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Rumoured to be called Kindle Fire, Amazon’s upcoming tablet will be unveiled in less than 24 hours.
By Computerworld Staff | 27 September, 2011 13:42
Key features of Amazon's would-be iPad "killer".
By Brad Reed | 29 September, 2011 10:14
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has shown off the Kindle Fire, a $US199 ($A201) tablet computer, challenging Apple's iPad by extending its Kindle brand into the world of full-colour, multipurpose devices.
By AAP | 29 September, 2011 08:36
Well, now we know why Amazon's stock of Kindle 2 e-readers evaporated so quickly. Just hours after I wrote about the devices being out of stock, Amazon announced a new model of its popular e-reader. The device, called simply the Kindle, is available for pre-order now and will ship August 27. While most of us will have to wait a month to get our hands on the new gadget, a few lucky bloggers and technology reporters already got a chance to check it out. So far, they seem to like it...a lot. In fact, in reading many of the reports about the new Kindle, I found it difficult to find anything they didn't like about it.
By Liane Cassavoy | 30 July, 2010 07:56
Amazon.com's announcement late Wednesday that it will launch a new version of its Kindle e-book reader in August could further stoke a price battle between major players in the e-reader market.
By Martyn Williams | 29 July, 2010 23:18
A Silicon Valley product development consulting firm called the Nielsen Norman Group (not to be confused with the Nielsen ratings company) published a study last week comparing reading performance with a book to reading with an e-reader. The results--which are suspect because there were only 24 people in the test group--find that users of the Kindle 2 and iPad read 10.7 percent and 6.2 percent slower, respectively, than on paper or with books.
By PC World Staff | 08 July, 2010 07:23
Apple's iPad goes on sale April 3 in the US triggering a challenge by Amazon to keep customers interested in buying its Kindle e-book reader and e-books.
By Daniel Ionescu | 24 March, 2010 07:16
If the iPad doesn't succeed as a consumer electronics device--its initial target market--it may find a successful second career as an electronic textbook reader.
By Jeff Bertolucci | 02 February, 2010 01:31
Taiwanese e-reader makers jockeyed to show off new technologies at the Taipei International Book Exhibition over the weekend and said the emerging model for the devices is to sell them as part of a content bundle.
By Dan Nystedt | 01 February, 2010 21:33
If you're concerned about the privacy implications of reading digital books, take a look at a nice guide put up yesterday by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
By Erik Larkin | 23 December, 2009 06:54
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