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Amazon Prime Music launches, gives subscribers a million tunes to stream

Amazon’s new music streaming service lets subscribers listen to a million songs. Just browse the Amazon music store, add albums, songs, or playlists to your library, and you can stream them. While Amazon Prime Music doesn’t have as many songs as rivals Spotify or Google Play Music, lacks access to recent hits, and has no […]

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Report: Amazon’s smartphone will feature “Prime Data” package

Amazon is expected to launch its first smartphone this year. The handset will likely feature Amazon’s custom version of Android and tight integration with Amazon’s app, book, music, and video stores. It could also have an unusual 3D user interface and support for tilt-based navigation. But BGR reports the Amazon smartphone may have one other unusual […]

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Amazon Prime to stream HBO shows… but no Game of Thrones yet

Amazon and HBO have announced a deal to let Amazon Prime subscribers stream select HBO shows including Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, and The Sopranos. But one of the most popular current HBO shows is still unavailable: You still need to be an HBO subscriber to watch Game of Thrones online (or you could buy individual […]

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Amazon Appstore tops 200k apps, Prime has tens of millions of subscribers

Amazon’s annual report is out today, and tucked away in the lengthy document are some details about the company’s achievements over the past year. Amazon has a habit of being very selective with the details it provides, so we still don’t know how many Kindle eReaders or Kindle Fire tablets were sold in the past […]

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Amazon Prime Instant Video hits the UK, Germany

Amazon Prime Instant Video lets subscribers in the US stream thousands of movies and TV shows for $79 per year. The service launched a few years ago as an add-on for the Prime service which offers subscribers free 2-day shipping but Amazon hasn’t increased the price in the US… yet. Now Amazon is rolling out […]

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Newegg Premier offers free shipping for $50 year, isn’t quite Amazon Prime

Just as Amazon is considering raising the price of its Amazon Prime subscription service, competitor Newegg is launching its own subscription-based program that offers free shipping to frequent shoppers. Newegg Premier offers free 3-day shipping or discounts on faster shipping to customers who pay $50 per year. There’s also no restocking fee for returns and […]