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Amazon Fire TV now shipping in the UK
Amazon has announced that its streaming Set-Top-Box, the Fire TV is now being shipped out to customers in the UK. The box, which has been available for pre-order for a few weeks now, is Amazon's answer to the likes of Apple TV, and offers all of Amazon's streaming services, as well as iPlayer, Netflix and…
Is Amazon planning to become Argos?
Amazon revolutionised retail by taking it online and according to reports... is now planning to do the complete opposite and open up physical stores. According to ITProPortal, Amazon is planning to open a "mini warehouse" in New York, near famous department store Macy's. Whilst it will be primarily designed to be a place to pick…
Amazon Fire Phone available on O2 in the UK today
Amazon's FirePhone is available from today, O2 has announced. O2 is offering the phone on its Refresh tariff - and you can get the phone for free if you're willing to spend £33/month with 2GB of data (presumably on a two year contract). Much like the US launch, Amazon is also throwing in a year…
Amazon beats Apple and Argos to top list of Top 50 online retailers
IMRG and comScore have joined forces to produce the Top 50 IMRG Retailer Ranking, a new league table for online retailers. The IMRG Top 50 Retailer Ranking will be published quarterly, and measures visitors to those websites based on comScore’s MMX online audience measurement technology. In the inaugural list, online retail giant Amazon beat Apple…
Amazon Fire TV comes to the UK
Amazon's FireTV set-top-box is finally making its way to the UK, six months after its debut in the States. Essentially a rival to Google's Chomecast and Apple TV, Amazon's packed a lot of punch into the box. The FireTV supports a tonne of different streaming services - including Amazon's own Instant Video, Netflix and even…
Google testing Project Wing drone delivery service
Amazon is not the only company investigating the possibility of using drones to deliver goods to customers – now search giant Google is testing a drone delivery system. Google is conducting tests on Project Wing, a delivery-by-drone service, in Australia. The project is being developed by Google X, the company's Califfornia-based tech research branch which is…
LG G3 to hit 10 million sales… Amazon Fire Phone to receive patronising “good effort” award?
We've seen some big launches over the last year - but that doesn't ever mean companies launching phones can expect big results. First, the good news for LG, which according to the Korea Times, reckons that it is going to hit 10 million LG G3 units sold for the first time since it entered the…
Netflix now in 10% of British homes
Streaming film and television service Netflix is now hooked up to more than three million British households. A report in the Daily Telegraph says that the new figure means more than one in 10 households have joined the service, and signals a rise in take-up over the past year. The report says that Netflix is…
Amazon drops pre-orders for Disney titles
Amazon in the US has halted pre-orders of some Disney movies in what appears to be another contract dispute, according the Wall Street Journal. Copies of films such as Muppets Most Wanted, Maleficent and Captain America: The Winter Soldier were unavailable for order on DVD or Blu-ray on Amazon.com on Sunday, although digital copies were…
Greenpeace and Amazon in war of words over clean power
Greenpeace does not appear to be a big fan of Amazon, or its Amazon Web Services In a recent Green Internet report, Greenpeace praised companies such as Microsoft, Google and Apple for their green credentials, while claiming that AWS had the "dirtiest" cloud. "AWS has dropped further and further behind its competitors in building an…