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Amazon has released an updated version of its e-reading app for iOS customers, Kindle for iPhone and iPad. Version 3.7 targets the visually impaired.
A new set of accessibility features is available in Kindle 3.7 for iOS, making it “easier for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libr... |
1 May 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Special deals are awesome, and Amazon figured the impending Easter Holiday would be a good reason to implement one for its latest e-book reader. Thus, the Kindle Paperwhite can be bought for just $99 / €76 by entering the coupon code “KINDLEPW.” You all should hurry though. Amazon will only maintai... |
29 April 2013
04:03 GMT |
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The official Kindle app for Windows 8 has recently received a new round of improvements, most of which are supposed to address some previously reported bugs experienced by users.
According to the release notes published in the Windows Store, version 1.1.3.1 fixes a registration issue for customers with multiple Wind... |
24 April 2013
15:31 GMT |
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Software updates can go a long way towards making devices more fun and easy to use, so Amazon is using the idea quite liberally. Most recently, we have learned that the online store will send Android updates to the Kindle Fire second-generation tablet, the Kindle Fire HD 7 tablet, and the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablet.... |
28 March 2013
09:06 GMT |
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The "internet" got all hot and bothered about a $99 Kindle Fire HD tablet supposedly coming from Amazon.
Companies don't normally comment on speculation and rumors like these and, more often than not, there is some truth to them.
This time around, Amazon was quick to pour water on the fire, it stated flat out... |
20 March 2013
14:29 GMT |
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Amazon has had a "Send to Kindle" browser extension available for a while, but it's now expanding the idea in a very obvious way, by offering a "Send to Kindle" button for websites.
Publishers, bloggers and so on will be able to add the button to their sites making it easy for readers to save the article for la... |
20 March 2013
05:06 GMT |
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Amazon’s Basic Kindle E-Reader has a new Firmware Update version 4.1.1, but unfortunately, this package has no change log whatsoever. So because of this, some forum users are not quite happy with the lack of transparency regarding the updates.
Despite this issue, we assume that there are some performance impro... |
6 March 2013
13:01 GMT |
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The Software Update version 7.2.3 for the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7" Tablet is now found on Softpedia. This package includes, as Amazon vaguely says, bug fixes and performance improvements.
There is no list for the exact fixes or improvements, although some users claim that it resolves the turning off predictive text ... |
26 February 2013
03:50 GMT |
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The latest system versions for Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch Tablet, namely 8.1.4, will improve performance and features on the device, as well as adding the subscribe option for the Kindle FreeTime Unlimited Application. From what users say, it seems like the touchscreen has been tweaked, auto correction f... |
25 February 2013
02:33 GMT |
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In a somewhat strange but perhaps expectable move, Amazon has unveiled its very own virtual currency dubbed Amazon Coins and restricted to its Kindle tablets for now.
The Coins are coming to the US in May and will enable users to buy apps, games or in-app content on their Kindle Fire.
Amazon plans to give away qu... |
5 February 2013
11:01 GMT |
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It took a while, but Amazon finally got around to launching its two popular e-book readers to the north of the United States. Canadians don't have to wait any longer for them.
Both the Kindle and the Kindle Paperwhite are now shipping in the country, for $89 and $199 Canadian dollars, respectively.
The price i... |
24 January 2013
07:49 GMT |
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Developer Irrational Games and publisher 2K Games have announced that BioShock Infinite: Mind in Revolt, a prequel novel published as an e-book, will be launched all over the world for the Amazon Kindle on February 12.
The entire novel will be free to all those who have pre-ordered the game via Amazon and will cost ... |
23 January 2013
04:49 GMT |
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Normally, to read an e-book on the Kindle e-reader, you have to go to Amazon and buy the book, then download it. This is straightforward enough, but not exactly the perfect option given that most books end up gathering dust on the memory card of the reader, or being deleted after being finished. To let people save ... |
19 January 2013
07:12 GMT |
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Amazon’s very own Kindle tool for Windows 8 has been updated with in-app store access, thus allowing users to purchase books and magazines without leaving the application.
The company has confirmed via the official changelog that the updated software comes with in-app purchases, but the store is only available... |
27 December 2012
11:03 GMT |
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More rumors on the upcoming Amazon smartphone have just surfaced in China. We reported back in July that Amazon planned to enter the smartphone market with its own device, though we did not have any details regarding its release.
Taiwan Economic News reports that several component manufacturers involved in the suppl... |
18 December 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Brazilians are getting a lot of love this holiday season from digital store companies, it seems. Both Amazon and Google are opening up shop there, making a lot of tablet users happy. Google is expanding its Play Store to cover movies and books for the first time in Brazil.
Meanwhile, Amazon, which has finally gotten... |
6 December 2012
05:31 GMT |
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The Kindle iOS app is now optimized for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, giving users the ability to access over 1,000,000 Kindle books, newspapers, magazines, textbooks and PDFs. The app also offers a new X-ray viewing option in version 3.5.
