In a remarkably speedy attempt at one-upmanship, Barnes & Noble announced its new Nook Tablet today, a direct competitor to Amazon’s similar Kindle Fire.
They have a lot in common. Both are 7-inch, sub-$300 Android tablets, and both are shipping …
Let me make it clear up front: The Nook Tablet looks and feels exactly like last year’s Nook Color. But Barnes & Noble is hoping that its beefed up hardware will make it a worthy contender against Amazon’s upcoming Kindle …
Alongside Barnes & Noble’s announcement today of its new $249 Nook Tablet, it has also revealed that it’s upgraded its Nook Simple Touch e-reader with faster rendering software and a new E-Ink screen while also dropping the price to an …
‘Tis the season of cheap tablets. Today Barnes & Noble announced its Kindle Fire competitor, simply called the Nook Tablet.
The company announced the $249 tablet today at a press event at its Union Square store in New York City, …
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Amazon has launched a new mobile app for the iPhone called Flow that smoothly combines augmented reality with e-commerce.
Flow uses the camera on the back of the iPhone to scan UPC barcodes and tell you pricing on Amazon. On …
Making its ecosystem just that much sweeter, Amazon today announced that Kindle owners subscribed to its premium Amazon Prime service will be able to borrow one e-book a month for free.
Dubbed the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, it will give …
The Kobo Vox e-reader went on sale Friday, and we were lucky enough to get our hands on one at the VentureBeat offices. While the word “e-reader” often evokes images of the iPad or the Kindle Fire, (there are some …
Humanoid is today launching the world’s first human brain-powered API for developers and programmers “that actually works.”
With Humanoid developers can harness the strength of crowd-sourcing and get accurate results, not currently available from existing solutions such as Amazon’s Mechanical …
Cloud cost-tracking service Cloudability has launched an open beta today that promises to help all types of businesses better manage and track their cloud spending.
With many companies feeling the push to use cloud services instead of local ones, many …
Amazon today released its 3rd Quarter earnings, turning in a per-share performance of just 14 cents, missing Wall Street expectations of 25 cents per share by a wide margin. The ecommerce giant saw revenue decrease by 73 percent, to just …
While it’s not as exciting as the similarly priced Amazon Kindle Fire, Viewsonic’s new $200 ViewPad 7e Android tablet will be available in a matter of days, the company said.
If Google Android tablets have any chance of erasing the …
Amazon is expected to sell as many as 5 million of its new Kindle Fire tablets before the end of 2011.
JPMorgan analyst Douglas Anmuth stated in a research note he thinks the e-commerce company can move 5 million of …
Not only do Kindle users get to avoid fighting through book store crowds to get their hands on Walter Isaacson’s new Steve Jobs biography, but they also got the chance to start reading it long before everyone else.
Amazon delivered …
It’s no secret enterprises have begun to adopt tablets with the same fervor of consumers. Since the debut of Apple’s iPad in Jan. 2010, the integration of tablet devices into our lives and work has progressed rapidly — so fast …
Kobo today launched Vox, a new, priced-to-sell Android tablet. Or is it an e-reader? Does anyone know the difference these days?
Vox is a color, 7-inch touchscreen, Android-running gadget that features music, video and social widgets and apps. It has …
Google is “close” to launching its own MP3 music store, Android head Andy Rubin said today. The company has been in talks to offer a music store for some time, but Rubin shed a little more light on the upcoming …
After years of turning the traditional brick-and-mortar bookstore business on its head, online retail giant Amazon is now taking aim at the publishing business by getting writers to ditch their publishers in favor of Amazon.
The company is scheduled to …
Owners of last year’s third-generation Kindle don’t need to buy a new model to take advantage of some nifty new cloud features.
Amazon has just released the latest update for the third-gen Kindle which will let you keep your personal …
Amazon is selling the entire lineup of Verizon Wireless smartphones for a penny each with a 2-year contract this week — all except for the Apple iPhone 4S of course, which is launching today.
This is an great deal for …
A Google engineer accidentally posted his extremely honest thoughts about former employer Amazon and current employer Google to the Google+ social network Tuesday night. Sometimes, honesty isn’t pretty.
Steve Yegge, the Google engineer in question, took to Google+ with the …
