Amazon Birthday Gift helps you buy your Facebook friends something nice, lets others pitch in
# 2013-06-18 12:08:00, Engadget
Look at the people with smiling faces in the above illustration. It's not too difficult to figure out what's going on: it's their birthday, and they're all happy because they're about to get presents. What if they knew that you had totally spaced on the fact that they were celebrating the annive...Amazon's New Social Gifting Service “Amazon Birthday Gift” Leverages Facebook, Competes With Faceboo...
# 2013-06-18 07:28:38, TechCrunch
Stealing a page right out of a startup called Aggregift's playbook, Amazon today launched a new feature called "Amazon Birthday Gift," which allows a group of Facebook friends to go in on an Amazon.com Gift Card together. That gift isn't posted to the recipients' Facebook Timeline until their big da...How the Tech Industry Is Quietly Changing the Face of American Cities
# 2013-06-18 07:05:00, Gizmodo
When Steve Jobs presented the initial design for his donut-like headquarters to the Cupertino City Council, in 2011, he described the building as a reaction against suburban office parks. “We’ve come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building; which sounds a bit odd,” he said. ...Battle For Family's Streaming Dollars Heats Up Between Netflix & Amazon, With Netflix Families Debut...
# 2013-06-18 03:48:00, TechCrunch
Following a bit of backlash arising from the loss of popular Viacom-owned children's TV shows, Netflix today launched Netflix Families, which is essentially just a destination website designed to tout Netflix's family fare. The site includes rows of Netflix recommendations for parents and kids, as w...Amazon Birthday Gifts is a new "social" way to give somebody a present on Facebook.
# 2013-06-18 03:43:00, Gizmodo
Amazon Birthday Gifts is a new "social" way to give somebody a present on Facebook. Basically, you kick in some money for an Amazon gift card and then encourage all your friends to contribute. On your friend's date of birth, the card arrives along with all your personalized messages. Sooo either thi...Season 3 of Downton Abbey arrives as an Amazon streaming exclusive: members get their Dowager Counte...
# 2013-06-17 10:42:00, Engadget
We knew season three of Downton Abbey was coming to Amazon Prime Instant Video as an exclusive, but it looks like those episodes have arrived on the subscription streaming service one day ahead of schedule. Starting today, Prime members can watch all three seasons of the Masterpiece Classic dram...Netflix announces another vastly ambitious content deal – and Wall Street is in love
# 2013-06-17 07:50:42, BGR: The Three Biggest Letters In Tech
Netflix on Monday announced a blockbuster deal that will bring no less than 300 hours of original content from DreamWorks to its streaming video service. That means Netflix will have the rights to premier new series with characters from franchises that might include Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Pand...Gauging the scale of the post-PC opportunity: "Mobile Is Eating The World"
# 2013-06-17 03:00:00, TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Speaking at All Things D in 2010, Steve Jobs famously predicted that "PCs are going to be like trucks": specialised devices that only appeal to people with particular demands of their computing experience while ordinary people would come to prefer smartphones and tablets for all their computing ...Amazon's Grocery Business Learns From Webvan That Rapid Growth Is The Enemy Of Fresh
# 2013-06-17 02:13:51, TechCrunch
Amazon is moving deeper into at-home grocery delivery with AmazonFresh, which is expanding to L.A. as of last week, and which is set to continue to roll out to further markets over the course of this year and beyond. But it learned to take things slow from Webvan, the famous home grocery delivery fl...Disney on Demand launches on Amazon's Lovefilm today, adds more titles
# 2013-06-16 22:46:00, Engadget
As promised a while ago, Amazon's Lovefilm service is now streaming even more Disney titles through the film studio's own Movies on Demand section. Additions include Wall-E, Lady and the Tramp and live-action flicks like the Chronicles of Narnia. And yep, even Bedknobs and Broomsticks has finall...Amazon lists multiple PlayStation 4 bundles with release day guarantee
# 2013-06-15 02:21:00, Engadget
If you managed to snag one of those "Launch Edition" PS4s, consider yourself officially on the ball. If not, then not only will we not judge you, but you might actually have a different set of bragging rights. Amazon's currently listing four new bundles for the console. The Knack and Watch Do...MakerBot's Replicator 2 joins Amazon's newly launched 3D printer store
# 2013-06-14 14:19:00, Engadget
Granted, it's not a 3D printer in every home, but it's surely a step in the right direction. MakerBot announced today that its Replicator 2 will be joining Amazon's new 3D Printer Store, a central location on the site for devices, accessories, books and the like. The store features a number of o...Apple's Eddy Cue acknowledges e-book price increases at antitrust trial, reveals talk of Amazon deal...
