Amazon prevents jailbreaking of Kindle Fire with their latest firmware upgrade

It is not only Apple that is not really happy because of users daring to jailbreak their devices. While it is completely legal and safe, if you know what you are doing, Apple, Amazon and other tablet and smartphone makers think they ought to control whatever is going on on your own device. Majority of jailbreak developers and users beg to disagree. It is the same case with the latest newcomer in tablet world: Amazon with their Android tablet, Kindle Fire. Amazon has previously announced that they wont encourage, nor prevent rooting of Kindle Fire, but it seems that they have changed their mind. The latest firmware update released by Amazon is apparently going against users who have already jailbroken their new tablets.

Biography of Steve Jobs became best selling book of 2011 on Amazon

Few people could dispute the influence Apple’s co founder Steve Jobs had on high tech industry and thus on the rest of the whole world. Despite him being a giant of technology and business, he had somehow also embodied a certain level of inspiration, hope and personal magic for many people around the world. He practically became a superstar and a inspiration to many geeks and entrepreneurs, budding to reach at least a part of success he had with all the different projects he was involved with.

Amazon working on new smartphone

According to the latest rumors in smartphone industry, Jeff Bezos and his team of designers and engineers are apparently working on a smartphone device of their own. Apart from releasing an Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, Amazon wants to further tap into the mobile computing market by building their own smartphone. This device is built with assistance from Foxconn, and should become an affordable alternative to Apple’s iPhone.

Amazon works on a Siri competitor

Amazon obviously sees Apple as a strong competitor, which isn’t that strange after all since we see Apple turning into a strong content provider with their App Store and iTunes. Amazon has obviously recognized the fact that Siri is a changing point, perhaps as much as touch screen was only a couple of years ago. And not surprisinlgy Google is also afraid of Siri, as its former CEO Eric Schmidt admits in a recent Senate hearing.

Android tablet with Amazon store, a winning combination?

Amazon is according to latest rumors working on their new Android 7” tablet which was dubbed as the “Kindle Fire”. It will run on a version of Android OS but this OS version will be completely independent from Google’s current version of Android. The tablet wont be available to the public until the second week of November. Unnamed sources inside Amazon leaked the information that Amazon is working with partners outside the company on the hardware for this new tablet. Interestingly, Amazon has opted to outsource their tablet project to Quanta which was also one of the main developers working on RIM’s PlayBook tablet device instead of using their own Kindle development team. Obviously, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos wants the Kindle team to focus on the next generation of ebook readers. Quanta
has apparently relied on experience gained while working on the PlayBook tablet.

Amazon prepares a new tablet with a forked version of Android

Amazon has revealed their plans for a new Android tablet device. It seems that this “Kindle” tablet could be the first serious iPad competitor. One of the best moves Amazon will try out is the pricing of this new tablet. According to Tech Crunch, the price should be $250 for a 7” tablet. So far iPad competitors have tried to follow the prices setup by Apple but the demand by customers was very low.

Amazon working on a new tablet to compete with iPad

It seems that Amazon is working hard to make their own tablet device which could be launched in September or October of this year according to some sources. Main strength of this device could be it’s low end price, and it could be sold for “hundreds less” than the price of an iPad which is still relatively high at $499. This was a task no company could achieve so far, but Amazon is thought to be one of most serious threats to complete dominance of Apple tablets on the market. As previous history shows, Amazon was more than willing to subsidise the actual costs of their devices like the ubiquitous ebook reader Kindle in order to sell more digital content which is what Amazon at its core is: an content provider.

Kindle Cloud Reader launched by Amazon

Amazon has just launched their cloud reader which will enable their users to enjoy in any book among their incredible huge collection of more than 900,000 ebooks. Users will be able to access this large collection of books directly from their browsers on almost any device including: iPad, Mac (using Safari browser) or PC running Windows or Linux ( through Chrome browser). So far iPod Touch and iPhone are not supported.

Amazon to release a new tablet in the third quarter?

We have lately often heard rumors about Jeff Bezoss and his team preparing a launch of a new Android tablet. It could be easily that Amazon is keeping a big secret, extremely well hidden behind the walls of their headquarters. So far no official confirmations have come from Jef Bezzos CEO of Amazon about this, but according to the news from electronics manufacturing strongholds in Taiwan, there is no doubt that Amazon will soon launch a new device to the market, most probably during the third quarter of this year.

App Store trademark lawsuit: Apple Inc. v. Amazon.com Inc.

Cupertino, California based Apple has again taken offensive stance against it competitors, and they have taken the offensive to the court of law. In a latest barrage of lawsuits and counter lawsuits Apple has taken on Amazon for alleged trademark infringement charges. Steve Jobs legal team has asked for court order banning Amazon from using the words App Store while waiting for the results of the lawsuit.

Meanwhile Amazon has claimed that App Store is only a generic term and not suitable for granting exclusive rights. And even more there is no way that Apple could demonstrate, users are being confused by two similarly named services. The clear difference according to Amazon is that Apple sells only iOS apps in their store.