E-books & E-Readers
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The latest tablet from Samsung may not have much reason to exist, but it does have Android 4.0.
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The iPad 3 is all but officially confirmed. What will it sport and will we see an iPad mini?
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This year my smartphone sweetheart is the Nexus S 4G. This is a story of our love.
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The Apple iPad is an amazing tablet with textbook content now fully supported. What's keeping it from becoming the standard for the educational sector? Should something else be used instead?
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Logitech is bringing touch to its mice with the Touch Mouse M600.
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Amazon amasses Prime video assets: The three motives
Amazon bolsters its Prime video library. The company has three aims: Beat Netflix, get you to subscribe for Prime and provide a good ecosystem for the Kindle Fire.
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Survey says -- what the next Amazon Kindle Fire needs
According a new survey of its owners, the Kindle Fire still has room for improvement.
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Windows Phone developer lead leaves for Amazon's Kindle team
Brandon Watson, head of developer experiences for Windows Phone, is the latest exec to leave the Microsoft's phone unit.
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Amazon: Big Kindle sales, but sales and outlook fall short
Amazon's fourth quarter sales and outlook fall short of expectations. Kindle sales surge.
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Amazon Web Services hosts more than 762 billion objects in S3
The total number of objects stored on Amazon Web Services nearly tripled between 2010 and 2011.
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Give your PC a tuneup using this free eBook from WindowsSecrets.com
This eBook is free for a limited time and walks you through installing and fine-tuning Windows 7, and optimizing your PC in general
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Amazon's Q4: The Kindle Fire effect vs. more investment
One analyst expects Amazon to have sold 4 million Kindle Fires and 12 million e-readers overall.
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Stump: the ultimate stand for your tablet, phone, or eReader
The Stump is appropriately named since it reminds me of a tree stump. It basically looks a bit like a hockey puck, but has a slot in the middle for propping up your device for viewing, typing, or...
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With a postal service like this one, we need e-textbooks
I just want to actually have my textbook in my hands at some point before I have to sit down and take my midterm. Is that too much to ask, USPS?
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How to passcode lock Wi-Fi on Kindle Fire (photos)
Learn how to disable the Wi-Fi connection on an Amazon Kindle Fire tablet, preventing the possibility of having your credit card charged or exposing children to objectionable content.
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Microsoft rolls out Hotmail for the Kindle Fire
Microsoft has tweaked its Hotmail for Android implementation to create one that is customized for the Kindle Fire.
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What does iBooks mean for the eBook/eTextbook industry?
The eTextbook industry got a big publicity and market education boost last week with Apple's announcements. What it didn't get was the market revolution it could have.
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How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books
For nearly two years, Apple has wooed digital book publishers and authors with its unconditional support of the open EPUB standard. With last week's introduction of iBooks 2.0, Apple has...
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The poor get poorer and the rich get richer with Apple's iPad-based textbooks
Apple's new iBooks textbooks will widen the digital gap between the educational haves and have-nots.
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Amazon's Kindle Fire profitable: You bet
Even if Amazon started out underwater on the Kindle Fire's manufacturing costs, the company is already in the black on my account. Not bad for a month's work.
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Why iBooks will never come to Mac OS
If you're waiting for iBooks to come to Mac OS, don't hold your breath. It's probably never going to happen.
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Apple's new apps revealed, potential student reaction?
Does the New York Apple announcement have any consequences for students?
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Apple aims to update, not upend, the textbook industry
Beleaguered college students may be vying for the reshaping of the textbook industry, but it won't happen during Apple's announcement tomorrow.
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Amazon enables sending documents from the PC to Kindle
Amazon's new "Send to Kindle" option makes it possible to transfer files from Windows applications to the Kindle.
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Kindle owners borrowing more than 295,000 books per month
One 16-year-old author earned $6,200 from the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing program in December for her children's books.
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