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The $199 Amazon Kindle Fire is a worthy device. It’s not an iPad slayer, but it could be the first tablet to ably stand atop Mount Tabulous (or at least on a rock ledge just a few dozen feet lower) with Apple’s industry-dominating slab computer. This is a product I wanted to love. The Kindle ...

A Spanish-language blog has leaked what are purported to be screenshots from the new Google Music Store, a service that the company may announce on Wednesday. The blog, TechnoDroidVe, appears to be based in Venezuela. Its authors claim they got access to an unreleased version of the servi...

Photography has received a boost in recent years with the advent of more powerful cameras in our phones and the explosion of picture-sharing on the social web. In fact, we likely share millions of photos a day and the sheer scale of that sharing is a little hard to imagine. Or is it? Dutch visu...

The Digital Marketing Series is supported by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing software, including lead generation tools. A video commissioned by Kate Spade New York for its “Live Colorfully” campaign. Proh...

The Sundance Channel is premiering the new season of its returning show Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys on Twitter. The network is offering the first episode to users via a TwitVid embed beginning today. The show will make its traditional broadcast premiere on Thursday. This is the first ti...

Google has a secret laboratory, unknown even to most of the company’s employees, where it develops projects that sound like something taken from a sci-fi movie, the New York Times reports. At the lab, located somewhere in the Bay Area, Google’s brightest engineers are working on some...

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet began shipping on Monday, a day earlier than projected. The company announced the introduction of the device on Sept. 28 at a price of $199, making it one of the most affordable tablets on the U.S. market. The Kindle Fire provides access to 100,000 movies and TV ...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today. Kindle Fire & Kindle Touch Ship Early Amazon has announced that it is s...

Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the co-founder of the open-source Facebook alternative Diaspora, has passed away at the age of 22. The cause of death is not yet publicly known. Zhitomirskiy, along with Dan Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg and Raphael Sofaer, created the open-source software as part of a project whi...

News organizations use Twitter mostly to promote their own stories. Sharing of other content and engagement with readers is “rare,” according to a new study. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University’s School of Med...