An escaped USA Today presentation has uncovered some of the real results of mobile news app downloads. GeekWire's copy showed a wide gap between downloads for the iPad and Android tablets: at over 2.9 million downloads, the iPad version had more than seven times the downloads of Android, which had 390,000 combined. The ratio on Android was heavily skewed by the Kindle Fire, which at 260,000 downloads had managed twice as much interest as every other Android tablet combined... Read more...
Amazon could have Kindle Fire 9-inch by midyear
Amazonís rumored Kindle Fire 9-inch model could be shipping by as soon as the middle of this year, according to All Things D. Pacific Crest Analyst Chad Bartley has raised his estimates on Kindle Fire shipments from 12.7 million to just under 15 million units based on this line of thought. Read more...
Amazon Kindle Fire ad: three of these less than one iPad
Amazon has started running one of its first TV ads for the Kindle Fire this week in a conspicuous jab at Apple. The spot (below) recalls Amazon's earlier ads criticizing the poor readability of the iPad but, this time, has an answer to the regular Kindle's lack of features. The $79 Kindle, combined with two $199 Kindle Fires, lets a mother at the beach give herself and her children a device each at under the price of an iPad.... Read more...
Windows Phone dev lead jumps to Amazon’s Kindle team
Microsoft took a symbolic blow Friday after its Windows Phone Developer Experience lead Brandon Watson confirmed he was leaving for Amazon. The often outspoken advocate of WP7 told ZDNet he would now direct the Kindle Cross Platform team, which develops the e-reading app both for Windows Phone as well as for Android, iOS, and competing platforms Read more...
Android tablets nowhere near iPad in web share as IE revives
Android tablets are gaining share of Internet use, but they still present no competition to the iPad online, NetApplications uncovered with its January wrap-up. Read more...
The Kindle and Nook — Good for More Than Just E-Books (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork - They've got the brand names of popular black and white e-readers. But the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet are, as the latter's name implies, basically miniature tablets like the iPad Read more...
Amazon Kindle Fire cuts Galaxy Tab Android use share in half
Amazon's Kindle Fire is squeezing out other Android tablets for actual use online. Read more...
Expanded lawsuit: publishers picked Apple to punish Amazon
Hagens Berman's class-action over iBookstore prices was expanded on Friday with potentially more serious evidence. Read more...
Amazon Kindle Fire orders reportedly cut in half to 3m
Amazon's hot sales of the Kindle Fire during the holidays may not have been sustainable if industry rumors are accurate. Read more...
Amazon Kindle Fire orders reportedly cut in half to 3m
Amazon's hot sales of the Kindle Fire during the holidays may not have been sustainable if industry rumors are accurate. Part suppliers claimed to Digitimes Friday that, after shipping six million of the Android tablets in the fall, orders were now down to three million for the winter. Read more...
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