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Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

Tech Life: Amazon Becomes a Phone-maker

20/06/2014

Amazon Becomes a Phone-maker

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Amazon Becomes a Phone-maker

Amazon launches its Fire smartphone, but what's the real reason behind its release?

Amazon launches its Fire smartphone, but what's the real reason behind its release? And, can you create a successful tech industry at will? Rory Cellan-Jones investigates.

Amazon becomes a maker of smartphones, and insists its new offering, the Fire smartphone, is different from the rest in a crowded market. But what's the real reason behind its release? Is it more about shopping than talking and texting? And, can you create a successful tech industry at will? London wants to try - we assess its chances. And, how ISIS militants in Iraq have proven adept at using social media to rally support for their cause.

Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Ben Hammersley,writer and technologist, and Dave Lee and Jane Wakefield from the BBC Online Technology Desk.

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