Om Malik:
Jeff Bezos announced a whole slew of Kindle devices and launched the new Kindle Fire tablets. And if you believe all the Twitter chatter, then he did it in a Steve Jobs style presentation.
I agree with Om that Jeff Bezos has done a great job — except at making profits — and from all I’ve heard, his presentation today was great. Having said that, he’s no Steve Jobs, as much as he may want to be.
So Nokia admitted to faking the video and now they fake the images too. Was anything about yesterday’s event real?
Wired:
Amazon packed a boatload of new products, services and information into its Santa Monica media event Thursday morning. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced a trifecta of new Kindle Fire Tablets, new software services to improve the tablet experience, and updated Kindle e-reader models.
If you are a fan of Amazon and/or their Kindle devices, there’s a lot to like about these announcements. Amazon has a niche – customers who want access to the Amazon ecosystem – and are serving it well.
It may not be a two horse race but the other horses are three legged.
Associated Press:
The nation will have a chance to say goodbye to Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, in a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral on Sept. 13.The 10 a.m. service will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the websites of the cathedral and space agency.
I’d amend that first sentence to “The world will have a chance to say goodbye…” Armstrong represents and represented more than just America. He represented the best in all of us.
Vanity Fair:
At the apex of this year’s New Establishment list is a Digital Age grudge match–the warring heads of Apple, Google, and Amazon–while Mark Zuckerberg wonders when the gloom of Facebook’s I.P.O. is going to lift. But this crowd has entertainment powerhouses too (Joss Whedon, Adele, Ryan Seacrest), not to mention some real outlaws.
Kudos to Amazon. Looks like they pulled off a great event and they kicked it off with a nice commercial too. […]
Smash-and-grab robbers.
Interested article from Marko Savic on how Apple names its products.
J.D. Power and Associates released its Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study, measuring customer’s overall enjoyment with their current phone. […]
Persona is a new creative writing tool from Mariner that helps writers flesh out details about their characters – personality, physical attributes, and more.
However, the location of the announcement and its proximity to Hollywood has some speculating that there may be more. One of the possibilities being raised is more content for Amazon’s Prime Instant streaming service. Of course, there’s another option: What if Amazon announced a streaming video device to compete head-to-head with Apple TV, Roku and Google TV?
Among its new features the app offers a sleak, easy to use interface, an intuitive system requirements checker, automatic game updates, and a place to meet with your fellow Mac gamers.
Great new Web site and app for Mac gamers.
If you can’t laugh at yourself…
Baskin-Robbins has introduced a new dessert that turns waffle cone bits and soft serve into the ice cream version of a plate of nachos.
The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue documents what people in the early 19th century used to describe sex acts.
Midwestern regional carrier Cellcom won’t reveal how many iPhones it sold last quarter, but according to CEO Pat Riordan the specific numbers are irrelevant. The iPhone is luring new customers into its stores, it’s keeping old customers loyal, and it completes Cellcom’s smartphone portfolio.
How many other phones fall into that category for carriers? My guess is zero.
Misleading? Bullshit!
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That looks like ass.
“We have not announced any tablets, but I think the opportunity is very clear,” Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told ABC News. “People today increasingly are looking for a common digital experience between their smartphone and tablet, with a PC, and with their gaming platform, and so there’s clearly an opportunity across there. This is something that we’re looking at very closely.”
Not a huge surprise, really. Maybe a bigger surprise that it’s not more of a priority.
Studiometry, the project management and time billing software from Oranged Software, gains more than 150 new features in its newest major upgrade.
Kevin C. Tofel:
Instead, I was left with a key unanswered question from Nokia that directly impacts the company’s future: What did it announce today that will get consumers to switch from an iPhone or Android device? Without a compelling answer to that question, I suspect most new Lumia sales will come from those already using an older Lumia and that won’t generate the growth that Nokia needs to sustain a turnaround.
Smart article by Kevin. To my mind, this is the key point that Nokia may have missed. You have to give consumers a reason to switch and if they didn’t do that, they missed a huge opportunity. With the new iPhone coming soon, it’s hard to imagine that people will go for a Lumina.
Apple on Wednesday responded to a weird story earlier this week that UDID information was stolen by hackers from an FBI computer. Apple contacted The Loop with some additional information. […]
Apple’s iPhone share of U.S. smartphone subscribers bumped upward 2 percentage points from May through July, giving it 33.4 percent of the market, online tracking and analytics firm comScore said Tuesday.
Android grew 1.4 percent to 52.2 percent of the market.
A new version of Nuance’s speech and dictation software.
The majority of those polled in a recent survey think “cloud computing” involves the fluffy white things in the sky.
Chrome turned 4 on Sunday.
Samsung is accused of making workers in Chinese factories work up to 100 hours per week, and employing children.
How Doctor Who producers put together a heretofore unseen number of Daleks for the new season premiere.