Each year, communicating through text messages continues to grow and has now turned into an extremely popular communication medium. Millions upon millions of text messages are sent every single month and carriers only anticipate that the number of messages sent by their subscribers will continue to grow.

Amazon MP3 has been getting a lot of great reviews for their 100% DRM-free music service that's been offered since September 2007. They actually have a rather large selection of music, and being able to play it on any of your devices without restrictions is a huge plus. And you don't pay any more for music from Amazon than you do on iTunes.

I get asked all of the time what I believe is the best backup service, and the answer typically varies depending on the needs of the person. Some people need a lot of storage but not a lot of bandwidth, or visa versa. When you're considering what backup service to use I recommend checking out Jungle Disk, which in a way offers the best of all worlds.

The latest forming trend in digital music downloads seems to be that everyone wants to start offering DRM-free music.  Both Amazon and iTunes offer a DRM-free catalog of music as well as several other sites like eMusic. People like DRM-free because it means once they download a song or album, they can play the song on multiple devices. When Amazon's service launched, it got rave reviews.

The New York Times managed to get some time with Steve Jobs yesterday after his keynote, and there were some interesting remarks in the interview from Jobs. Apparently his mother never taught him that if he didn't have anything nice to say, not to say anything at all.

Amazon likes to be adventurous and try their hand at just about anything, and the proof of that can be found just by looking at services they launched in 2007 alone. There's the "Amazon Fresh" grocery service that they launched back in August, and then of course their DRM-Free music store which received rave reviews when it launched in September.

Amazon.com has just released their "Best of 2007" lists which include products in different categories that were bestselling, reviewed most positively, products that appeared most often on Wish Lists of Amazon customers, and most popular gift products.

If you tried to hunt down a Wii this holiday season there is a good chance that you walked away empty handed and with a pounding migraine. The Wii is essentially a money printing machine for both retailers and Nintendo, but a nightmare for consumers who were trying to find one for their kids.

As you witnessed earlier today with the iPod Touch, Amazon is a great source of deals. The real question is how do you find all of the deals that you're looking for without spending hours browsing through their products each day. Deal Locker has setup a great search tool for Amazon that will help you hunt down some of the cheapest stuff being sold.

From the sounds of it, Amazon is hoping that consumers will trade their loyalty with discount warehouses like Sam's Club and Costco for the opportunity to have household items delivered to their door.A fairly new service called 'Subscribe & Save" from Amazon will allow consumers to subscribe to an item and have it automatically delivered every 1, 2, 3, or 6 months.

Just like last year, Amazon is running their "Amazon Customers Vote" event in which customers browse through six rounds of different products priced at insanely low prices, and then vote for the product they'd want to buy. Whichever product wins each round with the most customer votes will be sold randomly to people who voted for the item.

After three years in the making, Amazon has launched a wireless portable reading device called Kindle which they hope can improve "the book." When I saw the price tag that read $399, I couldn't help but initially think "who's going to buy this at that price." After reading about all that Kindle has to offer, I could easily see this turning into a "must-have" for book enthusiasts and something people would be willing to spend the money on.

It's hard to believe it, but the #1 most influential reviewer on Amazon who has submitted over 5,000 reviews to the site doesn't even have an Internet connection in his home! His name is Peter Harris - he's 56 from Leicester, UK, and over 50,000 people have seen his reviews.

If you're reading this, there's a pretty good chance that you have a soft-spot for electronics. With so many electronic toys and gadgets to choose from, and many places to buy, it can be difficult to know where the best place is to buy.

Oh the benefits of competition are a sweet thing, really! It took Apple approximately three weeks to respond to the launch of Amazon's DRM-Free Music Store. It was a simple as this- Amazon started selling DRM-free songs for 89 cents to a maximum of 99 cents while Apple's iTunes was selling DRM-free songs for $1.29.

It's been about a day since Amazon launched the Public Beta of their DRM-Free Music store called Amazon MP3, and so far the reviews are extremely positive and users are happy with the ease of use, and the prices. Their slogan is "Play Anywhere, DRM-Free Music Downloads" but they should have added "for cheap" on to it.

Forbes has released their list of the 400 richest Americans where this year, even one BILLION dollars wasn't enough to land you on the list.  As we've heard, the rich are getting richer with the minimum net worth on this list being $1.3 billion dollars compared to $300 million last year.

Isn’t it great when sites like Amazon are given information regarding a product, and they publish the details right away. I think Amazon is known for leaking pricing and release dates of items, and they’re at it again with the HP MediaSmart Home Server.

When I think of Amazon, I automatically think of books. I can’t help it. I’m still stuck on their early days when they were known as online bookstore. They’ve certainly expanded to sell just about everything possible these days from housewares and electronics to clothing and furniture.

Remember back in February when TiVo and Amazon announced a partnership to bring movies to TiVo users? At the time, those who wanted to use the service were required to purchase the movies that they wanted from the Amazon website which obviously required the use of a computer.