Updates to Amazon’s Kindle have been fast and furious lately. Today Amazon introduced a new Kindle DX with a lower price and higher contrast display. The 9.7-inch DX now comes in a graphite colorway with an updated e-ink display that’s 50 percent higher in contrast to the previous model for cleaner text and sharper images. …
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Kindle App Hits Android Market
And with that, Amazon’s Kindle platform slowly oozes its way into another crop of smartphone handsets. Android owners (version 1.6 and higher) can now download the Kindle app from the Android Market and synchronize books across all the other Kindle-infused gadgets strewn about the home.
Still no support for magazines or newspapers …
Kindle Apps For Apple Products Get New Functionality
Kindle users on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch are getting an update today that adds the ability to view embedded video and listen to audio clips in Kindle books. I guess that’s cool. Rick Steves’ Rick Steves’ London and Terry Golway’s Together W Cannot Fail are the first in the Kindle Store with said features. A gaggle …
Book Fight! Amazon Drops 6-inch Kindle Price to $189
That was quick. In response to Barnes & Noble dropping the price of its 3G-enabled Nook to $199 and announcing a Wi-Fi version at $149, Amazon dropped the price of its 3G-enabled Kindle e-book reader to $189.
As stated in the Nook post from earlier today, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Amazon put out a Wi-Fi version of the Kindle …
Barnes & Noble Nook 3G Drops to $199, New Nook Wi-Fi at $149
Barnes & Noble has announced a $60 price reduction for its 3G-enabled Nook e-book reader, bringing the current price to just $199. The company also announced a Wi-Fi version today that’s selling for $149 and expected to start shipping out this week.
This is bad news for Amazon, who’s popular Kindle e-book reader had been priced …
Kindle For Android Coming This Summer – Includes In App Purchases
Now that Android’s market share is steadily climbing the charts, Amazon has decided to announce a Kindle app for the Google platform. It launches this summer and allows users to browse the Kindle store, switch between five different fonts and last page read synchronization across all Kindle supported platforms. Oh, and you can buy …
Kobo eReader from Borders Now Available for Preorder at $150
Like the idea of the Kindle or the Nook but don’t want to shell out $260? Borders has you covered with the $150 Kobo eReader. It’s lacking the all-over 3G wireless connections found in its competitors but it costs over $100 less and features a Bluetooth connection that can be used to synchronize it “wirelessly with select …
Kindle Update Coming In May, Social Networking In Tow
Sound the alarm. Raise the roof. Do a jig. And have a seat for some exciting Kindle news.
Sometime towards the latter half of May, Kindle owners will receive a notification to update software to v2.5. A handful of folks around the Web were quick to jump on the social networking integration, which is nice and all but the other …
Here’s What the Kindle App for iPad Looks Like
We’re less than two weeks out from the iPad launch, so it’s no surprise that a plethora of companies have begun revealing tidbits about their respective apps. Late last night Amazon did just that by announcing the “Kindle Apps for tablet computers including the iPad”. You’ll be able to view your library of e-books in one of two …
Amazon Pushes Kindle For Mac
Mac users can now download Amazon’s Kindle software, which will synchronize books between an actual Kindle, compatible mobile devices (currently iPhone/iPod touch and BlackBerry), and the desktop client.
Like the PC version, you’ll only be able to access your books—no magazines, newspapers, or blogs can be read on anything except
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The Daily Dose
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Today in Techland: Fiasco! If you were looking for us earlier, you may have noticed that we were nowhere to be found. Let’s set the record straight: We were just trying on our invisibility cloak. It worked, swimmingly.
Anywho, today we saw three new execs named to head DC Entertainment: Jim Lee, Dan …
The Daily Dose
Friday, Feb. 12, 2010
Today in Techland: Peter let us in on his initial thoughts of Blackberry’s Twitter app, (Hint: He didn’t love it.) Douglas brought us inside the fiftieth issue of Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli’s series DMZ, and Gary showed us the new God of War lll trailer.
And of course, in due festive fashion, we …