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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Coveting an iPad Mini or Kindle Fire HD? Maybe Some Money? - Channel Partners (blog)
Posted in Blog, Channel Partners Conference & Expo, Agent/Subagent/Master Agent, Master Agent, Dealer/Interconnect, Broker, Subagent, Value Added Reseller/Systems Integrator, Systems Integrator
CHANNEL PARTNERS — Two of the main attractions of the Channel Partners Conference & Expo are the prize giveaways and parties. After all, what fun is a trade show without freebies and fun? Not to worry – exhibitors and sponsors have once again come through for you, offering everything from casino chips and gift cards to mobile devices and a tropical getaway. Check it all out here!
PRIZES
ANPI (Booth 2010): What’s a trade show in Vegas without casino chip giveaways? ANPI’s got you covered. Let ANPI scan your badge and then you may pick a chip out of the bowl. The values range from $ 1 to $ 500. ANPI also will be serving frosty beverages this week during expo hall hours.
DSCI Corp. (Booth 4020): Give DSCI your business card to have a shot at a $ 200 Amazon gift card. The drawing will take place next week and the winner notified by phone or email. Also, DSCI will be serving drinks on Wednesday and Thursday. Wednesday’s libations, provided from 4-7 p.m., will consist of a Bloody Mary Bar; Thursday’s, from 2-6 p.m., will feature wine and beer.
Equiinet (Booth 3019): Enter to win a Kindle Fire HD. The winner will be announced on Feb. 28 after the show closes, via email and Equiinet’s social media outlets.
GLOBALINX (Booth 6026): An all-inclusive, tropical-destination trip for two probably sounds great right about now. Visit the GLOBALINX booth to get a blue key, plus a pass to its VIP event scheduled for Thursday (see below). Try your key in a lock box. The person whose key unlocks the box wins the getaway.
Level 3 Communications (Booth 4022): Drop off your business card at Level 3′s booth this week for a chance to win an iPad Mini. The company will draw the winner next week and notify that person via email.
NaviSite (Booth 6022): Want a chance at one of two iPad Minis? NaviSite will scan your badge and then, on Thursday at 6 p.m., conduct a random drawing. Winner will be contacted via the phone numbers provided in your registration packages.
NBS (Booth 7031): NBS will give away a 16GB, silver iPad Air with Wi-Fi. Drop off your business card at the company’s booth or sign up via the QR code/URL on its banner. You must be a qualified Channel Partners Conference & Expo partner attendee, such as a telecom agent, VAR, IT consultant, systems integrator, master agent and so on. The winner will be randomly selected within two weeks of the show’s close, at the NBS offices in Wayne, N.J. The winner will be notified by phone or email.
Premier Empire Energy (Booth 7038): The first 10 partners who sign up to be a Premier agent will receive a new Barnes & Noble NOOK on-site. Then, any partner who sells 5 million kWh in 2014 will earn a Microsoft Surface.
RingCentral (Booth 7020): Let the RingCentral team scan your badge and introduce you to the new RingCentral Office Enterprise Edition to be entered into a drawing for a seven-inch Kindle Fire HD. Want a shot at a $ 100 Amazon gift card? Send a tweet to @RingCentral and use #RingCentralVARs for a chance to win. You don’t need to be present to win and winners will be notified via email on March 6. Finally, if you complete the RingCentral Communication Expert training on the company’s partner portal by this Friday, you'll be automatically entered into a raffle to win a $ 100 Visa gift card. Five winners will be chosen and announced in March.
ShoreTel (Booth 7005): Give your business card to ShoreTel then be present at the company’s booth on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., Thursday at 5:30 p.m. and Friday at 11:30 a.m. for drawings of products with the ShoreTel logo: a smoker, a waterproof pack for an iPhone, and an Aquaknot 1200 waterproof backpack. You must be present to win.
SimpleSignal (Booth 5008): Give SimpleSignal your business card at its booth, or register at www.simplesignal.com/partners-cpe2014, for a chance at an HP Chromebook 11. Drawings will take place on Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. and again on Thursday at 5:45 p.m. The winners will be notified via email and phone if not present at the time of the drawings.
Star2Star Communications (Booth 6009): Bring the “Key to Unlocking the Cloud” room-drop card to the company’s booth to see what you’ve won. The color of the card determines the prize, which could be a wireless mouse, an Apple TV or a $ 1,000 American Express gift card. The gift card will be announced and given away after this week’s show; the mice and TVs will be given away on-site.
Wolfe (Booth 5029): If you want a new iPad Mini, give Wolfe your business card, or have it scanned. The provider will conduct a random drawing on Monday, March 3, and notify the winner via email.
ZeroOutages (Booth 2000B): ZeroOutages will be giving away a Microsoft Windows Surface Tablet with Wi-Fi. The device will come in black, with quad-core and an HD screen. To be eligible to win, you must stop by the company’s booth, leave your business card or have it scanned, and register for a free trial of the ZeroOutages Edge2WAN client. The Surface winner will be chosen at random on Monday, March 3, and notified via phone and email. The tablet will be shipped that same week.
PARTIES
ANPI: Before you head into the expo hall on Thursday afternoon, be sure to pick up some free dessert at the ice cream social hosted by ANPI. The service provider will be providing delicious dairy treats starting at 2 p.m., near the entrance to the show floor.
Datavo (Booth 2017), ESI (Booth 3049), GFI Max (Booth 7018), Nextiva (Booth 2001), Premier Empire Energy (Booth 7038), Sonic.net (Booth 8021) and Star2Star (Booth 6009): These companies have banded together to keep you going during Thursday’s expo hall hours. Stop by their respective booths for complimentary drinks as you visit all the exhibitors the Spring 2014 Channel Partners Conference & Expo has to offer.
Edge Communications: Need a little magic and drinks? Edge Communications is providing both on Thursday night from 7-10 p.m. at The Palazzo. Stop by the company’s booth (7004) to get your ticket to the party, which will feature close-up magic illusions by Greg Dow, as well as open bar and appetizers.
