blogs.ft.com - 10/24/2008
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Kindle sales appear likely to get a significant boost on Friday, with talk-show megastar Oprah Winfrey apparently about to endorse Amazon’s digital book reader.
Amazon is featuring a trailer of her Friday show on its site with Oprah talking about her new “favourite gadget” ...
oprah.com - 10/24/2008
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oprah.com —
This summer, Oprah received a gift that she
says changed her life. "I'm telling you, it is...
absolutely my new favorite thing in the world," she says. Meet the Amazon Kindle™, a wireless portable reading device with instant access to more than 190,000 ...
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Oprah's Favorite New Gadget
radar.oreilly.com - 10/26/2008
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A couple of months ago, Hugh Macleod created
a bit of buzz with his blog post The...
Cloud's Best Kept Secret . Hugh's argument: that cloud computing will lead to a huge monopoly. Of course, a couple of weeks ago, Larry Ellison made the opposite point ...
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Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing
updates.zdnet.com - 10/22/2008
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ZDNet Resources Amazon battens down the hatches before
Microsoft's cloud launch next week Amazon has made a...
few tweaks and additions to its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure just days before Microsoft is expected to launch its head-to-head ...
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amazon.com inc. Resources
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Oprah’s New Favorite Gadget - the Kindle
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home —
... A Financial Times (FT) journalist believes that Oprah is likely to endorse the Kindle on her show on Friday. The front page of the Amazon store displays a teaser video featuring the talk show star; however, it is modified so that the gadget Oprah holds in her hand is hidden behind a superimposed light burst. The video ends with the injunction “Watch the Oprah show then order yours at Amazon.com”. FT says: ...
Amazon: Oprah Loves The Kindle
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
... , in which she apparently will unveil her favorite gadget. Given the clips is on Amazon’s home page, not hard to guess that she’s providing an unpaid endorsement for the Kindle. Given Oprah’s ability to drive book sales, Jeff Bezos better do something nice for her, like subscribe to her magazine. (According to a Financial Times blog post, Bezos is going to appear on the show.) ...
E-books May Get O-Factor Boost: Oprah Expected to Endorse Kindle
Wired: Epicenter —
... Oprah likely to kindle big interest in digital books [FT.com] ...
Will the Kindle Get an Oprah Bump? [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Oprah Winfrey doesn’t really strike me as a gadget girl. Of course, I’ve never even watched her show, so maybe she is. One way or another, when I saw the Financial Times reporting that the cultural icon looked ready to endorse the Amazon Kindle today, I made a point of setting my DVR. I also trundled over to Amazon’s site to check out the ...
E-books May Get O-Factor Boost: Oprah Expected to Endorse Kindle
Tech Observer —
... Oprah likely to kindle big interest in digital books [FT.com] ...
Oprah comes out for Kindle
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... to plug the show -- as spotted by Chris Nuttall at the Financial Times -- which will also feature a guest appearance by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. (Not his first, by the way.) ...
$50 off on Amazon Kindle - Oprah Winfrey’s fav gadget
D' Technology Weblog —
Oprah Winfrey endorse Amazon’s digital book reader “Amazon Kindle”, If you plan to buy a Kindle, use OPRAHWINFREY as a coupon code and her name nets you $50 off the e-books standard $359 price.
Source:→ FT Tech Blog ...
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boygeniusreport.com 10/24/2008 —
Yeah we know this post sounds like something you might read at “People Magazine” but it does have some pretty serious gadget implications, so read on. If you don’t watch daytime TV, then you probably don’t know that Oprah ...
Oprah Endorses Amazon.com's Kindle -- Oprah Kindle -
informationweek.com 10/25/2008 — Popular talk-show host Oprah Winfrey on Friday endorsed Amazon.com's Kindle, a blessing that will likely give the e-book reader a big boost against its major rival the Sony Reader. In a posting on her Web site, Winfrey revealed that she had ...
Oprah is giving you $50 off an Amazon Kindle
gadgetizer.com 10/27/2008 —
We’ve been waiting for those next-gen Kindle’s to be announced - and it looks like they might be coming soon.
On last week’s show, Oprah announced that the Amazon Kindle was “her new favorite thing”, and then ...
Oprah Endorsing Amazon's Kindle
alleyinsider.com 10/24/2008 — Chris Nuttall at the FT reports:
Kindle sales appear likely to get a significant boost on Friday, with talk-show megastar Oprah Winfrey apparently about to endorse Amazon's digital book reader.
Amazon is featuring a trailer of her Friday show on ...
Will the Kindle Get an Oprah Bump? [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 10/27/2008 — Oprah Winfrey doesn’t really strike me as a gadget girl. Of course, I’ve never even watched her show, so maybe she is. One way or another, when I saw the Financial Times reporting that the cultural icon looked ready to endorse the Amazon ...
Amazon Kindle sold out: three month delay
slashgear.com 11/28/2008 — Amazon have either underestimated the Oprah-effect or merely messed up on their stock management: shipping on the Kindle ebook reader is currently listed as in 11 to 13 weeks time, overshooting Christmas and pegging deliveries as sometime in Q1 2009. ...
What’s New With The Kindle 2
techcrunch.com 2/18/2009 —
This morning Kindle officially announced its second-generation ebook, the Kindle 2 (although leaked photographs of the device have been floating around the internet for some time now).
All-in-all, the new Kindle is a modest step up from the ...
Amazon Kindle 2 coming in early 2009?
boygeniusreport.com 11/26/2008 —
It’s been almost two months since we scooped the Kindle 2 and since then, crickets. For those who need a quick recap, we’re talking about the sexied-up successor to Amazon’s popular Kindle eBook reader, set to further popularize ...
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