By Quentin Fottrell
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- Amazon’s new Kindle Fire may be big iPad competition, but it’s the new cheap Kindle e-readers that are the real bargain.
Amazon’s tablet announcement today could have far-reaching implications for your gadget use.
The $199 “Kindle Fire” tablet is less than half the starting price of an iPad 2 and boasts Wi-Fi, Flash video and access to Android apps and games — as well as all the movies, books, songs and other digital content Amazon sells. Lest that make the old $114 Kindle look overpriced, Amazon replaced it with three new e-reader models, the cheapest of which is just $79.
It’s the e-readers that are likely to make the bigger impact.
- Amazon.com
“This changes the e-book reader into a commodity item,” says Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at research firm Gartner Inc. The $99 Kindle Touch is $40 cheaper than Barnes & Noble’s competing Nook, and the $79 Kindle might attract more consumers who hadn’t previously been interested in buying an e-reader, he says. As we reported earlier this month, Amazon has reportedly also been working on a deal to provide a library of free e-books as a perk for Amazon Prime subscribers. (The $79 annual fee currently comes with free two-day shipping and free access to of the site’s growing roster of movies and TV shows for streaming.)
But is the Kindle Fire an iPad competitor? Maybe, experts say. Apple devotees aren’t likely to budge, but the low price point and features make it a contender to lead the Android market, Gartenberg says. Investment blogger Andy Nyquist says the Kindle Fire could at the very least shift iPad pricing. “Amazon’s marketing machine and online retail presence may pose a bigger threat to the iPad2 than the device itself,” he says. (Apple and Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.)
Pay Dirt readers, are you tempted by any of the new Kindles?
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Menu titles won’t show, multiple home icons insead of links | drupal.org
img, div#header-screen, a behavior: url(“/sites/all/themes/bluecheese/iepngfix.htc”)
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Menu titles won’t show, multiple home icons insead of links
Posted by hodolskiy on April 2, 2012 at 6:07pm
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Project:TB Sirate
Version:7.x-1.0-alpha1
Component:Code
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (fixed)
Issue SummaryHi there,
I downloaded this theme yesterday, love it! Weird issue though, menu titles won’t show. It will show all links under a menu as headers instead of links formatting. No menu name is displayed, only links. For example: User Menu title won’t show but My account and Log out are showing in a parent menu title formatting, not as children links formatting. Also, when there are children under home menu – bunch of home icons in a drop-down menu instead of actual links. Please help!
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#1
Posted by HaiNN on May 7, 2012 at 9:48am
Status:active» fixed
When using “Raw” block style for this block, It’ll only show the content (without title an others wrapper elements). You can change the block style to show again.
Read themebrain.com/guide/block-styles-feature for more information about block styling feature of Nucleus
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#2
Posted by System Message on May 21, 2012 at 9:50am
Status:fixed» closed (fixed)
Automatically closed — issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.
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do you take trade in for (fire)on last years $200.00 kindle
Of class like your website internet site but you need to have to have to test the spelling on many of your posts. Various of them are rife with spelling problems and I uncover it genuinely bothersome to explain to the reality having said that I’ll surely arrive back after all over again.
I think for a new toy the Fire is fine. But small screen bothers me and I will probabley wait for the bigger screen.
I ordered my Kindle Fire too.