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Amazon to Introduce Free Kindle Apps Tailored for Android and Windows LCD Tablet Computers

By Guest PostJanuary 4, 2011TechnologyAmazon, dorothy nicholls, ipad, kindle, kindle apps, kindle books, kindle store, lcd tablet computer, pearl e ink display, whispersync technology

*New tablet computers coming in 2011 will have access to Amazon’s free “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” apps that let readers choose from over 775,000 Kindle books and read them across the most popular devices and platforms*

SEATTLE, Jan 04, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — For over two years, Amazon has been building and introducing a wide selection of free “Buy Once, Read Everywhere” Kindle apps to enable customers to read their Kindle books on the most popular devices and platforms. Last year, Amazon tailored a Kindle app specifically for the size, look and feel of the iPad and it has become a top ten free app for iPad. Today, Amazon announced that Kindle apps will also be tailored specifically for Android and Windows based tablets to enable customers to access the Kindle Store, and with it the largest selection of the books people want to read. Like all Kindle apps, the new Kindle apps built for Android and Windows tablet computers will let customers “Buy Once, Read Everywhere”–on Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based devices. For more information about the free Kindle apps, go to www.amazon.com/kindleapps. (more…)

Amazon.com Announces “Best of 2010” Lists

By Guest PostDecember 30, 2010TechnologyAmazon, best of 2010, favorite gift products, kindle wireless reading device, lists, stieg Larsson, susan boyle, the blind side, the gift, the girl who kicked the hornet's nest, Wi-Fi

SEATTLE, Dec 30, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com today released its “Best of 2010” lists, which include the bestselling, most-wished-for and favorite gift products as determined by Amazon.com customers in 2010.* (more…)

Final Pre-Christmas Push Propels U.S. Online Holiday Season Spending through December 26 to Record $30.8 Billion

By Guest PostDecember 30, 20101 commentCulture, Technologyamerican consumer, apple ipads, christmas, computer hardware, Comscore, comscore chairman, e-readers, gian fulgoni, holiday season retail e-commerce spending, online, pc games

*Blizzard in Northeast Provides Additional Boost to Post-Christmas Spending*

RESTON, VA, December 29, 2010 – comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 56 days of the November – December 2010 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $30.81 billion has been spent online, marking a 13-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week (week ending Dec. 26) witnessed $2.45 billion in spending, an increase of 17 percent versus the corresponding week last year. (more…)

Russian Nuclear Industry to Conquer Country of Pyramids

By PravdaDecember 22, 2010Politics, Science, Technologyalexandria, Bangladesh, bushehr npp, egypt, electricity, gigacalories, gw, haripur, hydropower, India, kudankulam, nuclear power plant, power plant, rachid mohamed rachid, rivers, rosatom, russia, Technology, thermal power, Venezuela, viktor khristenko, vladimir putin, West Bengal

Russia is ready to build a nuclear power plant in Egypt at its own expense, to manage the plant, and even find markets for the electricity. Early next year Egypt is expected to announce a tender for the construction of nuclear power plant with the capacity of 1 GW 150 km from Alexandria. Russia’s Rosatom will participate in the tender.

A meeting of Russian-Egyptian intergovernmental commission on trade, economic and scientific-technical cooperation was held on Monday. From the Russian side it was chaired by the Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko. (more…)

Windows Phone 7 Sales Off to a Promising Start, First Step in a New Era of Mobile

By Guest PostDecember 21, 2010Technologyachim berg, asia-pacific, deutsche telekom t com, Europe, measuring for success, Microsoft, microsoft germany, mobile operators, telecommunications company, windows phone 7, windows phones

*Achim Berg, Microsoft’s vice president of business and marketing for Windows Phones, discusses the momentum, strengths and challenges of the company’s newly launched Windows Phone 7.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Dec. 21, 2010 – There is one phrase that Achim Berg uses repeatedly to describe the new Windows Phone 7.

“It’s a different kind of phone, fast and easy,” says Berg, vice president of business and marketing for Windows Phones. It’s a sentence he relates with enthusiasm daily, whether he’s giving a Windows Phone 7 demonstration to a large crowd, or showing off his phone to someone he’s just met. (more…)

Amazon.ca Closes the Holiday Shopping Season with Exciting Boxing Week Deals

By Guest PostDecember 21, 2010TechnologyAmazon, boxing week, Christmas day, deals store, electronics, garden products, garmin, john nemeth, kitchenaid

*Beginning Dec. 25, customers can take advantage of a week’s worth of amazing deals*

SEATTLE, Dec 21, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.ca today announced that beginning Dec. 25, customers can take advantage of amazing Boxing Week promotions on everything from electronics and books to home and garden products and men’s watches. Beginning on Christmas Day, customers can explore The Deals Store (www.amazon.ca/deals) to find the full list of Boxing Week special promotions. Customers are encouraged to shop early as these offers are only available while supplies last. (more…)

Free Shipping Day Punctuates Heaviest Week of U.S. Online Spending in History as Four Individual Days Eclipse $900 Million

By Guest PostDecember 19, 2010Technologyapple ipads, computer hardware, Comscore, free shipping day, friday, gian fulgoni, green monday, holiday season, retail e-commerce spending, thanksgiving

*Cyber Monday, Which Remains Only Billion Dollar Day on Record , Likely to Become Heaviest Spending Day of the Year for First Time*

RESTON, VA, December 19, 2010 – comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 47 days of the November – December 2010 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $27.46 billion has been spent online, marking a 12-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week (week ending Dec. 17) reached $5.15 billion in spending, an increase of 14 percent versus the corresponding week last year, with four individual days surpassing $900 million, led by Green Monday (Monday, December 13) with $954 million and Free Shipping Day (Friday, December 17) with $942 million. Free Shipping Day achieved a 61-percent increase versus the corresponding shopping day last year, highlighting the appeal and success of the promotion in which more than 1,500 merchants offered free shipping. (more…)

Microsoft Vice President Margo Day Helps Build Girls’ School, Safe Haven in Kenya

By Guest PostDecember 18, 2010Culture, Technologyafrica, amsft, claire mungai, elephants, gail, go to africa, Kenya, kihanya, life changing experience, lions, margo day, microsoft employees, nairobi, philanthropic work, pokot region, redmond, safari, st elizabeth school, Tanzania, the africans at microsoft, united states, us small and midmarket solutions, wildebeests, world vision

*An encounter with 35 young girls in Kenya prompted Margo Day to start a secondary school there. The school will also be a refuge for girls who fled their homes to avoid the traditional practice of female genital mutilation.*

REDMOND, Wash. — When Margo Day went on a safari last year in Africa, she more or less knew what to expect. She had traveled in Kenya and Tanzania 16 years earlier, where she had what she calls a life-changing experience watching lions, elephants and wildebeests roam the plains. She returned to Kenya last fall to share that experience with her 19-year-old niece, Gail.

What Day didn’t expect was meeting 35 young girls who would change her life. But Day, who serves as West regional vice president of U.S. Small and Midmarket Solutions and Partners at Microsoft, had also wanted to do some philanthropic work on her trip. So she and her niece spent the last four days of their tripin remote northern Kenya with a team from World Vision, an international nonprofit that helps children, families and communities overcome poverty and injustice. The day before Day and her niece flew back to the U.S., they visited a primary school that also housed a rescue center run by World Vision. (more…)

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