Amazon has now started a trial of allowing shoppers to purchase apps and to make in-app purchases within Amazon’s app store and to then have those charges appear on their phone bills. The arrangement was announced by British carrier firm Bango, which said it will...
Talk about your fire sale. Amazon on Monday (Sept. 8) slashed the price of its 32-GByte Fire smartphone from to 99 cents—barely two months after launching it at $199. The requirement to have a 2-year AT&T contract remained. The Wall Street Journal said that the...
August 27, 2015
A little over a year after Amazon released the Fire Phone and saw its fortunes fall as consumers just couldn’t be made to take an interest, Amazon is rethinking its personal electronics division entirely. Which means layoffs, lots of layoffs. As part of the great retrenching, Amazon has dismissed dozens of engineers out of Lab126 […]
September 18, 2014
Amazon has now started a trial of allowing shoppers to purchase apps and to make in-app purchases within Amazon’s app store and to then have those charges appear on their...
September 09, 2014
Talk about your fire sale. Amazon on Monday (Sept. 8) slashed the price of its 32-GByte Fire smartphone from to 99 cents—barely two months after launching it at $199. The...
