Laptop-DRV » Amazon http://www.laptopdrv.net It's your driver in the gadget world. Notebooks, Apple, IPod, IPhone, Mobile News and much more... Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:08:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 HP TouchPad to exaggerate Skype job, Kindle app http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/10/hp-touchpad-to-exaggerate-skype-job-kindle-app/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/10/hp-touchpad-to-exaggerate-skype-job-kindle-app/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:37:54 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/10/hp-touchpad-to-exaggerate-skype-job-kindle-app/ HP TouchPad to exaggerate Skype job, Kindle app

HP didn’t just show off a ton of apps for a TouchPad at the eventuality currently, though did during slightest exhibit a integrate of key ones. That includes a new tablet-friendly Kindle app for webOS, that will naturally let you “buy once, review everywhere,” as well as give you access to all of a some-more than 810,000 books which have been available in a Kindle Store — as always, it’ll be utterly gratis. What’s more, whilst sum have been still a bit light, HP also confirmed that it’s operative with Skype upon video job, which will as if be included with the tablet at launch. Head upon past the mangle for Amazon’s press release.

For more on all of HP’s webOS announcements currently, click here!Show full PR textAmazon Announces Free “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” Kindle App for webOS TouchPad

Amazon’s gratis “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” Kindle app which lets users review as well as sync over 810,000 of a many renowned books will be available upon the new HP TouchPad

SEATTLE – Feb. 9, 2011 – (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Amazon.com currently announced that it will launch a free Kindle app for webOS tailored for a new HP TouchPad. Like all Kindle apps, Kindle for webOS will let clientele “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” – on Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod hold, iPhone, PERSONAL COMPUTER, Mac, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Android-based devices, as well as this summer, the HP TouchPad. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your place across inclination, so you can collect up where you left off as well as never remove your place. For some-more report about the free Kindle apps, go to www.amazon.com/kindleapps.

“When you buy a Kindle book, you can already read it upon Kindle as well as the free ‘Buy Once, Read Everywhere’ apps for iPad, iPhone, iPod hold, PERSONAL COMPUTER, Mac, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, as well as Android-based inclination, so you never have to be concerned about what to do with your books if you shift inclination or platforms,” said Dorothy Nicholls, Director, Amazon Kindle. “We’re really vehement to supplement webOS to this list. As with the alternative Kindle apps, the webOS app will be gratis as well as will soak up the Whispersync technology so you can seamlessly switch in between inclination as well as platforms as well as never be but your reading.”

Kindle for webOS was demonstrated for a first time today during HP’s press discussion announcing the brand new HP TouchPad.
“We’re working with Amazon to move HP customers a free Kindle app as well as, along with it, a largest preference of the many renowned books,” pronounced Jon Oakes, executive, TouchPad Product Marketing, HP. “TouchPad’s beautiful, entirely featured Kindle app supports the Kindle facilities users already know as well as adore, and it’s one of the initial Kindle applications to await a ultimate Kindle features similar to Collections.”

With Kindle devices and Kindle apps, clientele can select from over 810,000 books in the U.S. Kindle Store – a largest preference of a many popular books which people want to read-including New Releases as well as 103 of 110 New York Times Bestsellers. Over 670,000 of the books in a Kindle Store have been $9.99 or less, including 73 New York Times Bestsellers. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you squeeze from the Kindle Store have been automatically corroborated up online in your Kindle library upon Amazon where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

Customers can sense more about the gratis Kindle apps during www.amazon.com/kindleapps.

About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 association formed in Seattle, opened upon a World Wide Web in July 1995 as well as currently offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where clientele can find as well as find anything they competence wish to buy online, and endeavors to suggest the clientele the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com as well as alternative sellers offer millions of singular brand new, refurbished as well as used equipment in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; as well as Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based upon Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, that developers can use to capacitate probably any type of commercial operation. Kindle, Kindle 3G as well as Kindle DX have been a revolutionary portable readers which wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs as well as personal papers to the frail, high-resolution electronic ink display which looks and reads like real paper. Kindle 3G and Kindle DX utilize a same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to track for the Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is a #1 bestselling product opposite the millions of equipment sole upon Amazon.

