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by Chris Parsons
Nov 30, 2011
Believe it or not shopping for kids -- even kids at heart -- can be sometimes rather difficult. So to help make things easier, letting kids make a list of what they want for the holidays is often mu...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 30, 2011
Don't blink. If you do, you might miss your Amazon Kindle Fire updating to software Version 6.2. Amazon's not really saying what's new in the update other than "provides improvement...
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by Jared DiPane
Nov 29, 2011
Let's start off with this -- no it's not ready, and no we don't know when it will be. Now that we got that out of the way, XDA forums member JackpotCalvin has gotten a build of CM7 to bo...
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by Sean Brunett
Nov 28, 2011
Amazon's Kindle Fire was expected to be a success because of the Amazon brand name and $199 price point, but the tablet has continued to outsell predictions and is now the best selling item on A...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 22, 2011
You might recall that last week we gave away an Amazon Kindle Fire, and it's time to announce the winner. Out of about 3,000 entries, AC member psheppard001 was the lucky winner. We&...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 21, 2011
If you've got your hands on a Kindle Fire and are having loads of fun playing around with it but would love to have the SwiftKey keyboard to replace the stock Fire issue, you're in luck.&nbs...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
By the way (if you haven't already noticed this by now): If you root your Kindle Fire, Amazon's streaming video will balk at you. The good news is it takes just a few seconds to unroot using...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
T'was only a matter of time, right? The Android Market -- and all of its hidden secrets apps -- now runs just fine on the Amazon Kindle Fire. There are a couple of caveats (albeit not huge ones)...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
Say, for some reason, you just got yourself a brand new Kindle Fire and for some reason don't want to run the custom launcher Amazon's whipped up. (And it's pretty darn good, actually.) ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 16, 2011
The Amazon Kindle Fire will be one of the hot items this holiday season, and it's poised to be one of the best selling tablets ever. How cool would it be to win one from us? You can ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
There's the trifecta, folks. We've got ADB access on the Kindle Fire, you can already root the Kindle Fire with SuperOneClick, and Amazon's already dropped the source code for public con...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 16, 2011
We've already got proper ADB access to the Amazon Kindle Fire, and now it's time to root the thing. And it couldn't be easier. All it takes is the venerable SuperOneClick program, and yo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 15, 2011
Amazon Kindle Fire forums
Wanna sideload apps (or use ADB for any other reason) to your Kindle Fire via your computer? It's really easy -- just add the USB Vendor ID to the Windows ini...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 15, 2011
Kindle Fire ships with your username and password
already entered, ready to make purchases
We interrupt our regularly scheduled Amazon Kindle Fire review for this timely editorial.
I'm re...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 14, 2011
Amazon this morning is crowing that it's shipping the Kindle Fire a whole day earlier than expected and taking the opportunity to remind us of the talking points it's been driving home for m...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 11, 2011
The back-and-forth between the Amazon Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet continues, with the former this morning announcing that it will have Hulu Plus and ESPN ScoreCenter when it launches next week. That...
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by Sean Brunett
Nov 10, 2011
Amazon's Appstore for Android has received an update, just in time for the Kindle Fire's release next week.
The update, which brings the app to version 2.0, is largely focused on UI improve...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 09, 2011
Amazon this morning's offered up a list of apps that will be available on the Kindle Fire tablet when it launches next week. And among the usual suspects -- Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, etc. -- i...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 25, 2011
Amazon released its third-quarter earnings today. And while the Kindle Fire isn't yet available, CEO Jeff Bezos is pimping pre-orders like they're they lifeblood of the company. And if the r...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 24, 2011
Android has grown to capture 27 percent of the tablet market, that just one year ago was 100 percent filled by Apple. With the launch of the original Galaxy Tab things have been on a slow uphi...
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by Sean Brunett
Oct 19, 2011
The Amazon Kindle Fire, which was announced last month, will debut in mid-November. It's a content consumption device that will integrate with all of Amazon's media services. As we near the ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 14, 2011
Microsoft and Quanta Computer have signed (what we presume is a giant stack of legal papers) an agreement that protects and licenses Quanta by providing "broad coverage under Microsoft's pa...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 06, 2011
Amazon's had quite the learning curve over the past 10 months, first with the Amazon Appstore (remember when AT&T phones couldn't use it?), and now it's taking another giant leap for...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 04, 2011
KMLProxy in our forums brings up a good point, if you're looking at purchasing an Amazon Kindle Fire. You won't be able to easily transfer apps that you purchase in the Android Market to the...
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by Jared DiPane
Sep 30, 2011
Now that a couple days have passed, and you have had ample time to read about the Amazon Kindle Fire, talk it over with all your "knowledgeable" friends, and make a decision, we are dying ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 28, 2011
Amazon's big Kindle Fire announcement day has come and gone, and a lot of you may be scratching your head trying to figure out all the news that happened while you were stuck at work or school.&...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewing
What do you get when you take a traditional web browser, crunch it through some cloud servers, compress the data and make it more mobile friendly by sharing the loa...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2011
Check out our Amazon Kindle Fire Forums!
Amazon's now accepting preorders for the Kindle Fire Android tablet. (Yes, we're going to call this guy a tablet and not a mere e-reader from her...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 28, 2011
There it is, folks. The Amazon Kindle Fire. Looking a little more like an e-reader than a tablet -- though it certainly does resemble the BlackBerry PlayBook on which it's based -- the Kindle Fi...
