Amazon’s Kindle Fire accused of patent infringement

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The Amazon Kindle Fire was announced a few weeks back, and with a launch scheduled for the 15th of November, it looks like the tablet is under fire for allegedly infringing upon patents belonging to Smartphone Technologies whose parent company is Acacia Research. If the company Smartphone Technologies sounds familiar, it is because they have gone after Apple and RIM in the past, similarly claiming patent infringement, and it looks like Amazon’s Kindle Fire is their latest target.

While it’s not really our place to judge, Acacia has often been referred to as a patent troll, a company who does not actually produce any products themselves but owns many patents and who attempts to collect royalties from companies who may or may not have infringed upon them. In this case it appears to that Acacia’s modus operandi has not changed, and they’re basing their patent infringement lawsuit on a rather broad patent which seems to be commonplace in most smartphones and tablets.

“According to the method, a graphical feature having a surface area is displayed on a touch-sensitive screen. ..To control software executing on the processor, a user-supplied writing on the surface area is received and the software is controlled responsive to the writing.”

Acacia is claiming that the Kindle Fire and the updated Kindle 3G + WiFi has infringed upon five of their patents. No word on how much Acacia wants from Amazon or what Amazon’s reply to this lawsuit is just yet.

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AmazonLocal coming to Kindle with Special Offers

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As if getting a Kindle at a reduced price wasn’t good enough with Amazon’s Kindle with Special Offers, customers of the eBook reader are in for another treat. Amazon has just announced that customers will soon start receiving special offers from AmazonLocal on their Kindle screensavers when they aren’t reading (I don’t believe Amazon would make deals pop up while you were reading anyway – that would be annoying).

AmazonLocal for Kindle with Special Offers will be available later this year, starting with New York City Kindle customers, and rolling out to the rest of the US eventually. As the name suggests, AmazonLocal will give you deals based on where you’re from, so don’t expect deals that require you to travel out of state. Customers will be able to purchase the deals directly from their Kindle without re-entering any account or credit card information. Once purchased, the deals will appear on the Kindle’s home screen, which users can just show to the merchants to use it. Find out more about AmazonLocal. How many of you are keen on having special offers delivered straight to your Kindles?

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Amazon Kindle to let readers question authors

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Don’t you just hate it when you finish reading a book and you’re still stumped about one part of the story, and none of your friends seem to be able to explain it either? Sure you could look it up on Google, or ask a question on Yahoo! Answers – but nobody seems to know the answer, what do you do then? Since not every author has his/her contact details published online, it might be hard to get in touch with them to ask them for a direct answer. Because of that, Amazon has decided to launch a new program which solves this problem.

Amazon recently launched a test version of Kindle that gives users the ability to question authors about their work. Called the @author feature, it lets Kindle users highlight passages in an eBook, add questions about the passage and send them off to the book’s author(s) to get a response from them. If you ask me, that’s a pretty smart idea – why didn’t other eBook companies think of it sooner? So far only 16 authors have taken part in the program, but we should expect more of them to join in the future.

What do you think of the @author feature in Kindle? Is it something that you’d find useful?

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