Amazon as well as the affiliates work websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, as well as www.amazon.it. As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and identical conditions include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates differently.

Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements inside of the definition of Section 27A of a Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of a Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results might differ significantly from management’s expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks as well as uncertainties that embody, between others, risks related to foe, management of expansion, new products, services as well as technologies, intensity fluctuations in operating formula, international enlargement, outcomes of legal proceedings as well as claims, accomplishment core optimization, seasonality, blurb agreements, acquisitions and strategic exchange, unfamiliar sell rates, system stop, register, supervision regulation as well as taxation, payments and rascal. More information about factors which potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, together with the most new Annual Report upon Form 10-K as well as successive filings.

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Amazon app expelled for a newest Windows Phone 7 models http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/10/amazon-app-expelled-for-a-newest-windows-phone-7-models/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/10/amazon-app-expelled-for-a-newest-windows-phone-7-models/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:25:59 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/10/amazon-app-expelled-for-a-newest-windows-phone-7-models/ Amazon app expelled for a newest Windows Phone 7 models

It’s an critical day for Windows Phone 7 users. No, not since a gratis Amazon app was only launched in a Windows Phone Marketplace. It’s since we get to exam drive this Photoshop picture in credentials for Friday. You feelin’ it?

[Thanks to everybody who sent this in]

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Kindle gets program refurbish 3.1 with genuine page numbers, open records http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/07/kindle-gets-program-refurbish-3-1-with-genuine-page-numbers-open-records/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/07/kindle-gets-program-refurbish-3-1-with-genuine-page-numbers-open-records/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 13:31:10 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/07/kindle-gets-program-refurbish-3-1-with-genuine-page-numbers-open-records/ Kindle gets program refurbish 3.1 with genuine page numbers, open records

It’ll still be during slightest a couple of more days before it’s automatically pushed out to Kindles around a world, though those seeking to get a jump upon things can now download an “early preview” of software update version 3.1 for a latest generation Kindle. That update adds the new open records feature which lets you share your notes with others as well as view a records of those you follow, as well as real page numbers that compare a page numbers in the imitation version of a book — those have already been combined to “tens of thousands of Kindle books,” and will also be attack the assorted Kindle apps in the “entrance months.” You’ll also get the new blueprint for magazines and newspapers which gives you a quick snapshot of the latest edition, and the new “before you go” feature that lets you rate a book as soon as you’ve accomplished it and share a short note about it upon your amicable networks. Hit up the couple next to download a update and try it out for yourself.

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Hulu CEO welcomes behind The Daily Show & some-more from Viacom, lays out the conflict devise for a prospect http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/02/hulu-ceo-welcomes-behind-the-daily-show-some-more-from-viacom-lays-out-the-conflict-devise-for-a-prospect/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/02/hulu-ceo-welcomes-behind-the-daily-show-some-more-from-viacom-lays-out-the-conflict-devise-for-a-prospect/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:35:30 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/02/hulu-ceo-welcomes-behind-the-daily-show-some-more-from-viacom-lays-out-the-conflict-devise-for-a-prospect/ Hulu CEO welcomes behind The Daily Show & some-more from Viacom, lays out the conflict devise for a prospect

The news spinning around Hulu hasn’t been certain lately, with increasing foe as well as rumors of the change in commercial operation model, though CEO Jason Kilar’s ultimate blog post tells a dissimilar side of the story. First, after renowned choices similar to The Daily Show as well as The Colbert Report were unceremoniously yanked behind in April it has a new trade with Viacom that’s bringing those shows back to Hulu as well as Hulu Plus starting today, with episodes of stream shows like Jersey Shore as well as Tosh.0 showing up 21 days after they air. Strictly for a compensate subscribers, library episodes of The Chappelle Show as well as others will uncover up on Hulu Plus.

