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 Amazon, Google: What the New Kindles Could Mean to Their Relationship
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Amazon Stirs Up a Price War

Amazon unveiled new versions of its Kindle Fire tablet as it ratchets up competition in the tablet market. The new Kindle Fire HD will come in a larger 8.9-inch screen, starting at $299, and the price on the original Kindle Fire will drop to $159.

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忘了Facebook吧，忘了蘋果吧，亞馬遜才是讓谷歌寢食難安的公司。
隨亞馬遜發布新一代平板電腦Kindle Fire HD，谷歌的這種擔憂只會進一步加劇。原因就在於，雖然亞馬遜Kindle Fire HD的作業系統是基於谷歌Android平台打造，但它卻不支持谷歌搜索，而谷歌的營收主要由搜索貢獻。
通常情況下，多數Android設備的主屏幕上都有一個谷歌搜索框，當用戶通過谷歌搜索他們打算購買的東西時，谷歌便有利可圖。在谷歌所有的搜索流量中，大約20%來自於這類搜索。
鑒於Android是一個完全開放的生態系統，基本上任何人都可以通過它從事任何他們想做的事情。亞馬遜Kindle Fire HD就是一個典型例證。然而，Kindle Fire HD主屏幕上面並沒有谷歌搜索框，相反，亞馬遜打造了自家的搜索服務——直接將用戶導向亞馬遜網上商店的搜索服務。
亞馬遜現在擁有兩款平板電腦，一款價格比谷歌自有品牌平板電腦Nexus 7便宜，即售價159美元的Kindle Fire；一款價格略高於Nexus 7，但似乎也更具市場號召力，即售價299美元的8.9英寸Kindle Fire HD。這兩款亞馬遜平板電腦都搭載定製版Android作業系統——這種版本的Android讓用戶在進行任何搜索時，輕易地將亞馬遜作為第一選擇。
谷歌暗地裡擔心用戶會跳過谷歌，直接到亞馬遜網站上搜索他們想要購買的品。針對商家的搜索廣告頗具價值，因為用戶可能會購買廣告中宣傳的品，所以谷歌可以從這類廣告中獲得更多的營收。

Google Fiber Splits Along Kansas City's Digital Divide Wired The Google Fiber project has stirred up long-simmering emotions in Kansas City, Missouri, where most of the neighborhoods that have pre-registered enough households to qualify for the service lie on the city's more affluent west side. Screenshot taken ... See all stories on this topic »

New Google Doodle celebrates 'Star Trek' Entertainment Weekly To mark the occasion, Google has created a special Doodle — going live right now on Google's homepage. Yesterday, EW talked with Ryan Germick, who headed up this particular Google Doodle, about Star Trek's pop-culture significance. “We often talk at ... See all stories on this topic » Entertainment Weekly

Google Snaps Up Malware Scanning Firm VirusTotal To Boost Its Web Security ... Forbes Google wants to be the antivirus scanner for the entire Web. And the tools it can't build for that mission, it's willing to buy. On Friday it announced it's acquiring Web-based security firm VirusTotal, a small Web-based security firm that allows ... See all stories on this topic »

Experts: Google's 'Aurora' hackers still at it years later CNET Experts: Google's 'Aurora' hackers still at it years later. Attacks on Google and others three years ago have similarities to new attacks, including use of rare zero-day vulnerabilities. Elinor Mills. by Elinor Mills. September 7, 2012 4:58 PM PDT ... See all stories on this topic »

Rejecting Google's Money, Marissa Mayer Just Made A Risky, Billion-Dollar Bet Business Insider One is that Yahoo had lots of interested buyers in its ad-tech business—we heard Accenture, IBM, and Google were interested—and competitive bidding could have driven the sale price up to somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion. The other reason ... See all stories on this topic » Business Insider

Why Apple and Google should be scared of Amazon CNET E-books are becoming a bigger and bigger part of Amazon's business, but it has to play by Apple and Google's rules when it makes apps for their platforms. Amazon, for example, can't sell e-books in its iOS apps, unless it wants to implement in-app ... See all stories on this topic »

