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Greenpeace says tech companies need to push harder for renewable energy
According to a new report from Greenpeace, tech companies - especially Amazon - need to do more to overcome resistance to renewable energy from stubborn monopolies. “Tech companies are increasingly turning to the smart choice of renewable energy to power the internet, but they're hitting a wall of stubborn monopoly power companies that refuse to…
Now you have to spend £20 on Amazon UK to get free delivery
Bad news for Amazon customers who haven't paid up for Amazon Prime. The company has announced that the minimum spend for delivery has now been increased from £10 to £20. According to Engadget the changes come into effect at 6pm this evening. Amazon Prime customers are obviously unaffected - with free one-day delivery being a…
REVIEW: Amazon Fire TV Stick
The Amazon Fire TV Stick, Amazon's alternative to Google's Chromecast, went on sale in the UK yesterday. James O'Malley gives his verdict The battle for the living room is currently underway, and over the last few years we've seen traditional under-the-tv players like Sky, Virgin Media, Playstation and Xbox forced to do battle with new…
Amazon goes retro for April Fools’ Day
At the time of writing, this is what you'll see if you go to Amazon.com... Yep, its the Amazon homepage from 1999. Mercifully though, try to click anywhere and you'll be reverted back to Amazon 2015. Wait... so if this was the official Amazon April Fools' joke, what on earth was the Amazon Fire Phone?!
Amazon starts offering unlimited cloud storage
Amazon has perhaps signalled the end to worrying about storage space today as it has announced changes to its cloud storage pricing, that will offer unlimited storage for photos and... well... everything else. According to TechCrunch the two plans, which will be available to non-Amazon Prime customers will see unlimited photo storage priced as $11.99/year,…
Amazon releases “Kindle Convert” app to turn any book into a Kindle book
Amazon has launched a Windows app that will help you scan in your books and turn them into Kindle books. All you need is a hell of a lot of patience. The app is really designed for institutions - such as libraries and museums which have collections of old and rare books that really ought…
Google forces Amazon’s app store from Google Play
Competition between Google and Amazon over their Android app stores is hotting up - it has emerged that Google has kicked Amazon's store off of Google Play. The official reason is a change in Google Play's terms of service, which states that: "4.5 Alternative Stores. You may not use the Store to distribute or make…
Amazon CEO admits the Fire Phone is a failure
Jeff Bezos has finally read aloud the writing on the wall: The Amazon Fire Phone has been a massive flop. Both critically and commercially, nobody seems to care about the phone, which has extra head-tracking cameras around the edge to slightly tilt the user interface depending on how you're looking at it. Still, as one…
Amazon launches Fire TV Stick to rival Chromecast
Amazon has announced a new streaming media stick, to compete with Google's Chromecast as a budget TV streaming device. The Fire TV stick has just gone on sale on the US Amazon site for $39 (or $19 for the next couple of days) and can essentially do almost everything that its bigger brother, the FireTV…
Nobody wants an Amazon FirePhone – Amazon takes a big financial hit
Poor Amazon - it put so much effort into the Fire Phone, but it seems that not many people actually want one. The company has just announced it is taking a $170m hit "primarily related to Fire phone inventory valuation and supplier commitment costs." The news comes courtesy of Recode, which has been digging through…