You’ll need to use mobile Safari to do so, but Amazon says its iOS store has been designed using HTML5 and should offer customers everything they’ve come to expect: recommendations, user ratings, and discounted $5 albums / $0.69 songs are all offered via the new site. Additionally, purchases will be available for immediate streaming and download from within Amazon’s Cloud Player iOS app.
Plus, that gives you access to cloud storage for your music, this is very cool.
Amazon.com, Inc. today introduced the Amazon Instant Video App, enabling customers to stream or download Amazon Instant Video movies and TV episodes from their video library directly on their iPhone or iPod touch. The app also makes more than 30,000 titles from Prime Instant Video available to Prime members such as hit TV shows like American Horror Story, Downton Abbey and Fringe, as well as popular movies such as Hugo, Thor and Goodfellas, to stream instantly on their iPhone or iPod touch at no additional cost. Amazon announced the Amazon Instant Video app for iPad earlier this year. With today’s launch, Amazon Instant Video is now available across iOS mobile devices.
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App downloads in the Appstore have grown more than 500 percent over the previous year.
In other unrelated news, my site has had a 200% increase in viewership, and I’m not telling you how many viewers I had last month, but you will be impressed nonetheless.
Reuters:
Amazon.com Inc reported a big quarterly net loss on Thursday as the world’s largest Internet retailer spends heavily to expand existing operations and develop new businesses.
Wired:
Previously, Amazon allowed people to call in and change the email address associated with an Amazon account or add a credit card number to an Amazon account as long as the caller could identify him or herself by name, email address and mailing address — three bits of personal information that are easily found online.
On Tuesday, Amazon handed down to its customer service department a policy change that no longer allows people to call in and change account settings, such as credit cards or email addresses associated with its user accounts.
Now Apple has to work on their side.
Amazon Quietly Closes Security Hole After Journalist’s Devastating Hack
Mat Honan, Wired:
On Monday, Wired tried to verify the hackers’ access technique by performing it on a different account. We were successful. This means, ultimately, all you need in addition to someone’s email address are those two easily acquired pieces of information: a billing address and the last four digits of a credit card on file. Here’s the story of how the hackers got them.
Be afraid, very afraid. The password system is beyond broken.
With Amazon Instant Video, you can:
• Stream thousands of titles available from Prime Instant Video at no additional cost with a Prime membership, or watch over 120,000 videos available from the Amazon Instant Video store
• Download purchased and rented videos from Your Video Library
• Shop over 120,000 videos available from the Amazon Instant Video store by visiting Amazon
• Add videos to your Watchlist from a PC, Mac, or Kindle Fire for later viewing on your iPad
• Subscribe to a TV Season Pass by visiting Amazon and episodes will automatically be available on your iPad the day after they air
• Start watching on your iPad, and resume watching right where you left off on a Kindle Fire, PS3, PC, Mac, or hundreds of models of connected TVs and Blu-ray players with Amazon Whispersync.
You need to have an Amazon Prime account, which is $79 a year with a one month free trial. The Amazon Prime program, also gives you free shipping and many other things. Available for iPad only at this moment, on the App Store [Link].
Fast Company
