This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the crew talks about big Amazon news, the upcoming iPhone event and Microsoft’s latest mobile update.
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Amazon has joined the long list of tech giants rumored to be eyeing HP’s lame-duck webOS mobile operating system.
On Thursday, citing a “well-placed source,” VentureBeat reported that among a handful of suitors, Amazon is the “closest” to landing webOS, which HP acquired from Palm in 2010, hailed as an operating system that would reinvent everything from smartphones to PCs to printers, and then put out to pasture after little more than a year of development.
Though HP has been nothing short of utterly confusing with...
This week on the Gadget Lab podcast, the crew talks about big Amazon news, the upcoming iPhone event and Microsoft’s latest mobile update.
Staff...
Amazon’s customers outside the U.S. have good reason to be both excited and frustrated by the company’s three new Kindle devices.
The baseline $79 Kindle finally supports seven different interface languages and will be sold immediately in Canada, the UK, Germany and elsewhere. It’s a bit more expensive — £89 ($139), 99 EUR ($133) and $109 Canadian ($104), if you’re interested. However, the much-anticipated Kindle Fire tablet is U.S.-only, with no announced timeline for a global roll out. The same is true for the Kindle Touch.
It’s a reminder that Amazon is still growing into its role as a maker ...