Amazon's Kindle Fire lets kids charge up a storm – Yahoo! Singapore Finance<\/a>
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I have to confess I'm astonished that, if the article is accurate, there's no way to turn off 1-Click purchasing on a Fire aside from deregistering it from your Amazon account. That would give me serious pause about buying such a device, since it opens up your Amazon account to spending from kids you've loaned … Continue reading “Just 1 Click Away”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,20,65],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-hi-tech","category-my-mobile-pda","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25289,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/kindle-vs-kindle-fight.html","url_meta":{"origin":24469,"position":0},"title":"Kindle vs. Kindle … Fight!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jan-12 2:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Will the Fire (which sold an amazing number of units this holiday season) kill its eInk Kindle brethren (and associated other dedicated e-readers)? 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