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$199 Kindle Fire, $99 Kindle Touch unveiled (live blog)

Media watchers gather in New York for Amazon’s event. Sarah Tew/CNET Editor’s note: We used Cover It Live to cover Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiling of new Kindle devices today in New York. If you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component at the bottom of this post. Replaying the event will give you …

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Apple could kill the iPod shuffle and classic

Apple might be about to give its iPod classic and iPod shuffle the Old Yeller treatment, killing off both products to give the iPod touch and iPhone more room to breathe. Rumours of an iPod massacre have been doing the rounds for a while, but now TUAW says its sources reckon Apple will indeed be retiring two of its four …

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Kindle Fire sets a new (low) price point for tablets

Now playing: Watch this: Amazon’s Kindle Fire has content, price to compete 1:30 commentary Well, the Kindle Fire just up and ruined it for all the other tablet makers. Amazon just put the rest of the tablet world on notice by pricing the Kindle Fire at $199, less than half of the $500 mark that the industry has gravitated toward …

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