As for a future of a commercial operation, he sees Hulu as means to serve trends giving clientele some-more available video entrance with reduction ads as well as more social media participation — a idea we can get at the back of, but which might leave content providers wondering how they’ll get paid in this glossy new universe. To that end he’s touting the expansion of Hulu’s ad revenue as seen in the chart after a mangle and the rising number of Hulu Plus subscribers with the promise to strike 1 million this year. While that’s well at the back of Netflix’s most recent count, he’s receiving the brand new shot at a bench by claiming Hulu can afford to compensate some-more for content and that studios should start signing deals upon per-user, per-month basis instead of the prosaic rates Netflix has negotiated so distant. Give a full thing the read to get the improved thought of where Jason’s head is during (when he’s not planning the GTL run, check a pr after the break for some-more sum upon which, we’ll be bustling watching Jon Stewart’s talk with Michael Steele.

Hulu CEO welcomes behind The Daily Show & some-more from Viacom, lays out the conflict devise for a prospect

Show full PR textHulu and Viacom Announce Content Partnership
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” Return to Hulu.com
Current and Archive shows from Viacom Networks, together with Comedy Central, MTV, GAMBLE, VH1, Spike TV as well as TV Land Now Available upon Hulu Plus

LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK – February 2, 2011 – Hulu and Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA as well as VIA.B) currently announced a brand new calm partnership which will lapse “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” as well as “The Colbert Report” to Hulu.com and bring many renowned TV shows from Viacom’s media networks, including Comedy Central, MTV, BET, VH1, Spike TV, as well as TV Land to a Hulu Plus subscription service.

Under the agreement, stream full episodes as well as clips of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” as well as “The Colbert Report will be accessible upon a gratis ad-supported Hulu.com service as well as by a Hulu Plus subscription assistance commencement February 2, 2011. In addition, Viacom will make available to Hulu Plus subscribers the selection of stream programs, similar to Jersey Shore, Tosh.0, Teen Mom 2, Manswers, Let’s Stay Together, as well as Hot in Cleveland 21 days after they air. Viacom calm availability upon Hulu Plus will change on a show-by-show basement

Additionally, Hulu Plus subscribers will have access to some-more than 2,000 episodes of programming from Viacom’s library, including The Chappelle Show, Reno 911, Beavis & Butthead, Real World, Punk’d, Baldwin Hills as well as most others on PCs, internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players, gaming consoles, set-top boxes, mobile phones, and tablets (in HD when available).

Financial terms of a agreement were not disclosed.

Philippe Dauman, President and CEO of Viacom, said, “We have been really gratified to partner with Hulu in the approach which recognizes the worth of our clever brands as well as a passionate immature fans who are captivated to the calm. The Hulu Plus assistance offers us a opportunity to bond with the audiences through an exciting subscription and ad supported height which is complementary to our existent distribution arrangements. This innovative agreement allows us to good from a success and expansion of Hulu and we look forward to bringing the renowned calm to their growing audience.”

“We have been grateful which Viacom was DTS,” pronounced Jason Kilar, CEO of Hulu, “Our initial sequence of commercial operation in a partnership is GTL with Philippe as well as his team.”

About Viacom
Viacom is home to a world’s premier party brands. Through the GAMBLE Networks, MTV Networks as well as Paramount Pictures divisions, Viacom connects with audiences through constrained calm opposite television, suit design, online as well as mobile platforms in some-more than 160 countries as well as territories. With approximately 170 media networks reaching some-more than 600 million large-scale subscribers, Viacom’s heading brands embody MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, GAMBLE, CENTRIC, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, Nick during Nite, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV Land, Spike TV and Tr3s. Paramount Pictures, America’s oldest film college of music as well as creator of many of a most dear motion cinema, continues today as the vital large-scale producer and distributor of filmed party. Viacom operates more than 500 branded digital media properties, including several of a world’s many popular destinations for entertainment, village and infrequent online gaming. For some-more report about Viacom as well as the businesses, visit www.viacom.com.

