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Amazon just dropped the price of the Kindle 2 again, down to $259. They’ve also introduced a US & International wireless version for $279, which ships October 19.
The international version will work in “over 100 countries and territories”, but Amazon doesn’t specify if there are any additional charges for using it in a place other than the one where you bought it. It also looks like AT&T is the one that will be providing overseas roaming coverage for the GSM version. [Amazon]
Update: Ah, here’s the bonus price.
Low Book Prices: New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases are $9.99, unless marked otherwise. When traveling abroad, you can download books wirelessly from the Kindle Store or your Archived Items for a fee of $1.99
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“Stupid, thoughtless”
The founder and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has issued a humble, “deep” apology for a blunder the company recently made regarding its Kindle ebook reader.
Upon realising two George Orwell titles, Animal Farm and 1984, published for the Kindle did not have the correct permissions, as well as delete the titles from the Kindle online store, Amazon remotely wiped them from customer’s Kindle devices.
The move caused an outcry from users with the press picking up on the story, especially with the ironic 1984 comparison to be drawn from Amazon’ hasty actions.
Now Bezos has apologised in the Kindle user forums with the following message:
“This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our “solution” to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we’ve received. We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission”.
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Amazon boss apologises for Orwellian Kindle blunder originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:52:26 +0100
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Limited by Apple
Google has announced the long-awaited news that its location-tracking service is now available for the iPhone. However, it’s subject to a number of limitations compared to its app on other platforms.
Firstly, it’s a web app, which runs in Safari. It has the same core functionality as other Latidude apps – you can see where you are, where your friends are, and control who gets to see your location. It also has basic search and directions functionality.
Google says: “We worked closely with Apple to bring Latitude to the iPhone in a way Apple thought would be best for iPhone users. After we developed a Latitude application for the iPhone, Apple requested we release Latitude as a web application in order to avoid confusion with Maps on the iPhone”.
Unfortunately, however, Apple prevents applications from running in the background on the iPhone. That means that for Latitude to update, you have to manually open it and force it to update, rather than the continuous background updating that Android, Symbian, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile users get.
The Latitude mobile app is available now for users in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. If you don’t live in a former part of the British Empire, then Google “hopes to bring it to more countries soon”.
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Google Latitude arrives on iPhone originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:47:11 +0100
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Outcry as books removed remotely
Amazon has come into criticism over a move to remove and delete copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from not only it’s online Kindle store but also from Kindle ebooks across the US on Friday.
Ironically copying something that would be more akin to the Big Brother in the books, the book retailer automatically deleted copies on people devices without telling them.
Amazon states that the Orwell book was falsely published along with another one of his books Animal Farm, by a company called Mobile Reference, Kindle owners who have bought the book are outraged at the invasion by the company.
“It’s like Barnes and Noble coming into your house in the middle of the night and raiding you bookshelf,” one kindle owner told Pocket-lint.
Amazon, who has refunded the ebook purchase, is standing by it’s position, however has confirmed that it will not be automatically removing copies from peoples devices in the future.
“The Kindle edition books [Animal Farm and 1984] were removed from the Kindle store and are no longer available for purchase,” the email read. “When this occurred, your purchases were automatically refunded. You can still locate the books in the Kindle store, but each has a status of not yet available,” the company said to customers wondering where their novels had gone.
The electronic ebook device, which is currently rumoured to be released in the UK in time for Christmas allows people to download books over the air to be stored on thier Kindle.
Amazon pulls 1984 from Kindle ebooks originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:37:10 +0100
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Recent poll results suggest service is far from essential
Twitter’s current popularity is in no doubt, and it’s undoubtedly an exciting medium for both news and more general communication, but recent Pocket-lint reader survey results suggest it’s not as essential as some may suggest.
Although most press on the topic of Twitter shows the growth and influence of the service with ever-increasing user numbers, more and more high profile Twitterers and an ever expanding Twitterverse, some recent reports suggest the tide may soon turn.
In our recent reader polls, which we think raises the question of the importance of the service for the ordinary tech-savvy consumer, we asked “Would you pay to use Twitter?” and “Do you check Twitter before your email or RSS feeds?”
As far as forking out to use the service a whopping 83% would not put their hand in the pocket if it cost to tweet while near three quarters (74.3%) still check their emails and/or RSS feeds before hitting Twitter.
The results follow a well-publicised report from a 15-year-old on work experience at Morgan Stanley who said teens don’t Twitter as the service is both expensive (via the SMS) option and “pointless”.
Previous to that Nielson Online stats showed that although people may be signing up in droves (hence those high growth numbers) retention is a serious issue with 60% stopping using the service within 4 weeks.
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Is the Twitter tide turning? originally appeared on Pocket-lint on Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:39:54 +0100
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