Tuesday, April 30, 2013

App-Shop Amazon: "The Application of the Week" for Android and Kindle ... - WeAreMobians

App Shop Amazon: “The Application of the Week”
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Each week, the App Shop Amazon adds new Android applications to offer all of its users the best paid or free applications.

Owners of Kindle Fire HD can access via their tablet to millions of content: books to songs, through tens of thousands of Android apps from the App Shop Amazon.

users the App Shop Amazon may also benefit exclusive applications or enjoy programs such as “The Application Available From day “ which downloads daily free Android application usually pay.

You are also equipped with Android smartphones and tablets? Do not panic! Applications purchased once on the Amazon App Shop can be used anywhere on Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD but also on all mobiles and tablets Android. You find a few seconds your favorite games and applications on your Android smartphone.

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“apps of the week” class=”c4″> This week’s App-Shop Amazon gives pride of place to two new flagship applications: Dungeon Hunter 4 and Monopoly Hotels! Two completely free Android applications and already cult, do not miss.

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SmartGlass for Xbox 360 arrives on Android tablets Amazon Kindle - Pockett.net

[Pockett.net] – These are just a few that made the Xbox 360 SmartGlass application is available on iPhone / iPad, Windows Phone and other devices Android . But this version was not compatible with the Amazon Kindle tablet. It was necessary to develop a specific version for this material. This is done

Xbox SmartGlass for Android is now available on the App Shop Amazon, free of course like all the other versions. Be careful, do not be fooled and not confuse it with another application called SMARTGLASS and sold a little over a dollar: it has nothing to do. It is only a graphic theme for the device created by taking the Xbox 360 graphic. Deliberately misleading

As a reminder, Xbox SmartGlass provides access to the mobile screen Xbox Live account, view their friends list, send messages or even access to functions specific for games or movies that offer related bonuses. For now, few games exploit this possibility Halo 4 , Dance Central 3 Ascend: New Gods , Forza Horizon , Home Run Stars , Kinect Sesame Street TV or even Madden NFL 13 .

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

No less than 2,500 words to publish his ebook on Kindle - ActuaLitté - Actualitté.com

The Amazon’s self-publishing program, Kindle Direct Publishing, is now raising the level of demand. Now works fewer than 2,500 words that are disappointing for customers, could not be accepted, Galley Cat reports.

Several authors have obviously received a rejection message, following the attempt to market their book. “In the interest of Kindle customers, we get from the sale of securities that generate a bad customer experience. The content that is less than 2500 words is often disappointing for our customers and do not offer a pleasant reading experience , “said the firm.

Always nice to discover that the merchant dictates creation …

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Amazon Kindle TV: After the shelves, a TV box? - HD-Digital - HD-Digital

Published Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 11:02 via Bloomberg

the rumor of the day. After the successful launch of its Kindle e-readers and tablets, the Amazon giant ambitionnerait landed on the connected TV market.

According to Bloomberg that the information relates, Amazon plancherait on developing a connected TV box. The Kindle TV could be presented on the North American market next fall. It would allow the web-merchant to promote access to its various content and services, including its video on demand.

Recently, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stated that VOD offers valid in Europe and France should be available sometime in 2013.

Kindle TV could compete with other devices with similar functions such as Apple TV or Roku and Boxee boxes Cloud DVR. The device is being developed as part of the Amazon subsidiary Lab126 known to be behind the development of the Kindle.

A rumor to monitor …

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Kindle TV: Amazon will launch in the market for TV box - Be Geek - Be Geek

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Amazon Kindle prepare its own TV package - DegroupNews

Brief written on 26/04/2013 at 9:55 by Arik Benayoun

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Given the success of sites like Netflix or Hulu in the United States, the net giants seriously eyeing television. After Apple with its Apple TV and Google case, it is the turn of the giant global e-commerce to focus on the small screen. Amazon will launch next fall his own TV package. Nothing stops

Amazon. Buoyed by the success of its Kindle e-readers, its low cost Kindle Fire tablet and soon Amazon Phone, the e-commerce giant wants to tackle television. This fall, Amazon plans to launch a TV box.