Equiinet: Starting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Equiinet will host a tour of its Corporate House, which used to be owned by Las Vegas legends including Wayne Newton, original Tropicana owner Mr. and Mrs. Edward Doumani and professional boxer Mike Tyson. Join Equiinet for a tour, and food and drinks, as well as information about why you should partner with the company. Transportation will be provided to and from the Venetian & Sands Expo Center. Reserve your seat or send an email to loraine.phelps@equiinet.com, or call +1 702 789 6011.
GLOBALINX: Take part in the VIP event being held at the Vbar inside The Venetian, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Bring the VIP pass and the blue key you obtained at the company’s booth to see if you’ve won the tropical getaway. Whether or not your key opens the locked box, you’ll get to enjoy an open bar and hors d'oeuvres.
IntelePeer: Join IntelePeer from 5:30-7 p.m. on Thursday at the Double Helix Bar (adjacent to the Venetian Hotel. Expect food, drinks (including wine and whiskey tastings) and networking.
Momentum: Be sure to thank Momentum (Booth 3030) for sponsoring Wednesday’s opening reception, including the food and drinks, from 5-7 p.m. in the expo hall.
SimpleSignal: Hop on over to the Public House inside The Venetian at 4 p.m. on Wednesday for cocktail hour. The gathering is open to everyone; tickets are not required. You’ll mingle with SimpleSignal channel managers and executives, as well as the company’s featured technology partners, over an open bar.
Star2Star Communications: Join Star2Star at the Opium Room at TAO for an evening of food, open bar and a live DJ. The party starts at 7 pm. on Thursday. Visit Booth 6009 for a ticket, or send an email to register@star2star.com.
Wolfe: Wolfe is co-sponsoring tours of the new ColoXchange facility here in Las Vegas. The tours take place on Thursday, starting at 10:30 a.m. and running until 4 p.m. Free shuttle rides leave every 30 minutes from The Venetian. All you have to do is RSVP at ALL@ColoXchange.com to head over to ColoXchange, and enjoy lunch and drinks on Wolfe, ColoXchange and Sen Technologies.
WTG: The master agency is hosting its “Ultimate Race” event on Thursday night starting at 10 p.m. Stop by Booth 5031 to pick up your invitation, or sign up to become an agent, to join. Activities include racing games and prize raffles, as well as food and drink.
The Kindle Fire Is Giving A Big Boost To Amazon's Revenues From Digital Media - Businessinsider India
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Amazon keeps expanding its reach. Video has been among Amazon’s biggest pushes recently. The company has begun creating original content for Amazon Prime Instant Video, and more recently, rumors are circulating that a streaming device to rival the Apple TV will debut from Amazon in March.
Where does this leave the Kindle Fire amid all this fast-paced media expansion?
The device has been losing market share lately, and looking less relevant to Amazon’s overall strategy.
But according to a report from BI Intelligence, the Kindle Fire is actually a critical component of Amazon’s monetization of its digital media services.
Instead of squeezing a margin from its hardware sales, Amazon generates revenue from Kindle Fire users in other ways. It encourages them to download from Amazon’s vast digital library of apps and media, view ads, and access related services like e-commerce.
In the report, we dig into available data on Amazon’s unique mobile strategy. Amazon has achieved respectable results in terms of app downloads and app revenue on Kindle Fires, and yet is often left out of mobile platform analyses that focus on Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
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Here are some of the key takeaways on the Kindle Fire ecosystem:
- The Kindle has not managed to achieve real scale globally: The Kindle line, including e-readers, took only a 2% share of global tablet shipments in the third quarter of this year, according to BI Intelligence estimates. That share will bounce back in the fourth quarter, since Kindle sales are strongly influenced by holiday gift-giving. However, due to competition from low-priced Android tablets, Kindle isn’t likely to be more than a slice of the tablet market.
- But a massive, global consumer base isn’t everything. The Kindle ecosystem will account for 11% of Amazon’s total revenues this year, according to Morgan Stanley, including revenues from digital content streaming and downloading, app purchases, and advertising revenues.
- Amazon Prime subscriptions are another key source of Amazon revenue, and Kindle Fires encourage subscriptions because subscribers receive free unlimited video streaming and e-book borrowing. Morningstar estimates that there will be more than 10 million total Amazon Prime subscribers this year.
- The Amazon Appstore is also generating strong revenue results. Popular Kindle Fire apps are generating 59 cents of revenue for every dollar earned by top apps in the Google Play store, according to a Distimo study. Download volumes are about half those on Google Play for top app titles – impressive considering how many more Android devices are in circulation.
- Amazon’s platform is in a major global expansion phase: Earlier this year, Amazon began selling high-end Kindle Fire models in 170 countries and brought the Amazon Appstore online in 200 countries.
- Meanwhile, Amazon’s advertising programs on the Kindle Fire also generate nearly $ 200 million in ad revenue for the company, according to projections.
The report is full of charts and data that can be easily downloaded and put to use.
In full, the report:
- Contextualizes how Kindles stack up in terms of global and U.S. market share
- Outlines the various revenue sources Amazon has developed around the Kindle Fire line
- Compares Amazon’s Appstore to the Google Play store in terms of revenue
- Examines the positive feedback loop between Amazon Kindle Fire usage and Amazon Prime subscriptions
- Looks at how Amazon is expanding internationally to continue propelling Amazon Kindle Fire uptake and thus creating new opportunities to monetize users
For full access to the report on The Amazon Kindle Ecosystem sign up for a free trial subscription today.
Disclosure: Jeff Bezos is an investor in Business Insider through his personal investment company Bezos Expeditions.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
How to Delete Search History from the Kindle Fire HDX - LAPTOP Magazine (blog)
We’re not saying you have any reason to delete your Kindle Fire HDX browser history. You definitely have nothing to hide, right? Let’s say that you know somebody who does. A tablet can often double as a family computer and there may be sets of prying eyes that should be kept from seeing private data.
