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by Chris Parsons
Aug 23, 2012
Looking back at Amazon's Q2 2012 earnings, we learned the Kindle Fire remained a huge seller for the company. For a while now there have been plenty of rumors about the next device they'll b...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 17, 2012
BrianKeith513 asks in our forums a pretty important question when it comes to purchasing a tablet for kids.
I'm asked a lot about mobile devices from friends and families, because I've w...
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by Chris Parsons
Aug 09, 2012
If you current needs for streaming content on the Kindle Fire are not really working out there is a new option out there if you're a Cablevision subscriber. Cablevision has now released a revise...
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by Phil Nickinson
Aug 07, 2012
It's Spotify. You know, for streaming music. And it's on the Amazon Kindle Fire. And you can download it for free here. (And I got a $1 credit after buying it. So, really, it paid me to down...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 23, 2012
The president of U.S. retail for Staples has thrown more fuel onto the blaze that is the Amazon Kindle Fire -- specifically, the next version (or versions) of the online retailer's Android-based...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 20, 2012
Amazon and Warner Bros. today announced a deal that bring "Fringe" and "The West Wing" to Amazon Prime subscribers -- and Kindle Fire owners. The two shows will be "availabl...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 28, 2012
And that's the question of the summer. Should you get the Amazon Kindle Fire, or the Google Nexus 7. Finally we've got a real choice between low-cost 7-inch tablets. Both are geared toward c...
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by Chris Parsons
May 23, 2012
Amazon has been busy gathering up plenty of content partners for the past little while and now they've come to agreements with the folks from Paramount Pictures. Amazon Prime members will be abl...
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by Chris Parsons
Apr 26, 2012
Draw Something has amassed many users in its time on Android and it has now made the leap onto a device that is suggested to of have captured half of the US Android market share. Yes, Draw Something...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 26, 2012
Data released today by comScore shows that the Amazon Kindle Fire has garnered over 50-percent of the Android tablet market in the U.S. With a 54.4-percent share as of February 2012, it sits alone a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 13, 2012
We're about six-months in with the Amazon Kindle Fire, and we're wondering. We know that Amazon sold a good many Fires, and there's even a nice little support community for the 7-inch ta...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 28, 2012
The Amazon Kindle Fire has seemingly done quite well for itself since its release and behind the scenes Amazon has been working on the next update for the device. Currently the Amazon Kindle Fire is...
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by Chris Parsons
Mar 15, 2012
For a while now, Amazon has slowly been adding content partners to their Amazon Prime Instant Video service and the most recent announcement makes way for plenty more. With agreements now in place w...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 08, 2012
Citibank just announced a Kindle Fire edition of its mobile banking app, which it says has "every component, graphic, touch action, button and slider customized for the device." Along with...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 21, 2012
In case you've been wondering when exactly Twitter would get around to optimizing Twitter for Android on ICS devices, we now have an answer for you -- and that is right now! In fact, as noted on...
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by Richard Devine
Feb 20, 2012
The world of the E-Reader/Budget Android tablet is a battleground between Barnes and Noble and Amazon. The Nook Tablet is an excellent device with one key drawback. It costs $50 more than the Amazon...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 10, 2012
If you're the proud owner of either a Nook Color, Nook Tablet or Kindle Fire who also happens to own a WordPress blog you might have been a little bummed out when you found the app was not avail...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 08, 2012
Amazon today announced that it's reached a streaming agreement with Viacom that will bring television shows from MTV, Comedy Central, Nikelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, CMT and Logo to Amazon Prim...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 04, 2012
Brandon Watson, a major player in the resurrection of Microsoft's Windows Phone OS, specifically in his work with developers, has taken a job with Amazon. Watson confirmed his departure Friday o...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 31, 2012
But still no hard numbers given on Kindle Fire sales
Amazon today released its fourth-quarter 2011 earnings numbers. Net revenue was up 41 percent year over year to $48.08 billion, but net incom...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 30, 2012
Slingplayer for Android devices has been around for a while now. Sadly for Kindle Fire owners and their lack of the Android Market, they haven't been able to indulge upto now. Jan. 31 is the day...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 19, 2012
Amazon is pushing out Software Version 6.2.2 for the Kindle Fire over the air, and it's also available for manual installation. Here's what's new:
Enhances fluidity and performan...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 17, 2012
Amazon has been quick to tell us how popular the Kindle Fire has been the past couple of months, but we've yet to see any real numbers. Perhaps that will change Jan. 31, when the online retailer...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 05, 2012
Some interesting accessory news coming out of the Interwebs for the recently released Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire today. The folks over at Readerdock have come up with some pretty sweet look...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 04, 2012
The Silk browser on the Amazon Kindle Fire may or may not be to everyone's liking, but that hasn't stopped the community efforts to port it across to other devices. The ever helpful folks ov...
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by Anndrew Vacca
Dec 29, 2011
Amazon announced this morning that 2011 was its Kindle line's best holiday season to date, with over one million devices sold per week throughout December. Amazon seems particularly proud of how...
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by Jared DiPane
Dec 24, 2011
Look at what we have here, an update for the Amazon Kindle Fire on Dec 20, and it has been rooted already again on Dec 23. It is always nice to be able to keep up to date with the most current OS ve...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2011
Catch the Conan show last night? Team Coco took on the Amazon Kindle Fire, which appears to be popular enough to merrit lambasting on the late-night show. It's quick, it's pointed, and, yeah...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2011
Amazon has just posted release notes for the Amazon Kindle Fire Version 6.2.1 software update (Version 6.2 dropped just a few weeks ago), which has promised to address a number of nagging issues. In...
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by Sean Brunett
Dec 05, 2011
Tripit is one of the must have apps for frequent travelers. In fact, we recommended it in our Holiday Gift Guide: What to get the Frequent Traveler post. Great news for Kindle Fire owners as...