Amazon introduces X-Ray for Books, a new feature in its iOS client app th... |
5 December 2012
18:21 GMT |
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The Kindle Fire has plenty of competition this year, a lot more than a year ago when it launched, but Amazon has a few tricks up its sleeve this holiday season. One very interesting move is the Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, a new subscription service for kids.
The new Kindle Fires already have a FreeTime mode which put... |
5 December 2012
04:20 GMT |
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Amazon is once again boasting about how well its Kindles are selling. Now that it's got even more devices, unsurprisingly, even more of them are selling well. How well, no one knows, Amazon is content to just say it's always breaking records without actually giving any numbers.
Amazon sold more than twice ... |
28 November 2012
04:34 GMT |
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It appears that the rumors surrounding Amazon's entrance on the smartphone market with their own products were pretty accurate. While we still don't have an official confirmation from the giant retailer, one of the largest handset manufacturers, Foxconn has reportedly admitted it had landed orders from Ama... |
28 November 2012
00:30 GMT |
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Ebook readers are great for any kind of long(ish) form content even if that doesn't necessarily mean books. You're going to want to read a long article on your reader, or on your Kindle tablet for that matter, at your leisure rather than on your laptop.
There have been ways of getting web content onto your... |
7 November 2012
11:13 GMT |
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Calling it “the world’s most advanced 7” tablet,” Amazon has published a brief comparison spec sheet of its Kindle Fire HD alongside the iPad mini, citing tech-site Gizmodo to counter-attack Apple’s marketing pitch.
Apple advertises the iPad mini stating on its website that the display ... |
29 October 2012
06:03 GMT |
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Amazon has just released a new update for its book reader application for Android devices, Kindle. The software has been improved with support for new content and bug fixes.
Starting today, Kindle for Android supports manga books and titles with right-to-left vertical text. In addition, users will be able to send PD... |
26 October 2012
03:46 GMT |
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Owners of an iPhone or iPad reading their e-books on the Amazon Kindle application have a new update to install which includes several enhancements, including an X-Ray feature for Textbooks that offers access to important terms and concepts in a book.
The Kindle iOS app is now at version 3.4 and includes a new font ... |
25 October 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Amazon's European stores added the new Kindle devices to their product lists a while ago, but shipments have only now begun.
The Kindle Fire and Fire HD tablets, as well as the Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader, will be mostly identical to their American counterparts, except in one area: on-demand video.
Since A... |
25 October 2012
04:33 GMT |
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For all the fame they gained, the Kindle-series devices from Amazon had a pretty limited availability for a while, but customers from Europe and, now, Japan can buy them too.
The availability in Europe is not a new thing, but the existence of a Kindle Fire and Paperwhite supply in Japan most definitely is.
Unfortun... |
24 October 2012
04:09 GMT |
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Version 0.9.3 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre was announced on October 18, marking an important milestone for this amazing software. If you have an ebook reader, the Calibre software is a must. It does so many things for the avid reader, that it would take a lot of time to just enumerate all the... |
19 October 2012
02:47 GMT |
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Kindle Paperwhite is available to purchase on Amazon for a little over two weeks, but it seems that the first replacement parts have started to pop up on Ebay. It's not uncommon for devices to get replacement parts, but two weeks after a launch is considered to be a short window, especially because Kindle Paper... |
17 October 2012
12:31 GMT |
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The price fixing lawsuit involving several book publishers and Apple is already proving a boon for customers. Prices on some books have fallen because of the lawsuit and now Amazon is notifying users that they may be entitled to some refunds on books they bought for the past few years. The refunds aren't huge, ... |
15 October 2012
10:20 GMT |
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The media has been all over the Kindle Paperwhite e-reader from Amazon, but we feel that it might help to say what the device doesn't have, just to minimize the risks of people not getting what they expect. Prospective buyers from Europe may want to pay special attention, as the item is only available for... |
13 October 2012
06:38 GMT |
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Amazon is expanding its book-lending program for the Kindle to Europe. What this means is that Kindle users will be able to "borrow" ebooks they like, read them at leisure and return them when they're done. The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is only available to Amazon Prime subscribers.
Amazon Prime offer... |
12 October 2012
10:50 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite e-reader, which doesn't actually earn Amazon anything apparently (not directly anyway), will be released on October 25 in Germany, France, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The device gets its name from the special e-paper display that has a front lig... |
12 October 2012
06:07 GMT |
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For those who haven't heard of it before, or are still working on believing what Amazon is trying to do (and has seemingly, thus far at least, succeeded in doing), Amazon has reiterated the reason its tablets are so cheap. The Kindle Fire HD 4G LTE (set for November 2012 availability) is the only tablet in Ama... |
12 October 2012
04:19 GMT |
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E-reader users have no reason to look too deeply into how their gadget works, so long as they can read their books in peace and without lag- or visibility-induced annoyance, but there are also those who like to see what their devices are made of. As it happens, PowerbookMedic has posted a walkthrough on YouTube, wh... |
10 October 2012
03:29 GMT |
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Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite e-book reader, the newest such device from the company, has finally started reaching those who placed orders at the start of September. Owners will be able to enjoy a screen with 62% more pixels, a 25% higher contrast, a front light and a bunch of gimmicks. We described the device ... |
1 October 2012
10:39 GMT |
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Amazon launched the Paperwhite Kindle e-reader near the end of the first week of September 2012, which was almost four weeks ago.
