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  • Amazon announces Amazon Coins, a new virtual currency for Kindle Fire
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    Amazon announces Amazon Coins, a new virtual currency for Kindle Fire

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    Amazon has announced a new kind of virtual currency this morning, called Amazon Coins, which will be exclusive to the company's Kindle Fire devices. The new currency will let customers shop in the Amazon Appstore, and make in-app purchases for their favorite Kindle Fire games. So now Kindle Fire owners will be able to use their real money to buy virtual money, and then use that virtual money to buy other virtual forms of game-specific currency. Convoluted? Perhaps, but Amazon Coins is the latest in line of exciting new features the company is pushing towards for its mobile department, including Game Circle, a Game Center-like service with Global Leaderboards and Achievements. 
  • Amazon announces Kindle Fire: The iPad finally gets some real competition
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    Amazon announces Kindle Fire: The iPad finally gets some real competition

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    When it comes to tablet computers, there's the iPad, and there's everything else. Since Apple introduced it's "not quite a desktop, not quite a phone" device in early 2010, every other manufacturer under the sun has tried to play catch up - and almost all have met with dismal results. HP's Touchpad was quickly discontinued and dropped to $99. The Blackberry Playbook has just started down the same route. And Android tablets, while doing modestly well, haven't seen nearly the success that the iPad has. Thanks to Amazon, though, all of that is about to change.