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By Brett Bumeter curated from cnn.com
Target will soon stop selling the Amazon Kindle line of e-readers and tablets, the retailer confirmed Wednesday.

The Kindle was an apparent hit for Target: The company said last year that the just-launched Kindle Fire was Target's bestselling tablet on Black Friday.

Target would not comment on the reason for the Kindle's elimination, saying only "we typically don't discuss our relationships with vendor partners." Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
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Target and Amazon have come a long way together since the days back when Target needed help running their online presence, but it would seem that something has gone significantly wrong in the  relationship for them to nuke a successful product from the shelves.  Now if this were a dog of a seller it might be a different scenario.

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By Brett Bumeter

Sometimes the best technology gadgets are not the most expensive, take the RCA Pearl TH1611.  It is a little MP3 player that runs on a single triple aaa battery.  It gets hours and hours of play. Much to the surprise of most people RCA actually came out with the first MP3 player, which I owned way back in the dark ages before iPods.  It...

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image One of the worst customer experiences I ever had was through Verizon Wireless when I purchased a Palm Treo 700P back in 2008.  Verizon loaded up so much absolute crap software on that OS in...

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I’ve written about the my own Palm Pre on a different blog several times, but I wanted to provide a note about the most important two issues related to the Palm Pre, Whether to go with Sprint, & Outlook Integration.

ZDNET posited the following linkbait and I’m obliging Is the Palm Pre a failure? | Between the Lines |...

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Target, with almost 1,800 stores, is one of the bigger carriers of Kindles in the offline world, though most of the devices are sold at Amazon’s Web site.

Like other big retailers, Target has been trying to figure out how to stop Amazon shoppers from visiting Target stores to check out products, and then buy them online from Amazon. It is a practice encouraged by Amazon; over the Christmas holiday, for example, the company offered a promotion on its Price Check app that gave shoppers 5 percent off any item scanned at a store.
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More details have come out signalling loud and clear why Target is dropping Amazon’s Kindle and related items from Target stores.  Seems this brick and mortar retailer is fed up with Amazon openly touting their competitive advantage to Target’s shoppers while in Target’s stores!

The Amazon Mobile App allows shoppers to scan a product...

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image For decades now, Apple has achieved notoriety and buzz and lots of synergy through marketing campaigns from first, being cool and second being easier to use than cheaper PC products or more entrenched MP3 player...

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Rotating CES sign outside of South Hall CES attendance has been dipping from its highs of past years.  This year did not recoup the attendance of years past, but it did happen to top last year at least during the first 2 days...

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By Brett Bumeter

A couple years back I viewed a 3 dimensional gaming mouse, it was round and hovered in the air.  It was amazing, yet completely impractical due to the amount of space it took up.

Today, I received a quick pre-CES note about this new round, gel covered mouse from Jelfin.  In shape, it reminds me of the 3D mouse, but without all...

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image Like a lot of people, I struggle with ideas for Mother’s Day gifts. Sometimes, I think of good gifts, and sometimes I miss the boat. I was toying with the idea of buying my Mom leather chaps. She sometimes goes...

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