# 2013-06-13 09:39:00, Engadget
The issue of e-book prices, and alleged price fixing, has come up again and again in recent years, with the focus most recently shifting to a Manhattan courtroom where Apple is at the center of an antitrust trial. After revealing new details of the company's market share yesterday, Apple's Eddy ...The Steve Jobs smoking gun email that wasn't
# 2013-06-13 04:00:00, TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
As part of its ongoing effort to prove that Apple colluded with publishers to raise the price of e-books across the board, the U.S. Department of Justice alleges that Apple strong-armed publishers into renegotiating their existing contracts with Amazon in order to switch over to the agency model of ...Amazon Creates A 3D Printing Store, Vaulting The Technology Into The Mainstream
# 2013-06-13 03:05:16, TechCrunch
If you thought you and your RepRap were safe from posers, you're sunk: Amazon has just opened a store for 3D printers and printer accessories that seems to, at the very least, allow smaller manufacturers to get a foothold in an increasingly tight market.Amazon splits PS4 pre-orders into 'Launch' and 'Standard' editions, Launch is already sold out
# 2013-06-12 22:51:00, Engadget
Amazon, with its limited supply of PS4s, has cleaved its product listing into two, to help people get a handle on when to expect their pre-order to arrive. Those who've already stumped up their cash are likely to find they've been assigned a "Launch Edition," guaranteeing that they'll get the co...Amazon's bringing its Kindle Fire HD 7, 8.9 to India on June 27th
# 2013-06-12 19:50:00, Engadget
Having recently rebranded its operations in India under the Amazon name, the retailer announced today that it's launching the Kindle Fire HD 7 and 8.9 there later this month. Due on June 27th, the two tablets will ship for 15,999 ($275) and 21,999 ($380) rupees with access to a reported 1.9 mill...Take A Peek At The Inner Workings Of MakerBot's New Brooklyn Factory
# 2013-06-11 12:44:37, TechCrunch
Brooklyn-based MakerBot is a darling of the 3D printing community, and it recently moved into its new digs in Sunset Park, so the crew can more efficiently build and ship their shiny new Replicator 2 and 2X printers. Call it a classic case of growing pains -- once demand for 3D printers started pick...PS4 now available for pre-order on Amazon at $399 (update: more retailers)
# 2013-06-10 17:19:00, Engadget
Microsoft may have been the E3 matinAmazon's LOVEFiLM Pulls Its Subscription DVD And Streaming Service Out Of Scandinavia
# 2013-06-10 11:24:57, TechCrunch
Last summer it seemed like the subscription video segment in Scandinavia was heating up, as both Netflix and HBO announced plans to make their services available in that market. Now, less than a year later, Amazon-owned LOVEFiLM is pulling out of the region, the company has confirmed.Amazon Bets On Web Groceries, Expands AmazonFresh To L.A.
# 2013-06-10 05:45:10, TechCrunch
Confirming reports from earlier this month, Amazon has today expanded its online grocery service AmazonFresh to it first non-Seattle market: Los Angeles. The company homepage was quietly updated this morning with news of the expansion, and the AmazonFresh mobile applications for iOS and Android have...PSA: Acer Iconia W3 up for pre-order at Office Depot, Staples starting at $350
# 2013-06-10 00:32:00, Engadget
It's always refreshing when a product catches us by surprise, but thanks to several leaks, the Acer Iconia W3 definitely didn't fall into that category. So, when it was unveiled at Computex 2013, we were ready for it in all its 8.1-inch 1,280 x 800, dual-core Intel Atom, Windows Pro 8 glory. The...Amazon Has a 3D Printer Section Now
# 2013-06-08 08:36:00, Gizmodo
3D printers just got a little more mainstream. Amazon has now opened its own 3D Printer page for the sale of printers and filaments so you can get all that jazz shipped right to your door with the greatest of ease.Read more...Amazon Continues Arming Its Legion Of Self-Publishers With Storyteller Launch
# 2013-06-07 04:48:30, TechCrunch
Amazon has been nothing short of experimental in its quest to compete and dominate in the streaming video space. Today, the company takes it a step further with the introduction of the Amazon Storyteller, a program that lets script writers turn their works into full story boards.Amazon introduces Storyteller tool to turn scripts into storyboards
# 2013-06-07 03:54:00, Engadget
Amazon Studios has been forging ahead with its push to develop original movies and TV series, and it has now introduced a new tool that it's hoping will help foster further development. Dubbed Amazon Storyteller, the tool lets writers quickly turn their script into a storyboard without the need ...Amazon's Kindle comes to China: Paperwhite for $138, Fire HD for $244 (16GB) or $293 (32GB)
# 2013-06-06 23:37:00, Engadget
Amazon launched its Kindle e-book platform into China last Christmas, but locals looking to get their mitts on the company's hardware had to look, ahem, elsewhere. Fortunately for everyone but grey market importers, Amazon has released the non-cellular Paperwhite and the two 7-inch Kindle Fire H...Apple argues it was 'indifferent' to Amazon's e-book pricing
# 2013-06-06 08:00:00, TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Apple's trial with the US government over allegations that Apple was the "ringleader" in a conspiracy to increase the price of e-books on the iBookstore is a doozy. The Justice Department on Monday laid out its case with a series of 81 slides which it claims show that Apple ran afoul of anti-trust l...Amazon's Relational Database Service Hits General Availability, Gets SLA With 99.95% Monthly Uptime ...
# 2013-06-06 06:10:07, TechCrunch
Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) today officially hit general availability and now offers a Service Level Agreement with a 99.95 percent uptime promise for multi-availability zone deployments. RDS has already been on the market for three and a half years, but Amazon never considered it to...Amazon launches indie game portal to promote the little guys
# 2013-06-06 06:09:00, Engadget
Amazon feels for indie devs. So much so, that it's set up a standalone Indie Game storefront on its site specifically to highlight these gaming gems that might otherwise get overlooked. The new portal, designed to "increase discoverability," will feature select games for Mac, PC and the browser,...Eric Schmidt-Backed Slice Moves Beyond Receipt Tracking With Debut Of Bookshelf, A Social Network Fo...
# 2013-06-06 05:02:42, TechCrunch
Is there room for another social network for book lovers, now that the biggest, Goodreads, has been snatched up by the largest online retailer (and Kindle maker) Amazon? Slice thinks so. Today, the mobile receipt tracking service backed by Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Lightspeed, Floodga...
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