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Amazon Kids+ subscription service launches its first original mobile games
Amazon Kids+ (previously FreeTime) is giving children another excuse to beg for their parents’ phones. Amazon today announced two new kid-friendly mobile games for its subscription-based enterta
Amazon expands its Sidewalk IoT network with an enterprise-grade bridge
Back in 2019, Amazon first announced its Sidewalk network, a new low-bandwidth, long-distance wireless protocol and network for connecting smart devices — and keeping them online when your own W
Amazon fixes its broken Appstore on Android 12 devices, which caused issues with apps launching
Amazon says it has fixed an issue with its Amazon Appstore that was causing issues with app launches for customers who had upgraded to Android 12 on their mobile devices. Earlier this month, reports b
Amazon’s Project Kuiper chief David Limp is coming to TC Sessions: Space
TC Sessions: Space (December 16 & 17) is just a few short weeks away and there is perhaps no better time than the end of this horrid year to set our eyes to the horizon and dream of some place far
Amazon Fire TV adds a Free tab featuring apps, movies, TV and news
Amazon’s Fire TV platform now has its own rival to Roku’s popular free movies and TV hub, The Roku Channel. Today, Amazon introduced a new “free” section on Fire TV that makes
Amazon-backed Rivian will integrate Alexa into its electric pickup and SUV
Rivian will integrate Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa into the R1T pickup and R1S SUV, the company’s first electric vehicles that are set to debut at the end of the year. Rivian said Monday
Amazon’s new Fire TV Blaster works with Echo to control your TV, soundbar, cable box and more
Amazon already offers Alexa voice control to TV owners through its Fire TV devices, by way of a voice remote or by pairing an Echo device with a Fire TV, for hands-free voice commands. Now, it’s
Is Amazon’s Alexa ready to leave home and become a wearable voice assistant?
Amazon’s device event today played host to a dizzying number of product announcements, of all stripes — but notably, there are three brand new ways to wear Alexa on your body. Amazon clear
Amazon says it will bring device encryption back to Fire OS
Less than a day after it emerged that Amazon had quietly dropped device encryption support for its Fire tablets and other Fire OS devices, the U.S. firm has flip-flopped and said that it will restore
Amazon confirms it has dropped device encryption support for Fire tablets
Amazon has confirmed that version 5 of Fire OS for its Fire tablet removes support for device encryption.
Amazon’s New Fire HD 8 Adds Removable Memory And More
It's a pretty sad state of affairs in the tablet world when removable memory is a way to lead off a review but there you have it - the Fire HD 8, Amazon's latest addition to its tablet family, has a r
Amazon Updates Fire OS With Deep Goodreads Integration, Better Enterprise Support, “Second Screen” & More
Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets are <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201357220">getting</a> a major update, starting today, with the launch of <a target