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• Amazon.com stock soars

  Online retail titan Amazon.com has seen its stock price soar after the release of quarterly earnings figures that trounced forecasts, with sales skyrocketing in the first three months of the year.

• A tablet for under a Benjamin?

  Product names are tricky, there's no doubt about it. If you're not going to use a meaningless string of characters such as "X77-P73" then you've got your work cut out for you because it's hard to find a good name that isn't already taken by some other company. Even internal project names have to be researched, checked that they are OK to use and vetted by lawyers for liability.

• Will Amazon Kindle Fire burn up the enterprise?

  Watch out, CIOs! The Kindle Fire may be coming to a cubicle near you.

• Amazon announces $199 tablet, new Kindle E-readers

  After months of hype, Amazon today announced the Kindle Fire, a 7-inch tablet with a $199 price tag. Amazon also refreshed its line of e-readers with a $149 Kindle Touch 3G, a $99 Kindle Touch without 3G, and a non-Touch $79 Kindle.

• Amazon Kindle Tablet: Android tablet or eReader on steroids?

  Amazon is expected to unveil its Kindle Tablet at a press event in New York on Wednesday. From what we know so far about the device, it seems like it might be the first tablet rival capable of really competing with the Apple iPad. Based on the size and use of the Kindle brand, though, it is reasonable to wonder whether the Kindle Tablet is a true tablet PC, or just a Kindle with some tablet features.

• Amazon Kindle tablet announcement likely coming Sept. 28

  On September 28, the company will hold a press event in New York City, where it'll likely announce a tablet that's smaller but also much cheaper than Apple's iPad. Although the invitation doesn't say what Amazon will be talking about, the company rarely holds press events for anything other than new Kindle hardware.

• Here's how Kindle tablet could shake up the market

  Amazon's unveiling of a Kindle tablet would shake up the industry and pose one of the biggest threats to the Apple iPad -- which is why the technology world has its eyes on the online retailer as it prepares for a media gathering in New York this week ahead of the holiday season.

• US libraries lend digital books to Kindle

  Thousands of US libraries have begun lending digital books over the internet for reading on Amazon's popular Kindle devices.

• Amazon Kindle E-Book lending program: What it needs

  Amazon's plans to create a subscription-based lending library of e-books on the Kindle is just, at this point, a rumor -- but, despite the novelty of the idea, it's already running into problems, namely from major book publishers.

• Kindle lets readers question authors

  Amazon has launched a test version of Kindle software that lets readers fire off questions to authors in text messages sent from the popular electronic book readers.

• Domain name suggests new Kindle will have stylus

  Readers who like to follow the bread crumb trails that gadget makers leave prior to the announcement of a new product might want to digest this morsel uncovered today in the whois registry: kindlescribe.com. This domain name, registered by Amazon.com Holdings, could be a tip-off that a stylus may be the future of the company's best selling e-reader.

• Amazon.com sales leap, profit drops

  Amazon has reported that its profit slipped as revenue leapt on hot sales of Kindle electronic readers subsidized by advertising.

• 20 events that shaped the Internet, part 1

  Today we all use our smartphones and our broadband-equipped home and work PCs to instantly access information and data on just about any topic via the Internet.

• 20 events that shaped the Internet, part 2

  We take the Internet for granted now, but a lot of developments helped to make it the gargantuan shopping, socializing, commerce-helping, video-sharing behemoth it is today.

• eBookFling brings digital libraries to Kindle, Nook

  When e-book lending came to the Nook - and then eventually to the Kindle - it opened the gates for e-reader owners to connect and spread the wealth of literature. But despite the popularity of e-readers, chances are that not all of your book-loving friends owned one, or they "went tablet," so swapping was limited-until eBookFling.