A microentry by Daniel Goldsmith (View from Ascraeus) Yet more reasons to mistrust Amazon - they appear to be facilitating money laundering on an epic scale. I think this is a gross mischaracterization of the story posted on Krebs on Security. .…
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Opinion | Save Barnes & Noble! Barnes & Noble is in trouble. You hear that, in worried tones, when you talk to people in the book business. You feel it when you walk into one of the chain’s stores, a cluttered mix of gifts, games, DVDs (DVDs?) and books. And you really see the problems if you dig into the company’s financial statements. Revenue from Nook, the company’s e-book device, has fallen more than 85 percent since 2012. Online sales…
Apple has added features to iOS to make it easier for parents to control their kids app and media purchases. Amazon in contrast if is fighting the FTC over adding these controls to their fire devices. Why? Just think about where these companies are making their money. Apple from the devices themselves, Amazon from selling stuff. No wonder Amazon is fighting this, and Apple is just trying to make families want to be all Apple devices. Ben Brooks…
For her 12th birthday my daughter was given an iPad mini to replace her Kindle. My wife and I had her family pitch in what they could. When she received the gift she was the most excited I have ever seen her. The iPad mini was a hit. But I kept seeing her with her Kindle, quietly reading. I asked her about that and she told me that the Amazon.com books she borrowed via the Kindle Owner's Lending Library were…
There’s no doubt that Android is open for anyone to use. Amazon has used Android as the basis for its Kindle Fire, but a version of Android altered so much that you can’t run apps from Google’s own official Android Market. Instead, you have to use Amazon’s own Android App Store. But Android is largely closed for the typical consumers who use it, because they have little choice about which version of Android will run on their device. They’re left…
