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  Danna Capehart

  

  Amazon reveals $39 Fire TV Stick, $19 for two days for Prime members

  androidcentral.com - John Callaham

  Amazon has fired off a salvo against Google's Chromecast and the Roku Stick with the just announced Fire TV Stick. The HDMI streaming video dongle is …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  Amazon announces $39 Fire TV Stick to take on Chromecast

  9to5Toys

  Update (10/29 1:45pm): Prime promo is now over, but you can still pre-order at the retail price of $39. Update (10/28 11:00am): $19 promo for Prime members ends tomorrow (10/29) at 9:00am EST. Amazon is following up its $99 Fire TV streaming media player with a $39 streaming HDMI stick, which is …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  Fitbit’s Latest Activity Trackers Feature Heart Monitoring, Smartwatch Functions

  TechCrunch - Matt Burns

  Meet Fitbit’s latest: The Charge, Charge HR, and the Surge. These activity trackers will sit atop the brand’s masthead going into 2015 and beyond. But don’t look for most of these products this holiday season. Only the $130 Charge will be available this year. The $150 Charge HR and $250 Surge hit …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  The playbook: why Amazon’s Fire TV is a guaranteed hit

  The Verge - by David Pierce

  Better profits through science On October 27th, Amazon ran this play again in a big way, announcing the $39 Fire TV Stick. This strategy is alive and well. Amazon is in the hits business. The company never reveals specific sales numbers for its Kindle and Kindle Fire products except in words like …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  With this player, making chiptune music is as easy as gaming

  Engadget - Steve Dent

  Chiptune music is one the many phenomena that '80s era gaming nostalgia spawned -- but to get into it you need to mod a working 30-year-old NES into an instrument. Now, a company called Assorted Wires has launched a hackable 8-bit chiptunes instrument on Kickstarter to make it way easier. The pitch …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  Samsung Galaxy Note Edge review

  The Verge - by Sam Byford

  I would very much like a flexible smartphone that I could scrunch up like paper and stuff into a pocket. I don’t quite know why I would like that, but it feels like something that the future should create. Samsung’s wild Galaxy Note Edge is a tiny step toward that eventuality. The screen’s glass …