Many have received a new Kindle with ads as a gift this holiday season. Amazon’s ads are not that annoying. But there are some folks who prefer not seeing them at all. Just like most smartphones, your e-reader can be jailbroken. The process is surprisingly easy. Y42K has published an easy to follow guide that [...]

The Kindle Fire is one of the most popular Android tablets already. It is a very compact device and costs under $200. But the software is not ideal for everyone. A hacker named Stephen (username g1011999 on YouTube) has managed to get Android 4.0.1 to run on the Kindle Fire. A video demonstration has already [...]

The good guys at FSCK are known for their Kindle hacks. Their latest experiment involves going around Whispernet to use a laptop’s Internet connection to access the Kindle store. The process involves enabling USB networking and using the debug mode to get the job done. I was at first hesitant about going through with the [...]