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following in the footsteps of the firm's successful Kindle e-reader and the Android tablets would be a natural extension of the firm's already-launched Amazon App Store.

take on the all-conquering iPad head on.

Amazon may also sell the device at a loss, as it does the Kindle e-reader, recouping costs through selling applications, books and services.

with the Wi-Fi only Kindle already retailing at $139.

$200 full-featured Android tablet with Amazon's marketing muscle behind it may well give Apple the competition it has so far not had to endure.

each of the gadgets cost HP at least £180 just to build, so selling the Touchpad for £89 would never have been considered until the firm decided to abandon it.

others hoping to loosen Apple’s stranglehold on the tablet computing market.

The main Google Android tablets, made by Samsung and Motorola, are pitched at around the same £400-ish price point as the iPad. But, put together with all the other Android tablets, it’s estimated they are outsold by Apple’s devices eight to one.

Amazon, which is rumoured to be preparing to release an Android tablet this autumn. Like Apple with the iPad, it has built and dominated a market for itself with the Kindle, its hugely successful e-reader.

Kindle’s success is its relatively low price of £111

They can also see what other Facebook fans and friends have said while watching the movie.

The cult classic The Big Lebowski is now available to rent on Facebook.

reward up to five friends with a $1 discount on the Facebook rental

Even though the film is available on DVD, Blu-ray and through digital download services such as Amazon, Cinema Now and Vudu, we think a Facebook offering makes sense for this type of film.

this would be a great way for friends spread out across the country to share a funny, infinitely quotable movie together.

prices.

Best Buy, the electronics retailer, cut the price of the TouchPad to $99 in an attempt to clear its stock. Best Buy was last week reported to have more than 200,000 of the tablets. The low price brought queues outside its stores and, according to one staff employee, a “stampede” from customers hoping to land a bargain.

HP's decision to discontinue its TouchPad product, Best Buy will now provide clearance pricing for all TouchPad 16GB and 32GB models regardless of previously advertised prices or promotions," Best Buy said. The company said that anyone who had bought a TouchPad after June 19 would be entitled to a refund.

Though Amazon.com has not discounted the TouchPad, the device still went to the top of Amazon’s bestselling electronics chart. The HP tablet took the top two places in the chart, ahead of Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader, which is usually a fixture at number one.