Unfortunately, the Silk Browser does not have a private browsing setting so it can’t be blocked from recording your every move. However, you can choose to manage your history manually. If you should ever find a reason to delete your browsing history here are a few ways to do it.
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1. Open the Silk Browser app on the Kindle Fire HDX. Then tap the three horizontal lines in the upper left hand corner to bring up the Silk Browser menu.
2. Tap Settings.
3. Tap Clear Browser Data.
4. This will bring up a set of options for not only clearing your history but cookies, passwords, and all manner of tracking data that browser track. Choose what options you want — in this case Clear History is the only option you’ll need — and tap OK.
5. If you’d rather not arouse suspicions by having a completely blank browsing history, you can be more selective. Rather than going to settings you can go directly to History.
6. In history you will see a list of all the pages you’ve visited and their potentially incriminating URL’s. Choose which sites you’d like to delete from your history by tapping the X to the right of them and finish by tapping Delete Marked Items.
You are now done revising your history. Hopefully no one will be any the wiser.
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Friday, February 21, 2014
Can Amazon Really Take on Netflix With Their LoveFilm, Prime, Kindle Mash Up? - Contactmusic.com
by Jack de Aguilar | 21 February 2014
The next round of Amazon v Netflix has kicked off
In a further bid to become an all-encompassing consumerism monolith, Amazon have packaged together three of their services into one super-package to entice shoppers, watchers and readers alike. And it'll all be under the guise: 'Prime'.
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Currently, customers can pay a yearly fee to get free next-day delivery (by human, not drone) on millions of items on Amazon's site. They can also subscribe to an instant video service and buy books Amazon's Kindle store, but all three aspects will become one in the shakeup.
“Consumers will be able to shop for what they want, read what they want and watch they want anywhere at any time,” said Tim Leslie, vice-president of Amazon Instant Video for the UK and Germany. “Even if you have another service you are going to want our service,” added Leslie.
Netflix currently occupy the high ground in the world of on-demand content steaming. With ‘House of Cards’, ‘Breaking Bad’ and multiple pop culture references in sitcoms, they're the first brand people think of when video streaming is mentioned. Amazon will have a tough job usurping them.
“It is the only place you are going to be able to find certain great TV shows, movies and original content all in one place. It is the most complete digital video service in the UK. All of these things in one package for less than £7 a month, we think this is best value out there,” said Leslie.
Whether customers will bite is another thing. Netflix's £5.99 doesn't include an almost unlimited amount of books and next day delivery on items, but then again, a lot of people won't be paying their £5.99 for anything more than high quality content, which Netflix has.
If users only want access to Prime Instant Video, they can just pay £5.99. And the LoveFilm brand will continue to be used for the DVD-by-post rental service Amazon continues to run.
“Our customers already know they are part of Amazon, it is the best thing to happen to LoveFilm since the launch in the first quarter of 2004,” said Simon Morris, LoveFilm’s chief marketing officer.
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Monday, February 17, 2014
[Deal Alert] Refurb Kindle Fire HD 8.9 Tablet With Special Offers (32GB) On ... - Android Police
It’s not the latest and greatest, but the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 is still a capable device with a nice screen. You can pick up one of Amazon’s Android-ish tablets on Woot right now for a mere $ 179.99. You better get on it, though. A good deal on Woot won’t last all day.
The Kindle Fire HD 8.9 has a 1920×1200 LCD and a 1.5GHz dual-core ARM chip. This is the 32GB version, which still retails for $ 299 direct from Amazon. You don’t get 4G with this model, but it does have dual-band MIMO WiFi.
The device from Woot does include the sponsored “special offers,” but they aren’t too intrusive and you can remove them for $ 15. It’s refurbished, but $ 120 off is a nice discount.
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Take Screenshots on Almost Any Kindle Device - LifeHacker India
You might want to share the picture of the book you’re reading or the snap shot of the settings page you can help a friend with their jump unscrew. Whatever your reason, you can take screenshots on most Kindle unscrew. Here’s how to do it.
The video above from ebook site Goodereader Shows how to take the screenshot on the Kindle Paperwhite. All you have to touch two opposing Corner is back on the screen at the Same time. You’ll see the brief flash to let you know the screenshot has been taken. Screenshots are stored in the root folder of the Device jump you’ll need to connect it to the computer via USB to get your pics.
You can also take screenshots on most other Kindle Devices (and unscrew the runes that Kindle app). Here’s the rundown:
- Kindle (formerly Known cum the Kindle Touch) . Press and hold the Home button and then tap anywhere on your screen. As with the Paperwhite, you’ll need to connect to the computer to retrieve the screenshot.
- Kindle Keyboard (also 3 and Kindle DX) . Press Alt-Shift-G on the keyboard. Pics are stored in the Documents folder. Again, connect to the computer to get to them.
- Kindle Fire 2 and Kindle Fire HD (that have the volume button) . Press and hold the volume down and power button at the Same time. Open your Photos app to access the pics.
- Older Kindle Fires (without volume Buttons) . Unfortunately, these are a lot HARDER to take screenshots on. You actually have to connect your Kindle Fire to the computer with the SDK installed and take the screenshot through the development environment. Here are Amazon’s instructions.
- Kindle App (Various platforms) . The Kindle app doesn’t have the built-in screenshot function, jump you’ll have to lock the screenshot with the tools available to the platform itself. Here’s how to take screenshots on your computer, on your Android Device, and on your iOS Device.
How to Take Screenshots on the Kindle Paperwhite | Goodereader
Sunday, February 16, 2014
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Saturday, February 15, 2014
Kindle FreeTime gives parents peace - Waterbury Republican American
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| This undated photo provided by Amazon shows the Kindle FreeTime app displayed on a Kindle Fire HDX. Amazon.com Inc.ís Kindle FreeTime gives parents an easy way to block grown-up content. With FreeTime, kids get thousands of kid-friendly books, games and videos for a monthly fee. (AP Photo/Amazon) Browse for Republican American Reprints |
It’s no secret that kids love tablets, but the devices also can get them into trouble.
