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Amazon Kindle Fire First Impressions: Solid but Limited

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Amazon Kindle Fire First Impressions: Solid but Limited Following extended eyes-on time, here are a few thoughts on where Amazon's new Kindle Fire fits into the tablet landscape.
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Meet Amazon's Four New Kindles Amazon upgrades its Kindle fleet with four new models--Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G--and the Kindle Fire tablet. Have a look.
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Three Traits That Make The Kindle Fire Competitive Low price, Amazon Silk browser and promising ecosystem of movies, apps and books make the Fire stand out in a crowd.
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Mozilla Firefox 7 Seekers Warned To Beware of Bogus Website A suspicious site that does not have a Mozilla Firefox 7download link is appearing high in search results Wednesday.
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iPhone 5 Demand High Ahead of Unveiling A survey found that 41 percent of mobile users in North America and Canada plan to buy Apple's new iPhone -- but only if it's a redesigned device.
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T-Mobile Wants to Prevent US Ban on Samsung Products T-Mobile USA asked a court to prevent a preliminary injunction against the sale of the Galaxy S 4G smartphone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, citing its impact on holiday sales.
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Cable Companies' A La Carte Plan Seems Like a Bait-and-Switch Cable providers want to be able to cut some of the channels that are now part of their normal packages and turn those into premium channels like HBO or Starz.
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US Applies Brakes to Google-Motorola Merger Google received a "second request" from the Justice Department asking for more details about the deal.
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Flickr Becomes Instagram's Android Nemesis Flickr launched an official app for Android, a platform that Instagram has avoided.
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Kindle Touch Looks Like a Winner at $99 Let's take a look at what else Amazon announced Wednesday: three new e-readers, including the $99 Kindle Touch.
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Crazed 'Oblivion' Fan Prints and Binds Entire In-Game Book Collection The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion buff prints out the text of every digital book in Bethesda's fantasy roleplaying game.
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Amazon's Silk Browser May Not Be Smooth When It Comes to Privacy Security experts are worried that Amazons new Silk browser may compromise your security by passing your private data through Amazon's servers.
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Lego Combines the Digital and Physical in iPhone Game Danish toy company Lego is pushing its toys into the mobile age with the Life of George iPhone app, which combines a digital and physical gaming experience.
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Best Buy Starts a RIM PlayBook Fire Sale A PlayBook will cost you anywhere from $299 to $499. Best Buy's move coincides with the unveiling of Amazon's $199 tablet, the Kindle Fire.
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Xbox May Add Cable TV Service to its Roster Microsoft reportedly plans to offer cable TV service from Verizon and Comcast through Xbox Live as soon as next week.
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Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango": Top New Business Features Microsoft's Windows Phone senior product manager details the top eight new enterprise features and enhancements found within the company's recently released Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" mobile OS.
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iPad Owners Attracted to $199 Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet At $199, the price of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet is a tempting purchase for some iPad owners, who wonder whether the tablets will co-exist or compete.
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Microsoft-Samsung Patent Deal: Great News for Windows Phones Thanks to a patent cross-licensing agreement, Microsoft gets paid for every Android phone or tablet Samsung sells. This may help to encourage Samsung to shift its priority from Android to Windows Phone software.
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Tizen: A Viable Android Alternative at Last? Rising from MeeGo's ashes, this new, Linux-based mobile platform could offer a fully open and customizable 'escape route' for device makers beleaguered by Android licensing fees.
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