Amazon is lowering the cost of Amazon Web Services Data Transfer from July 1st, the company announced to customers via email today. Inbound data transfer currently costs $0.10 per gigabyte, and will cost absolutely nothing after the changes kick in. For outgoing data, the tiers have been slashed considerably. They now range from $0.120 per gigabyte to $0.050 per gigabyte, with the cost decreasing over that scale as more data is transfered over the month....

Online retail behemoth Amazon today announced it has signed a deal with US broadcasting and film company Fox to add over 11,000 TV shows and films to itsAmazon Instant Video streaming service, providing Prime subscribers with the ability to watch new content completely free of charge. Posting a message on the Amazon website, Jeff Bezos – CEO of Amazon – announced the deal, which will see new additions from the FOX library including 24, Arrested Development and The X-Files:...

Amazon’s rumoured tablet devices are set to face production limitations as Apple continues to dominate available tablet production capacity with orders for its popular iPad 2,Digitimes reports. The retail giant has yet to officially confirm it is working to release a tablet device but Taiwan-based suppliers have already begun preparing for a number of touch panel orders by Amazon, which are expected to be released in the second half of 2011....

Amazon held a hardware event yesterday to announce an all-new lineup of data-capturing-tools it intends to market as robot assistants and security devices. Interestingly, the general public seems to be enjoying the idea. Where Tesla was almost universally mocked forits silly robot announcement stunt, Amazon’s latest reveals have been met with a lot of positivity. Apparently, people are really into the idea of letting a giant megacorporation fill their home with surveillance equipment....

Despite already offering magazines and journals via its Kindle Store, Amazon’s new deal with Hearst, one of the world’s largest publishers of monthly magazines, will see the retailer become the biggest third-party seller of Hearst’s subscriptions, pointing to magazine subscriptions on its new colour tablet devices. The exposure will benefit both companies via Amazon’s website and Kindle Store, offering publications such as Esquire, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire to customers but it will form the basis for tablet magazine subscriptions should Amazon confirm rumours and launch a 7-inch Android-powered tablet in the coming weeks....