By the time my daughter turned 3, she knew how to pull up “Sesame Street” clips on YouTube and scroll through photos of friends and relatives. Although that free entertainment was incredibly helpful at times, there also were times she managed to post old pictures to Facebook or watch an inappropriate movie.
Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle FreeTime gives parents an easy way to block grown-up content. Kindles aren’t alone in offering parental controls, but FreeTime goes further with an optional subscription service. With that, you get thousands of kid-friendly books, games and videos for a monthly fee. The quality is mixed, but the service is hassle-free, safe and relatively cheap — starting at $ 3 a month.
It works only with the 2012 and later models of the Kindle Fire.
BASIC CONTROLS
All Kindle Fires come with Kindle FreeTime already installed. The app itself is free to use. Once opened, all content not placed in your child’s FreeTime account is blocked. That means no access to Facebook, YouTube or Netflix, if you don’t want your child to have it. You need a password to exit FreeTime.
You can also limit your child’s screen time by having access shut off after a specified amount of time. You can even specify how much of a certain kind of media your child can view. For example, you can give a child unlimited access to books, while limiting video and app usage to 30 minutes each.
Different time limits can be set for weekdays and weekends, and “curfews” can be set to keep kids from playing games after bedtime.
You can also require kids to read or use educational apps for a certain amount of time before unlocking other content.
SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE:
Again, the FreeTime app is free. Where you have to pay is to access Amazon’s FreeTime Unlimited service.
Geared toward children ages 3 to 8, FreeTime Unlimited allows kids to download anything they want from its large library of kid-friendly apps, books and videos, largely without the help of an adult. It also suggests content that they might like based on what they’ve already downloaded. Parents get to walk away and not worry about what they’re up to.
But the suggestions are based on what’s already stored in your child’s account. I wish the app did a better job at filtering content based on a child’s age. My daughter, now 4, doesn’t need to be watching Batman cartoons or playing “Plants vs. Zombies.”
Amazon touts the service’s “all-you-can-eat” pricing, noting that it eliminates the need to negotiate with your kids what and how much content you’re willing to pay for. It also helps with buyer’s remorse. If your kids don’t find a book or app particularly entertaining, just delete it and let them find something else. Plus, it protects your wallet from kids who might not understand they’re spending real money on virtual toys.
Another plus: It strips out advertising included in other versions of the apps.
A single-child membership costs $ 3 per month for Amazon Prime members and $ 5 for others. If you want to set up separate profiles for multiple children, you can opt for a family membership, which costs $ 7 per month with Amazon Prime, or $ 10 without.
Although FreeTime Unlimited isn’t as intuitive as some of the apps on our family iPad, it didn’t take long for my daughter to figure out how to download books and apps on her own. She added so much content that it ate up all of the storage on my otherwise largely empty Kindle Fire.
In addition to being organized by form of media, the content is also indexed by character. My daughter can’t read the words “Apps,” “Books,” and “Video” yet, but she knows exactly who Elmo, Sponge Bob and Curious George are. FreeTime Unlimited makes it easy for her to find and download content featuring them.
The icons also are fairly large, which helps kids with small hands. The number of icons displayed on the screen can still be dizzying, which can make it tough for both children and adults to find what they’re looking for. There’s a search function, but most young kids would need an adult’s help for that.
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— RANGE OF OFFERINGS:
Although most young kids aren’t particular when it comes to books and TV, I was disappointed by the quality of the offerings.
According to Amazon, more than half of the content available through the service is “educational.” Indeed, there were picture books by notable children’s authors such as Eric Carle and Chris Van Allsburg. But many of the books focused on TV characters such as Sponge Bob, Dora the Explorer and Scooby Doo — not exactly classic children’s literature.
The videos included a lot of Nickelodeon and PBS shows currently popular with small children. I appreciate the inclusion of classic “Sesame Street” and “Reading Rainbow” episodes I loved as kid.
The same videos are already offered free to Amazon Prime members, though. You don’t need FreeTime Unlimited, or even a Kindle, to watch them.
You do need FreeTime Unlimited and the Kindle Fire for the books and the apps.
For me, $ 3 a month is a small price to pay to keep my daughter’s account stuffed with content she likes, so she won’t notice that she can’t access potentially problem-causing apps such as YouTube and Netflix. The peace of mind that comes from knowing that she’s is not watching the zombie drama “The Walking Dead” is priceless.
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Kobo Aura HD Review: The Best E-Reader Is Not a Kindle - Investorplace.com
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However, Despite the clear trend toward using multipurpose tablets, the e-reader – with options like the Kobo or the aura Amazon (AMZN) Kindle – is NOT dead.
And for good reason.
Single Market-purpose e-readers like the Amazon Kindle are leading cheaper, lighter and more compact than tables. The e-reader’s battery lasts for weeks or months on the load as compared to hours for the tablet. The E Ink (PVWIF) display used in e-readers is far less reflective and just looks good outdoors cum cum Goes Indoors. Plus, the front-Lite displays DO Sleeping disorders that emerges in the reading at night with the backlit tablets can potentially cause.
I’m a tablet guy, but I love reading and … When it’s time to pick up the e-book, I set down my iPad and turn to the e-reader. I have the collection of the unscrew (the result of years of writing about consumer technology) and my go-to choice is the Kobo aura HD from Amazon Japanese competitor Rakuten (RKUNF). Good cum the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is, I would go jump lighthouses cum to say the best e-reader on the market is that Kobo.
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Friday, February 14, 2014
Flappy Bird game for Kindle Fire HD & Android after creator deleted online apps - Examiner.com
The Flappy Bird game for Kindle Fire HD and Android devices seems to still exist in a roundabout way due to hacks from install guide books, as the game creator has officially deleted the online apps. There have been all sorts of rumors about why the game was removed from Apple’s iTunes App Store and the Google Play Store for Android. The creator originally seemed to indicate it was too stressful dealing with the success, others believed there were legal threats, but the developer himself gives a different reason altogether.
