All the stories tagged with: barnes & noble
Apple Hits 68% of Tablet Market; Kindle Fire Plummets
05/03/2012, Today, IDC released its data on worldwide tablet shipments for the first quarter of 2012 and it revealed that Apple’s share of the tablet market had risen to 68% from 54.7% in Q4 last year despite a drop in its [...]
Barnes & Noble CEO says Nook will be getting NFC
05/01/2012, Things in the e-book industry are getting more interesting. Microsoft’s strategic partnership with Barnes and Noble intensified the excitement with the Redmond giant investing at least $605 million in a new subsidiary called “Newco” which reportedly includes the Nook e-reader. [...]
Microsoft announces $300 million strategic partnership with Barnes & Noble
04/30/2012, Today Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have announced what they’re calling a “strategic partnership” in which Microsoft invested a whopping $300 million. So what will Microsoft be getting for their money? We all know that Microsoft is launching their Windows [...]
Nook Audio headphones fails at surprise
04/18/2012, We did talk about how there was a placeholder for the Nook Audio on Barnes & Noble’s website at the turn of this month, and boy were the majority misled into thinking that the Nook Audio is a new kind [...]
Barnes & Noble to launch front-lit Nook e-reader?
04/12/2012, A few days ago, it was reported that there was a possibility of Amazon working on a front-lit e-reader. Well it looks like the idea of a front-lit e-reader is one that is shared by both Amazon and Barnes & [...]
Barnes & Noble NOOK Audio spotted
04/04/2012, Now, we do know that Barnes & Noble has come up with their fair share of e-book readers in the past, and while those did not sell as well as Apple’s iPad, they have sold enough to remain in business. [...]
NOOK Simple touch hacked to work as a keyboard
03/16/2012, While the NOOK Simple Touch is a device designed to read eBooks, Andrew (a self-proclaimed cartoon rabbit) decided to turn it into a keyboard that could mimic the function of the Optimus Maximus keyboard (a keyboard with LCD screens in [...]
Barnes & Noble now allows NOOK Tablets to store more personal content
03/14/2012, Branes & Noble has announced today that starting this week, NOOK Tablet owners can take their tablets into any Barnes & Noble bookstore nationwide, and have a trained “Nookseller” repartition the tablet’s internal memory. Just in case you didn’t know, [...]
NOOK Tablet gets Ice Cream Sandwich with CyanogenMod 9
03/07/2012, Good news for NOOK users out there, the tablet can now be upgraded to Android Ice Cream Sandwich – if you don’t mind loading up a custom ROM onto it. Some developers have managed to port CyanogenMod 9 onto the [...]
Barnes & Noble 8GB NOOK Tablet now available
02/21/2012, Yesterday there were rumors about Barnes & Noble releasing a cheaper version of its NOOK Tablet today, and it looks like they were right on the dot. Barnes & Noble today announced the launch of the 8GB version of its [...]
Barnes & Noble to announce new Nook device this spring?
01/30/2012, It was only a couple of months ago that Barnes & Noble released their latest Nook tablet, but if a recent report in the New York Times is right on the money, it seems that the company may have a [...]
NOOK Tablet downgraded and auto update blocked
12/22/2011, Earlier today we reported about how to prevent your Kindle Fire from receiving automatic updates so you can keep root, and it looks like the Kindle Fire isn’t the only tablet that requires such a workaround. Remember the NOOK Tablet [...]
NOOK Tablet latest firmware update disables sideloading
12/20/2011, The version 1.4.1 update for NOOK Tablets has started rolling out, but it looks like it comes with some unwanted features. According to reports online from XDA-developers and the B&N community, the update disables the tablet’s ability to sideload apps [...]
