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Is the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire a Good Tablet Option for Students?

By on September 29, 2011

Amazon yesterday announced their new Kindle Fire Tablet device that will be powered by the Google Android OS.  The most stunning part of the announcement wasn’t so much the device itself but rather the $199 price point it be will sold at.  That’s half the price of any competing new tablet that has been released [...]

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Free Chromebooks to be Handed out at Dublin City University

By on September 16, 2011

Are Google’s Chromebooks a good fit as a laptop for college?  Dublin City University thinks so, they have become the first European school to enter into an agreement with Google to purchase Chromebooks for students.  The school will be handing out the Chromebooks, free of charge, to students in a “a small number of selected [...]

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Amazon Releases iPhone App for Students

By on August 15, 2011

Amazon has released an iPhone App targeted specifically at students, the app is appropriately named “Amazon Student”.   The Amazon Student iPhone appessentially bundles together a bunch of features available in other apps.  Front and center in the app is the ability to go to the student bookstore and scan UPC bar codes to find out [...]

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Amazon Prime now 50% off for Students, Includes Free Amazon Prime Instant Video

By on July 9, 2011

If you’re a student that signed up for the free Amazon Prime shipping last year when it started then you’re free 1-year period is coming to an end very soon.  That’s the bad news, the good news is that although Amazon Prime regularly costs $79 Amazon is offering an Amazon Prime renewal rate of $39 [...]

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Using Amazon to Buy and Sell Textbooks

By on August 23, 2008

You’re heading back to school and the semester starts soon (if it hasn’t already for you) so that means time for the textbook buying ritual.  The cost of buying textbooks goes up every year and it’s a major part of the financial formula when paying for school, on average a student pays $900 a year [...]

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