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Amazon's 'secret' stirs buzz about phone

CNET Update has no secrets:

Amazon hired a former Windows Phone boss to lead a "secret" project on something that is a "totally new area for Amazon." Cue the Amazon phone rumors!

Also featured in Tuesday's tech rundown:

- Amazon Cloud Drive joins the storage big leagues by allowing users to sync files between devices.

- Yahoo Mail connects with Dropbox for e-mail attachments.

- HTC One arrives at AT&T and Sprint on April 19, and pre-orders begin this week. (Read the CNET review here.)

- AT&T plans to launch HD Voice later this year. … Read more

Will Amazon produce a Kindle phone?

Back in August of 2010, I wrote a column titled, "Will Amazon produce its own Android tablet?"

To give credit where credit was due, the article was a spin-off of a piece that the New York Times Bits blog did about Lab126, the division of Amazon behind the Kindle, located in Cupertino, Calif., not far from Apple. The article suggested that Amazon was looking into producing more hardware beyond the Kindle and I thought that a foray into the Android tablet market seemed likely, particularly considering it dovetailed nicely with Amazon's e-reader/e-book venture.

Well, it took a little while, but the Kindle Fire is finally here, just a few weeks from actually shipping. So now that we can check that one off, I thought it worth asking what's next for Amazon in the consumer electronics space. … Read more