors are promoting specs as their platform to profitability, Amazon's platform is content. You see, Amazon takes a loss each time a new Kindle Fire is purchased. And even though that makes investors nervous, Amazon is ok with it, ...
In Q4 2011, it's estimated that Amazon sold nearly 6 million Kindle Fire tablets. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been quoted saying that the "Kindle Fire is the most successful product ever sold on Amazon." But in the wake of the build up to the iPad 3 release, which most estimates put sometime in March, ...
Amazon released the 6.2.2 update for the Kindle Fire tablet. The update focuses on two main areas: a full screen browser window option and easier email application. How To Full Screen Browse on Kindle Fire The Kindle Fire full screen browser option is launched by simply hitting the four arrow icon in the bottom right hand ...
The tablet market is filling up fast with its share of competitors. Tablet growth is expected to continue at a blazing pace as the total number of tablet users is expected to reach 89.5 million by 2014. The number one leader in the tablet space is the iPad, obviously. And the iPad's dominance over the tablet ...
Business Insider released a chart today that graphs out the way Kindle Fire users interact with the tablet, i.e. what are users doing more on the Kindle Fire. The graph (see below) shows one predominant activity is taking place on the Kindle Fire tablet, and that is ebooks. Check it out...
It's becoming obvious to me that a line is forming in the sands of the tablet market. You know, that line in the sand that separates the men from the boys. The line that says, those on this side win, those on that side lose. And even though there are varying degrees of loss or failure, the line ...
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