Amazon Appstore Challenging Android Market in Paid Apps

Google’s Android Market still dwarfs Amazon’s Appstore in the number of available applications for Android phones, but Amazon is proving to be efficient in its app sales, said Distimo. – When Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) launched its Appstore for Android applications last March, the assumption was that the portal would challenge Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android Market as a welcome alternative for consumers to download free and paid applications for smartphones.

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Imation Launches DataGuard Backup Appliances

DataGuard R4 and T5R appliances are compatible with many cloud storage APIs, including those from Amazon S3, Dropbox and OpenStack-based cloud providers. – Scalable storage and data security company Imation Corp. (NYSE: IMN), introduced purpose-built backup appliances designed to enable small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to safeguard their information with multiple levels of data protection from a single backup infrastructure

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Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet, Like Kindle Fire, Now $199

Barnes & Noble reported a quarterly earnings decline.

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Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet, Like Kindle Fire, Now $199

Amazon orders E Ink color displays for Kindle

When Amazon launched the Kindle Fire tablet, it put a question mark over what will happen to the Kindle eBook reader in future. Will Amazon continue to offer the thinner, book-only device, or will it eventually be replaced by the Kindle Fire offering a full tablet experience along side book reading features? According to the [...]

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Barnes & Noble To Take On Amazon (Again) With A New 8GB Nook Tablet

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Amazon rumored to launch 10-inch Kindle Fire sequel by summer

There will be another Amazon tablet coming at some point. You don’t find the success that Amazon has found with the Kindle Fire, and just leave it at that. The biggest questions, then, are: when will it arrive, and how big will it be? A report out of alleged supply chain sources claims to have [...]

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Philips HMP2000 media streamer offers instant Netflix

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Apple tablet share drops 7 per cent thanks to Kindle and others

With the Amazon Kindle Fire still yet to hit the UK, the recent market share drop could be hit further with both the Fire's release in Europe and the UK

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Kindle Fire Sales Hit 4M Units For Q4: IHS

Amazon’s Kindle Fire chomped away at Apple’s iPad and Samsung’s Android tablet market shares in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to IHS iSupply. – Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) managed to sell 3.9 million Kindle Fire tablets during the fourth quarter, living up to analysts’ sales estimates for the 7-inch Android slate before it launched Nov.

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iPad tablet market share down to 57 per cent

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