Connected to the TV, it will access to VoD and the Amazon Instant Video Service for free premium members. This service is already available on many connected TVs or from devices like the Xbox 360 or some Blu-ray players. By offering its offer with its own case, Amazon will free intermediaries and can better develop its own ecosystem.

However, some wonder if Amazon will host on its box competing services such as Netflix, Hulu or YouTube which are accessible from the Kindle Fire. Finally, engaging in television, Amazon tablets and smartphones, such as Google and Microsoft, began not in Apple. Everyone wants his own ecosystem where control terminals and content distribution.


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Amazon: Kindle a TV in the fall? - Generation NT

appetite Amazon definitely seems insatiable. The e-tailer is developing its own equipment with the aim of facilitating access and dissemination of its contents and services. After reading light and the tablet, the Kindle brand may well be associated with TV.

Amazon Cloud Player According to information from Bloomberg, the Amazon subsidiary Lab126 – known to be behind the development of the Kindle – is currently working on a TV box (or set-top box). A Kindle TV could well be presented in the fall.

case, it is likely that the availability will initially be effective overseas. Kindle TV is dedicated to streaming video via the Internet and a way for Amazon to pride to its video on demand.

Recall that Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, said that offering video on demand for all of Europe, including France should be available in 2013 via Lovefilm.

According to Bloomberg, the Kindle TV will compete with similar devices like Apple TV, Roku, Boxee Cloud DVR as well as products like the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 (for video streaming). Google TV is not mentioned …

France, a TV made in Amazon Kindle could be frowned upon the ISPs that capitalize on TV boxes which are backed services.

project set-up box for Amazon would be conducted under the guidance of engineers who have worked in the past their talents at Apple, Cisco or TiVo.

say it strongly murmur Amazon also preparing a smartphone.

Kindle for Android: Your library ebooks redesigned - Android-MT

Amazon Kindle is an application for Android that, once downloaded on your device, you can buy ebooks offered by the online shopping platform of the same name. The application is the luxury of an update (4.0.1.3), which brings a breath of fresh air to the interface. Gone are the dreary display list of books that you have purchased. Now, Kindle offers a carousel that is the heart of your library. Scrolling through it with your fingers, you will have access to recent items from your Kindle application, in other words, your latest acquisitions on the platform to purchase ebooks. In addition, this same carousel will offer some recommendations based on the music you’ve already seen from Kindle.

Carousel allows you to display your latest acquisitions and some securities may be of interest simultaneously.

sidebar (which you get by touching the three lines at the top left) lets you quickly switch between your ebooks. Note that the synchronization between your devices is always possible with your Google Account will learn in the Application Settings.

library Kindle has been stored. Your documents, books and newspapers that you have purchased are now separated. You go to the category that interests you from the sidebar.

The application is obviously designed for reading on tablet 7 or 10 inches. The sidebar lets you quickly switch between different types of ebooks. Handy if you’re a big consumer. If you are nostalgic for the display list (useful for more details on the ebook), nothing prevents you from returning to the old display format.

side reading, no significant change. The principle remains the same. Once purchased your ebook on Amazon’s site, you start from the carousel. Your book will open. Navigation remains unchanged, you scroll through the pages using your finger. It is always possible to adjust the font size, choose the number of columns, the size of the margin and line spacing. Remember to adjust the brightness based on the lighting in the room where you are. One way to protect your eyes avoiding force on reading.

For your convenience, you can adjust the display options with one touch your screen during playback. Note that a magnifying glass is also available. To activate it, make a long press on the area that interests you then keep your finger pressed to move.

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novelty: the ability to download and watch from Kindle, extracts from novels carton right now. The interface extracts success occurs, at your convenience, grid or list.

It is through the side menu you access to short-selling. Touch the ones you want to add your extracts carousel. It only remains for you to see them.

overhaul Kindle, although focused on the aesthetics of the application still provides an improvement in terms of ergonomics. Your ebooks will be better stored, you run faster reading. Note that the application better responds to commands when you flip through the pages of your ebook.

