It’s alays a good LMFAO party to discover how rich people burn their cash. This time we found Jeff Bezos Amazon’s founder & CEO trying to bring back to the surface parts of former Apollo 11 engines. How sweet is that? He says his team “has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14.000 feet below [...]
Amazon buys Robot Ballet from KIVA Systems!
March 20, 2012 By 1 Comment
Check the below video. You’ll see what Amazon paid $775 million for: KIVA robotics technology to enhance items picking in wharehouses. I know, such a robots ballet can be impressive, even poetry for logistics pros. But I can’t help thinking about such a level of perfection undergoing an unexpected bug storm… I can’t even possibly [...]
Amazon’s Kindle Fire: To Lock You Down!
October 26, 2011 By 1 Comment
Sometimes people are mindless sheeps and Amazon makes fat cash on it. Take the expected success of the Kindle Fire $199 tablet. People think “Wow, it’s like the iPad but over half the price? Yeehaa!”. And they’re right of course, the frontal price tag is over half the one of the entry-level iPad. But after [...]
Amazon Kindle Fire: No Need For Premium Tablet at Premium Price!
September 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
You have to admit it, you could buy the entire new line of Kindles, including the Kindle Fire, for less than an entry level iPad. Let’s make it clear: Amazon just killed not the iPad, but the idea behind = you don’t need a premium tablet to do 90% of what you want to do [...]
Will the Amazon Kindle Tablet Hurt Apple’s iPad?
September 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The anwser. OK, that’s an easy one, and of course, the answer is yes. Why? With a $250 price tag, Amazon can simply hold the medium-low end tablet market in the coming years. Of course, if you fire up your geeky eyes you’ll see the Kindle tablet ships with 7” screen, single core, Wi-Fi [...]
An Apple in the Cloud!
May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Ok it’s official: Steve Jobs is Apple’s keynote speaker at the WWDC 2011, june 7th, 10:00 AM PDT, as usual. As there’s nothing to talk about hardware yet (iPhone 5 is due late in the fall), the big thing might be Apple digging more into the cloud with iTunes and MobileMe. According to Reuters, Apple [...]
Amazon Retails Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Album for 99 Cents!
May 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Amazon is very generous, as usual, and they offer the brand new Gaga’s “Born This Way” full album + Digital Booklet for a very decent $0.99. By far, this is a good barrier against piracy downloads, and in any case something you can call retail at it’s best. Rush if you want to get it [...]
What is the Message in the Amazon Logo ?
March 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
You know it by heart but did you ever asked yourself what is the meaning behind ? It’s pretty simple. Check the yellow/orange arrow from A to Z. Got it ? In their logo, Amazon guys are just telling you “Hey, we have everything, from A to Z!” So nice. :-)
Amazon New Kindle Ad = Die iPad !
September 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Amazon wants to kill the iPad as an ebook reader. Check this funny ad :