However, a USA Today report from Feb. 11 says the game creator, Dong Nguyen, says he took the game down due to concerns that the highly-popular and very simplistic game was creating addicts. On Saturday, Nguyen had tweeted out all sorts of mysterious messages with one alerting he’d be removing the free app game from online stores as of Sunday. It had some believing that maybe he was dealing with some sort of copyright issues over the green pipes resembling those in Super Mario Bros. Others thought he was crazy and disliked the media attention and some of the responses he was getting from people online, but that doesn’t seem to be the case according to him. Nguyen said recently in an email interview he did:
“Flappy Bird has unexpected effects. It causes addiction (in) people. I think it is an unexpected problem … and I have to remove it.”
Flappy Birds was first released in May of 2013 to the Apple iTunes App Store, and reached huge popularity. The free download was downloaded over 50 million times according to Nguyen’s estimates. It also was earning him serious cash, as estimates put some of the in-ad revenue earnings at a daily amount of $ 50,000 on average. There had been rumors of some people questioning how Nguyen’s game got to the top of the app charts, with some people going as far as to suggest he “gamed” the system somehow. Nguyen said:
“I respect other people’s opinions about my games. I am sure I didn’t cheat anything, and I don’t have to do that.”
There was yet another batch of people who believed this was all a publicity stunt, where he’d bring the game back and make even more money from it. As for now, Nguyen officially pulled the plug on the game Sunday afternoon around 1 p.m. EST. However, Flappy Bird game download or install guides exist for Kindle Fire HD and other Android devices, so it appears some people will still get to tap and flap the small bird through pipes. Otherwise, gamers can check out Nguyen’s other games such as Shuriken Block, Smashing Kitty and Super Ball Juggling, or try one of the many imitations of Flappy Bird sitting on the app stores.
Mobile gamers, are you upset at the Flappy Bird game being removed by Nguyen? Is there another game you prefer to it right now?
Thursday, February 13, 2014
What We're Reading: Lytton Strachey, a Kindle Binge, Modern Dandies - New Yorker (blog)
Notes from the New Yorker staff on their literary engagements of the week.
I recently bought a copy of Lytton Strachey's "Eminent Victorians" at the ominously named Last Bookstore, in downtown Los Angeles. Last, but not first—the cavernous space opened just a couple years ago, and it was full of teen-agers, wondrously handling used paperbacks as if they were Polaroids or vintage seven-inch records. The best unintended consequence of the devaluing of the book, described in George Packer's recent piece about Amazon, has been the devaluing of the book—on the mezzanine, the Last Bookstore had a hundred thousand volumes, each selling for a dollar. "Eminent Victorians" was one of twenty books my wife and I jammed into the overhead compartment on our flight home.
Strachey, the biographical pioneer associated with the Bloomsbury group, was devoted to replacing, as he put it, "the two fat volumes … with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric" by which the recently dead had typically been commemorated. His ambition was one of wit and psychological motivation. In practice, he put the bitchy in biography, filling his portraits with taunts and insinuations. It's pretty fun.
"Eminent Victorians" consists of four sections: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, and General Gordon. Strachey attempted to undercut the reverence the Edwardians felt for these stolid Victorians and to show them as humans—in fact, as especially hypocritical, blinkered humans. There is a fair bit of malice in his tone. Of Cardinal Manning: "Power had come to him at last; and he seized it with all the avidity of a born autocrat, whose appetite for supreme dominion had been whetted by long years of enforced abstinence and the hated simulations of submission. He was the ruler of Roman Catholic England, and he would rule." Not exactly Kitty Kelley, but close enough for the period.
Of course, I had never heard of Cardinal Manning. Just Florence Nightingale, and maybe General Gordon—something about Khartoum. I often find myself reading these kinds of books, where not only do I not know the protagonist but I don't know the milieu, the references, or any of the other groundwork the author assumes of his or her reader. I like piecing these things together. For a time, I subscribed to Tape Op, "the creative music recording magazine." I didn't know much about recording music, creatively or un-, but I enjoyed slowly rendering sense from the jumble of tossed-off technical references. Then you have something—self-made knowledge, almost.
—Willing Davidson
George Packer is right to question Amazon's effect on the publishing and book-selling industries, and those with a Three Lives or a Bonnie Slotnick or a Tattered Cover around the corner—or even across town—should peruse them or lose them. But for those us who live in places where the books we want are not available—Packer touches on the point, writing, "Readers, especially isolated ones, adored Amazon"—the importance of Amazon cannot be understated. I live in Switzerland, and Amazon is a lifeline. No one else is coming to give us "French Lessons," Alice Kaplan's 1994 memoir of language assimilation, or Rebecca Mead's "My Life in Middlemarch," the day it comes out. I know I'm late to the Kindle game, but one showed up under the tree at Christmas, and, since then, I've been on a tear. Already I've bought, read, and been moved by more books than I did at the bookstore all of last year.
And, so: "Men We Reaped," Jesmyn Ward's account of the way America withers and bleeds black families, especially their young men, five of whom—one of them her brother—died in her Mississippi hometown between 2000 and 2004. "Little Failure," Gary Shteyngart's ode to/purge of his mother's chicken Kiev. "Comfort & Joy," by India Knight, the perfect deep-masquerading-as-light novel for a flight. A book you should read anywhere but on a plane: "The Skies Belong To Us," by Brendan I. Koerner, in which I learned that in 1972 a hundred and fifty-nine commercial flights where hijacked in the United States, by "frazzled veterans, chronic fabulists, compulsive gamblers, bankrupt businessmen, thwarted academics, career felons, and even lovesick teens."