About Hulu
Hulu is an online TV assistance whose mission is to assistance people find and suffer the world’s reward content when, where as well as how they want it. As we pursue this goal, we aspire to emanate the service that users, advertisers and calm owners unabashedly love. Hulu was founded in 2007 as well as is operated exclusively by the dedicated group with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and Beijing. NBC Universal, News Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, Providence Equity Partners, and a Hulu group share in a tenure of the association. (www.hulu.com)

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Droid Bionic appears upon Amazon with $150 cost tab, fast disappears again http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/31/droid-bionic-appears-upon-amazon-with-150-cost-tab-fast-disappears-again/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/31/droid-bionic-appears-upon-amazon-with-150-cost-tab-fast-disappears-again/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:41:30 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/31/droid-bionic-appears-upon-amazon-with-150-cost-tab-fast-disappears-again/ Droid Bionic appears upon Amazon with $150 cost tab, fast disappears again

Something’s seriously starting upon over during Amazon’s Wireless store where a Droid Bionic, a Verizon kin to AT&T’s Atrix 4G, has today been spotted listed for sale with a $149.99 price. That matches a levy Amazon asked for a Atrix last week (before soon yanking the page) as well as seems to endorse that the $150 cost point is reception some sincere care for these 4G-equipped handsets. The Bionic’s page has now also disappeared into a ether, but a memory of its tasty promise stays.

[Thanks, techcruncher]

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PSA: Change your aged Amazon.com cue for improved confidence http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/30/psa-change-your-aged-amazon-com-cue-for-improved-confidence/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/30/psa-change-your-aged-amazon-com-cue-for-improved-confidence/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:38:02 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/30/psa-change-your-aged-amazon-com-cue-for-improved-confidence/ PSA: Change your aged Amazon.com cue for improved confidence

Amazon’s allegedly got an confidence smirch where hackers can find your cue much simpler than they would differently, as well as there’s already a fix in place. But get this — you’ll probably need to change your password for the fix to take effect, if you haven’t already done so in the final couple of years. According to Reddit users, a Amazon.com login scheme will essentially accept any phrase so prolonged as it starts with your cue, such as “password123″ when a sorcery word is simply “password” by itself. That assumingly creates it that much simpler for a mechanism to guess your cue around beast force methods, no matter how counter-intuitive that seems, so if you simply shift it right away — and to something alternative than “password,” gratefully — you’ll have much sounder dreams.

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LG Optimus 2X as well as Optimus Black labeled during €499 by Amazon Germany, not nonetheless accessible to buy http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/29/lg-optimus-2x-as-well-as-optimus-black-labeled-during-e499-by-amazon-germany-not-nonetheless-accessible-to-buy/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/29/lg-optimus-2x-as-well-as-optimus-black-labeled-during-e499-by-amazon-germany-not-nonetheless-accessible-to-buy/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:27:46 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/29/lg-optimus-2x-as-well-as-optimus-black-labeled-during-e499-by-amazon-germany-not-nonetheless-accessible-to-buy/ LG Optimus 2X as well as Optimus Black labeled during €499 by Amazon Germany, not nonetheless accessible to buy

Amazon’s German opening has started listing LG’s dual latest as well as positively greatest phones: the Optimus 2X (seemingly renamed the Optimus Speed here) as well as the Optimus Black. Both run Android 2.2 upon 4-inch screens, with a former charity the dual-core Tegra 2 processor capable of 1080p video recording and HDMI output, and a latter cranking up the monitor lightness to a quite irrational 700 nits. The Optimus Black also has a single of the thinnest profiles on the smartphone of its class at 9.2mm, and will be a single of the initial phones to offer WiFi Direct connectivity. Intriguingly, Amazon’s Optimus Speed / 2X inventory also shows a brownish-red tone choice for the handset, yet only its black SKU is theme to a neat €50 bonus bringing the cost to €499, the same as the cost of a Optimus Black. We don’t know when possibly a single will dump, though you can go and reserve yourself a single (or a dozen) during a links next.

