Amazon.com Inc. plans to introduce a tablet computer before October 2011.

The Seattle-based company will also release two updated versions of its popular Kindle electronic reader in the third quarter of the year, the people said. One will be a touch-screen device. The other won't have a touch screen, but will be an improved and cheaper adaptation of the current Kindle, said people who have seen the device.

An Amazon spokesman didn't return requests for comment. The company's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, has hinted about a forthcoming tablet in recent media appearances.

By: DocMemory
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