The Kindle Fire may have captured more than 50 percent of the Android tablet market in the U.S., according to one recent report — but in the bigger picture, Amazon’s tablet isn’t… Read More
This could get very interesting, especially in light of the new alliance between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft. The Verge reports today — citing an unnamed source and an internal Target… Read More
The Kindle Fire is just five months old. But Amazon.com’s touchscreen device already accounts for 54 percent of the Android tablet market, according to a report out today from comScore.… Read More
Amazon this morning publicly launched in-app purchasing for apps sold through its Appstore for Android, hoping to make its mobile platform more financially appealing to app developers. The company had… Read More
The Pew Internet & American Life Project is out today with an epic report on the “rise of e-reading” — showing, among other things, that more than 20 percent… Read More
In a bid to compete with Apple and Google, Amazon.com has begun testing a new service that would allow in-app purchases on the Kindle Fire. According to Bloomberg News, the… Read More
Amazon has begun pushing out a new update specifically for Kindle Fire owners that adds the ability to share favorite passages and notes from books via Twitter and Facebook as… Read More
Amazon.com’s Kindle Fire is known as a solid reading and media device. But when it comes to email, well, maybe not so much. Users who’ve struggled with the Kindle Fire’s… Read More
The Google Android Market is by far the biggest Android app marketplace with more than 400,000 apps. But if you are developer looking to make money or Android device owner… Read More
Barnes & Noble just confirmed that it’s releasing an 8GB Nook Tablet, and the price may sound familiar: $199, the same as Amazon.com charges for its rival Kindle Fire tablet.… Read More
Barnes & Noble’s CEO previously criticized the 8GB of storage available on Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire as “deficient for a media tablet” — seeking to justify the additional $50 for Barnes… Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook noted at a conference in San Francisco this week that he wasn’t too concerned about rising competition from Amazon.com and its $199 Kindle Fire. “Amazon is… Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook leads the most powerful technology company on the planet. But even as the top dog in tech (with a market value of $475 billion, which is… Read More
Hey, looky what landed in our inbox. Here’s an interesting slide from a USA Today presentation that shows the number of downloads for each of the newspaper’s mobile apps —… Read More
A new report adds fuel to the rumor that Amazon.com will release a new Kindle Fire with a larger screen, rivaling the size of the iPad, later this year. The… Read More
Amazon filed its Form 10-K annual report with the Securities Exchange Commission this morning, and I’ve been dutifully scouring the filing and its footnotes for actual data on Kindle and… Read More
One of the key things we’ll be closely tracking on Tuesday during Amazon.com’s earnings call will be the overall performance of the company’s Kindle line, specifically the recently introduced Kindle… Read More
Amazon.com’s fourth-quarter financial report on Tuesday afternoon will show how the company performed in the critical holiday shopping season and shed new light on the reception for Amazon’s revamped Kindle… Read More
Remember the report last month in which a financial analyst from Stern Agee cut his projections for iPad sales from 15 million to 13 million, citing pressure from Amazon.com’s Kindle… Read More
Microsoft’s Windows Live Hotmail has surpassed 12 million active users on Apple iOS devices — a dramatic climb resulting from the simplified process for setting up the Microsoft webmail service… Read More
Nooks. iPads. Kindles. PlayBooks. Kobos. Americans are getting more familiar with tablet computers and e-readers, with a new study out today from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project… Read More
It’s always a guessing game trying to figure out how many Kindle devices Amazon.com has sold during a selected period. The Seattle online retailer is notoriously vague about its product… Read More
The GeekWire radio show and podcast returns from its brief holiday hiatus this weekend with a special in-studio guest, Bill Sleeper, the 96-year-old retired engineer from the Seattle region who… Read More
Amazon.com has settled a patent infringement suit brought against the online retailer by Smartphone Technologies, a subsidiary of Acacia Research, according to a report by paidContent.org. Smartphone Technologies filed the… Read More
The Kindle Fire has been an absolute smashing success, and nowhere has it caught ablaze quite like Amazon.com’s hometown of Seattle. Jumptap today released a report showing the top 10… Read More
Problems with Amazon.com’s new tablet computer have been well documented, with the Seattle online retailer today announcing a software update that’s designed to improve privacy settings, touch navigation and more.… Read More
With just a few days to spare before Christmas, Amazon.com has released a previously promised Kindle Fire software update (Version No. 6.2.1). The improvements should address some of the complaints… Read More
Amazon.com has already sold millions of Kindles this holiday season, but it’s still hoping to get more of them under the tree this weekend. Today the company said that people… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we explore Paul Allen’s new space venture, assess Google Chrome’s rise vs. Internet Explorer and Firefox, and offer a second take… Read More
It’s going to be a Kindle kind of holiday for many folks around the globe. Amazon.com today said that it is selling Kindles at a rate of more than one… Read More
