The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-book readers designed and marketed by Amazon.com. Amazon Kindle devices enable users to shop for, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media via wireless networking. The hardware platform, developed by Amazon.com subsidiary Lab126, began as a single device and now comprises a range of devices, including dedicated e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays, and Android-based tablets with color LCD screens.
Got a Kindle Fire tablet? Starting today, you can get new features including deeper Goodreads integration and a function called Second Screen that can wirelessly “fling” video content from a Kindle… Read more »
Amazon has announced a new virtual desktop service, WorkSpaces, hosted on Amazon’s EC2 platform. The immediate impact is on the virtualization marketplace for VMware, Citrix, and others. But it also opens the… Read more »
More powerful devices, better data-sync capabilities, and peer-to-peer device communications are dramatically impacting what users expect from their apps and which technologies developers will need to utilize to meet those expectations. Read more »
No more silly rules on using electronic devices on take-off and landing. Amazon is marking the occasion by “thanking” the FAA and offering discounts. Read more »
Amazon’s new Kindle First gives Prime members the chance to read an ebook from Amazon Publishing in advance of its publication each month for free. Read more »
Amazon (s AMZN) on Wednesday launched “a literary journal for the digital age,” Day One (not to be confused with the journaling app of the same name), which will publish the work of… Read more »
Barnes & Noble released its new e-reader, the $119 Nook GlowLight, Wednesday. It’s in stores and for sale on BN.com now. The biggest difference between it and the Kindle Paperwhite is… Read more »
Amazon officially rolled out Kindle MatchBook on Tuesday. The program lets publishers and authors bundle print book purchases with discounted ebook editions. Read more »