Anita Brookner's moody "Hotel du Lac" ("I had her down as a Belgian confectioner's widow"). "The Collaborator," another brilliant Alice Kaplan, about the emblematic trial and execution of the French collaborationist journalist Robert Brasillach. "Wave," by Sonali Deraniyagala: shattering. Dana Goodyear's "Anything That Moves," delicious. "Keep It Simple," an old Alastair Little cookbook that made me wish he would open another restaurant (if you want tangerine peel in the daube de boeuf, do it yourself!).
"Five Days at Memorial," Sheri Fink's exhaustive investigation of the logistical and moral tumult that consumed a hospital during Hurricane Katrina. "Red Love"—O.K., I bought this one at Daunt Books, in London—in which Maxim Leo examines his childhood in a true-believing family in the G.D.R. George Packer's own study of American inequality, "The Unwinding," which I particularly admire for offering as nuanced a portrait of my home state, North Carolina, as I have read.
Balzac may have the final word on the Amazon age, in "Le Père Goriot," translated by A. J. Krailsheimer:
Eugène de Rastignac, for such was his name, was one of those young men trained by poverty for hard work, who realize from their earliest youth what their parents expect of them, and from the start prepare for a successful career by working out the scope of their studies, adapting them in advance to future trends in society so they can be the first to exploit it.
—Lauren Collins
In honor of Fashion Week, I've been perusing the delectable "I Am Dandy: The Return of the Elegant Gentleman"—a book of photographs with accompanying profiles of men who take great care over their clothes. The project was a collaboration between Nathaniel Adams, a journalist who manages the bespoke men's atelier Against Nature (it's the English translation of the novel "À Rebours," by Joris-Karl Huysmans—about an elegant man who arranges himself and his house as a series of exquisite tableaus) and Rose Callahan, a photographer and filmmaker, who runs the blog The Dandy Portraits.
Adams has been researching the history of dandies for years, beginning with Beau Brummell, a nineteenth-century wit and confidant of King George IV, who banished the frilly collar and replaced it with the clean white cravat accented with a gold pin. "Byron said that the three most important men of his age were Napoleon, Byron himself, and Brummell, and that, of the three, Brummell was the one that he wanted to be," Adams told me one day, when I visited his store. Adams searched for other characters in Brummell's lineage: "There's Oscar Wilde, obviously, but there's also people like young Benjamin Disraeli, and Alfred d'Orsay," a Frenchman who lived in a ménage à trois with a couple of eccentric Irish aristocrats, decorating their various houses with halls of mirrors and elaborate red silks. "Most of them were outsiders—Disraeli was a Jew, Wilde was gay Irish—who sort of found their way inside, quite high on the social ladder, through creating these elegant personas."
Sensing an upsurge of interest among men in spiffing up their dress, Adams and Callahan travelled to London, Paris, Italy, and around the United States in search of contemporary dandies. They visited the Churchwell brothers, two doctors from Memphis who learned how to dress from their father, the first black civil-rights reporter at the Nashville Banner. For ten years, he wasn't given a desk at the paper, so he worked from home, dressing in a pressed suit each morning; the brothers appear in the book in handsome tan and dusky-blue bespoke suits. Robert Burton, of Ozone Park, Queens, is a soft-faced, heavily made-up, sorrowful-looking man who wears "a green frock coat affixed with small songbirds." The men's styles vary wildly. Sean Crowly, of Brooklyn, collects clothes and objects from Regency England, and is pictured in a robe with his large collection of spirits; Robert E. Bryan, former men's editor at W, has nothing in his house that isn't Art Deco.
Dandies come in many types, Adams told me. "There's the colloquial well-dressed man—everyone in the book fits into that definition. And then there's another kind, which is hard to define—it involves attitude, insouciance, aloofness. The one common thread is that these men couldn't exist any other way. If they were on a desert island they'd be polishing their shoes in squid ink and using fish scales for tie pins."
—Sasha Weiss
Photograph by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/Getty.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
How to install Google apps on Kindle Fire HD or HDX - Gizmag
One of the main reasons to root your Kindle Fire is so you can install the Google Play Store and have access to apps that can’t be found in the Amazon Appstore. But if you’re worried about voiding the warranty or dealing with the rooting process in general, you can sideload apps. The cool thing about this technique is it doesn’t require you to root the device first. Here’s how to get most of the Google apps on your Kindle Fire HD or HDX.
For this article I’m using the latest 7-inch Kindle Fire HDX, which runs Amazon’s customized version of Android 4.2. This should work the same on the 8.9-inch version too. Keep in mind that when sideloading these apps, not all of the features will work correctly. For instance, on the Google Search app, the Google Now cards don’t load like they would on a Nexus 7 or other Android device. All of the APK (the Android application format) files offered here are free, malware free, and free to distribute.
What is sideloading and how do I do it?
Sideloading is the term used to describe installing an app on your Android device from a source other than an official app store. Basically, what you’re doing is transferring an APK file from your computer to your tablet or smartphone and installing it directly. Since the Kindle Fire runs a forked version of Android, this is a common practice to get the apps you like on the device.
Before you can sideload an app on the Kindle Fire HD or HDX, you need to enable the feature that allows you to install apps from unknown sources. To do that, go to Settings > Applications and make sure “Apps from Unknown Sources” is turned on.
Next, download this zip file and extract its contents to a convenient location on your computer. The zip file includes the four essential apps you need to install first.
Connect your Kindle Fire to your computer using the included micro-USB cable and transfer the four APKs you just downloaded to your Kindle’s Download folder.
Make sure you have ES File Explorer on your Kindle Fire. It’s free and available in Amazon’s Appstore. This will give you access to the APKs you transfer to your tablet. You’ll find the files in Local > Home > Download.
Now perform the following steps in order:
- Tap to install Google Account Manager and reboot the tablet.
- Tap to install Google Services Framework and reboot the tablet.
- Tap to install Google Play Services and reboot the tablet.
- Tap to install Gmail and reboot the tablet.
