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Amazon said on Monday that its customers would be receiving their Kindle Fire tablet a day earlier than expected. "We're thrilled to be able to ship Kindle Fire to our customers earlier than we expected." Amazon's Kindle VP, Dave Limp, said in the statement. "Kindle Fire quickly became the bestselling item across all of Amazon.com, and based on customer response we're building millions more than we'd planned." The new device sells for $199 and is the company's first tablet.  It...

Amazon will lose $5 on each new $79 Kindle e-reader unit that they sale, according to a report first published by business and finance website MainStreet on Wednesday. MainStreet's Seth Fiegerman, citing a report provided to the website by market research firm HIS iSuppli, said that the forthcoming e-reader -- the cheapest ever offered by the online retail giant -- will cost $84.25 to manufacture. Furthermore, the Associated Press (AP) reports that iSuppli determined that the total cost...

Online retail giant Amazon is experiencing high demand for its latest tablet, Kindle Fire, and is upping the number to be built to 5 million units before the year is out, Josh Ong from AppleInsider is reporting. The amount of pre-release interest has come as a bit of a surprise to the company. If Amazon manages to put all 5 million of these into customers hands it would gain roughly 8 percent of the tablet market for this year. Taiwanese publication DigiTimes noted the figures on Thursday,...

NAPERVILLE, Ill., Nov. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- OfficeMax( )Incorporated (NYSE: OMX), a leader in office supplies, technology and services, is pleased to offer Amazon's( )newest Kindles in its stores nationwide. New products joining the Kindles already sold at OfficeMax stores include the $79 Kindle, which is now available in stores, and the Kindle Fire for $199, which will be available after November 15. Arriving to OfficeMax later in November are the Kindle Touch, starting at...

PU Leather Case for Kindle & Kindle Touch Marlboro, NJ (PRWEB) November 06, 2011 Product Description Get the best Amazon Kindle and Kindle Touch case at CTCStore from the best selling iPad case manufacture Acase. This case has a black leather exterior with a matching black soft micro fiber padding in the interior. The leather case provides complete protection for the Amazon kindle reading device. The case has flexible straps on top corners to secure Amazon Kindle and Kindle Touch...

CALGARY, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Rodinia Oil Corp. ("Rodinia") is pleased to announce that it has spudded its second exploratory well, "Kutjara-1", in the Officer Basin, South Australia. Highlights -- The Kutjara-1 well commenced drilling on November 2, 2011 with the objective of appraising the Kutjara structure -- The well is targeting multiple prospective Neoproterozoic reservoirs -- The well's target depth is 2,668...

CALGARY, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - (TSX-V:ROZ) - The management of Rodinia Oil Corp. ("Rodinia") will be hosting a conference call from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. Mountain Time on Tuesday November 1, 2011 for all investors, financial analysts, media and any interested stakeholders to discuss its current operations. The conference call dial-in numbers for Canada and the U.S. are 647-427-7450 or 888-231-8191. For interested parties outside of North America please use +1-647-427-7450. ...

BIRMINGHAM, England, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- (http://www.myprgenie.com) -- The one sitting at the top always has a threat to its position. The level's risky and there are just too many around to bring you down. The new revolution of tablets, which is giving the ever famous laptops a suffocated place in the market now, has brought about a boom. To clear the concept a bit more, let's move on to the next part of the story. Since the launch of the iPad, there hasn't been a tablet market,...

CALGARY, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - (TSXV: ROZ) - Rodinia Oil Corp. ("Rodinia") announces that its 80% owned Mulyawara-1 exploration well reached a total measured depth ("TD") of 2691.3 metres and was officially plugged and abandoned on October 13, 2011. The TD was at the top of the interpreted Mesoproterozoic section. Mulyawara-1 was drilled as a wildcat exploration well far from geologic control. The nearest existing wells with the prospective deep Pindyin sands are...

Amazon has a large base of satisfied users with the newest e-book reader models of Kindle. However some people are becoming annoyed with its lowest-priced models that serve up ads in the form of full-page screen savers and small ads on the home screen, Digital Times is reporting. Ads are not seen when reading books themselves. The Kindle maker has, however, introduced an option to allow Kindle owners to remove the advertisements by paying an additional $30 fee directly to Amazon, the same...