It is regrettable, however, that the Kindle store opens in a browser tab. Integration with carousel news and the latest releases would not be too much.

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Amazon Kindle case plancherait on TV - Digital Zone

April 26, 2013

According to Bloomberg, citing three sources close to Amazon, the giant American distribution would be working in the area on a TV box. We could see very soon release a Kindle TV.


Friday, April 26, 2013

Kindle for Android: a carousel with the last update - CNETFrance

The new update of Kindle for Android is a major change in the interface. Program, carousel, very well redesigned side panel, and some other news.

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class=”c7″ The carousel of the Kindle Fire makes you dream? Last updated Kindle will not allow you to install exactly the same on your Android tablet, but it comes close anyway.

class=”c7″ With the last day of 4.0.1.3 Kindle, you can access a nice carousel that displays recent items on the home screen of the application. Nothing to do but with that of the Kindle Fire when moving items displays a 3D effect that is not present here.

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Also note: it is possible to remove items from the carousel without deleting the application. The result on the home page is quite nice, so is simply because this handy carousel to go to the recent reading of his choice. It takes all the space in landscape mode, portrait mode, but leaves room down to a list of recommendations rather successful too.

Other new, completely redesigned library, but also the navigation pane (left screen capture) that allows quick access to the one found elements. The application also allows you to browse all the elements in the cloud such as downloaded to the device. Categories books, documents and kiosk are also clearly separated. In short, it’s simple and effective.

Finally, it is possible to discover and download the most popular clips in the shop, a good idea to easily discover news.

Finally, the update brings a lot in usability while making everything more ergonomic. This update is available on Google Play since April 26.

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Florent asks the same question every day: “Paper is he dying?” It deciphers for CNET France trends reading on screens. Tablets, e-readers, services: it passes all these issues through the prism of the dealer (repentant) e-book that was. Distinguishing feature: Basque adoption and geek who does not know

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Kindle Paperwhite is updated compete - ActuaLitté - Actualitté.com

With the upcoming release of Aura, a new and improved ebook reader, Kobo proves he knows also adopt an aggressive marketing policy, based on innovation and offers of all kinds. Predictably, Amazon response by optimizing its flagship product, the Kindle Paperwhite, and lowering its prices in the Canadian territory, although occupied by Kobo.


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Amazon has published on its website the update 5.3.5 update, which brings some improvements to the system through which runs the Kindle: a clearer dictionary and new features to highlight and research the text and make their entrance. The last update was dated March 15, for a plant product released 6 months ago.

The update can be downloaded here. Particularly close attention which shows the strong competition in the sector, where every product has to be optimized.

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This price reduction is thus intended to raise the market share …

Sources : The Ebook Reader, The Digital Reader

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Amazon Kindle setting, digital content and VOD - The Computer - The Computer

Amazon yesterday released the results of its first quarter: although the group posted solid results, it also shows a slowdown in international growth

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Its sales in the first quarter 2013 was up 22% to 16.07 billion U.S. dollars, earnings per share were $ 0.18 and fell 37% in the first quarter, from 82 million, against 130 million a year earlier.

growth of sales abroad slowed to 16% compared to the same period last year (then 31%). “ This is certainly due to Europe, the United Kingdom and Germany as Amazon’s main overseas markets ,” said Scott Tilghman, an analyst at B Riley & Co, according to comments reported by Reuters. Its gross margin rebounded to 26.6% in the first quarter, the highest level since at least a decade.

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expenditures “ technologies and content ” jumped 46%. The group finance director, Thomas Szkutak, announced during a conference call with analysts that the axes of development focused on the Kindle range of tablets and digital content that are in the “Top 10″ of the Amazon sales first quarter. China is also a major development in the corporate strategy.