Installing Google apps
After those four apps are installed, open the Gmail app (you’ll find it listed under the Apps section on the Kindle Fire) and sign in with your Google account. After signing in at the screen shown below, you’ll be kicked to the web version of Google to sign in again.
When you’re signing in, you’ll see various messages about different Google services stopping. You can just tap through them. This is one of the caveats with sideloading Google apps and running them – the apps will still work, it’s just kind of annoying having the occasional alert pop up like the one in the screenshot below.
Once you’re signed in, you’ll be able to run the Gmail app on your Kindle Fire. Here’s an example of it running on my Kindle Fire HDX.
Now you can continue to sideload the Google apps you want to use following the same process as above. Transfer them to the Download folder on the Kindle Fire, just like you did with the first set of apps.
Open ES File Explorer, open the Download folder, and tap to install the Google apps you want. For best results, I recommend installing one app at a time and rebooting after each one.
Just click on the following apps to download the APK file and sideload it on the Kindle Fire. In my tests, each of the following work with little to no bugs: Chrome, YouTube, Google Search, Google Music, Google Play Movies, Gmail, and Newsstand.
Summing up
You can find other Google app files in Android forums or an APK repository site like Android Drawer. A word of caution about sideloading apps: Ensure you’re getting them from a trusted and secure source. Some apps – especially the ones that claim to give you paid apps for free – in the shady markets contain malware that will wreck you device. We don’t condone sideloading paid apps, and in the end it will just get you into trouble. But as long as you’re careful and download the apps from a trusted source you should be ok.
While some of the app features don’t work the same as on a typical Android device, and the error messages that pop up are a bit annoying, it isn’t a deal-breaker. As long as you’re able to overlook those caveats and live in the Google ecosystem, sideloading the apps is something you should definitely try.
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Amazon's Kindle Strategy Is Finally Working! - Motley Fool
Amazon.com ( NASDAQ: AMZN ) popularized the e-reader, and in the past few years, it has also helped drive the widespread adoption of cheap tablets. Whereas most of the early iPad competitors Such cum the Motorola Xoom and BlackBerry ( NASDAQ: BBRY ) PlayBook were priced at parity with the iPad and remnants terribly cum The result, Amazon’s pavement to drive sales volume through low pricing.
Amazon’s strategy was simple – it wanted to mark Money When people used its products, Notes When they Bought them. Amazon typically prices its Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets at or slightly below cost. By tightly integrating the unscrew with Amazon’s online store, Amazon hopes to mark lots of money by selling e-books, music, movies, and other stuff to Kindle and Kindle Fire users over time.
However, until Recently, the strategy looked like a Bust. While Amazon’s e-readers and tablets were popular, the media company’s sales growth was lackluster. More Recently, though, Amazon’s media sales growth has picked up again in North America. This suggests that the Kindle strategy is finally succeeding.
A flawed strategy?
A year or two ago, it was hard to find Much evidence that Amazon’s Kindle strategy was working cum expected. In 2011, Amazon’s media sales in North America Grew 16%. That fall, Amazon launched the first-generation Kindle Fire tablet in the U.S., and remnants of it fairly well.
Theoretically, that Should media have boosted sales in 2012, cum Kindle Fire Owners started to use their tablets to buy things like e-books and movies. Nevertheless, Amazon’s North American media sales rose just 15% in 2012, slightly below the 2011 missed and well below the growth of missed most of Amazon’s other segments.
As the middle of last year cum Recently, Amazon’s North American media sales growth continued its deceleration. In the first half of 2013, North American media sales Grew 15%, down from the 17% growth in the first half of 2012 missed.
Media sales accelerate again
However, the tide began to turn in Q3, year-over-year growth When ticked up from 15% in 2012 to 18% in 2013. The turnaround was complete last quarter, North American media When Amazon Grew sales by 21% year-over-year, up from just 13% of the growth missed in Q4 of 2012. The last time the growth reached 21% was missed Q3 of 2011 – ironically enough, the Quarter Before the Kindle Fire went on sale.
The Kindle Fire mesh eBay Behind the reacceleration of Amazon’s media sales growth.
While media sales were once Amazon’s main business, the group’s prominence has receded in recent years because of the rapid growth of the “Electronic and General Merchandise” category. Last Quarter, electronic and General Merchandise sales volume accounted for three times Much cum cum media in North America. Still, with electronic and General Merchandise growth slowing down, the acceleration of media sales is the welcome sign for Amazon shareholders.
Why it matters:
The law of large numbers has started to affect most aspects of Amazon.com ‘s business. The company already controls the significant chunk of the market in most of the key segments Where it competes. Moreover, it has already Driven its weakest competitors out of business. As a result, growing revenue by 20% -30% every year is becoming increasingly difficult.
sump FASTER growth in North American media sales does NOT Quite mark trend, it’s the best evidence yet that Amazon’s Kindle strategy is gaining traction. It’s pretty hard to Overcome the law of large numbers, jump any acceleration in sales growth is noteworthy.
This is also good news for Amazon’s international business. Within the International segment, media sales growth has slowed rate crawl Recently, Increasing just 1% in 2013, or 7% including exchange rate fluctuations.
However, Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak stated last month that sales of digital media growth is picking up outside the U.S. – it’s just a small part of the business right now. As digital sales start to overtake physical media sales, the total growth missed mesh reaccelerate.
Foolish bottom line
Amazon’s Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets represent the significant part of the company’s long-term strategy. By selling these unscrew at attractive prices – typically at or below cost – Amazon.com hopes to lock users into the Amazon “ecosystem.” This allows the company to mark the money over time by selling other items through unscrew those, particularly the digital content.
Until Recently, it was hard to be sure this strategy was succeeding. Amazon appeared to be selling Plenty of Kindles and Kindle Fires, but media sales growth remained Steady.
However, in the past two quarters, Amazon has Seen a new round of media accelerating sales growth in North America. This suggests that Amazon’s long-term quest for dominance in the market for books, music, and movies is back on track.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014
Amazon Tests Kindle in Latin America - Fox Business
Amazon Inc. started selling its Kindle online in Brazil on Friday, expanding from ebooks into retail for the first time in Latin America’s biggest and most challenging ecommerce market.
