Though Barnes & Noble countered Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire by unveiling the Nook Tablet today, Amazon isn’t stopping in its tracks. In fact, even before the Kindle Fire hits stores, rumors already suggest that the company is prepping its follow-up device for early 2012. As you may know, rumors have circulated for months that Amazon …
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If you use an e-reader, it’s probably a Kindle, which means it can be a pain to use open-source e-book formats like EPUB. Calibre is a free, open-source e-book manager that lets users convert EPUB files to Kindle-readable MOBI files. Here’s how to use it: Download and install Calibre. When you first run it, Calibre will ask what language you …
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According to initial reports from Fortune’s Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Apple’s stock of iPhone 4S allocated for preorders in Hong Kong sold out in 10 minutes. Apple began the preordering Friday in China and 14 other countries. Ticonderoga’s Brian White, an analyst specializing in Apple’s business in China, reported that the window to reserve an iPhone 4S in China was short and …
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If you’ve preordered the Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble hopes you’re now having second thoughts. That’s the message of the just-announced $249 Nook Tablet, the successor to 2010’s Nook Color (which remains on the market for $199). The new 7-inch color tablet equals many of the basic specs of the Kindle Fire, but justifies its $50 price premium over …
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AT&T recorded a minor victory after Sprint Nextel was ordered to hand over internal documents to its rival. The two companies continue to be bitterly locked over AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Mobile USA, which Sprint has fiercely fought against. U.S. Special Master Richard Levie ruled yesterday that Sprint would have to hand over additional critical documents to AT&T that it …
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$180 isn’t a bad price for a Honeycomb tablet. Too bad that price doesn’t tell the whole story. Josh Miller/CNET I’m against signing up for multiyear contracts for tablets. The way I see it, the market is still too young to be committed to only one device for so long. My advice is the same my uncle gave me in …
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Image Composite by Joe Aimonetti A follow-up to 9to5Mac’s report on developer Steven Troughton-Smith’s porting of Siri to an iPhone 4 reveals that another developer, Ryan Petrich, has created a scenario for Siri to function on an iPhone 3GS, though performance is not very good. Last week Siri was hacked to run on an iPhone 4 by jailbreaking an iPhone …
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It may have the Fire, but now Amazon’s the one feeling Barnes & Noble’s heat. On September 28, Amazon sent shockwaves through the tablet and e-reader space by announcing the $199 Kindle Fire and two new low-priced e-ink readers, the $79 Kindle and $99 Kindle Touch. At the time, a lot of people wondered if Barnes & Noble, mum after …
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T-Mobile has announced the addition of the new Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus to its portfolio of 4G-enabled tablets. Samsung’s new tablet computer, an upgrade to its first 7-inch Galaxy Tab, which hit the market about a year ago, features a 7-inch multitouch display and packs a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 16GB of internal memory and a microSD card slot that …
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When the late Steve Jobs introduced iOS 5 during his last keynote address in June, he touted iCloud as something that “just works” and that users would have nothing to learn. As it turns out, he was right, but only on his first point. Not only is there a lot to learn about iCloud, but users have little control over …
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