The Kindle Touch Can Recognize Your Handwriting [Video]
15/02/2012 |
If you thought the Kindle Touch was limited to page-turn taps and a pokey on-screen keyboard, it's time to re-evaluate. A start-up is now demonstrating software that lets the eReader handle handwriting recognition.More »...
Amazon's Kindle Fire Will Become To the Video Industry What the iPod Was To the Music Industry [Kindle Fire]
Founding online video startups of his own and working as a principal analyst for Frost and Sullivan, Dan Rayburn is familiar with the inner working of tech companies. And he's put this knowledge to good use on his blog StreamingMedia.com. Today, Dan argues that the Amazon Kindle Fire will jumpsta...
Amazon's Kindle E-Books Welcome HTML5 With Open Arms [Kindle]
The ePub e-book standard has always been built on top of HTML. As has MOBI. But now, Amazon is taking it one step further with their Kindle Format 8 standard, supporting HTML5-based formatting options. Future Kindle Fire owners, be happy.More »
Barnes & Noble Might Be Ruining Comic Books for Everyone [Comic Books]
Comic books on tablets are great. They're one of the best parts of owning one, actually. But the backlash from DC making a bunch of its most popular graphic novels exclusive to Amazon could muck things up for everyone.More »
iPad vs. Kindle vs. Nook - which one's better for you?
Coffee lover, e-reader aficionado, and Instapaper developer Marco Arment put together what he describes as an informal survey of the current library landscape, including iPad and iBooks, Amazon’s Kindle and Kindle app, the Nook color, and Kobo. If you're going to primarily read periodical...
This is why Apple needs China
An Apple store in China.China Telecom Corp., the No. 3 player in the Chinese mobile market and the world’s largest CDMA operator, has managed to add 9 million subscribers in the third quarter and 26.4 million so far this year. That’s almost twice the 4.7 million added during the quart...
Amazon Prime Subscribers Can Borrow Kindle Books for Free [Amazon]
This morning Amazon launched their Kindle Owners' Lending Library which lets owners of their popular ebook reader, who also subscribe to their Prime service, choose from thousands of free titles to borrow without a due date.More »
Amazon Is Letting Publishers Ruin The Kindle (Updated) [Kindle]
I'm reading 1Q84, Haruki Murakami's long-awaited new book. In hardback, it's 944 pages and weighs several pounds. I am a pasty blogger with weak arms and soft hands, so the Kindle version seemed like a no-brainer.More »
Audible Launches a Web-Based Store to Bypass Apple's Rules
Rather than complying with Apple’s App Store terms and throwing the Cupertino company 30% of every sale it makes, Audible has launched an iPhone-friendly web app that allows users to add a bookmark to their home screen for quick and easy purchasing.The Audible app is still available in the ...
Amazon Places Kindle Fire Products In New "Seesaw" Spinoff [Amazon]
Presumably meant as a way to improve investment opportunities into the upcoming Kindle Fire tablet and other related products, Amazon has spun that device and the Fire brand into a new company called Seesaw LLC.More »
The Original Kindle Was So Fugly Because of the BlackBerry [Amazon]
Looking back at the Kindle's history, that original Kindle was pretty rip your eyes out ugly, huh? An odd shape with quirky buttons and even stranger scroll wheel...God who thought of that? Apparently, RIM. Jeff Bezos loved his Blackberry so much he based the Kindle's design off of his favorite g...
