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The Telecom Digest for October 2, 2011
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Amazon unveils $199 Tablet PC (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:54:25 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Amazon unveils $199 Tablet PC 
Message-ID: <p062408d4caac3ed3b55c@[10.0.1.3]>

Amazon Fights the iPad With 'Fire'
E-Commerce Giant Unveils New Tablet PC for $199, Aiming to Undercut 
Apple in Fast-Growing Market

By STU WOO And JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Amazon.com Inc. jumped into the tablet computer fray, escalating its 
rivalry with Apple Inc. as each aims to provide both the devices and 
digital stores where people buy books, songs and movies.

Standing on stage in front of a large New York audience, Amazon Chief 
Executive Jeff Bezos Wednesday unveiled a music- and video-playing 
tablet dubbed the Kindle Fire. The color touch-screen gadget takes 
direct aim at Apple's market-dominating iPad-particularly with its 
price of $199, far below the iPad's starting price of $499.

The online retailer is gambling it can succeed with its tablet where 
several other giants, including Hewlett-Packard Co. and BlackBerry 
maker Research In Motion Ltd., have so far failed. Unlike those 
companies, Amazon already has a vast library of digital content to 
sell and tens of millions of credit-card numbers.

The move highlights how the battle lines are blurring in retail, 
media and technology. Apple, once known as a computer company, is now 
the world's biggest music retailer and a leading phone maker. Amazon 
has morphed from a discount retailer of physical books to a digital 
department store that streams movies and sells its own gadgets.

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