{"id":430,"date":"2012-09-06T16:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/?p=430"},"modified":"2012-09-06T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:36:27","slug":"tablet-market-heats-up-amazon-announces-new-tablets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/2012\/09\/06\/tablet-market-heats-up-amazon-announces-new-tablets\/","title":{"rendered":"Tablet market heats up &#8211; Amazon announces new tablets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has introduced an <a title=\"Amazon Takes on the High-End\u2014Introducing the New Kindle Fire HD Family\" href=\"http:\/\/phx.corporate-ir.net\/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&amp;p=irol-newsArticle&amp;ID=1732546\" target=\"_blank\">8.9-Inch and 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD<\/a> priced at $299 and $199 respectively. They&#8217;ve also updated their Kindle Fire and lowered it&#8217;s price to $159. The new tablets will be available this November and are seen as <a title=\"Amazon Wants To Kill The iPad With Kindle Fire HD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/189092\/amazon-wants-to-kill-the-ipad-with-kindle-fire-hd\/#4BHjRKVZmh13TBh3.99\" target=\"_blank\">direct competition to Apple&#8217;s iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0<a title=\"Apple Prepping Its Resellers For September 12th iPad Mini Announcement [Rumor] Read more at http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/186090\/apple-prepping-its-resellers-for-september-12th-ipad-mini-announcement-rumor\/#07RjOr8Wfko4MXD2.99\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/186090\/apple-prepping-its-resellers-for-september-12th-ipad-mini-announcement-rumor\/\" target=\"_blank\">rumors Apple will announce a smaller version of their popular iPad<\/a> next week on September 12, the competition for the tablet market is heating up rapidly.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"How the new Amazon Kindle Fire HD compares to the Apple iPad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/381578\/20120906\/amazon-announcement-kindle-fire-hd-ipad-apple.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How The New Amazon Kindle Fire HD Compares To Apple iPad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has introduced an 8.9-Inch and 7-Inch Kindle Fire HD priced at $299 and $199 respectively. They&#8217;ve also updated their Kindle Fire and lowered it&#8217;s price to $159. The new tablets will be available this November and are seen as direct competition to Apple&#8217;s iPad. With\u00a0rumors Apple will announce a smaller version of their popular&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/2012\/09\/06\/tablet-market-heats-up-amazon-announces-new-tablets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[135433,135436,1988,135434,135435],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amazon","tag-apple-rumors","tag-ipad","tag-kindle-fire","tag-kindle-fire-hd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/emdug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}