The flop of Amazon’s Fire Phone has prompted CEO Jeff Bezos to instigate changes at its hardware R&D group Lab126 to make it more nimble, focused and capable of creating hardware consumers will buy.

Amazon.com has quietly applied for trademarks on the name and logo of Lab126 — the internal group behind the Amazon Kindle e-reader and, by all accounts, an upcoming Android tablet from the Seattle ...

President of Amazon’s Lab126, Gregg Zehr who is credited to have invented the Kindle has stepped down from the company. This brings to end an illustrious career spanning 18 years at Amazon during ...

Amazon have been busy lately, what with their recent launching of the latest generation of Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets along with the seemingly ill-fated Amazon Fire Phone. It would seem ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. by John Cook on Sep 24, 2014 at 7:01 am September 24, 2014 at ...

Amazon's Lab126 will boost staff by 27 percent over the next five years as it tests smart-home gadgets, reports Reuters. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered ...

In recent months, a string of departures and managerial changes has hit Amazon’s Lab126, the company’s Silicon Valley-based R&D group that has developed its most high-profile consumer products, ...

Amazon has started offering on-site COVID-19 tests to some members of its hardware division Lab126. The change came after workers, who have worked in the office since July, filed safety complaints.

Amazon started Lab126, the secretive hardware skunkworks that launched the Kindle, back in 2004. From the very beginning, a man named Gregg Zehr, former VP of hardware engineering at Palm Computing, ...

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Telling Jeff Bezos he’s wrong is always a frightening proposition. In the fall of 2014, though, a small group of the men and women building Amazon’s new voice-controlled speaker felt they needed to ...

Amazon’s Lab126, the secretive R&D group behind the Kindle, is apparently on a hiring spree, as noted by the EETimes, which speculates that the organization may be planning to spin out the lab as a ...