[Thanks, Julian]

LG Optimus 2X as well as Optimus Black labeled during €499 by Amazon Germany, not nonetheless accessible to buy

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Motorola Atrix 4G goes up upon AmazonWireless, $150 upon February 11th — inapplicable designation? (update: Inspire 4G, as well http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/28/motorola-atrix-4g-goes-up-upon-amazonwireless-150-upon-february-11th-inapplicable-designation-update-inspire-4g-as-well/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/28/motorola-atrix-4g-goes-up-upon-amazonwireless-150-upon-february-11th-inapplicable-designation-update-inspire-4g-as-well/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:44:25 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/28/motorola-atrix-4g-goes-up-upon-amazonwireless-150-upon-february-11th-inapplicable-designation-update-inspire-4g-as-well/ Motorola Atrix 4G goes up upon AmazonWireless, $150 upon February 11th -- inapplicable designation? (update: Inspire 4G, as well

We suspect a boys as well as girls over at AmazonWireless threw their Atrix 4G product page up early, because — among alternative red flags — a buy symbol doesn’t work, though a single critical item we can reap from it is which they appear interested in offered it for $149.99 on the new contract or $599.99 off-contract. Now, there have been the couple of possibilities here; initial off, since the page likely isn’t supposed to be online, these prices competence only be guesses or placeholders, but furthermore, keep in thoughts that AmazonWireless and other third-party wireless resellers typically charge less for inclination upon contract than carriers do, so we’d design this to be at slightest $50 more without delay from AT&T. Oh, as well as a single other delicacy: acid for the phone on Amazon reveals the probable recover date of February 11th, which would be even more assertive than Moto’s end-of-February guidance. Again, possibly an additional guess or placeholder upon Amazon’s part… but it’s a date to keep in the back of your conduct yet.

[Thanks, Roman]

Update: Turns out a Inspire 4G is listed, too, for $99.99 on contract or $499.99 contract-free. Thanks, Justin S.!

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Kindle Singles accessible right away upon Amazon http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/26/kindle-singles-accessible-right-away-upon-amazon/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/26/kindle-singles-accessible-right-away-upon-amazon/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:46:10 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/26/kindle-singles-accessible-right-away-upon-amazon/ Kindle Singles accessible right away upon Amazon

Hey, kids! Kindle Singles — Amazon’s unequivocally, really reduced books for people with reduced attentions spans — have finally gone live. And you know what which equates to? You can finally get a copy of Mark Greif’s Octomom and the Politics of Babies delivered to your e-reader around Amazon Whispernet for a low, low price of $2. Even if you’re not penetrating upon conference some educational sound off upon a certain Ms. Nadya Suleman (at least, that’s a sense we get from a description) it looks like they have utterly the preference of essays, articles, and memoirs upon a Singles site. Hit a source link to check ‘em out or, if you’re still not assured, peep a PR after a break.Show full PR textKindle Singles-Compelling Ideas Expressed at Their Natural Length-Now Available in a Kindle Store

Launch of Kindle Singles includes never prior to released calm from renowned writers such as Ian Ayres as well as Jodi Picoult, as well as the first-ever created works published by TED

January 26, 2011 09:15 AM Eastern Time SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–(NASDAQ:AMZN)- Before a appearance of digital understanding, writers mostly had to choose in between creation their work short sufficient for a magazine essay or prolonged sufficient to broach a “heft” compulsory for book marketing and placement. Three months ago, Amazon done the call to serious writers, thinkers, scientists, commercial operation leaders, historians, politicians as well as publishers to stick on Kindle in making the new kind of content available to readers-Kindle Singles. Typically in between 5,000 as well as 30,000 difference, any Kindle Single is intended to concede the singular killer idea — good researched, well argued as well as good illustrated — to be expressed during the healthy length. Today, Amazon is introducing the initial set of Kindle Singles to a Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlesingles).

