04/26/2011, Boingo has just announced their latest Wi-Fi App for the Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, where it will be a free NOOK App that can be downloaded through the Barnes & Noble NOOK Bookstore. This comes about after an agreement with Barnes & Noble, being part of Boingo’s first eReader partnership. Just what is the Boingo Wi-Fi app capable of doing? For starters, it will enable access to over 325,000 […]

04/26/2011, One of the best things about owning paperback books is that you can attend book signings of your favorite authors for them to leave their signatures on your books. It seems like Barnes & Noble has realized the importance of a book signing and will be including a new feature in their NOOKcolor tablets to help improve the situation. While it definitely won’t be the same as a regular book […]

04/25/2011, Barnes & Noble has announced that Nook Color, the Android ebook/tablet, has been updated to Android 2.2 (codenamed FroYo) and will now feature Nook Apps, an application market where users can find popular applications such as Angry Birds, Epicurious, Uno, Lonely Planet and so on…  That also seems to imply that the regular Android market won’t be accessible. With Android 2.2, Nook Color also gets a better web experience: now […]

03/28/2011, Isn’t it strange that while Barnes & Noble wanted to roll out an e-book reader in the form of the NOOKColor, they never really thought of turning it into an iPad rival, but we guess that market forces decided to come in and make that decision on behalf of Barnes & Noble. It seems that the company has already shipped three million units of the NOOKColor since it rolled out […]

03/21/2011, Microsoft has just been reported to be going after Barnes & Noble for using Android on their Nook tablet. Android, which has been alleged to infringe upon certain Microsoft-owned patents is the operating system used in the tablet and it looks like Microsoft is keen on taking action against manufacturers that make use of it. Microsoft previously did the same thing against Motorola and HTC and now it looks like […]

02/24/2011, Barnes & Noble has just updated their NOOK app for the Android operating system and brings a bunch of useful new features to the eBook reader. Now at version 2.5, Android smartphone and 7″ tablet users will get a new library grid view, a wish list feature as well as a download progress meter and other enhancements. In the press release, B&N also mentioned that this spring, they will be […]

01/24/2011, Let’s face it, among all the dedicated e-book readers out there, it is the Amazon Kindle that is king of the hill, although it does have its fair share of flaws. Barnes & Noble’s foray into this niche market has resulted in the Nook 3G, but the company apparently decided that it is time to phase out their original E Ink reader, so if you have been hankering after the […]

01/11/2011, While Barnes & Noble probably didn’t intend for it to be that way, its NOOKcolor eBook reader is a popular device for hackers out there. When it comes to installing alternative operating systems, Ubuntu Linux is a popular choice, as the Nexus S recently found out. Now folks over at the XDA Developers Forum have decided to cram an Ubuntu installation into the NOOKcolor, and it looks good. As with […]

12/30/2010, Is this some form of hacking-protection built into the NOOKcolor? The eBook reader is a pretty popular item from Barnes & Noble and folks have found out that it makes a pretty decent 7-inch Android tablet if you root the system and open it up to third party apps. Of course, that isn’t officially supported and now users are reporting that they’ve experienced errors with their rooted units, which show […]

12/30/2010, Barnes & Noble has announced that the Nook has officially become their “Biggest Bestseller” – ever (B&N is a 40-year old company). B&N has announced that the Nook Color has been selling very well and is the number one selling gift of the holiday season. And of course, the sales of NOOKbooks have been tracking the hardware sales: one million have been sold on Christmas day alone – that’s what […]

12/30/2010, Turns out that Kodak wasn’t the only company out there who wasn’t prepared enough for the onslaught of traffic from the Christmas crowd. Folks out there have been complaining about the fact that Barnes & Noble’s servers were unable to handle the influx of new NOOK users on Christmas Day and continued to experience issues on Sunday. The increase in traffic was also probably due to the reduction of the […]

12/29/2010, It has been discovered that Barnes & Noble have made trademark filings for the Nook 2/Nook2 and Nook Kids, possibly hinting at some upcoming products. Another trademark that was also discovered was the Nooksellers trademark, possibly aimed at an unknown customer service feature through email kiosks and the phone. No specific details were mentioned about these devices, but it’s speculated that such products might surface in 2011. Considering that we […]

12/29/2010, Rooting a device pretty much allows you to install any app you want on it, and the Barnes & Noble NOOK is a common victim of this. Now some folks out there probably like ironic situations as they’ve decided to root a NOOKcolor and get Amazon’s Kindle reading app installed on it, ensuring that there will be plenty of unhappy faces at Barnes & Noble’s HQ this week. The rooting […]

12/20/2010, Barnes & Noble has taken the proactive step to upgrade their very own Nook Color e-book readers to Android 2.2 Froyo from January 2011 onwards – which isn’t too far away actually, as we are less than a fortnight away from the new year. This move will see the Nook Color as part of the tablet market, and it could very well be Barnes & Noble’s intention of doing so. […]