If you’ve seen the news today then you already know thatAmazon has releasedits Cloud Player upon the music-loving masses. While it’s not ground-breaking, it’s still very cool. However, there are a couple of caveats. I’ve been using Cloud Player since the wee hours of this morning and here are a few of the things that I’ve found that I think you’ll want to know about. To start, here’s a video walkthrough to show you exactly how it all works....

When most of us think Amazon, we think books and toilet paper and really fast shipping (which is free if you spend over $25!) but according to Amazon, we’ve got it all wrong. Speaking at theHackFwd Build conferencein Berlin, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels says that Amazon has been a technology company since day 1. Oh, and for those who think that Amazon’s cloud business is just about selling off excess technology, think again....

Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer and new player in the tablet market, is apparently in “serious negotiations to snap up Palm from HP” with the company interested in takingHP’s beleaguered mobile division off of its hands as soon as possible. Palm, purchased by HP in April 2010 for $1.2 billion, was expected to galvanise its operations once it joined the enormously successful computing giant, combining resources to further develop Palm’s critically-acclaimed webOS mobile platform and create new, powerful smartphones and tablets that were capable of competing with iOS and Android powered devices....

It was a busy day for Amazon after it unveiled its brand new tablet to the world, not to mention a handful of other new devices. And The Next Web was in attendance to see what was going on. Of course, without even a peep from Amazon itself,rumorsof a new tablet have abounded for months, with many debating whether an Amazon offering could manage to do what other tablet makers hadn’t: Launch a serious contender to Apple’s iPad throne....

Amazonlaunched its Kindle Fire tabletat an event in New York City this morning. The tablet has most of the features that have been expected of it. It’s a 7″ bare-bones tablet running on a fork of Android that serves as a portal for people to consume Amazon’s content. Almost immediately we have seen post after post on tech sites that are shouting ‘iPad-killer!’ because those are the headlines that drive clicks....