ASUS Eee Box PC ships from Amazon

Topic:

The tiny Asus Eee Box PC started shipping from Amazon.com for $349.99. The Intel Atom based Asus Eee Box PC is available in black or white.
The small Windows XP desktop computer features a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Processor, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, and 802.11n Wi-fi. Read more

Posted on Fri, 8 Aug 2008 01:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Xbox 360 60GB ships from Amazon

Topic:

Microsoft announced the new Xbox 360 with 60GB just before E3 2008. The Xbox 360 60GB sells for $349.99 and ships now from Amazon.com.

Demand for the new Xbox 360 doesn't seem that high as its sales rank is at 93 in the Video Games category. Sales are rising though as the 60GB Xbox 360 is on the 9th place in the movers and shakers list. Read more

Posted on Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon Mechanical Turk Launches New Web-Based Tools

Topic:

Amazon Web Services LLC ("AWS"), a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., today launched a new set of web-based tools for Amazon Mechanical Turk that make it easy for businesses to use Mechanical Turk to outsource work to an on-demand, scalable workforce via a simple graphical interface--in just a few minutes and without writing any code. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:43:09 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus Eee PC 901 is bestselling Notebook on Amazon

Topic:

The new generation of Asus Eee PC netbooks invades the Computer and PC Hardware Bestseller list on Amazon.com. The new Atom powered Asus Eee PC 901 with 12GB SSD and Windows XP is currently the bestselling notebook beating the Apple MacBook.

Under the top 10 bestselling notebooks are 6 Eee PC netbooks. Besides the 901, the Asus Eee 900, the Asus Eee PC 1000H are dominating the top 10. Read more

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:24:49 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

TiVo enables Amazon.com Shopping on your TV

Topic:

TiVo announced that they have teamed up with Amazon to provide you with the ability to purchase physical products from Amazon.com on your TV, using your TiVo remote control.

With this new Product Purchase feature, television advertisers will have the unique ability to market products sold through Amazon.com on any broadcast or cable network, any TV show, or via any of TiVo's extensive interactive advertising features. Read more

Posted on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:26:33 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon partners with Sony to offer Movie Streaming

Topic:

Amazon is entering the video on demand arena with Sony as its first partner to deliver the experience directly to the TV.

Amazon already offers the ability to download movies and TV shows with their Amazon Unbox Service.

The Amazon video streaming service will be available on the Sony Bravia Internet Video Link system. Sony BIVL (BRAVIA Internet Video Link was announced early last year and connects to the back of BRAVIA TVs. Read more

Posted on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:42:05 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus Eee PC 1000 available on Amazon

Topic:

The new top of the line Asus Eee PC 1000 netbooks are available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

The Asus Eee PC 1000 features a 10 inch screen, 40GB SSD, 1GB RAM, 6 Cell Battery and Linux. The Asus Eee PC 1000 sells for $699.99 and is available in black and white on Amazon.com.
Read more

Posted on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

MSI Wind on Sale on Amazon.com

Topic:

Amazon just started to take orders for the MSI Wind.

The MSI Wind available for purchase is the black model. A very vague shipping date of 3-5 weeks is given at the moment. The price is $499.99 and this is also just the 3 cell battery MSI Wind. Read more

Posted on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:52:35 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon MP3 Offers Daily Deals and Friday Five Discounts

Topic:

Amazon MP3 has announced new ongoing promotions called “Daily Deals” and “Friday Five” that offer deep discounts on new releases and albums from the Amazon catalog. The Daily Deals campaign will be updated daily and offer popular albums at discounted prices.

The Friday Five promotion will offer five albums at $5 per album starting Friday and going throughout the weekend. Amazon says that all of the MP3 tracks it sells are without DRM protection. Amazon says the Friday Five this week will be Rolling Stone's "Let It Bleed," Frank Sinatra's "The Essential Frank Sinatra," Robert Plant & Alison Krauss' "Raising Sand," Linkin Park's "Minutes to Midnight" and Andrea Bocelli's "Vivere - The Best Of”. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:08:23 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Amazon.com Exclusive Fallout 3 Survival Edition

Topic:

Anyone who shops online knows one of the best places to get all sorts of stuff is Amazon.com. Aside from being a great place to get things like video games, Amazon also gets some exclusive gear from time to time and today is one of those times.

