Deal Alert: Amazon offering 37 apps for free, normally totaling $140/€100

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BY Unknown 01:26 0

Deal Alert: Amazon offering 37 apps for free, normally totaling $140/€100

Amazon is giving out paid apps for free again, this time the bundle costs $140 in total. Not that you’ll pay a dime of it, if you download the apps from the Amazon App Store. As usual it’s a varied bundle ranging from Office apps to health apps plus a lot of games

The big ticket items are the Longman Dictionary (Audio Edition), which normally goes for $30 and OfficeSuite Professional 8, usually $20.

You can view the complete list here. There’s a filter on the right to view only a specific category. Most of the entries on the list are games (12), followed by Health & fitness (5) and Productivity (4).

If you’re not in the US, try your local Amazon site – the German one is running the same promo with the bundle valued at €100.

Amazon has done better deals, like the $220 bundle this Christmas, but we’re not complaining about getting free stuff.

Amazon offers discounts for Kindle tablets and e-readers as a Valentine’s Day deal

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Amazon offers discounts for Kindle tablets and e-readers as a Valentine’s Day deal

Amazon, being the symbol of consumerism that it is, has some strange ideas of what constitutes an appropriate – never mind good – gift for Valentine’s Day. Honey, I got you some Kindle tablets and e-readers, they were on sale!

Jokes aside, the Kindle Fire HDX 8.9 (64GB, Wi-Fi) has been slashed from its normal price of $480 to just $300. That’s not a bad deal for an 8.9″ 2,560 x 1,600px display, Snapdragon 805 and a free Amazon Prime subscription.

If this one is too capable, then the older Kindle Fire HDX (7″, 16GB, Wi-Fi) and Fire HD 7 (8GB, Wi-Fi) are $40 and $25 off respectively. Then there are the entry-level Kindle Fire HD6 and HD6 Kids edition get minor price cuts too, $15 down.

The e-ink Kindles get $20 cut from their regular prices, which puts the base model at $60 and the Paperwhite model at $100. You can also get $20 off the 3G-enabled Kindle Paperwhite (now $170), but keep in mind you have to give $10 back if you don’t want “Special offers,” which is Amazon talk for ads on the lockscreen.

Keep in mind that those are limited-time offers.

WorkMail by Amazon wants to take on Microsoft Exchange

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WorkMail by Amazon wants to take on Microsoft Exchange

Amazon Web Services introduced secure email and calendar client for business. Dubbed WorkMail, the solution aims to take on the likes of Microsoft Exchange and Google Gmail.

WorkMail is priced at $4 per month for each user. It undercuts both Google’s corporate email and Microsoft Office 365 business email (both cost $5 a month per user).

Amazon’s latest creation will offer shared inboxes and calendars, as well as the option for a company-wide address book. Deep encryption with private keys will be available; users will also be able to pick the geographic region where their email data will be stored.

Users will be able to access Amazon WorkMail on iOS, Android, Amazon Fire, and Windows Phone devices. Microsoft Outlook users on Mac and PC will be able to continue using the popular email client with the new service. Amazon will have its own solution available as well.