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Yahoo! Makes Searching More Relevant, Productive and Fun

By Guest PostOctober 7, 2010Technologyandroid, Facebook, flickr, iPhone, lady gaga, money never sleeps, rich content, search, shashi seth, Technology, Wall Street, Yahoo, Yahoo! Search

*New Features Help People Explore Their Interests and Do More*

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct 07, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) today introduced new Search enhancements that will help millions of people be entertained, productive, and informed anywhere they are across Yahoo!. Leveraging Yahoo!’s rich content and robust technology platforms, these new Yahoo! Search features will help people get to the entertainment and news content they care about on all connected devices — and do more with the things they find. (more…)

Amazon Announces 70 Percent Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text Platform in the UK

By Guest PostOctober 6, 2010Technology70 percent royalty, aAndroid-based devices, Amazon, authors, dtp, greg greeley, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, kindle 3g, kindle digital text platform, kindle dx, kindle store, mac, pc, popular books, publishers, uk

*Starting today, authors and publishers worldwide can earn more royalties from every Kindle book sold in the UK*

LUXEMBOURG, Oct 06, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the 70 percent royalty option for the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) is now available in the UK. For each book sold from the Amazon.co.uk Kindle Store, authors and publishers can choose this option immediately and start earning a 70 percent royalty, net of delivery costs. The Kindle Digital Text Platform (https://dtp.amazon.co.uk) is a fast and easy tool which allows publishers and authors around the world to add their books and start selling in the UK Kindle Store (and Amazon’s global Kindle Store on www.amazon.com) in minutes. (more…)

Apple co-founder on Jobs, iPhone, Google

By ShamsAugust 5, 2010Technologyapple, Google, iPhone, Microsoft, spain, Steve Jobs, steve wozniak, valencia

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talks on Steve Jobs, iPhone antenna and Google in Valencia, Spain.

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Iconic Books, Such as John Updike’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Rabbit Series and Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” Now Available Electronically for the First Time Ever, Exclusively in the Kindle Store

By Guest PostJuly 22, 20101 commentCulture, TechnologyAmazon, andrew wylie, blackberry, invisible man, iPhone, kindle dx, kindle store, lolita, london, new york, norman mailer, odyssey editions, philip roth, portnoy complaint, rabbit run, ralph ellison, russ grandinetti, the naked and the dead, vladimir nabokov, wylie

*Amazon’s Kindle Store now exclusively offering 20 books from The Wylie Agency’s new Odyssey Editions imprint*

SEATTLE, Jul 22, 2010 – Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that The Wylie Agency is publishing 20 books from some of literature’s most influential authors through its new Odyssey Editions imprint (www.odysseyeditions.com) and making them available for sale exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

This is the first time any of the titles–which include Norman Mailer’s “The Naked and the Dead,” Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”–have been available electronically, and all of the books are exclusive to the Kindle Store for two years.

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Kindle Device Unit Sales Accelerate Each Month in Second Quarter; New $189 Price Results in Tipping Point for Growth

By Guest PostJuly 19, 2010Technologyamazon.com, blackberry, charlaine harris, ipad, iPhone, james patterson, jeff bezos, kindle, kindle dx, new york times, nora Roberts, stephenie meyer, stieg Larsson

*Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Hardcover Books*

SEATTLE, Jul 19, 2010 — Millions of people are already reading on Kindles and Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running. It’s also the most-wished-for, most-gifted, and has the most 5-star reviews of any product on Amazon.com.

Today, Amazon.com announced that Kindle device unit sales accelerated each month in the second quarter–both on a sequential month-over-month basis and on a year-over-year basis.

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Amazon Introduces New Kindle DX with 50 Percent Better Display Contrast and New Lower price of $379

By Guest PostJuly 1, 2010Technology3g wireless, Amazon, amazon kindle, android, blackberry, blogs, Facebook, ipad, iPhone, john grisham, kindle dx, mac, new york times, phone, portable reader, pride and prejudice, steve kessel, the adventures of sherlock holmes, treasure island, Twitter, whispersync

Amazon.com today introduced the new latest generation Kindle DX and new lower price of $379, down from $489, and still with free 3G wireless–no monthly bills or annual contracts.

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70 Percent Royalty Option for Kindle Digital Text Platform Now Available

By Guest PostJune 30, 2010TechnologyAmazon, android phones, blackberry, dtp, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, kindle, kindle content, kindle digital text platform, kindle dx, mac, pc, russ grandinetti

*Starting today, authors and publishers can earn more royalties from every Kindle book sold*

Amazon.com today announced that the 70 percent royalty option that enables authors and publishers who use the Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to earn a larger share of revenue from each Kindle book they sell is now available.

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Bing on iPhone

By ShamsDecember 17, 20094 commentsTechnologyapple, bing, Google, greg sterling, iPhone, iTunes, Michael gartenberg, Microsoft, san Francisco weather, search engine land

Microsoft’s new venture – its first Bing App for iPhone has been broadly appreciated by the industry as a ‘useful and wise’ step towards its access and gain into mobile’s internet world.

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