Amazon rolled out a software update for its Kindle Fire tablet today that adds lots of new functionality for sharing, offline media consumption, movie rentals, textbooks, and more.
With the new update, Kindle Fire owners can share passages or notes …
I’ve been testing out the Kindle Fire tablet for the last several weeks. At $199, it’s a tremendous value. It’s no iPad — I just upgraded to the new iPad as well — but it provides a solid base-level tablet …
With Apple’s iPad 3 event scheduled for Wednesday, March 7, the rumor mill concerning the world’s most popular tablet has gone into overdrive.
So far, we’ve heard that the iPad 3 will be slightly thicker to accommodate several new features, …
With one fell swoop, Twitter has confronted privacy concerns, returned missed features to its mobile audience, and opened its information network up to even more tablet-toting folks.
Twitter for iPhone and Android received updates Tuesday. The fixes address previously identified …
Barnes & Noble is launching a new $199 8GB Nook Tablet to better compete against Amazon’s popular Kindle Fire Tablet, the company confirmed today.
Since the Kindle Fire’s November launch at a mere $199, the $249 Nook Tablet has had …
Barnes & Noble will soon launch a cheaper 8GB model of its Nook Tablet to help the company compete with Amazon’s blazing Kindle Fire sales, according to a document obtained by The Verge.
The current Nook Tablet runs $249, but …
LG unveiled Sunday its new 5-inch device that blurs the line between phone and tablet. It’s called the Optimus Vue.
Before Samsung released its Galaxy Note, the term “phablet” wasn’t in our vernacular. But since the Note measured in at …
Amazon is buying up real estate in three city blocks in Seattle and plans to build a million-square-foot office tower on each block.
The company signed a purchase-and-sale agreement with the property owners several weeks ago, and that agreement included …
Amazon may have far fewer customers signed up for its Amazon Prime membership than analysts previously estimated.
The Prime membership costs $79 annually for Amazon customers, who in return get free two-day shipping on most items sold through the retail …
Apple is in the process of testing a smaller version of its iPad tablet, a product that could help it steal away market share from smaller tablets like the Kindle Fire and Samsung Galaxy Tab, according to a report by …
If you’re considering an Amazon Prime subscription, you might be persuaded by Amazon’s new deal with Viacom to bring 2,000 new titles to the service.
The Viacom agreement will bring a new slate of programming to Amazon’s video offering and …
After months of hard labor, Remixation, creator of the popular video discovery app Showyou, has released a new version of the app that works just as well for social media abstainers as it does for Facebook and Twitter users.
Showyou …
With the rumblings from Amazon about the early success of its new Kindle Fire over the holiday season, the company’s disappointing fourth quarter results came as a surprise.
More surprising was Amazon’s silence regarding total Kindle Fire sales for the …
Amazon will reveal its fourth quarter earnings Tuesday and finally put to bed the hottest question of the new year: Just how many Kindle Fire tablets did the company sell?
Can’t wait one more day? You’re in luck. Stifel Nicolaus …
Good sales of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet led to significant gains for Google’s Android operating system in tablet market share during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to new data from mobile analytics firm Flurry.
Flurry, which purports to measure …
Between Kindlemania and the usual gift-giving glut of gadgets, the number of e-reader- and tablet-owning U.S. consumers doubled between mid-December 2011 and early January 2012.
According to research just published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 29 percent …
During the holiday season Amazon used its massive sales channel to push the Kindle Fire hard. It moves millions of units, and according to studies from IHS iSupply, was losing about $2 per unit. That’s a big difference from Apple, …
That Google is developing its own Nexus Android tablet isn’t much of a surprise — Google chairman Eric Schmidt strongly hinted at it weeks ago — but can the company make it significantly cheaper than Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire? I …
Digital media is on Amazon‘s mind. The company is building out a team for an “existing product” in the Amazon Web Services division.
Amazon was born out of e-commerce and has stretched its arms into the computer technology field with …
We’ve been hearing for weeks that the Kindle Fire is selling like hash browns at the Waffle House at the end of the universe, but now, one analyst says those sales have put a sizable dent in Apple’s iPad sales …
