Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months
The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012, the K...
Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months
The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November 2011 to January 2012, the K...
Tablet and e-reader ownership jumped 60 percent after holiday season
E-reader and tablet ownership nearly doubled over the 2011 holiday season, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. The percentage of people who reported owning a tablet jumped to 19 percent from December 2011 to J......
Amazon moves 4 million Kindle units in December
Amazon is bragging about sales numbers for its Kindle products, reporting that over 1 million devices were sold per week in December. The company did not report numbers for individual products, but noted that the Kindle Fire has...
Kindle Fire to get over-the-air update for performance issues
Amazon has promised a major over-the-air update for the Kindle Fire in the next two weeks, according to the New York Times. The update will fix some of the device's major flaws, including poor performance and the inability to...
Don’t hand it to Junior just yet: Kindle Fire lacks key purchase controls
Amazon's Kindle Fire launched this week, but wait a second before sticking one under the Christmas tree for Little Timmy. The security settings that control buying items don't cover most of the ways someone can...
Feature: Don’t call it a tablet: the Kindle Fire reviewed
Before it was announced, the Kindle Fire was rumored to be Amazon's entry into the Android tablet market. To get a serious tablet, even a small one, at the Kindle Fire's price of $199 would...
Stanza iOS app updated, but Amazon is abandoning it
Stanza was one of the first apps I downloaded when I got an iPhone. It pre-dated Amazon's release of the Kindle iOS app and Apple's own iBooks app, so for awhile Stanza was the best option out there for reading eBooks on an iPhone.
Not long after ...
Hands-on with Kindle Cloud Reader: can it replace a native iPad app?
Amazon has finally launched a Web-based version of its Kindle reader, allowing users to read their Kindle purchases on any device with a Web browser, without having to download special software. The Web-based reader, called Kind...
Some glaring holes, and not in the plot: hands-on with the iriver Story HD
The iriver Story HD, a new e-reader making its way onto the market, is billed as the first Google eBooks-oriented reader. The construction and interface is very similar to the latest Kindle, and the WiFi...
