Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Google's New Tablet Smacks The Kindle Fire -- Hard

Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Somewhere, Jeff Bezos just punched a wall with his bare fist. The Amazon CEO is angry, frustrated, bloodied -- he must be! -- because his company's Kindle Fire just got totally upstaged and outshined by Google and its inspired new Nexus 7 tablet.
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