Search engine wars: Microsoft invites Google to "Bing It On" Christian Science Monitor The company claims that people preferred Bing over Google by a margin of almost 2 to 1 in an independent test, and it wants to prove that its search results really are more useful to the public. Head over to BingItOn.com, and you'll be invited to ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Taking Stock: Google Reclaims $700 Level Last Seen in '07 Wall Street Journal Google Inc. charged past $700 Friday, a level not seen since 2007, as investors chased the tech industry's heavyweights. In 4 p.m. Nasdaq Stock Market trading, Google shares rose $6.75, or 1%, to close at $706.15. That nudged it closer to its all-time ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

Google Adding Street View Images for 150 More Colleges Worldwide eWeek Google Street View has added images for another 150 colleges and universities around the world to its ever-growing Street View images collection, giving online users "you are there" glimpses into more institutions of higher learning in the United ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Self-Driving Cars May Cost More Than A Ferrari Business Insider That's because, according to a well-informed startup founder working on similar technology, the massive array of sensors Google has to install in its cars alone costs $250,000 or more. Add that to the $45,000 retail price of the Lexus RX450h cars it's ... See all stories on this topic » Business Insider

Motorola's new Droid Razrs and Google: Some important perspective Computerworld (blog) Oh, right: Motorola is now owned by Google. And that has a lot of people wondering what's up with these new phones and their lack of outwardly obvious Google-like qualities. The phones, for example, are set to ship with the already-dated Android 4.0 ... See all stories on this topic » Computerworld (blog)

How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything The Atlantic Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden from your view. The deep map contains the logic of places: their no-left-turns and freeway on-ramps, speed limits and traffic conditions. This is the ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Google Taps Chile for First Latin American Data Center Wired Google has decided to build its first Latin American data center in Quilicura, Chile, a suburb located 13 miles north of Santiago. The $150 million project, announced Thursday, is expected to be completed sometime next year. By setting up servers in ... See all stories on this topic »

So I put Google and Bing in the ring: Guess who won? CNET So along comes Microsoft's search machine with a large-hearted promotion, asking you to truly think about whether it could be better than the great Lord Google. Called Bing It On, the promotion asks you to offer up a search and then look at a side-by ... See all stories on this topic »

Letters | Bishop Finn, Google Fiber, Rex Hudler Kansas City Star I am very excited for Google Fiber's arrival in Kansas City and the offer to provide up to eight years of Internet service for $300 paid over the course of the first year. This is the best opportunity I have seen to bring affordable high-quality ... See all stories on this topic »

Oracle-Google judge ends probe into paid bloggers San Jose Mercury News The federal judge overseeing a major lawsuit over smartphone technology between Oracle (ORCL) and Google (GOOG) has quietly ended his examination of those companies' relationships with paid bloggers and other commentators. U.S. District Judge ... See all stories on this topic »

FBI vs. Google: The Legal Fight to Unlock Phones Wall Street Journal By JULIA ANGWIN. A legal battle is brewing between technology companies and the U.S. government over whether law-enforcement agents have the right to obtain passwords to crack into smartphones of suspects. Google Inc. earlier this year refused to ... See all stories on this topic »

Google Chromebooks Now Available as $30-a-Month Rentals for Businesses eWeek Google is getting into the Chromebook rental business by offering the devices to businesses on a no-contract basis for $30 a month so users can try them and use the devices to get their work done on the cloud. The idea aims to help companies learn how ... See all stories on this topic »

Yandex, the 'Google of Russia,' Erects Own GDrive Wired Yandex — the Google of Russia — has unveiled its cloud storage service along the lines of Dropbox or, yes, the Google Drive. Known as Yandex.Disk, the application is available in English, Russian and Turkish, and though it's officially a beta, you ... See all stories on this topic » Wired

Self-Driving Cars From Google On The Road Toward Approval In California Forbes Google's efforts toward getting more self-driving cars on the road just scored a big victory: the California Senate unanimously passed a bill favoring autonomous vehicle operation on the roads of the Golden State. Though the bill isn't on the same ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes