Links of interest from November 30th:
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Amazon just announced that the Kindle Fire is shipping today.
“We’re thrilled to be able to ship Kindle Fire to our customers earlier than we expected. Kindle Fire quickly became the bestselling item across all of Amazon.com, and based on customer response we’re building millions more than we’d planned,” said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle. “Customers are excited about Kindle Fire because it is a premium product at the non-premium price of only $199.”
Kindle Fire offers customers a fully-integrated service with instant access to over 18 million movies, TV shows, magazines, newspapers, books, songs, apps and games, including:
- Over 100,000 movies and TV shows from Amazon Instant Video
- Over 17,000,000 songs from Amazon MP3
- Millions of books
- Over 400 full-color magazines and newspapers
- 100 exclusive graphic novels from DC Comics, including Watchmen, the bestselling graphic novel of all time
- Several thousand apps and games, including Netflix, Pandora, Hulu Plus, Rhapsody, and games from Electronic Arts, Zynga and Rovio
- A free month of Amazon Prime, which offers two-day shipping and access to nearly 13,000 movies and TV shows available to stream at no additional cost and exclusive access to over 5,000 popular books from the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library to read on any Kindle device at no additional cost and with no due dates
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Amazon released more Kindle Fire
From the press release:
When Kindle Fire customers across the country open their boxes next week, they will be able to choose from several thousand of the most popular Android apps and games, including Netflix, Rhapsody, Pandora, Twitter, Comics by comiXology, Facebook, The Weather Channel and popular games from Zynga, EA, Gameloft, PopCap and Rovio. Kindle Fire customers will be able to download these apps and games without having to register multiple times and using Amazon’s simple and secure 1-Click payment technology. Plus, all apps are Amazon-tested on Kindle Fire for the best experience possible, customers can get a great “paid” app for free every day, and once you’ve downloaded an app from the Amazon Appstore, it’s available on Kindle Fire as well as your other Android-based devices.
I’ve had a Kindle Fire
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I am finding it tough to nail down. But it looks like a new Dell table will be available at the end of November, the official name will be the Dell Latitude ST.
It looks like the base model will set you back $1,049.99
Dell is gearing this to the enterprise market and IT professionals. From the Dell site:
The Latitude ST features Windows®-enabled power in the body of a touch-screen slate, combining the mobility of a tablet with the manageability, security and compatibility you expect from Dell Latitude.
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Several weeks back Amazon.com introduced the world to Amazon Silk. Silk is Amazons new web browser, exclusively available on the Kindle Fire. Silk takes advantage of the immense power behind Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Immediately there were several privacy concerns over running web requests through AWS. The biggest ones I heard were that Amazon would now have details of your browsing habits and concern over SSL connections. The EFF has a great article up on the security of Amazon Silk.
AWS is huge, many companies use it. I would imaging that this is going to make a lot of websites load much quicker. Amazon will also be doing some caching on their end to speed things up as well. Silk will even look at Flash files and see if it is better to serve them up from the AWS infrastructure or let your device do the rendering.
A lot of this is just guess though, no one has had their hands on the new Kindle Fire. What do you think about Amazon Silk? Are you comfortable with them being the middle man for some of your web surfing?
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MG Siegler posted that he believes Gmail (Google) is close to releasing an iOS application.
Getting push Gmail on an iOS device is a task that is cobbled together at best. It involves setting the account up as an Exchange server. This leaves a lot of features of Gmail out. The one that I dislike the most, is swiping to delete does not delete the message but archives it instead. You also miss priority inbox, flags, stars, and more.
I am seeing others hoping for better threading, photos for contacts, deep Google+ integration, and multiple profiles.
I am very interested to see how Google pulls this off as an app and how deep the integration is with iOS.
On a related note, Google announced today that they are rolling out a new look to Gmail over the next few days.
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Now that the new iPod Touch devices are going for $199 they’re going to be a hot Christmas item this year.
If your kids are anything like mine, stick an expensive gadget in their hands, and they will drop it. With that said, I think I finally found a use for the OtterBox. I may offend a few people, but these are the ugliest cases. Yes, I know they do protect your phone. But with that said, they really hide the phone too. I’ve always enjoyed carrying my phone without a case.
There is one place I do love using the Otterbox and that is on the kids iPod Touches. Now when they drop them, my heart doesn’t stop for that split second.
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I wanted to do a comparison on AVG2011 free and Norton AntiVirus 2011 or as I like to call it. How I got my ass handed to me by a virus.
For the longest time I have ran AVG in one form or the other. I did have a paid version for several years, but recently went with the free version. Basically with the free version, you are getting the antivirus portion of the product. Some time ago, I got a nasty virus. First one I had gotten on a home computer in ten years. It slipped past AVG2011 Free. Not sure how it did it, or even where it came from. Shortly after that the computer was reformatted and everything put back on. I didn’t put AVG back on to the computer. I decided to give Norton Antivirus 2011 a try. I went with the standard Norton Internet Security 2011
I can verify that it has, or at least I can speak for Norton Internet Security 2011
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One of my favorite CDs lately to listen too has been 21 by Adele. It’s a great CD and her voice is amazing.
Do you have a favorite artist or CD you’ve been listening to lately? I am always on the lookout for new music.
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If you’re anything like me, there is all kind of home theater video gear you’d love to have.
Theoretically speaking, I give you $1000.00 what would you buy? A good place to start is Amazons Home Theater Page
So, what would you end up putting in your cart? Let me know in the comments.
A new TV, DVD player, home theater in a box, new speakers, or something else?
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