By shipping its ereader devices across this inmense country, Amazon will now get a taste of Brazil’s notorious logistics problems, widely seen as a deterrent for a full-fledged retail operation like the one it has in the U.S.
The world’s largest online retailer launched an Internet bookstore in Brazil in 2012, a low-risk landing on this $ 11 billion emerging ecommerce market. Up to now, the Kindle was being sold at bookshops, appliance stores and even kiosks in shopping malls.
“From north to south, from east to west, we are going to be delivering products across Brazil,” said Alex Szapiro, a former Apple executive hired to command Amazon’s deployment in Brazil.
Historically Brazilians have not been big readers and many households have just a tiny number of books. But the country has a population of 200 million and a growing middle class.
According to industry figures, Brazilians bought 435 million books in 2012 worth 4.98 billion reais ($ 2 billion). Szapiro said ebooks were about three percent of total Brazilian book sales.
The country has relatively low Internet penetration and has become a promising new frontier for Internet giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Amazon. Market research company eBit estimates Brazilians spent 28 billion reais ($ 11.7 billion) online last year, 25 percent more than in 2012.
But Latin America’s biggest economy is also known for its heavy tax burden, high labor costs and logistical bottlenecks that make ecommerce a serious challenge for newcomers.
Unlike in the U.S where Amazon operates its own distribution network from mammoth warehouses, Szapiro said in Brazil the company will leave the shipment of its Kindle devices to external partners, which he declined to identify.
“Logistics can be a challenge in Brazil but we also have to see the other side – Brazil is very advanced in terms of ecommerce,” the executive said.
The Kindle Paperwhite will be sold through Amazon’s local website for 479 reais, almost double its U.S. price.
The company will not disclose numbers for its Brazilian operation, but Amazon’s overall international sales grew 14 percent to $ 29.9 billion in 2013.
Szapiro said Amazon will initially offer free shipment of its Kindle and allow customers to pay in up to 12 installments.
Friday, February 7, 2014
Robbie Williams: The Sentinel publishes Kindle version of 40th birthday ... - Stoke Sentinel
The Sentinel has published the 16-page special ‘Robbie Williams at 40′ Kindle book.
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FANS of Robbie Williams can now download the 16-page special 40th birthday souvenirs on their Kindles.
The Sentinel has published the 16-page special ‘Robbie Williams at 40′ Kindle book. The publication sums up all the fan-led, Charity and Civic Celebrations Tracking place in Robbie’s City of Birth to mark the pop star’s 40th birthday.
The book Contains Exclusive Interviews with Robbie’s dad Pete Conway and mum Jan Williams. It also profiles Robbie’s Career with BOTH Take That and as a record-breaking solo artist. Fans can also read about RWFanFest, the unveiling of the Robbie Williams tourists trail (Including links to the 11 points on the trail) and the legacy of his Charity work. The book also explores Robbie’s relationship with the people of stoke-on-Trent and there are numerous birthday messages from fans.
‘Robbie Williams at 40′ can be Downloader by clicking here or by searching the Kindle Store for ‘Robbie Williams Sentinel. The memory is priced at 99p.
Amazon pulls mangled ebooks from Kindle shelves - Phys.Org
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EnlargeKindle electronic readers are stacked at Amazon’s San Bernardino Fulfillment Center on October 29, 2013 in San Bernardino, California
Amazon on Friday yanked gibberish translations of classic works from the shelves of its online ebooks shop.
An array of titles including “Treasure Island” and “War of the Worlds” billed as translations of famed books into French, Italian, and Spanish and offered by an “M Angelo” for 99 cents each were gone after complaints that they made no sense.
The seller had “direct published” the books, which are in the public domain and no longer under copyright protection, and even added his or her name as co-author next to renowned authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and H.G. Wells.
The digital books appeared to have been translated using the kind of automated program available as a free service online.
“The books are no longer available,” Kindle team spokesperson Brittany Turner said in a brief email reply to an AFP inquiry.
Amazon declined to disclose information about who was behind the translations or how many of the ebooks were sold.
Amazon Direct publishing platform rules bar the sale of public domain content that is freely available online by anyone other than the original copyright owners.
Kindle also reserves the right to reject ebooks that are outright awful.
“We don’t accept books that provide a poor customer experience,” Kindle Direct Publishing content guidelines stated.
“We reserve the right to determine whether content provides a poor customer experience.”
The posted list of what constitutes a lousy reading experience includes books being shabbily translated.
Other Kindle self-publishing taboos included pornography, offensive content, and violating copyrights.
© 2014 AFP
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EnlargeKindle electronic readers are stacked at Amazon’s San Bernardino Fulfillment Center on October 29, 2013 in San Bernardino, California
Amazon on Friday yanked gibberish translations of classic works from the shelves of its online ebooks shop.
An array of titles including “Treasure Island” and “War of the Worlds” billed as translations of famed books into French, Italian, and Spanish and offered by an “M Angelo” for 99 cents each were gone after complaints that they made no sense.
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(HealthDay)—Additional testing for ischemic heart disease is less likely to yield benefit in those with rapid recovery of electrocardiographic (ECG) changes on the exercise treadmill test (ETT), according …
Racial / ethnic differences in CHD outcomes not due to statins
(HealthDay)—For hospitalized patients with coronary heart disease (CHD), racial and ethnic differences in one-year outcomes are due to demographics and comorbidity, not differential statin prescriptions, …
Ending diffusion confusion: Identifying precise neural correlates of autism spectrum disorder
(Medical Xpress)—Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) refers to a group of developmental disorders (such as autism and Asperger’s syndrome) characterized by impairments in the ability to communicate and interact …
Scientists find 800,000-year-old footprints in UK (Update)
They were a British family on a day out—almost a million years ago.
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