Stockpiles aren't up to snuff though, and may not reach desired levels until late October, early November, possibly delaying availability.
The reason is twofold. For one, supply o... |
27 September 2012
09:23 GMT |
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Walmart has apparently just decided not to sell anymore Amazon Kindle tablets and eReaders. This is really bad news for Amazon and the modest pricing of its tablets was in perfect sync with Walmart’s “cheap and affordable” image.
Moreover, considering just how big Walmart is, Amazon is apparently l... |
21 September 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Version 0.8.70 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre was announced on September 21st, with some important new features and fixes.
Highlights of Calibre 0.8.70:
• Connecting MTP (non-disk-based) devices via USB is now supported. This category includes the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD;
• T... |
21 September 2012
03:49 GMT |
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When Amazon says Kindle now has “Lion gestures” don’t be quick to imagine that the e-reading app now performs head rubbing and social licking. What the developers mean is that you can now pan and swipe pages with your fingers in OS X Lion, Apple’s 2011 Mac OS.
A new set of gestures in OS X 10... |
10 September 2012
07:46 GMT |
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Microsoft isn't picky about where it gets its Bing users. If it has to pay Amazon to beef up numbers a bit, so be it. And Microsoft is probably paying quite a lot for the privilege of being the default search engine on the Amazon Kindle Fire.
The tablets are bound to sell in the millions, so Microsoft is more t... |
8 September 2012
08:21 GMT |
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We've heard about recycling broken devices, and even about chairs made out of random consumer electronics parts crushed together and molded.
Sebastian Schmeig and Silvio Lorusso have something to add to the realm of art constructed out of defective things.
They have published a book made of images of Kindle ... |
8 September 2012
07:19 GMT |
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Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD tablet has made waves today in the media and we reported here on the company’s claims about performance superiority over Nvidia’s Tegra 3 and here is Nvidia’s response, but the most spicy bit of information is in the shipping details.
The unpleasantly surprising fact u... |
7 September 2012
18:31 GMT |
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Book publishers, like record labels and Hollywood studios before them, are whining and throwing tantrums since they're not making as much money as they used to, which in the case of publishers may actually be true, unlike the other two. All the while, Amazon is wiping the floor with them.
To the book publishers... |
7 September 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Nvidia has apparently issued a swift response to Amazon’s CEO, Mr. Jeff Bezos that is claiming that the new OMAP 4470 processor inside the new Kindle Fire tablet is actually faster than Nvidia’s own Tegra 3 SoC.
We reported here on Amazon’s performance claims and we also detailed the particular arc... |
7 September 2012
09:31 GMT |
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In a bold statement, Amazon’s CEO, Mr. Jeff Bezos, claims that the processor inside the new tablets launched by the company today is actually faster than the popular Tegra 3 SoC designed by Nvidia. We were quite surprised with the claims as we know that these are both ARM processors that have multiple cores ba... |
7 September 2012
07:51 GMT |
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Amazon’s e-book readers are probably the best selling devices of their type, but the company knows it has to keep up with the competition and therefore it has just introduced some new models with new technology. The giant online seller is today presenting the Kindle Paperwhite. This is a 6” e-book reade... |
7 September 2012
06:21 GMT |
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Amazon knows that any e-book reader in search of a buyer has to fight off the ten or twenty media tablets that are placed right next to it on the store shelf.
Thus for this reason and in the light of the new Kindle Paperwhite launch, the company has dramatically slashed the price of the classic Kindle.
It is still... |
7 September 2012
05:01 GMT |
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The huge increase in tablet sales during the past two years is practically changing the whole IT industry. Suddenly Intel and Microsoft are no longer monopolies gathering most of the profits in their respective markets and new important players step up to the table. When all the PC sales during 2012 are projected to... |
7 September 2012
03:33 GMT |
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Amazon's big event, which it's been hyping up for the past week, is tonight or this morning, depending on where you live.
Expectations are high, a new Kindle Fire is coming, maybe two. Kindle ereaders are coming as well. The mythical phone may even make an appearance, if the latest rumor is to be believed... |
6 September 2012
08:21 GMT |
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The deluge of Kindle Fire rumors isn't stopping. This latest one is fairly obvious, Amazon is apparently going to launch an ad-supported version of the Kindle Fire to go alongside the regular one, just like it does with the e-ink Kindles. It seems that Amazon has two new Kindle Fire tablets, one being only a s... |
1 September 2012
09:11 GMT |
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