Given the hype around Siri, Apple‘s native iOS voice control, it should surprise no one that speech has become the “It” feature in mobile. Now, there’s word that Amazon could be poised to offer the same: It appears that the company has acquired Yap, a Charlotte, NC–based voice-to-text start-up. It’s all kind of vague and

Amazon‘s new Kindle Fire isn’t due to ship until November 15, but that isn’t stopping this humble tablet from setting things ablaze: Looks like roughly 95,000 pre-orders have already been stoked, says eDataSource, a NYC-based digital marketing company. The firm estimated pre-sales based on a sampling from 800,000 email users. Granted, this number isn’t as

Amazon announced this morning that it has signed a deal with Fox to bring movies and television episodes to its growing Amazon Prime Instant Video service. Under the new deal between the two companies some of the shows coming to Amazon will include 24, Arrested Development, The X-Files, Ally McBeal, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Wonder

Apple knows what the future holds, and that future makes Apple quiver in fear. Somewhere in Washington, a band of Amazonians are methodically piecing together the ultimate iKiller, a tablet that will become the first legitimate threat to Apple’s dominance atop the tablet heap. Amazon’s long-rumored tablet is apparently in its final stages. If a report

It seems that Amazon wants to gather the media in New York City on Wednesday, September 28th for … well, they don’t say.  According to All Things D, the invite you see above went out a short while ago, and what exactly the e-tailer will be talking about is not revealed, but it seems pretty

Amazon’s tablet is almost ready to launch. If you believe TechCrunch, who claims to have used a near-final version of the device, it runs Android but has almost nothing to do with Google. It’s all about Amazon. And it’ll be all over the place inside of two months from now. As the story goes, the

Peter Kafka, on AllThingsD: “Speaking of advice — my favorite part of the Forrester report is when researcher Sarah Rotman Epps tells Amazon that the best way to break free of the pack of unsuccessful Android tablets is to not tell consumers that it is selling them an Android tablet. Right or wrong, it speaks volumes

We’ve been tracking Amazon Tablet rumors all year long. And if you’ve followed the coverage, you know that I – nay, we, The Buffalos – think Amazon is uniquely positioned to make a dent in the tablet market unlike anyone else this side of Apple and, arguably, Barnes and Noble. The dime a dozen Android

The Amazon tablet rumors just keep rolling in, but now we’re finally hearing a possible release date: Oct. According to The Wall Street Journal, and the always reliable “people familiar with the matter,” at least one tablet and two new Kindle e-readers will appear in Oct. of this year on Amazon.  Whomever it was they

Despite not having even been officially confirmed as existing yet, it seems that Amazon has placed a sizable order for its rumored Hollywood and Coyote tablets.  Now it would just be nice to know that they actually do exist. According to DigiTimes, the publication has compiled a list of what supply chain sources are saying

From the department of “No Big Surprise” comes the latest rumor about the Amazon Tablets.  While it hasn’t even be confirmed yet that the two tablets – codenamed Hollywood and Coyote – exist, that hasn’t stopped numerous rumors about them from popping up on a fairly regular basis.  It also doesn’t hurt that Amazon has

While Amazon has still yet to confirm that it is even working on any tablets, that isn’t stopping some people from speculating what potential bonuses may come along with them.  According to a report Detwiler Fenton’s consumer research team, Amazon “is expected to include its movie service for free for an unspecified amount of time

Amazon planning a tablet? Well, that’s not exactly a new story… but the rumor that a pair of them are in the works to attack the tablet market sure is. According to a tipster over at BoyGenius Report, Amazon may be planning to release two tablets by year’s end. There’s not a lot of details

It’s coming. Trust me, it’s coming. I mean, I don’t know for sure, but I’m bettin’ ya that the stuff Sean wrote about a week or so ago and the stuff I speculated on back in March are gonna happen. The Amazon tablet, she is a comin’. Consumer Reports, of all places, quoted Amazon chief Jeff

There’s a rumor going around today that online retailer Amazon is finally going to make a big play for the tablet market and will be introducing its own tablet some time in the later half of this year. According to DigiTimes, Amazon has reportedly placed orders with Taiwan-based notebook maker Quanta Computer for as many as

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