Amazon will be rolling out lending features to its Kindle e-book reader “later this year,” according to a company blog post. A similar feature exists for Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-book reader, which competes with the Kindle.
Lending books to other Kindle owners is a welcome addition to the popular e-book reader’s feature set, but …
Retail giant Best Buy is getting in on the 7-inch Android tablet action that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab is promising this holiday season.
The iPads and Tablets section of Best Buy’s website links to the Verizon and Sprint versions of the 3G-enabled Galaxy Tab, which are both priced at $650. That’s a bit curious, as Verizon will be …
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The $28 World’s Largest Gummy Worm weighs three pounds, has a five-inch girth, measures 26 inches long, and contains 4,000 calories. Bet you can’t eat just one! The World’s Largest Gummy Bear seems dainty now.
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App stores are all the rage right now. App stores, app stores, app stores! They’re on our phones, they’re on the web, they’re coming to Macs, they’re coming to PCs—they’re here to stay.
While most app stores function similarly to one another on the surface, what goes on behind the scenes of a particular app store varies from one …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
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Well, that’s not good. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ABC, CBS, and NBC are all blocking their own streaming TV content from playing inside the Google TV web browser. I can confirm that ABC and CBS are doing so, but I’m currently able to play NBC shows without any problems.
The Hulu.com website, which is jointly owned …
The long-awaited HP Slate is finally here. And it’s not that it’s being announced now and will be out in a few months—it’s here, here.
The problem is that it costs $799. That shouldn’t concern us, though, because this Windows 7 tablet “is designed specifically for business, enterprise and vertical customers.” Consumers will get …
I’m bullish on Google TV. Bullish. Well, bullish on the concept of Google TV and how it integrates with the current way most people consume television and the way we’ll all consume television in the future. Whether Google TV as a platform ultimately succeeds or fails doesn’t matter as much as the method with which Google has fused TV …
Remember photos? Like the ones you’d hold in your hands? They still exist!
You can magically convert your Facebook photos to the kind you hold in your hands through the miracle of “photo development,” which is available through Kodak’s aptly-named Picture Kiosks found in Target stores.
The Facebook-infused kiosks are “now available …
Among the announcements from Apple’s press event yesterday, we heard about the new Mac App Store. If you’ve ever downloaded an app to an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, you’ll feel right at home with this. The Mac App Store will be rolled out within 90 days, according to Apple.
Unlike with Apple’s mobile devices, you’ll still be able to …
Some people will never give up their iPhones. Or their Android phones. Or their BlackBerry phones. Or whatever. Windows Phone 7 will appeal to those people as much as any other platform that competes with the one they love.
Those people constitute a tiny sliver of fiercely loyal customers, though. For anyone else either …
Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage today to announce the new iLife ’11 software suite, FaceTime availability for Mac users, Apple’s upcoming operating system “OS X Lion,” and new 13.3- and 11.6-inch models of Apple’s ultraportable MacBook Air notebooks. Here’s a look at what’s new.
iLife ’11
Apple has updated its iLife …
