• Boy Genius Report, Tuesday, June 14, 2011 11:58 AM

Amazon reportedly plans to launch a streaming movie service specifically for its own Amazon-branded tablets. That's what researchers at Detwiler Fenton tell Boy Genius Reports, anyway. "The revelation seems obvious, but the Boston-based research firm's claim could be the first well-sourced confirmation of the service, reports of which were purely speculative until now," writes BGR.com.

According to the research team, Amazon's streaming movie service will be available to early adopters of Amazon's tablet for free. "It is also believed that Amazon's tablets will feature deep integration with Amazon's Cloud Locker streaming music service, and the Amazon Appstore will likely be a point of focus as well." Last month, BGR broke the news that Amazon is working on a pair of branded tablets -- a dual-core "Coyote" and a quad-core "Hollywood" -- that are expected to give the company new revenue streams to compliment its simpler Kindle eReaders.

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