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DC graphic novels now available on Nook Color and Tablet
06/26/2012, Barnes & Noble, the largest book retailer in the U.S., has announced a partnership today with DC Entertainment to include DC Comics and Vertigo characters to the Nook Tablet and Nook Color. Users of the Nook for Android app will [...]
Mac OS spotted on Nook Simple Touch
06/17/2012, Apple’s collection of hardware has grown to sport an extremely impressive line these days, that it is always nice to have a blast from the past – case in point, someone who decided to install a 16-year-old version of Mac [...]
Nook Tablet receives experimental CyanogenMod 9 nightlies
05/28/2012, Before I proceed, here is a quick refresher course on just what the Nook Tablet is all about – this is a 7″ tablet that sports a 1024 x 600 pixel display, running on a 1GHz TI OMAP4 dual-core processor [...]
300 Nook Color tablets with CyanogenMod run fireworks display sample
05/27/2012, Now this is definitely an interesting take on what a tablet can do in the world of advertising as well as creating social awareness. In fact, up to 300 Nook Color tablets that were running on a customized version of [...]
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 [...]
Barnes & Noble NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight ships earlier
04/24/2012, Barnes & Noble has decided to go against the grain and ship the NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight earlier than expected, targeting those who placed a pre-order for the device. The NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight has been touted to [...]
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 [...]