Peter Rojas, co-founder of popular gadget websiteGdgt, has reignited rumours of an Amazon Android tablet release, suggesting the retail giant haspartnered with Samsung to release a device later this year. Rumours of an Amazon Android tablethave been circulatingover the past few weeks, gaining momentum after the company created and unveiled its own Android Appstore application and Cloud Drive digital music locker, services that would perfectly suit an Amazon-branded device should one ever exist....

Anarticle from the Morning Callthat was published on Saturday sparked a wave of discussion about the working conditions in Amazon warehouses. The article cited a healthy sampling, by way of anecdotal examples from employees and ex-employees, of complaints about the working conditions in the company’s Lehigh County, PA warehouses. The warehouses, located near Allentown and Breinigsville, apparently reached very high temperatures during the summer, hitting 100-103 degree temperatures, if not higher....

Hot on the heels ofAmazon.comannouncing that its Kindle is nowoutsellingall print books in the US, the e-commerce giant has revealed which US cities are the most ‘well-read’. And how did Amazon.com come to its conclusion? Well, by compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales across all formats – in digital and print – since Jan. 1, 2011. Amazon.com included cities with more than 100,000 residents and it was calculated on a per capita basis....

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3)plays host to some of the most important services we use today. Dropbox, Ubuntu and popular game Minecraft all make use of Amazon’s web service to serve and host files at a cost that can be significantly lower than deploying a company’s own servers. Focusing solely onDropbox, an infinitely useful web-based file hosting service that has4 million users, Amazon’s S3 service facilitates the download and upload of millions of individual files – which is a small drop in the ocean when compared to the 262 billion other objects stored on the US retailers’ server infrastructure....

Amazon has just sent out invites for an event next week in New York City, confirming our suspicions that we’ll finally see its first multimedia tablet. We reported earlier this year that Amazon’s 7″ tablet will cost $250 and arrive in November, with a fully-custom Android OS. Editor Brad McCartywrites, “If there was ever a chance to give a true competitor to the iPad, it is in the hands of Amazon....