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Amazon’s top three “Hot New Releases” are upcoming series books.

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HP's TouchPad was an OK product according to reviews, but it lived a very short product life because consumers showed a hearty appetite for Apple's tablet-leading iPad. Now, many are asking if Apple's iPad will ever have a worthy competitor. At the moment, however, there's no competitor on the horizon ready to challenge the iPad.

FAS approached Google two years ago with a proposal to digitize images of the Amazon in order to highlight the ongoing deforestation of the terrain.

A new study that says 13 percent of all mobile phone users fake talking or being busy on their phones to avoid having to interact with people around them isn't such big news. I assumed the number was much higher. But that's what the numbers show, anyway. A report published this week by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project found that 83 percent of American adults own some kind of cell or mobile phone and that more than one in ten fake using it so they don't hav...

A new study that says 13 percent of all mobile phone users fake talking or being busy on their phones to avoid having to interact with people around them isn't such big news. I assumed the number was much higher.

If former Delaware U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is trying to create a stir for her new book Troublemaker by walking off the Piers Morgan show and accusing the CNN host of sexism the next day -- it isn't working. In the first week, sales of O'Donnell's new book are slow, despite the publicity from her set walk-off and ensuing comments.

If former Delaware U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell is trying to create a stir for her new book Troublemaker by walking off the Piers Morgan show and accusing the CNN host of sexism the next day, it isn't working. Sales of Troublemaker are slow.

Amazon?s top business and investing books offer a mix of subject matter from big names such as Malcolm Gladwell and Walter Isaacson.

One in five Internet users visited Amazon in the month of June, according to a comScore report.

The Help, Hunger Games getting the attention of book lovers.

Indigenous Bolivians stage a protest as construction workers begin clearing the way for a third stretch of road through the Amazon Rainforest.

College students can trade textbooks, other items for Amazon gift cards.

One analyst says Amazon would do well by offering a low price tablet competitor to the iPad.

Amazon has come up with ways to pamper your sleek, expensive smartphones even when you drop them by creating an airbag system for smartphones. CEO Bezos applied for a patent on a mobile phone safety feature that would deploy an airbag if the device falls.

Amazon has come up with ways to pamper your sleek, expensive smartphones even when you drop them by creating an airbag system for phones.

A patent suggested that mini airbags, puffs of gas and even springs could be used to cushion a mobile devices fall.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos had a eureka moment. He dropped his phone. Then, he applied for a patent for mini airbags to protect mobile phones. Is Amazon's leader a genius like Apple's Steve Jobs?

Apple has passed Exxon Mobil to become the world's most valuable company. Now it's time to ask what company make be next in line to make such a rise. At the moment, all indications point to Amazon.com.

Amazon scored against Apple by launching its Kindle Cloud Reader, which is a Web-based app that helps it steer clear of restrictions Apple has placed in regard to its Appstore subscription rules.

The last known group of people never to have made contact with the outside world was attacked by suspected drug traffickers last month, possibly killing off the last of an unknown peoples for good.

Amazon today launched an HTML5-based Kindle reading app to circumvent Apple's new in-app subscription rules.Kindle Cloud Reader allows users to read their Kindle e-books from Google's Chrome browser and Apple's Safari browser, without requiring any download or installation.

Wednesday morning, Amazon has launched Kindle Cloud Reader to circumvent Apple's new in-app subscription rules. Kindle Cloud Reader is an HTML5-based reading app, which allows users to read their Kindle e-books from Chrome and Safari, without requiring any download or installation.

Wal-Mart has joined Amazon in skirting Apple's revenue sharing rules by offering Vudu for the iPad on the browser, rather than an app.

Online retail giant Amazon.com has unveiled Kindle Cloud Reader, which is its latest Kindle reading application that leverages HTML5 and enables customers to read Kindle books instantly using only their Web browser - online or offline.

The newly discovered tribes from Brazil's Amazon Rainforest, who were about 200 in number, has been reported missing by Survival International. Discovery of these uncontacted Indians, in February this year sensationalized internet after Survival International and FUNAI, National Indian Foundation of Brazil released aerial photographs and footage of the tribe.

Sales for baseball bats on Amazon UK have risen by more than 6,000 percent over the past 24 hours, as the London riots stretch into their third day and spread to other cities.

Researchers have found a flaw in Android, which can be exploited for stealing data via phishing or for sending irritating pop up adverts.