Pages tagged “amazon”

The 20 Best Gadgets of the Decade (2000-2009)

The new Millennium got off to a great start where the world of gadgetry was concerned...  read more

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

The Laptop Steering Wheel Desk (Awesome of the Day)

So the Laptop Steering Wheel Desk may have been one of the most idiotic inventions ever, but we can all still rejoice in its creation if only for the comments section on its Amazon page....  read more

Found in: Blogs, High Gravity

Amazon and Zappos Join Forces

Like the forested land it's named for, Amazon.com is big. Really big. Even bigger now that it has acquired Zappos, the internet's biggest online shoe retailer. News of the partnership was announced yesterday by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh via an all-employee e-mail, and it's a bit of a shocker for all....  read more

Found in: Culture, News

TuneCore and Amazon Partner for On Demand CD Service

While the new Kindle may not be able to pronounce our president's name, the whole digital world hasn't gone straight to hell. According to Wired, TuneCore is gearing up to partner with Amazon's on-demand CD-printing and distribution service....  read more

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Amazon's Kindle DX Release Ignites Blogging Bonfire

Amazon's digital reader Kindle is being heralded by the press with a mixture of fear and adoration better suited to an apocalypse than a machine. But, according to some, the Kindle could turn out to be just that for the publishing industry....  read more

Found in: Books, News

Amazon and Google make books extra portable

It looks as though you can all but throw out the library card that's been hiding behind all of the other plastic in your wallet. With the announcement of Amazon's 230,000-plus Kindle e-book titles being formatted for your cellphone, the idea of actually going to the library is one step closer to becoming completely obsolete....  read more

Found in: Books, News

Springsteen tirelessly keeps working to promote his Dream

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Having trouble keeping track of all of Bruce Springsteen's activities lately? You're not alone. The Boss has been incrementally promoting the crap out of his new album, Working on a Dream, due Jan. 27....  read more

Found in: Music, News

Bruce Springsteen premieres song via MySpace/Amazon

In October, Bruce Springsteen premiered the title song of his new record, Working on a Dream, at a Barack Obama rally in Ohio. A few weeks later, we got a partial preview of the album version during a "Sunday Night Football" halftime highlight reel. Now, the Boss has put out another teaser for the Jan. 27 release, in conjunction with MySpace Music and Amazon.com....  read more

Found in: Music, News

Unglued: Only Played Once!

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Trawling Amazon’s used CD listings, Paste noticed a startling trend. If the comments sections are to be trusted, incredible numbers of music fans are buying albums, playing them exactly one time, and then whisking them off to the land of eCommerce. To get to the bottom of this phenomenon, we embarked on a rigorous series of fake interviews with these hasty sellers, to find out why a certain album graced their CD player exactly once, and not a moment more....  read more

Found in: Music, Features

T-Mobile G1 debuts with access to Amazon's 6 million tracks

If Apple's iPhone was the opening shot in the battle for cellphone dominance, the return volley has just been issued from a superpower no less mighty: Google. In the spirit of American entrepreneurship the Silicon Valley behemoth has swaggered onto the scene to offer up the debut model of their own touch-based cellphone: the G1 Android....  read more

Found in: Music, News