The Bloomberg website announced that Amazon could launch a TVBOX next fall. The device connects directly to the TV and give access to the catalog of videos on demand and Amazon Instant Video service (for holders of a Premium account).

new device, which would be developed by the research division of Amazon Lab126, would, in fact, compete with Apple and other players in the VOD market.

Amazon about to announce its Kindle TV? - Le Soir

According Bloomberg , Amazon will launch this year its interactive decoder. Direct rival to Apple TV, Kindle TV give access to a large library of digital content.

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Apple, Amazon will be there the next industry giant to rush into the interactive decoder market? According Bloomberg , Amazon will sell in the course of this year’s Kindle TV.

market eReaders and tablets, Amazon is preparing to set out to conquer another market by investing in digital broadcasting. The giant prepare marketing a Kindle TV, interactive decoder similar to the Apple TV, which would provide access to a wide range of programs, films and series on demand.

Very popular overseas, services like Netflix or Hulu experiencing rapid growth and are gradually replacing the cable channels producing their own shows and TV series. After Netflix and “House of Cards”, Amazon launched a few days ago his first television series, Zombieland.

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The Kindle app for Android will offer a significant update - Clubic - Clubic.com

Kindle app on Android just received the biggest update since its provision: Amazon has indeed seen the user interface, especially including a carousel

reading e-books is not the privilege of reading lights: some mobile users use their tablet or smartphone for that. And we must admit that the Kindle app for Android deserved a little dusting. This is now done: with the 4.0.1.3 version of its app, Amazon offers a streamlined interface that should delight the regulars knew Android service

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Amazon then swapped the display list of books available with a carousel that scrolls the library on the home screen. The navigation panel, which opens to the left of the screen, has meanwhile been expanded always easy navigation. It is also possible to view the same way books and newspapers downloaded to the terminal, and those stored in the cloud, and download extracts from popular books sold in the Kindle Store.

Version 4.0 Kindle for Android is available on the Google Play Store and can be downloaded from our repository.

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TV Kindle: Amazon's springboard to the digital living room? - ITespresso.fr

strengthen its involvement in the digital living room, consider Amazon to launch this fall, a set-top box thinking as a gateway to a range of video on demand.

Amazon consider joining, by the fall, the battle for control of the digital living room, with a set- top box that the consensus already called Kindle TV .

a connected TV market booming, the e-commerce pioneer strengthen its position with this glimpsed as a gateway to its video on demand.

Bloomberg, based on eyewitness accounts of three “close the file” sources, evokes an initial foray into the U.S. market.

Europe is not excluded forecasts and for good reason: Amazon plans to launch it during the year, a VoD platform with the help of its subsidiary Lovefilm, already at year in Germany and the United Kingdom.

comes to propose eventual game rentals and streaming music, more movies and series. Services whose attractiveness and visibility would be enhanced by a dedicated multimedia box.

Kindle hypothetical TV does not seem to induce hours of direct competition vis-à-vis cable operators, broadcast live programs are not likely to be on the agenda.

confrontation is more evident with the Apple TV Google TV and consoles connected ( Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft 360) … even this mysterious device Intel prepare backstage.

product development would expire in one of Amazon subsidiaries: Lab126, based in Cupertino and already involved in Kindle e-readers, with some teams passed by Apple, Cisco or TiVo engineers

Alongside these initiatives on the hardware issue, negotiations also cover the content, with exclusive deals to broadcast certain programs.

These rumors have not generated the excitement on Wall Street. This Wednesday the close of business, the market price Amazon was displayed a slight decrease of 0.04%, at $ 268.78.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Amazon: Kindle a TV box in preparation for the fall of 2013 - AudioVideoHD

Amazon is currently in the midst of preparing a Kindle TV box, with the aim of coming once again shake up the competition in a territory in which the online webshop already has some advantages for.

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After reading lights and touch tablets, according to a report from Bloomberg, Amazon currently plancherait on the design of a package intended for televisions. Competition in this sector is enormous to say the least, with players such as Apple, Roku,

Kindle TV: the Amazon box in the fall? - Tom's Guide - Tom's Guide

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