I have a Kindle Fire and do enjoy using it (for the most part) — love the form factor, enjoy the apps that I can get for it and am very pleased with the Kindle eReader app and ability to share books across all our Kindles. But when we were offered an opportunity to check out the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 a few days early, we jumped at the chance. The Kindle Fire is great at what it does, but its custom Android O/S, non-standard Web browser, limited selection of apps, lack of expandable storage and
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in full swing at the Los Angeles Convention Center as it officially kicked off today and will run through June 7th. So what’s new at this year’s convention? Read on to find out more … Continue reading → E3 Recap: Wii U, SmartGlass, Wonderbook and Watch Dogs is a post from: SiliconANGLE We’re now available on the Kindle! Subscribe today . Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : SiliconANGLE Discovery Date : 05/06/2012 03:53 Number of articles : 2
Today is May 10th. On this date in 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was appointed as acting director of the FBI. He became the official director later that year. Hoover wielded tremendous power during his 48 year tenure, and [redacted] from the [redacted] six chickens [redacted] threw the bottle at the midget [redacted] so everyone just ate the soup. Also on this date, in 1863, Confederate General “Stonewall”… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Red State Discovery Date : 09/05/2012 21:48 Number of articles : 2
This & That: Know This: Argentina has approved a sweeping transgender bill of rights. All seven Harry Potter books will be available from the Kindle store June 19. The Colbert Report welcomes its first-ever engagement. The guys behind Scary Movie plan to parody The Hunger Games with The Starving Games . Read This: The story of how Tupperware almost didn’t happen. A new obesity in America report paints… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Daily What Discovery Date : 10/05/2012 03:00 Number of articles : 2
Amazon’s popular Kindle Fire tablet now has access to an unofficial Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update. Members of the xda-developers forum recently managed to get a “pre-alpha” version of Android 4.0 running on Amazon’s new slate. The installation is based on the popular CyanogenMod 9 and while the ROM is working well in this early stage, there are still a number of bugs that need to be ironed… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Boy Genius Report Discovery Date : 26/12/2011 16:54 Number of articles : 2
Good news for the folks who can’t afford to break the bank for a shady overpriced iPad2 … Amazon just unveiled their new tablet — the Kindle Fire and it’s sposed to be very comparable. At a press event in New York City on Wedesnday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the wraps off the company’s tablet offering. The Kindle Fire will sell for $199, will run a modified version of Google’s Android operating system, will feature a 7-inch display and will be deeply integrated with Amazon’s cloud storage system and its massive online content library of books, music and more. According to AllThingsD’s live blog of the event, pre-orders open for the Fire on September 28; devices will ship November 15. Ahead of the official announcement, Bezos gave Bloomberg Businessweek some of the details about the tailor-made OS and the content that will be available on the Fire. “Amazon has painted over the rough surfaces of Google’s Android operating system with a fresh and easy-to-use interface and tied the device closely to its own large and growing content library,” Bloomberg explains, based on a briefing from Bezos. “Kindle Fire owners can watch the film Rio, scroll through magazines such as The New Yorker or Esquire, and access their music collection on Amazon’s servers.” The device will also run a custom-built “split browser” called Amazon Silk, which “accelerates the power of the mobile device hardware by using the computing speed and power of the Amazon Web Services Cloud,” according to a statement provided by Amazon. “The Silk browser software resides both on Kindle Fire and on the massive server fleet that comprises the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2),” Amazon’s statement also reads. “With each page request, Silk dynamically determines a division of labor between the mobile hardware and Amazon EC2 (i.e. which browser sub-components run where) that takes into consideration factors like network conditions, page complexity, and cached content.” GDGT’s Ryan Block notes that the WiFi-only Kindle Fire is merely a “stopgap” product, hence its pre-holiday release. Writes Block, “[M]y sources tell me the second-gen Kindle tablet will be out in Q1 of 2012 — yes, that soon.” This Kindle Fire definitely sounds like it can compete, especially since Amazon has such great ebook services. Would you cop one of these or are you Team Apple all the way? Source
There are a bunch of e-readers out there to choose from. But once you do choose one, you’re usually stuck using that device’s online bookstore. That’s where this nifty app from Hamster comes in. It can convert any text file or e-book format to play nice with your device. It works with PDFs, Kindle Books, ePub books, you name it. All you do is drag and drop the files you want to covert, select your… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Silicon Alley Insider Discovery Date : 05/07/2011 16:19 Number of articles : 2
Engadget sits down with Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist Mark Doherty to try out his peer-to-peer video call concept app on Android. By engadget Tags : Doherty , adobe , air , call , featured , features , flash , hands-on , mark , p2p , peer , to , video