Amazon has announced an exclusive Fallout 3 survival Edition game available for both the Xbox and the PS3. The bundle includes a copy of the Fallout 3 game, metal Vault-Tec lunch box, 5-inch Vault Boy Bobblehead, The Art of Fallout 3 hardcover book and a DVD called The Making of Fallout 3. The game sells for $129.99. Read more

Posted on Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:34:17 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Amazon's Kindle still in ''Investment Phase'': CEO

Topic:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's electronic book reader, the Kindle, is still in its investment phase, the Internet retailer's chief executive told CNBC on Wednesday.

CEO Jeff Bezos would not reveal how many Kindles the Seattle-based company had sold since its launch in November, but said the price had recently been lowered to $359 from $399.
Read more

Posted on Wed, 28 May 2008 12:21:12 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Mario Kart Wii outsells GTA IV on Amazon

Topic:

GTA IV set world records in sales, but on Amazon's video game bestseller list, a little plumber called Mario and his kart are in the pole position.

Even the Wii Wheel accessory outsells GTA IV. The 3rd spot on the Video game bestseller list is held by GTA IV for Xbox 360 followed by GTA IV for the Sony PS3. Read more

Posted on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:24:18 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Asus Eee PC 900 pre-order on Amazon.com started

Topic:

Yesterday we reported that some online stores including 3rd party vendors on Amazon.com started offering the new Asus Eee PC 900. Now Amazon.com itself started to take pre-orders for both new Asus Eee 900 notebooks for $549.99 each.

Amazon.com does not state a shipping date yet for the Asus Eee 900. It is expected that the Asus 900 will ship tomorrow May 12th. Because Amazon ships them its free with Super Saver Shipping. Read more

Posted on Sun, 11 May 2008 12:30:07 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon suing NY State over Sales Tax Law

Topic:

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc has sued the state of New York, challenging a new statute requiring Internet retailers based elsewhere to collect New York sales taxes.
Read more

Posted on Mon, 5 May 2008 07:53:26 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Jeff Bezos talks about Kindle on Amazon Homepage again

Topic:

Amazon's Jeff Bezos talks again (apology from March) about the Kindle ebook reader in a message on the Amazon.com homepage. As reported the Kindle has been back in stock since April 20th.

Jeff Bezos announces that Kindle is back in stock and that there are already 2,000 reviews from customers on the Kindle product page. He points to a letter to the Amazon shareholder that contains details of Kindle and Amazon's strategy on ebooks. Read more

Posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:16:52 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon Kindle eBook Reader available again

Topic:

Remember the Amazon Kindle? The eBook reader was briefly available during the Holidays. Five months later Amazon apparently managed to get it in stock in reasonable numbers.

A month ago Jeff Bezos apologized for the ridiculous supply situation of the Kindle.
In November of 2007 Jeff Bezos said that the Kindle e-Book is the most important Thing Amazon has ever done (they just did not make enough...). Read more

Posted on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:25:01 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon Buy 2, Get 1 Free Blu-ray Sale

Topic:

Amazon.com has a new Blu-ray movie disc sale going on until April 18th. When you buy 2 Blu-ray movies you get the 3rd for free.

There are lots of Blu-ray movies to choose from including 300, Troy, and The Departed. Read more

Posted on Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:59:17 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon apologizes for Kindle Shortage

Topic:

Today the Amazon.com homepage is grazed by an open letter from Jeff Bezos that addresses the shortage of the Kindle e-book reader.

The letter says that Amazon sold out of Kindle readers in the first 5 1/2 hours and that they have shipped out Kindles on a first come first served basis since then. Customers had to wait for one to six weeks. Read more

Posted on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:22:23 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Blu-ray I Am Legend overall Movie Bestseller on Amazon

Topic:

Blu-ray is now the only HD format, but it is still very surprising to see a Blu-ray movie leading the overall movie bestseller list on Amazon.com.

Will Smith's I Am Legend will ship in two days on March 18th. The DVD version is only position 15 in the bestseller list. Read more

Posted on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon announced its Support for Blu-ray

Topic:

Amazon sees it necessary to announce now that they have put their support behind Blu-ray.

As part of this announcement, Amazon.com will more prominently promote Blu-ray hardware and software products on its website. Read more

Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Amazon to Buy Audible

Topic:

Amazon announced that it will buy Audible.com. Audible is the leading online provider of audio books and other spoken word audio content that is played back via computers and other electronic devices.

"This deal brings together two pioneering companies that share a long history of ceaseless focus on improving the customer experience," said Donald Katz, founder and chief executive of Audible.com. "We are very excited to be joining a company as innovative as Amazon.com." Read more

Posted on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:16:34 CST | by Shane McGlaun