In the wake of Amazon’s launch of its Kindle Fire tablet on Wednesday, the company’s reportedly looking at buying the Palm webOS operating system from ailing HP, according to a report in Venturebeat. Amazon spent quite a bit of time, effort and money tweaking Android for the Kindle Fire, which reportedly presold 95,000 units on [...]
A recently revealed U.S. Department of Justice document has provided details about what kind of usage information is retained by the nation’s largest mobile phone providers, as well as how long they retain it. In some cases, information is stored for many years. The document, a single-paged memo, was obtained by the North Carolina ACLU. [...]
The Kindle Fire made its big debut this week as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the tablet along with other new members of the Kindle family on Wednesday. The Fire’s been touted as a challenger to the Apple iPad, but the real threat to Apple’s iconic tablet may come from the Silk browser that will [...]
eMusic’s old, custom-built content management system was slowing the team down. We’re a digital media company, and our team has to be able to react quickly and share content on hot topics. When reviewing the different content management systems out there, we found that WordPress was an ideal solution to suit all of [...]
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, co-chairmen of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, have sent a letter to Joe Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, addressing Facebook’s use of cookies to gather information from members who surf the 905,000 sites that display its “like” button. A blog post that surfaced last [...]
Motorola and Verizon Wireless on Wednesday got around to delivering what’s been promised to owners of the Xoom tablet for several months: 4G LTE. When the Motorola Xoom first went on sale early in 2011, buyers were told that they’d eventually be able to send their 3G-wireless-equipped tablets to a workshop where they’d be upgraded [...]
Amazon’s $199 tablet will be one of the first sub-$300 tablets with a decent specification. However, if you can’t wait until November, don’t necessarily want a book vendor’s skin on your device, and haven’t ponied up for an iPad yet, you can get a solid base-Android tablet for around $250 today — or a lot [...]
Starting at a mind-warping US$199, the new Amazon Kindle Fire tablet has nailed a price point that the $249 Barnes & Noble Nook Color was only able to flirt with. Put it this way: As a consumer-oriented device ready to deliver e-books, movies, TV shows, apps, Web browsing and email, two Kindle Fire tablets can [...]
Microsoft on Tuesday released the latest version of its smartphone operating system, a version that could make handsets using the OS more competitive with market leaders Android and iOS. The new release — Windows Phone 7.5, a.k.a. “Mango” — has more than 500 new features, according to Microsoft, most of which are aimed at improving [...]
Amazon unveiled its long-awaited answer to the Apple iPad on Wednesday: the Kindle Fire. However, Amazon CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos positioned the Kindle Fire as a new class of the company’s Kindle e-reader rather than an iPad challenger per se. The Fire has a customized version of Android and runs Amazon’s Silk browser, which [...]