New Kindle Fire, 7-Inch Fire HD Now Shipping from Amazon

The iPhone 5 isn't the only gadget ready to face anxious consumers this morning, as Amazon's new seven-inch Kindle Fire HD is in stock and ready to ship along with the refreshed Kindle Fire and the basic $69 model.

The Verge is reporting that Amazon is now shipping the 16GB model of its new seven-inch Kindle Fire HD for $199. The tablet currently shows as in stock and ready to ship, while the 32GB model for $249 is delayed until October 25.

Along with the latest HD model, the refreshed original Kindle Fire with twice the RAM, longer battery life and a faster processor is also shipping today at the newly-discounted price of only $159.

Last but not least, the basic Kindle is ready to ship for a mere $69, but if you don't fancy having to view ads, you can pony up another $20 to get the ad-free version, which is still a nice discount from its original $109 price.

If you missed out on getting an iPhone 5 preorder in before the shipping dates slipped to two weeks, maybe you can console yourself with a new Kindle -- and Amazon Prime members can have it as early as Saturday if they want to pay the extra $3.99 for one-day delivery.

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Thursday Recap: CEO Chats, Adobe Retina Display Updates, Kindle Fire Sells Out

With a week to go before Amazon holds a media event, the e-tailer has announced its best-selling Kindle Fire is now sold out -- which certainly sounds more like "we stopped making them because a new model is coming" to us. While that seven-inch slate was quite nice a year ago, Google's Nexus 7 has pretty much made many of us forget all about the Kindle Fire, so Amazon is going to have to pull a real rabbit out of its hat to wow us once again. In the meantime, let's get caught up with the day's news for this Thursday, August 30, 2012.

Report: Google, Apple CEOs Holding Patent Talks

Reuters is reporting that Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Larry Page have been holding a series of "behind-the-scenes conversations about a range of intellectual property matters." According to sources in their inner circle, the two executive spoke by phone last week, presumably ahead of Friday's courtroom defeat for Google partner Samsung. Another source claims a new meeting was scheduled for this Friday but "delayed for reason that were unclear," but additional meetings will be held in the coming weeks. The move would certainly fit with Cook's own comments about wanting to settle patent issues outside of the courtroom, but we're a bit skeptical any such talks are actually taking place.

Adobe: Retina Support Coming This Fall for Key Creative Suite 6 Apps

There are still plenty of Mac apps yet to be updated for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display's high-resolution screen, and Adobe's Creative Suite 6 is definitely among them. But that will be changing this fall, as the company has officially announced Retina Display (i.e., HiDPI) support will be arriving in the next few months for a number of the company's key Creative Suite 6 and Creative Cloud software. The free updates will include Dreamweaver, Edge Animate, Illustrator, Lightroom, Photoshop Touch for iPad, Prelude, Premiere Pro, SpeedGrade and yes, Photoshop, which was demoed during the introduction of the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display back in June. According to the company's Photoshop.com Blog, Photoshop Elements "will not fully support HiDPI displays in the immediate future," but the team is hard at work determining what they need to do to make that happen.

Kindle Fire Now Sold Out, We Really Can't Imagine Why

Amazon issued a press release this morning to boast about selling out of the Kindle Fire, its number one best-selling product ever. Claiming the seven-inch tablet has already captured 22 percent of the U.S. tablet market, the news seems curiously timed considering the e-tailer is holding a media event next Thursday, which seems quite certain to debut a new Kindle Fire (and maybe a few other surprises). "Kindle Fire is sold out, but we have an exciting roadmap ahead," CEO Jeff Bezos says. "We will continue to offer our customers the best hardware, the best prices, the best customer service, the best cross-platform interoperability, and the best content ecosystem.

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Will the Next-Gen Kindle Fire Ever Leave Rumor Realm?

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Report: Amazon Planning to Follow Kindle Fire with Its Own Smartphone

It's been awhile since we've heard this one, but a report this week is dragging out new details about Amazon's ambitions to release a smartphone of its own to follow up the company's Kindle Fire success.

Bloomberg is reporting that Amazon is developing its own smartphone with Chinese manufacturer Foxconn International Holdings Ltd., the company who assembles Apple's iconic iPhone, among others.

"Amazon is seeking to complement the smartphone strategy by acquiring patents that cover wireless technology and would help it defend against allegations of infringement," said the usual people familiar with the situation who decline to be named.

The report isn't clear if Amazon plans to follow up its initial success with the Kindle Fire, which ran a forked version of Android largely indistinguishable from anything released by Google and its OEM partners. Given the company's investment in its own Android-based Appstore, however, it would make sense.

Amazon recently attempted to purchase wireless patents owned by InterDigital Inc. of Pennsylvania, a sale that instead fetched the tidy sum of $375 million from Intel. Sources claim Amazon continues to have discussions from other patent holders.

"Adding patents would help Amazon protect itself against lawsuits alleging illegal use of technology," Bloomberg notes. "Amazon has been involved in five patent-related cases this year, and 20 cases last year," according to the news outlet's own data.

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ChangeWave: Kindle Fire Sputters, Distant Second to iPad

While Google’s Android continues to dominate the smartphone market, manufacturers creating tablets with the same operating system are still fighting an uphill battle against Apple’s iPad -- including the once white-hot Amazon Kindle Fire.

ChangeWave Research has posted the results of its May survey, which collected the responses of 2,893 consumers to examine the demand for tablets in North America. To almost no one’s surprise, the iPad continues to hold a commanding lead with Amazon’s Kindle Fire a distant second and the Samsung Galaxy Tab showing modest signs of life behind it.

The May research is the first since the new iPad hit the streets in March, which finds seven percent of the consumers queried plan to buy a tablet in the next 90 days. Of that group, a full 73 percent are eyeing the iPad, with the Kindle Fire a distant second with only eight percent interest, followed closely by Samsung with six percent.



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Wednesday Recap: Target Kills Kindle, Amazon Cloud Drive, Steve Jobs as FDR

We all know Ashton Kutcher will soon be playing Steve Jobs, but did you know the enigmatic Apple co-founder also has a rare acting cameo to his name? Thanks to a long-lost in-house short film called

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