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Acer Iconia Tab A510 – Quadcore Android $449
The quad-core Acer Iconia Tab A510 – the ‘Olympic Edition’ – is now on sale, featuring a 9800mAh battery which Acer says will deliver 15 hours of service. The 10.1-inch slate runs Android 4, displayed on a WXGA panel with a sharp 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. Tab A510 has 1GB RAM supporting the CPU [...]
Amazon App Store In-app Purchases
A new development has elevated Amazon’s AppStore in functionality to help compete with Google Play and the Apple App Store. Until now, developers peddling their apps through Amazon were unable to offer in-app purchases, but Amazon has now announced an in-app purchasing API, so users can now be purchase content with a single click, whether [...]
Solar-powered Kindle eReader Case
The SolarKindle is a case for the Amazon Kindle eReader featuring a built-in solar panel, reading light and battery. And you don’t necessarily need to have the SolarKindle attached to your device to charge it – just put it somewhere sunny to soak up the rays and it will charge the battery ready for the [...]
Amazon Kindle Fire – Supersized?
Looks like the Apple iPad might not be having all the limelight this spring – Amazon is reportedly preparing new formats for its successful Kindle Fire tablet. Pacific Crest analyst Chad Bartley claims Amazon will release a new generation of 7-inch and 9-inch Kindle Fire tablets. This has LED the financial analysts’ Pacific Crest to [...]
Touch vs Fire
The Amazon Kindle Touch is doing well, but for an extra $20 you can get a fourth-generation standard Amazon Kindle Fire, so which is better? At first glance, the single difference between the two is that the Fire features single home button instead of the Kindle’s row of buttons. As for other buttons on the [...]
Amazon Kindle iOS app
Amazon Kindle app is now available for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Host of new features have been added. Full-color magazines, text books, newspapers and other periodicals are now supported via Kindle app just like in Amazon Kindle Fire. Single issue or subscriptions can be purchased. Among other features most notable are zoom and pan [...]
Amazon Kindle Fire – Extend Battery Life
If you’re the sort of culture vulture who likes to have plenty of apps and books open whilst browsing the web and listening to music in the background, you might find battery life on Amazon’s new Kindle Fire less than spectacular. Amazon promises 8 hours of battery life for Fire, but that’s conservative use, and [...]
Amazon S3 Offers Best Cloud Storage For Business
Test results of the various storage providers’ cloud services suggest Amazon offers the best online storage services of any provider. An extensive study examined various online solutions as a primary storage solution, tested their data protection, and assessed their capabilities for disaster recovery. Amazon S3 service came out top. Nasuni provides data protection services valid [...]
Kindle Fire – Browser Accelerator Slows Down Browsing
When we reviewed the Amazon Kindle Fire we admired the clever Silk browser, which uses Amazon Cloud Cluster to accelerate downloads by offloading some of the rendering burden from your phone to their remote servers. Yet two weeks after launch, test results indicate Amazon Silk browser runs up to 50% faster with the accelerator feature [...]
Amazon Developing Own Answer To Siri
Amazon is a company that isn’t standing still right now. This week saw the launch of its Kindle Fire and Kindle Touch tablets, and Amazon Cloud storage goes from strength to strength. Recently they quietly bought up a speech recognition start-up named Yap, leading industry observers to speculate that Amazon plans to develop their [...]
