Fermeture de Virgin : Aurélie Filippetti fustige... Amazon ! Maladroite, Aurélie Filippetti , la ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, regrette amèrement la fermeture programmée de Virgin Megastore , et accuse Amazon d’avoir entraîné la chute de l’enseigne ! Voilà qui est un peu expéditif : Aurélie Filippetti, la ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, a profité d’une intervention sur la chaîne d’info iTélé pour s’attaquer à Amazon . Selon elle, c’est bel et bien au géant et à ses pairs qu’il faut imputer la chute de Virgin Megastore dans l’hexagone. L’enseigne, employant 1 200 salariés, vient de déposer le bilan ce mercredi, et la seule explication trouvée se résumerait à « c’est la faute d’Amazon ». C’est facile, plein de raccourcis, bien que les entreprises de la trempe d’Amazon ne soient pas tout à fait imposées de la même façon que les entreprises localisées en France.
Oui mais voilà, Amazon, en plus de créer de l’emploi en France… colle à la tendance, et aux envies des consommateurs. [ nouvelobs ] Exclusive: Amazon phone confirmed, could be announced tomorrow. Amazon's updated Kindle Fire and new backlit "Paperwhite" Kindle e-reader have already leaked out ahead of the company's event tomorrow, but there may be one more surprise in store: a mobile phone. Multiple sources have confirmed to The Verge that Amazon is working on a smartphone that runs a variant of the Kindle Fire's Android-based operating system, and we're now hearing that the device will be shown to the press tomorrow. The phone itself is said to be currently unfinished, so if Amazon does announce it we wouldn't expect too many details. But at this point we would expect it to run a forked version of Android 4.0 as the leaked Kindle Fires seem to do, and to include Nokia Maps as the location solution — forking Android means Amazon can't use Google Maps, and Nokia spoke today of adding a "major" mapping partner at its own Windows Phone event.
Related Items rumor kindle smartphone leak phone Amazon Cellphones. How Clean is Your Cloud? Top 50 - Most Admired Companies - FORTUNE. Brand New iTunes Store on the Way? | Music business. Walt Mossberg Reviews Kindle Fire, Amazon's Color Tablet. Amazon Kindle Fire review. It seems like ages since Amazon introduced us to the $199 Fire at a hectic New York City event, but in truth that was only about six weeks ago. Maybe our perception of time is warped because we've been hearing talk about this 7-inch Android tablet for months now. Maybe it's because Amazon launching a tablet seemed like such a natural thing to do after Barnes & Noble paved the way with its Nook Color. Or, maybe it's just because the gadget Amazon shipped looks nigh-identical to the 7-inch BlackBerry PlayBook that we've had for, well, ages. For whatever the reason, what Amazon has delivered is a device that is intimately familiar yet mysterious -- a simple, minimalistic exterior design hiding a flashy, seemingly quite trick customization that's sitting atop a decidedly ho-hum Android Gingerbread build.
Our questions leading up to this review were many: How will it handle sideloading? Are the battery life and performance better than the PlayBook? Amazon Kindle Fire review See all photos. Earnings Preview For Amazon.com 3Q. Live from Amazon's Kindle tablet event! We’re live and in color from Amazon’s Kindle tablet (Kindle Fire, it would seem) event here in New York City, and we’ll be bringing you all the action live as it happens.
While the tablet itself has been leaking for months — BGR exclusively reported this past May that Amazon’s first tablet would be based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, and a larger device sporting a quad-core CPU will launch early next year — by there should still be a few surprises in store. At least we hope so. Stay tuned for the live coverage to start just before 10:00 a.m. Eastern, and don’t forget to refresh this page for the latest news as it breaks. 10:53AM:Amazon Kindle Fire is available to pre-order today and ships in November. 10:52AM:P.S. 10:51AM:This is unbelievable value. 10:51AM:What do you get with the Kindle FIre? 10:48AM:They are super excited about Amazon Silk. 10:48AM:Marketing stuff. 10:47AM:Virtually limitless cache that can store the common files that are used to render the pages you view every day.
Why Amazon's New Tablet May Pose A Greater Threat To NetFlix Than To Apple. Barnes & Noble Stock Falls 9% After Amazon Tablet Launch. Amazon's Fire has claimed a victim: Barnes & Noble. The bookseller's stock was down more than 9% this morning after Amazon introduced its $199 Fire, a tablet that undercuts the Nook Color's price by $50. Amazon also cut the price of its e-Ink Kindle to $80 from $119.
The Nook Simple Touch, Barnes & Noble's competitor to that device, sells for $139. Digital sales, led by the Nook, were a bright spot in Barnes & Noble's fiscal first quarter earnings, which were reported in August. Sales through bn.com jumped 37% for the quarter, compared to the same period in 2010. Barnes & Noble Price Stock Chart by YCharts For Mashable's Complete Amazon Kindle & Kindle Fire Coverage Image courtesy of Flickr, Hey Paul. Amazon will be strong No. 2 to iPad, Fire is bad news for Sam.