Tech Article 5/24

Kindle is Welcomed by a U.K. Bookseller

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Amazon.com has made a deal with British book retailer Waterstone's allowing them to sell Kindle devices. Since the deal with Waterstone's, Barnes & Noble's Nook is beaten by Amazon's Kindle. Amazon has scheduled to have their Kindles in all 294 Waterstone's shops by September. The Kindles in Britain's largest bookstore chain shows the need for physical book companies to get a piece of the digital business. Amazon sees this deal as a great opportunity to get their device out there in Britain. Waterstone's wants some of the lucrative sales, a connection to the Kindle users in Britain. They also want to craft a "digital environment."

Web 2.0: Finding a Web 2.0 Tool

If you were to be looking for a good web 2.0 tool to use for school, Edmodo is great! My brother owns an edmodo for his history class in school. On edmodo, my brother's teacher, Ms. Alves, may post homework assignment that you will have to comment on with the answer or task. She also can link homework sheets and study guides on her edmodo. The teacher may also help a student by linking a powerpoint on a post. The powerpoint may go over the lesson that she taught during class. This will help a student that may not have fully comprehended the lesson.

Amazon Cares Enough to Help Create Texan Jobs

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Amazon.com and the Texas Controller of Public Accounts declared a dead that will create new jobs for Texas citizens. They plan to make 2,500 jobs in the next 4 years. They also want to make $200 million in capitol investments in the state. The agreement will solve all sales tax problems with the state and Amazon. The Controller of Public Accounts states that this is a very important step.

Summer '12

Summer

Costa Rica

I cannot wait until the summer! No more soccer games or homework. Just sleeping in and hanging out with my friends. I can't wait to spend my summer at my aunt's pool with my friends and family.  I plan on going to summer rec. and hangout with my friends. My cousin is coming home from college in Costa Rica, off of the Long Island University and I can't wait til she gets home either.  I plan on spending a good part of my summer with my cousins. I haven't seen some of them in what seems like forever. The last time I've seen some of them is Good Friday and Easter and not everyone was there. I especially have not seen my cousin's best friend Morgan in such a long time. Morgan is my cousin Maryann's best friend who we all consider family. I also can't wait to spend all my summer listening to amazing music like Jason Mraz , The Script, or Hollywood Undead. I really can't wait for the summer, as you can see.

Tech Article 4/20

Tunein's New App!

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TuneIn is the  free service that allows users to listen to radio for a mobile device. TuneIn now is a rival for users like Spotify and Pandora. TuneIn's workers are trying to make it easier for their users to find new music. They have accomplished this with their new app that allows user to go straight to the iTunes store to purchase the song they've just heard. TuneIn's just added many new content and will keep adding about 300 new sources a day.

Tech Article 4/12

Amazon Allows Old CDs to be Exchanged for Gift Cards

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Amazon has decided to make another deal for their shoppers. As of Wednesday, April 11th, Amazon is allowing us to Trade-in our old CDs for Amazon.com Gift Cards with their Trade-in program. The Amazon Trade-in program is a service that shoppers may exchange an item of Amazon's choice for Amazon.com gift cards. After you mail in your item, Amazon will notify you that the merchandise has been accepted  between 6 and 10 business days. Amazon's Trade-in website is not showing the option for CDs yet. Pricing information is also not showing yet.

Spring Break

Hi! Over the past week and a half I've had spring break. For the first week, I slept in for many hours. After I slept in I read and finished a new book each day from Monday to Thursday. A book I read has a second book in the series  that I am reading now. If you want to check out the first book Abducted, click here. On Friday, I went to my cousin's house for Good Friday. Our parents hid 212 eggs for only the 5 of us to find because my other cousins were in college. My cousins they slept over my house and on Saturday we went Laser Tagging. Then I went to go see Titanic. On Sunday, I went to my grandma's house and hung out with my family, ate dinner and played with my cousin's dog Douggle. Finally it was the last day and I had so much homework to do! I finally finished it after procrastinating at midnight.