All the stories tagged with kindle
Amazon Debuts Scrabble App For Kindle
09/27/2010, This is far from anything that will challenge Apple’s App Store and the Android Market anytime soon, but Amazon’s Kindle has just received its first premium app in the form of Electronic Arts’ Scrabble. The app is already available for [...]
Kindle for Android gets new update, becomes better
09/23/2010, It makes perfect sense for a new software update to deliver better performance, although there have been times in the past where an update was pulled since it made the device run amok after being upgraded. Amazon made no such [...]
Amazon Kindle 3 Gets Hacked & Jailbroken
09/22/2010, Amazon’s latest reading device, the Kindle 3, can also be hacked and jailbroken like previous generation Kindles, giving it access to more fonts and screensaver options, and USB networking. Slashgear posted news of the hack on their blog, and you [...]
Kindle 3.0.2 Beta Firmware Now Available for Download
09/21/2010, If you own an Amazon Kindle e-reader hardware, you may want to grab the Kindle 3.0.2 beta firmware, which is now available for download from Amazon. The firmware brings a Web browser along with some bug fixes that were found [...]
New Kindle Ad Takes Jab at iPad
09/13/2010, Amazon’s recent Kindle ad highlights the benefits of reading with e-ink technology under direct sunlight while taking aim at Apple’s iPad, which functions as both an electronic book reader and a multi-function device offering games, browsing, music listening, and entertainment [...]
Kindle 3 Software Update Allows On-Device Amazon Account Creation
09/10/2010, The Kindle–and by proxy the Kindle 3–should be able to create Amazon accounts on the device just by the nature of its untethered access to books on Amazon’s storefront, but that wasn’t the case prior to Kindle software version 3.0.1. [...]
Best Buy to carry Amazon’s Kindle e-reader
09/09/2010, Amazon has decided to take a different route with its Kindle e-reader by allowing Best Buy to carry said device from this fall onwards, which would make Best Buy follow the footsteps of Target and Staples. One can speculate that [...]
Amazon begins to ship new Kindles a couple of days earlier
08/25/2010, Word has come in that Amazon started to ship its next generation Kindle 3 eReader devices a couple of days earlier than expected, and has already been touted by the folks over at Amazon themselves to be the “fastest-selling” Kindle [...]
Amazon won’t limit itself to just Kindle hardware
08/10/2010, Amazon’s most famous hardware to date is the Kindle e-book reader, but is that all the company is working on in the future? Perhaps not, because when one pays closer attention to the job board for Lab 126, a division [...]
UK Kindle Store now open
08/05/2010, Amazon.co.uk has started to ship its recently announced Kindle to folks living in the UK, and in the process have also opened the UK Kindle Store. This means £149 will net you the 3G model, while for £30 less, the [...]
New Amazon Kindle Sold Out Till Sept 4th
08/02/2010, Amazon’s third-generation Kindle has only been on the market for just a few days but sales seem to be pretty good as both the 3G and Wi-Fi versions have been listed as “temporarily sold out”, with new orders shipping as [...]
Amazon Announces Its Attractively-priced Next-generation Kindle
07/28/2010, Amazon has just launched its next-generation Kindle eBook reader, and this latest iteration claims to be 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter, while still maintaining the 6-inch reading area. While its features will be attractive to many folks, which [...]
Amazon’s 6-inch Kindle is now unavailable
07/27/2010, Could the unavailability of the 6-inch Kindle on Amazon’s website point towards the impending release of a next generation Kindle which has long been rumored to ship sometime next month? This is the first shortage of its kind since last [...]
