Amazon hasannouncedthat the Kindle Store is now available in France, as well as the availability of the first French-language Kindle device. The French store offers 825,000 titles, including 35,000 French-language Kindle books. All 28 L’Express best sellers are included – Amazon says this is the the most in a digital store in France. It’s available from today,here. Authors can also publish their books directly to the store with the French launch of theKindle Direct Publishing Service....

Thursday, in a move that puts them in direct competition to Apple’s Mac Store, Amazon announced theMac Download Store.The Loopreports that the store has 250 of the ‘biggest software and game titles available for Mac. They point out that they even have some titles that Apple’s store does not. One of the biggest examples of this is Microsoft Office, which is not available from Apple’s store, but is on the Mac Download Store from Amazon....

Teased at CES last month, the official Amazon.com Windows Phone 7 app has launched on the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, bringing millions of products to handsets powered by Microsoft’s new mobile operating system. The full retail experience on Windows Phone 7 follows shortly after Amazon released itsKindle appfor the platform in early January. The application is designed specifically for Windows Phone devices, allowing users to swipe left or right between product details, reviews and related items....

US Amazon Prime customers can now watch unlimited, commercial-free and instant streaming of over 5,000 movies and TV shows at no additional cost after Amazon put live the free service for members of its premium service. The platform is only available to US customers at this time and adds the streaming services to its existing free two-day shipping, relaxation in minimum order sizes and reduced one day shipping costs. The Prime Instant Videos service will offer over5000 pieces of content, ranging from movies to TV shows, indicating Amazon is going to make a major push to because major player in the movie-streaming business, alongside services like Netflix....

Amazon has launched a new feature called Simple Email Service for its Amazon Web Services customers, giving them the opportunity to send bulk-emails at low cost via their existing applications hosted on Amazon’s EC2 platform. The platform is aimed at businesses and developers who would like to be able to send large volumes of emails from their web services, without having to employ an in-house solution or to utilize a third-party solution such as Mailchimp....