Twitter is one of the most exciting social networks around these days. It is quite addictive and has millions of active users. Twitter has been available for iOS and Android for quite a while. The latest update for this app brings a number of new features and is optimized for Ice Cream Sandwich. It is [...]

B&N has been trying its best to keep up with Amazon in the e-reader and tablet businesses. Amazon has been quite aggressive with its pricing strategy, which helped it capture the #2 position in the tablet market in the last quarter. B&N is planning to push the Kindle Fire harder with a 8 GB NOOK [...]

The Amazon Kindle Fire has a lot of merits as a tablet. It is cheap and quite a capable tablet. But it does not have an e-ink display. That means you are going to have a very difficult time using it under direct sunlight. Besides, it is not always easy on the eyes. We have [...]

Our tablets and smartphones are not made to handle liquid accidents well. Technologies such as Liquipel can make our gadgets waterproof in the future. But if you plan to keep your gadgets protected against liquid accidents today, you are going to need water resistant protective cases. Here are 3 water resistant Kindle Fire cases that [...]

It did not take Amazon too long to grab the #1 spot in the Android tablet market. While the iPad is still the king of tablets, the Kindle Fire is a solid number 2 in this highly competitive market. According to IHS iSuppli, Amazon is beating other Android tablet makers with its aggressive pricing strategy. [...]

It is only a matter of time before e-book publishers get more serious about going after e-book piracy (similar to what’s happening in the movie and music industries). Major book publishers have already managed to get two websites over e-book piracy. Seven members of the Association of American Publishers took legal action against www.library.nu and [...]

The Kindle Fire has quickly become one of the most popular tablets around. It is a very capable tablet and goes for a much lower price than the iPad. If you have picked up a Kindle Fire lately, you are going to need a case, screen protector, charger, and stand for it. These 30 Kindle [...]

Handwriting recognition technologies have been around on tablets for a long while. But we have not seen many dedicated e-book readers that support them. A Seattle-based company called Puzzazz has designed TouchWrite, a technology that recognizes letters and numbers on the Kindle Touch. Users can draw numbers and letters on their e-reader and have TouchWrite [...]

Apple and Amazon have had a very interesting relationship in the past few years. For years, the late Steve Jobs did not show a whole lot of respect for Amazon Kindle and the company’s efforts in this business. The current Apple CEO is not a fan of Amazon’s approach to making tablets either: Price is [...]

Amazon has already had a lot of success with the Kindle Fire. For a first generation device, the Kindle Fire has performed fairly well. Not every Kindle fans is happy with the screen size and overall design of this tablet though. According to Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartley, Amazon could bring a 9 inch Kindle [...]

It took Amazon a while to bring e-book lending to the Kindle platform. Kindle owners can borrow titles through OverDrive’s lending service. It seems Penguin won’t play ball with OverDrive though. Penguin is indeed ending its relationship with OverDrive and will stop offering e-books and digital audiobooks to libraries until it finds a new partner.

Many of our readers happen to be bloggers also. The majority of bloggers use WordPress to manage their content these days. Its app is already available for multiple mobile platforms. But WordPress has rolled out a new update that provides support for both the Kindle Fire and NOOK tablet devices. The all new Dashboard UI [...]

The iPad is already one of the most popular tablets around. Many of us use it to read our e-books, watch videos, and do all kinds of other neat things on it. It seems we do not have to wait too much longer to play with the iPad 3. Apple is expected to announce the [...]

It is no secret that some NOOK Simple Touch owners have been experiencing WiFi issues on their devices after updating their system to software version 1.10. B&N has confirmed that this issue has been known for some time and is working on ways to fix this issue. It has taken B&N quite a while to [...]

As the adoption rate for e-book increases, more authors are getting involved in this industry. Thankfully, there are a number of useful tools available to them to get their work to e-book stores fast. Booktango by Author Solutions aims to make life easier for authors. All one has to do is upload a book and [...]