August 5th, 2009

Amazon Inc. released free shopping application for Android for snap a Photo or else scan a barcode for instantaneous product matches, company announced of its latest mobile shopping application offers users a fast and convenient way to shop on Amazon and thousands of other merchants wherever they leave.

The application includes the new Amazon Remembers feature that gives Android users two different ways to use their device camera to hit upon and keep in mind the items obtainable for sale on Amazon store, Android user can either to snap a photo of items take just a few minutes, Amazon Remembers capabilities of mobile shopping applications connects customers to their Amazon account.

“Customers have been requesting an Amazon shopping application on their Android devices and we are thrilled to bring them the Amazon App for Android,” said Sam Hall, director of Amazon Mobile. “In addition to their favorite Amazon shopping features, Amazon App for Android users can use Amazon Remembers to easily keep track of the items they see in their daily lives and even instantly match photos and barcodes to products available at Amazon.com.”

Amazon Remembers and Amazon App for Android available on Amazon store, of course including the Amazon App for iPhone, iPod Touch and BlackBerry App. Checkout the link here: Beginning Smartphone Web Development: Developing Applications for Iphone, Android, Palm Pre, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60.

In the previous Amazon news, company launch the Grade store, which features discounted school supplies sorted by grade for elementary, middle school, high school and college students, as well as the Dorm Deals store. It says “Go Back to School with Deals from Amazon,” college student can easy to find all the essentials for their classes, Amazon prepare glue to laptops to musical instruments etc.

Popularity and limitedness in Kindle digital book reader was be main key for digital book reader maker like Sony seeing surplus also user interest to prepare digital book reader market strategy, seeing surplus also user interest to prepare digital book reader worldwide market strategy, begin from USA Sony introduced the Pocket Edition PRS-300 model, available in pink, silver, blue and with a nice 5-inch screen and the PRS-600 model with features a 6-inch touchscreen and available in red, silver and black.

Both digital book reader models support Memory Stick / Duo and SD card slots, a stylus includes an onboard Oxford American English Dictionary, have USB 2.0, 512MB internal memory. Sony Touch and Pocket will retail for $299 and $199 will be available by the end of August.

“We firmly believe consumers should have choice in every aspect of their digital reading experience,” said Steve Haber, president of Sony’s Digital Reading Business Division. “Our goal is to expand the market and provide greater access to what consumers want to read when they want to read it - whether they buy, borrow or get it for free.”

Also good news come today, Sony’s e-book store is dropping the prices of its bestsellers from $11.99 to $9.99. Company strategy win all around and interesting, may be Kindle will make better service strategy to oppose it but Sony has prepared next generation with a WiFi technology, the version will Mac compatibility and more well, checkout the Sony digital book reader photos gallery below.

Finding road to responsibility a business moment in the economy condition is down not easy, even big company which experienced in business technology like Microsoft and Yahoo has mutual fathom for ally since last few year will start achieve agreement. Reuters reported Yahoo Inc. will get revenue from Microsoft Corp during the second half of the companies’ recently announced 10-year Internet search partnership.

Yahoo regulatory filings on Tuesday said company share of revenue that Microsoft pays to run search ads on Yahoo’s network of Websites will augment from 88 percent to 90 percent in the second five years of the partnership in the business technology. So, least 400 Yahoo workers will join Microsoft as division of the Internet search partnership of this business technology.

Both companies will choose an extra 150 Yahoo workers to help with the conversion of powering Yahoo’s search and ad search with Microsoft technology and announced the search partnership of business technology last week.

Microsoft paying $47.5 billion, $33 a share, to acquire Yahoo outright, shares of Yahoo were unchanged at $14.51 in extended trading on Tuesday. Yahoo shares have declined roughly 16 percent since the deal was announced on investor dissatisfaction that Microsoft is not paying Yahoo an upfront payment according to some media report.

Beneath the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will supply the technology to control the search results and the search advertising capabilities on Yahoo’s Websites then in cooperation companies will maintain part sales forces for selling display ads on their respective separately Websites, but Yahoo’s sales team will grip sales which called “premium” search ads that are to great sale, and highly-coveted product advertisers.

The experts analysis have a notion, if Microsoft opts to get back control of premium ad sales on its own Websites after five years, it will have to pay Yahoo a 93 percent share of the search revenue on Yahoo Websites. Should Yahoo in twist wish for maintain its premium ad uniqueness sales in the face of Microsoft’s intentions, then Yahoo’s share of search revenue will turn down to 83 percent.

However, Yahoo’s will be permitted to a 90 percent share of the revenue, if neither company seeks to modify the terms after five years, efficiently allowing Yahoo to continue as long as the premium ads for both Websites.