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What’s The Future for Music Streaming Services?

by Jeff Weisbein December 11, 2011

Here’s an interesting question: can independent music services such as Spotify, Pandora, and MOG survive long-term? Or are they doomed for failure? That is a question many people (and investors) are wondering.

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The Kindle Fire: This Season’s Hot Tablet?

by Mike Mansell September 29, 2011

What do you get when you combine Amazon’s well-established “Kindle” eBook reader with the power and flexibility of Google’s Android mobile operating system on an elegantly designed seven-inch full-color touch-screen tablet? As this week has shown us, the answer to this question is Amazon’s new “Kindle Fire”; a much awaited tablet computer that offers a competitive [...]

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Amazon’s Tablet the Kindle Fire Designed After the PlayBook?

by Jeff Weisbein September 26, 2011

According to Ryan Block over at gdgt, Amazon’s new tablet set to be announced this Wednesday is in fact built by the same people who built the RIM PlayBook. How is that the case you ask? According to Block’s sources, RIM originally outsourced a substantial amount of the hardware design and production of the PlayBook to [...]

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Four FREE Deals That No Student Should Pass Up

by Mike Mansell July 12, 2011

Regardless of what culture or society you were brought up in your parents, if anything like my own, did their best to teach you the importance of education; oftentimes calling it “priceless.” But as we grow up, we realize that education in many countries does indeed have a price, and a steep one at that. So it’s needless to say that students like myself are always keeping an eye out for great deals in order to offset the price of higher education.

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The Nook Color: A Hint of Things to Come With the Android Tablet?

by Mike Mansell June 20, 2011

In the world of online shopping, retailer Amazon is easily one of the largest and most trusted names out there. I for one tend to go directly to Amazon for my shopping needs without doing (much) shopping around simply because I know that Amazon tends to have the best deals; especially with the Amazon Prime service that is offered free to students. But Amazon is far from being just another online retailer.

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Amazon Makes First Moves In Producing Tablet Hardware. But What About the OS?

by Mike Mansell May 4, 2011

It’s been a little more than a mont now since the topic of Amazon potentially releasing an Android-based tablet computer became a mainstream phenomenon. At the time I discussed the highly discussed concept, ultimately coming to the conclusion that Amazon’s involvement with Android-based technologies at the time gave them a valid reason to extend their [...]

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Amazon Web Services: A Scaling Issue?

by Mike Mansell April 25, 2011

The Internet as we know it is home to a gross amount of information and content, where everyone from individuals like you and me to businesses small and large are able to interact on a global scale in ways never before thought possible. Perhaps more importantly, the global network has changed the way that we [...]

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Amazon Releases Cloud Drive

by Mike Mansell March 30, 2011

Just a week ago today, I wrote an article about Amazon – one of the biggest players in the online sales arena – and how they could hit major pay dirty if they were to use their existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure to create a consumer-focused service similar to Apple’s MobileMe product. In this [...]

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Amazon, I Want to See a MobileMe Competitor

by Mike Mansell March 22, 2011

Previously, BestTechie contributor Adam Landreneau wrote an overview on Apple’s synchronization and data-management service, MobileMe. While Adam recommended MobileMe for Macintosh and iOS users because of it’s ability to store, synchronize, and share data there were still a number of things that continue to hold MobileMe back to this day. To start with, the service [...]

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