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Amazon has boosted the battery life of its Kindle e-reader and added native support for PDF documents, and you don't even have to buy new hardware to get the benefits. The retailer says it made the battery improvements through a firmware upgrade that took six months to develop. As a...

Amazon has boosted the battery life of its Kindle e-reader and added native support for PDF documents, and you don't even have to buy new hardware to get the benefits. The retailer says it made the battery improvements through a firmware upgrade that took six months to develop. As a...

By Phil Wahba NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. booksellers Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) and Borders Group Inc (BGP.N) will pay a price for coming late to market with electronic book readers, analysts said. Barnes & Noble cut its full-year earnings forecast on Tuesday on expectations of a tough...

By Phil Wahba NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. booksellers Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) and Borders Group Inc (BGP.N) will pay a price for coming late to market with electronic book readers, analysts said. Barnes & Noble cut its full-year earnings forecast on Tuesday on expectations of a tough...

Amazon.com (AMZN) announced on Tuesday that the battery life on its e-book reader Kindle has been extended by 85%.

In Manhattan’s trendy Soho district, Old Navy has a prominent window sign telling shoppers it’s open for business on Thanksgiving Day. Across the street, the British retailer Topshop promises early birds a free English breakfast. This sort of thing has been going on not for days or weeks but months. 2009's holiday season, in fact, could be the industry's most competitive ever.

Black Friday may when prices are low, but if you've carefully read the list of deals, you can tell it's also a BS marketing gimmick. Here's how not to get fooled (plus, what gadgets to avoid at any price): In other words, many of these "deals" really aren't deals at...

Black Friday may when prices are low, but if you've carefully read the list of deals, you can tell it's also a BS marketing gimmick. Here's how not to get fooled (plus, what gadgets to avoid at any price): In other words, many of these "deals" really aren't deals at...

For the past few years, holiday cheer has been in short supply for electronics retail chains.Just two years ago, around this same time, we saw the bankruptcy and closure of CompUSA. Last year it was Circuit City spiraling toward extinction right before the crucial holiday shopping period.Though both brands have...

For the past few years, holiday cheer has been in short supply for electronics retail chains.Just two years ago, around this same time, we saw the bankruptcy and closure of CompUSA. Last year it was Circuit City spiraling toward extinction right before the crucial holiday shopping period.Though both brands have...

The PDF support is an important feature given the popularity of the format among businesses. Amazon's major rivals, Sony and Barnes & Noble, offer PDF support in their e-readers, the Reader and Nook, respectively. Amazon has had a PDF reader in the larger Kindle DX, which is...

The PDF support is an important feature given the popularity of the format among businesses. Amazon's major rivals, Sony and Barnes & Noble, offer PDF support in their e-readers, the Reader and Nook, respectively. Amazon has had a PDF reader in the larger Kindle DX, which is...

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Since the summer, analysts have been predicting record low holiday spending. In response, retailers have been promoting special sales since before Halloween. JC Penny (JCP), Target (TGT), and Overstock (OSTK) are among several retailers to offer daily deals to entice shoppers each day. Sears (SHLD) and Toys “R” Us released their Black Friday ads in October in order to whet consumers’ appetites early. A quick look at search traffic reveals extremely fierce competition for “Black Friday” keywords. Target, Wal-Mart (WMT), and Amazon (AMZN), the top 3 retailers capturing “Black Friday” keyword searches, are heavily invested in paid search marketing. Almost 70% of Target’s “Black Friday” search traffic is paid; that is up from 36% last year. Wal-Mart’s paid share this year is 31%, versus 21% last year.

Everyone is waiting with baited breath to see how consumers respond on Black Friday, the “official” start of the holiday shopping season. Here are some findings from a recent Compete study that will shed some light onto expected consumer shopping behavior.

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Amazon.com announced that it had increased the Kindle's battery life by up to a week on a single charge, and that it had incorporated a PDF reader into the e-reader?s design. Amazon.com's tweaks come just as the e-reader market gears up in earnest with the holiday season, with rival Barnes...

Amazon.com announced that it had increased the Kindle's battery life by up to a week on a single charge, and that it had incorporated a PDF reader into the e-reader?s design. Amazon.com's tweaks come just as the e-reader market gears up in earnest with the holiday season, with rival Barnes...

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Amazon announced today two big upgrades to its 6 inch Kindle. The battery life is 85% longer and it has native PDF support.

While the native PDF support is supposed to help business users reading documents on their Kindles, it also opens the door to e-book piracy.

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Kohl’s Corporation (KSS), Target Corporation (TGT), and Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) are all trading marginally higher after a better-than-expected consumer confidence survey sparked hope that consumers would open up their wallets this holiday season. The Conference Board’s index of U.S. consumer confidence ticked up for the first time in three months to 49.5, up from a 48.7 [...]