Kindle Fire Has a Secret Ingredient: Amazon Prime

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November 13, 2011
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Kindle Fire Has a Secret Ingredient: Amazon Prime The Amazon Kindle Fire may be an Android tablet at its core, but it has one thing that no other Android tablet has, or every will have--Amazon Prime.
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Apple Alerts Got You Confused? Here are Answers to Your Questions Here's some help for users of popular handheld devices who want to cut to the heart of battery problems, software issues, and overheating concerns.
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iPhone Battery Glitch Remains After iOS 5.0.1, Users Gripe Some iOS users say last week's iOS 5.0.1 update hasn't fixed the battery life issues that it was supposed to remedy.
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PC Gaming Enters a New Cycle Analysis: Tablets, smartphones and certain consoles be the sexy newcomers in gaming platforms, but PC gaming isn't dead.
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Apple vs Samsung 'Extension of Apple vs Google' Courtroom disputes with Samsung are really just an extension of Apple's battle against Google and Android, says a former Apple executive.
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Firewalls Can't Keep up With DDoS Attacks As denial of service attacks accelerate, research reveals that firewalls and other conventional security measures can't ensure protection.
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Is Google+ or Facebook Better for Business? For now there's a sense that Facebook may be outdoing Google+ when it comes to giving businesses a place to reach customers.
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Twitter Research: It's Where the Money and Action Is As more people rely on information in social networks to make financial, medical and other decisions, determining the source's trustworthiness becomes vital.
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Gear Supplier Wants out of Syrian Surveillance Deal The Italian company criticized for supplying the brutal Syrian regime with telecommunications equipment has frozen its participation and wants to kill the contract.
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Australian Airline Rents iPads in Flight Jetstar is the first airline to offer preloaded iPads in its in-flight entertainment lineup, available on selected Australian and New Zealand routes.
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Amazon Boosts Kindle Fire Orders Sources in the company's supply chain say Amazon has increased its order to five million units before the end of the year,
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Shoppers on iPads Spend More Record numbers of consumers are already shifting their shopping from PCs to mobile devices, and the bigger spenders are using iPads, research reveals.
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The Cloud, Day 5: Taking a Look at Zoho Docs Moving on to the next online productivity platform, today's 30 Days With the Cloud is focused on exploring the capabilities of Zoho to see how it stacks up against Google Docs and Microsoft Office Web apps.
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