Cord Cutters: Checking out the Boxee iPad app
Boxee's new iPad app aggregates videos from your Twitter and Facebook contacts, plays videos files stored on your computer and beams videos straight to the Boxee Box or an Apple TV. Check out a detailed walk-through in this week's episode of Cord Cutters
Amazon shows media companies the future of the web
Amazon's new browser-based version of its Kindle e-book app is designed to get around Apple's restrictions on in-app purchasing, but it is also a great example of how media companies should be looking beyond the world of apps to the future of the browser-based web.
Hands-on with Kindle Cloud Reader: can it replace a native iPad app?
Amazon has finally launched a Web-based version of its Kindle reader, allowing users to read their Kindle purchases on any device with a Web browser, without having to download special software. The Web-based reader, called Kind...
Amazon releases Kindle cloud reader web app, sidesteps App Store rules
Amazon has launched a new cloud-based version of its Kindle book reading application. The new Kindle Cloud reader is accessible to the iPad with iOS 4, Google Chrome and Safari on the Mac/PC. The new web-based app circumvents Apple's policy change...
How Apple drove Amazon’s Kindle from the App Store
The new Kindle Cloud Reader paves the way for others to sidestep Apple's 30% tax
Note the restored Kindle Store button, top right.
Steve Jobs made no friends on Publishers Row last February.
After flying to New York City in early 2010 to sell book and magazine publishers on the wonders of the iPad as a reading device...
Apple, publishers conspired against $9.99 Amazon e-books, says lawsuit
"Terrified" by Amazon's Kindle e-reader and discounted e-book pricing, five major publishers allegedly acted together to increase e-book prices and compel Amazon to abandon its discount sales strategy. That's the gist of ...
Hands on with Kindle Cloud Reader for iPad
Apple no longer allows e-book sellers to link out to their stores, which is likely why Amazon introduced a new web-based app that works outside of Apple's official software distribution channel on Wednesday. Here's a look at the new Kindle Cloud Reader, and its integrated store.
iTunes triumphant: Walmart kills its music download store
One of Apple's most serious challenges in the digital music market is giving up
"After eight years in business, the Walmart Music Downloads Store located at mp3.walmart.com will close on August 28, 2011. All content in the Store will be disabled and no longer available for download from the store."
So begins the certified letter sent to...
Amazon Releases Impressive Kindle Cloud Reader Web App, Sidesteps In-App Purchase Rules
Over the past six months there has been a (fairly) quiet tussle between Apple and various publishers and other content suppliers over the issue of In-App Purchases and Subscriptions. At the beginning of the year Apple had demanded that by July, all content available within an app must be available for purchase within the app...
Walmart pulling the plug on its MP3 store, but not its DRM servers
Walmart is pulling the plug on its MP3 downloads store, but it will continue to support DRMed tracks that it sold before the store went DRM-free. The news comes via a leaked memo to Digital Music News—later confirmed by...
Amazon freezes new Appstore submissions in Germany
Amazon is freezing new Android app submissions to its Appstore that originate from Germany. Amazon said new admissions would be accepted again soon, but did not provide an exact date. Until Amazon re-opens the floodgates, German developers must ho...
Amazon Offering $50 Discount and Free Shipping for 2011 MacBook Air [Deals]
Do you have plans to purchase one of Apple’s brand spanking new MacBook Airs? Well then you may want to hold off on ordering from Apple’s online store. Amazon is currently offering the entry-level 11-inch MacBook Air at a 5% discount off Apple’s retail price,...
