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Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over
ouh_desire/Shutterstock Back in 2011, I was having an all-consuming love affair with tablets. At the time, I was the first-ever head of mobile at Netflix. I saw tablets in my sleep, running apps that...
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Amazon’s Hard Sell: Gaining Developers for Its Coming Smartphones
Asa Mathat As Amazon prepares for the launch of its first smartphones, the company faces a daunting task: Ensuring that the devices have an app ecosystem compelling enough to win over consumers....
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Jeff Bezos to Amazon Payments Team: Move Faster
Asa Mathat The payments industry has been waiting for years for Amazon, with its 215 million credit cards on file, to flex its muscles. Apparently, CEO Jeff Bezos has been, too. Industry sources have...
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Amazon Discusses Everything but the Phone in Lead-Up to Phone Launch
Amazon’s definition of PR is to discuss its own future in only the obliquest of terms and usually with some variation of “no comment.” But when it really wants to pump something up — like the expected...
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Could Amazon Be the First Major Customer for AT&T’s “Toll-Free” Data Service?
Asa Mathat AT&T has been pretty quiet about its plans for “toll-free” data service since announcing its plans at CES in January. With sponsored data, companies foot the bill for certain kinds of...
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Amazon Unveils the Fire Phone (Liveblog)
Liveblog highlights Amazon debuted the Fire Phone, a smartphone with 4.7-inch screen, 2.2GHz quad-core processor and two gigabytes of RAM. It’s available for preorder today and ships on July 25. The...
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Amazon Could Have Put the Hurt on Other Android Phone Makers, but Didn’t
Android phone makers: You can exhale. Amazon’s Wednesday debut of the Fire phone featured an array of gee-whiz features, including a quasi 3-D display and the ability to scan and identify real-world...
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Bezos: Amazon Fire Phone Was a Long Time Coming
Ina Fried Going to dump your iPhone for this? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has made a long-term bet that you will. The retailer’s new Fire phone is the culmination of four years of development that tie...
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Would Welcome More Appstore Deals Like BlackBerry’s
Asa Mathat With all the news around Amazon’s phone on Wednesday, less attention was paid to the company’s deal with BlackBerry, where it will become the Canadian handset maker’s main source of...
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Cyanogen Expands Team in Push for Open Android
Cyanogen Cyanogen has quietly expanded its executive ranks to transform its open source Android project into a serious player in the phone business. The company has tapped former Amazon, Microsoft and...
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Verizon Says It Has No Plans for Another App Store
Northfoto/Shutterstock Verizon threw cold water Wednesday on a report that it was in talks to set up another app store. The Information reported that Verizon was talking with would-be partners about a...
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Amazon and Apple Just Made Buying Digital Media a Lot More Attractive
If you spend any time at all buying digital music, movies or other media, you get used to dealing with nonsensical rules about what you can and can’t do with the things you bought. But every so often...
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Muse Headband Review: A Fitbit for Your Brain
I’m not sure that this whole “being an adult” thing is working out for me. Between work, trying to pay bills and life in general, a lot of my days are filled with stress and anxiety. And there are...
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Amazon Will Let You Use a Kindle for Free for a Month
Philip Newton With the holiday season fast approaching, Amazon is bringing back a special offer for some customers in its Prime membership program: 30-day free trials for Kindle tablets and e-readers....
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Apps Try to Pull All Photos Into One Place
Lyve We know, we know. Our digital photos and videos should be backed up in multiple places — in the cloud, on hard drives, and in distant caves protected by fire-breathing dragons. But it can be a...
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Have You Heard About ‘Hearables’? Doppler Labs Just Got $17 Million to Make...
Is the ear the next tech frontier?
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