Earlier this week, Zinio released its digital magazine service in the Amazon Appstore. At the time, it was believed Zinio would work with the Kindle Fire, but it turned out to be incompatible for some reason. Zinio still offered new customers that registered for its service $25 in Z-Bucks to use in the Zinio store on individual magazines or subscriptions. If you’ve been wondering where your $25 credit is, check you inbox right now.

In celebration of the Kindle Fire’s release into the public, Zinio has a special offer for all newcomers. First of all, the Zinio app can be downloaded from the Amazon Appstore, which also means it plays friendly with the Kindle Fire. Secondly, Zinio is giving away a $25 credit for any new customer that registers. Zinio is seller of digital magazines and is available on Android, iOS, Mac, Windows, Linux and the recently deceased WebOS.

Hurricane Irene was thankfully not as devastating as it could have been. However, there were still some services outages that resulted from the pouring rain. Some Comcast customers for example experienced a loss of cable, internet and phone service for days. After some confusion, it seems that Comcast will credit at least some accounts affected by Irene.

Early adoption of a device is a gamble. It’s very common for a lot of people to pay full price for a new gadget at launch, only to find its price to be discounted weeks later. That’s exactly what is happening with the HP TouchPad. Over the weekend, you could have gotten the TouchPad for as low as $299. It’s understandable for the crowed that spent $500 to be upset. Fear not though because HP has something in store for TouchPad owners that made the commitment before the crazy discounts occurred.

Amazon is willing to give everyone a $5 credit towards Amazon Instant Video just for tweeting. With that $5, you can rent select movies and television shows. This offer is only open to residents of the United States and expires on July 19, 2011. Once you get the credit, it can be used until August 31, 2011.

Netflix was down for a little bit the other day, and coming as a result, Netflix has sent out some “we’re sorry you had trouble watching instant” emails. The email is simple enough, because of the outage they are offering a 3 percent credit that can be used toward your account. It does come with more »

Good ol’ magenta is reaching out to potential business customers with a new promotion. T-Mobile is willing to apply a $200 bill credit for any business that leaves its current mobile provider for T-Mobile. This is a limited time offer and requires a two-year agreement in addition to a device purchase is to obtain the credit.

It looks like Skype has begun to make good on the recent downtime issues, though I am sure many are going to question the amount of the credit — roughly 30 minutes of calling. Or in other words, roughly $1. That said, this still seems early and we would like to hope that some heavier more »

T-Mobile has released an updated statement in regards to the great Sidekick data loss incident of 2009. Of course, I am pretty sure this will not make everyone happy. According to the details, which comes by way of the official T-Mobile User Forums, those customers who have “experienced a significant and permanent loss of personal more »

In an effort to thwart what is know as CNP or Card Not Present transactions, Visa has come up with a nifty new card that features input buttons and a display screen. All web transactions are performed in this manner, possibly allowing anyone who lifted your card from making purchases without your consent.

The new card aims to stop that by creating a one time code on the card to be filled in like we do for the CCV now. The code is generated by the user entering their pin in and the card creating the one time only code. The idea is only the owner of the card with card in hand can make purchases. While not foolproof, the card goes a long way from just “dumb” plastic cards of today.

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