“The reply to our announcement of Singles has been good,” pronounced Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. “This first set of Singles was comparison by our team of editors, and includes functions by Rich Cohen, Darin Strauss, Ian Ayres, as well as a first-ever books published by TED. We consider clientele will be riveted by these stories which can take them to the Swedish bank heist or to a Mexican border town of Juarez, or to cruise the brand new approach to consider about complacency.”

The brand new Kindle Singles section of a Kindle Store is right away available during www.amazon.com/kindlesingles. Available to both Kindle device as well as app users, and labeled between $0.99 and $4.99, a first set of Kindle Singles embody strange stating, essays, memoirs as well as fiction. Amazon plans to frequently launch most more Kindle Singles over time.

The first set of Kindle Singles includes:

“Lifted” by Evan Ratliff (34 pages, $1.99): The thieves had the handpicked organisation, a stolen helicopter, a cache of explosives, as well as a plan to rob the $150 million money repository. The Stockholm police had the tip-off. Wired as well as New Yorker bard Evan Ratliff recounts a inside story of an brazen 2009 bank heist, and the competition to solve it. This is an initial pretension from publishing house The Atavist.

“The Happiness Manifesto” by Nic Marks (40 pages, $2.99): Modern research proves a ancient wisdom that “money can’t buy you complacency.” But then because do the governments see their categorical charge as simply flourishing GDP? Marks, owner of a London-based Centre for Well-Being, sets out an inventive new approach of defining inhabitant goals-and in the routine reveals 5 ways people can maintain their own happiness. One of a initial TEDBooks.

“Piano Demon” by Brendan I. Koerner (37 pages, $1.99): At age six, Teddy Weatherford was working in the Virginia coal cave. Two decades after, he was the jazz aristocrat of Asia. Koerner, the Wired contributing editor and writer of “Now The Hell Will Start,” tells how a piano fable in the sharkskin fit lived a American Dream by leaving it behind.

“Leaving Home” by Jodi Picoult (43 pages, $2.99): The low pains and absolute pleasures of parenting: those have been a extremes explored here by the unusual writer Jodi Picoult. In three short pieces which display her far-reaching romantic range, Picoult weaves together stories of adore and detriment with distressing simplicity.

“The Dead Women of Juarez” by Robert Andrew Powell (31 pages, $1.99): It sounded similar to a single of a great attempted murder mysteries of the time: who was killing the women of Juarez? Journalist Robert Andrew Powell went to a Mexican limit town to examine, as well as separates actuality from myth in the tale that eerily echoes a tract of Roberto Bolaño’s epic novel “2666″.

“Pakistan as well as a Mumbai Attacks” by Sebastian Rotella/ProPublica (38 pages, $.99): The U.S. review of the 2008 militant conflict upon Mumbai provides a minute design of a ties in between Pakistan’s intelligence assistance as well as a leading militant organisation. The ultimate reporting from ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.

“The $500 Diet” by Ian Ayres (39 pages, $2.99): When Yale law highbrow Ayres vowed to drop his weight from 205 pounds to 180 pounds, he put his income where his mouth was — literally. It was either lose a weight, or compensate the cost. A look into Ayres’ weight-loss process through simple monetary incentive.

“Darkstar” by Christopher R. Howard (44 pages, $2.99): A pre-apocalyptic love story. Sailor, the without a country Irish teen who’s condemned by the diabolical voice, seeks to reunite with the soulmate he hasn’t seen given boyhood, as the cosmic eventuality threatens to do away with life upon Earth. Howard’s fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, as well as his initial novel, “Tea of Ulaanbaatar,” comes out this May.

“Homo Evolutis” by Juan Enriquez and Steve Gullans (58 pages, $2.99): Enriquez as well as Gullans–two venerable authors, researchers, and entrepreneurs–explore a world where humans increasingly shape their surroundings, their own selves as well as alternative species. They envision the prospect in that humankind becomes the brand new species — a single that directly and deliberately controls the own evolution and which of most alternative class. One of a initial TEDBooks.

