Those of you who have been waiting for the iPad 3 are going to get your wish today. Apple is expected to announce the third generation iPad and make it available for shipment starting a week from the upcoming Friday (March 16th). The device is going to have a much better display, a faster processor, [...]

The Kindle Fire is a very decent Android tablet that has captured the attention of plenty of folks already. Amazon has sold millions of Kindle Fire units already. That should be great news for the company. But it does seem that the Kindle Fire has started cannibalizing e-reader sales. According to Digitimes, global shipments of [...]

Apple will introduce its latest tablet to the market on March 7th. It is expected to have a better display, faster processor, more RAM, bigger battery, and more powerful cameras. All signs suggests that the iPad 3 will be highly popular. A recent study by the folks at InMobi suggests that 29% of mobile web [...]

Apple has gone out of its way to claim that the Kindle Fire and iPad are two different devices for two very different audiences. That does not mean the company is not interested in taking some marketshare away from Amazon in the tablet PC market. Amazon has managed to gain traction with the Kindle Fire [...]

In the past few months, we have written extensively on how Apple has backstabbed publishers with some of the policies it has adopted for iOS apps. It seems Apple is not done making dubious decisions. According to Seth Godin, Apple has rejected his Stop Stealing Dreams work and won’t carry it for having multiple links [...]

Fans of Harry Potter titles are going to be happy to know that those books will be available in public and school libraries through OverDrive. It will handle the distribution of e-books and digital audiobooks in English and over 20 other languages. These titles will be available in over 18000 libraries around the globe. J.K. Rowling’s [...]

Many e-book addicts use their iPads to get their readings done on a daily basis. The iPad is one of the best tablets around and has reached millions of homes already. On March 7th, the latest generation of this tablet will be announced. There have been plenty of rumors about the device having a better [...]

When it comes to screen sizes of gadgets, not everyone has the same taste. Some people love having very large screens while some of us are more productive on smaller devices. We have seen plenty of 7 inch tablets released to the market in the past couple of years. Many of them have been busts. [...]

B&N may have failed to capture the #1 position in the e-reader / tablet markets, but it is staying somewhat competitive with Amazon. B&N NOOKs are fun devices to play around with. Not only they are decent tablets/e-readers (depending on the model you pick up), they are hackable too. In fact, we have seen a [...]

In the past, we have criticized the iPad for being too distracting. But there are a number of valuable educational, interactive apps available for this platform. iPad users can take advantage of these apps to master science, learn a thing or two about literature, or teach their kids math and basic language skills. I am [...]

NOOK devices are fun to play around with. They have a lot of merits and make great Kindle competitors. Of course, the fact that hackers release new hacks for them all the time has helped too. The latest hack, which was shared at the XDA forums, enables fast refresh mode on the NOOK Touch. The [...]

If you have noticed the Kindle Store having less e-books these days, it is due to the fact that it does. Amazon has removed nearly 5000 eBooks from the Kindle store after the Independent Publisher Group refused to sign a new contract with Amazon. It is not surprising that some of these publishers don’t feel [...]

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 [...]