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Rumors have been heating up over the last few weeks that Amazon was on the verge of offering "free" unlimited video streaming to its Prime members, who pay $79.99 a year for free two-day shipping on many items sold on Amazon. Now a tipster has sent a few screenshots to Engadget allegedly showing an unlimited video-streaming section to complement Amazon's VOD (video-on-demand) offerings.

Whether someone at Amazon accidentally jumped the gun on the launch is unclear, but the section has now disappeared along with the "Watch now," free unlimited streaming button (I have an … Read more

Glu Mobile has released a port of its Transformers G1: Awakening iPhone game to the Android Market this week. Awakening is a turn-based strategy game starring 23 of our favorite robots in disguise from the 1980s cartoon, including Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron, and Starscream. The story loosely follows the animated plot with players taking control of the heroic Autobots as they wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons shortly after crash landing on Earth.

After the initial download and installation, the game prompts you to download an additional 7MB of data to either the SD card … Read more

Robot one-upmanship is happening at an alarming pace in East Asia as the Chinese have unveiled a giant Optimus Prime in Beijing, no doubt to counter giant robots recently built by the Japanese. Is a clash of the robo-titans imminent?

The Transformers icon stands nearly 40 feet tall and weighs 6 tons. Fittingly, the head Autobot was fashioned out of recycled car parts such as engines and tires. It took five truckloads of parts to put Prime together.

The colossus dwarfs puny humans at the new Green Dream Park, located northwest of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" National … Read more

We typically think of prepaid phones from AT&T's GoPhone lineup as rather basic and lacking in features, but the LG Prime is certainly not either of those.

The Prime sports a sizable 3-inch touch-screen display (400x240 pixels); a 2-megapixel camera; and mobile e-mail. It won't have 3G, but you will be able to purchase and download songs from AT&T Mobile Music. You also get a microSD card, a 2-megapixel camera, and quad-band GSM. The LG Prime is available now for $99.99 without any contracts.

Spireframe's PDF Prime is an efficient, standalone utility that can merge, split, lock, and unlock PDF files, the basic functions most users need most often. Instead of spending valuable time learning how to do a simple job with a complex application (or worse, relearning it) you can opt for a simple tool like PDF Prime and be finished and on to the next task.

PDF Prime has a very basic and businesslike dialog-based interface; just a toolbar with a few large icons labeled Merge, Split, Lock, and Unlock, and a simple file menu that essentially duplicates the control icon'… Read more

Some banks have given away iPods to new customers for opening checking accounts. So what's so far-fetched about Amazon trying to entice its customers into subscribing to its $79-per-year Amazon Prime service with a free Kindle?

Nothing, according to TechCrunch, which says a reliable source said, "Amazon wants to give a free Kindle to every Amazon Prime subscriber." However, the only problem is that Amazon has to figure out how to do it without losing money.

In case you don't know, Amazon's Prime service allows you to get free two-day shipping on any product in … Read more

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--Drive about 350 miles down U.S. 101 from Yahoo's Silicon Valley campus and you'll find what CEO Carol Bartz appears to believe is the future of her pioneering Internet company.

Yes, we're talking about Yahoo's often-ridiculed Media Group headquartered about two miles from the famous Santa Monica pier and a world away from the technology-oriented plans of Bartz's predecessor, company founder Jerry Yang.

Just a few years ago, amid the ruins of the disastrous reign of former Yahoo media boss Lloyd Braun, that notion would have been laughable. Sure, lots of … Read more

Amazon.com on Thursday announced that customers looking to get their packages sooner will have a couple new options available to them.

Amazon customers placing deliveries within the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Seattle, as well as "some surrounding areas," will now be able to receive shipments on the same day they place an order. The service will be coming to Chicago, Indianapolis, and Phoenix "in the coming months."

Amazon said "thousands of items" are available now to customers living in those cities. The new option, called Local Express Delivery, will have varied pricing that depends on the type of product purchased. Amazon Prime members--customers who pay $79 per year to receive unlimited two-day shipping from the online retailer--will need to pay $5.99 per item for the service.

In order to get an item on the same day it's ordered, customers will need to buy products prior to their city's cutoff time. For example, New York customers will need to order a product by 10 a.m. ET, while Seattle customers can purchase products by 1 p.m. PT. The other cities' cutoff times vary within that range. According to Amazon, it will list the cutoff times on each eligible product's detail page.… Read more

Factorizer is an easy-to-use program that finds factors, primes, prime decompositions, and pairs of primes. The program's simple design and quick results make it a great option for users doing this kind of math.

Factorizer's interface is not beautiful, but it is clean and intuitive, with all of its functions clearly displayed on one screen. You enter a number or range of numbers and then simply click a radio button to select factors, prime numbers, prime pairs, etc. The results are displayed in a text box from which you can easily cut and paste the data into another … Read more