“Kindles Singles has since me a leisure to write a square that doesn’t need to be cut for the magazine essay or stretched for the book,” pronounced Ayres. “It lets me more fast and directly speak to the reader unhindered by page numbers or ad space. And I adore the reach of the Kindle platform. Nowadays only about anybody can read a Kindle book upon their phone or their laptop, or, of march, only upon the Kindle.”

Like all Kindle books, these books are “Buy Once, Read Everywhere”-Kindle clientele can purchase these books and read them upon a $139 third-generation Kindle device with brand new high-contrast Pearl e-Ink, on iPads, iPod touches, iPhones, Macs, PCs, BlackBerrys, Windows Phones as well as Android-based inclination. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can collect up where you left off. In addition, with a Kindle Worry-Free Archive, Kindle Singles will be automatically corroborated up online in your Kindle library on Amazon where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

The call remains open for serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians as well as publishers to submit functions for Kindle Singles. To be deliberate for Kindle Singles, meddlesome parties should hit [email protected].

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 association formed in Seattle, non-stop upon a World Wide Web in July 1995 as well as today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s many customer-centric association, where customers can find and find anything they competence want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its clientele the lowest probable prices. Amazon.com as well as other sellers suggest millions of singular brand new, refurbished as well as used equipment in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer clientele with entrance to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, that developers can make use of to capacitate virtually any type of business. Kindle, Kindle 3G and Kindle DX have been the insubordinate moveable readers which wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to the frail, high-resolution electronic ink display which looks as well as reads similar to genuine paper. Kindle 3G as well as Kindle DX implement the same 3G wireless record as modernized cell phones, so users never need to track for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is a #1 bestselling product opposite the millions of equipment sole on Amazon.

Amazon as well as its affiliates operate websites, together with www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, www.amazon.cn, and www.amazon.it. As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “the” and identical conditions include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates differently.

Forward-Looking Statements

This proclamation contains forward-looking statements within a definition of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 as well as Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results might vary significantly from management’s expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties which include, among others, risks associated to competition, management of expansion, new products, services as well as technologies, potential fluctuations in handling formula, international enlargement, outcomes of legal record and claims, accomplishment core optimization, seasonality, blurb agreements, acquisitions and vital exchange, unfamiliar exchange rates, scheme stop, inventory, supervision law and taxation, payments and fraud. More report about factors that potentially could start Amazon.com’s monetary results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities as well as Exchange Commission, together with its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

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Amazon opens Appstore Developer module, is patently you do an app store http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/05/amazon-opens-appstore-developer-module-is-patently-you-do-an-app-store/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/05/amazon-opens-appstore-developer-module-is-patently-you-do-an-app-store/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:23:07 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/05/amazon-opens-appstore-developer-module-is-patently-you-do-an-app-store/ Amazon opens Appstore Developer module, is patently you do an app store

It was no secret that Amazon was operative an Android app store, together with some early work with developers, though Amazon’s “Appstore” (see what they did with the space there?) Developer Portal just went live. So, no disbelief that this is happening, if there was any left in your mind, as well as we’ve got a good smoke-stack of details on the store to waves us over until Amazon launches this thing. Amazon is seeking to set upon a balance in between Apple’s ultra strict store rules and Google’s unvetted mayhem, as well as will be examining as well as testing any app before it goes onto a store. Amazon is also going to carry out pricing, with developers allowed to set a “list cost” which Amazon will riff upon, adjusting a price formed on enchanting algorithms. There’s the customary 70 / 30 separate, as well as Amazon promises that the developer will get no reduction than 20 percent of a list price. Apps will be promoted to folks browsing Amazon.com just like how Kindle books pop up among physical products, as well as can be “pushed” to your device likewise. It’s all really appealing if it catches upon, that seems particularly likely upon non-blessed inclination which don’t have entrance to Google’s Market (like the bevy of WiFi-only tablets, a market Amazon claims to be targeting), as well as developers who wish to get in upon a action can fork over $99 currently to get proposed.

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