Kindle Fires

Who says firecrackers are the only things that may explode July 4 (that’s Independence Day here in the United States)? Fires and explosions of lithium-ion batteries, aka li-ion batteries, are rare. But they do happen. Check out some wisdom from Stanley Q. Woodvine, a homeless man in Vancouver. He wrote of a Fire whose battery either […]

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According to a new report by Digital Book World and Play Collective (love that name!), kids who read digitally now do so more on Kindle Fires than iPads: 27 percent on the Fire vs. 20 percent on an iPad. That’s a switch from eight months ago when it was 20 percent Fire, 22 percent iPad. [...]

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Who said high-end 10-inch Android tablets are not attractive anymore just because they’re much pricier than 7-inchers like the Nexus 7 or Amazon’s Kindle Fires? Well, a lot of people, but Sony’s Xperia Tablet Z is bound to make you rethink that. With a splendid design resembling the Xperia Z phone, a stunning Full HD [...]

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Just as ebooks have turned book publishing on its head, so is a new breed of rich media reading devices changing the ebook paradigm. Publishers who delver their ebooks through dedicated reading apps on iPads, Kindle Fires, Nook Tablets and platforms such as Impelsys, Inkling, MAZ and Copia, are privy to volumes of data on how their customers consume their content, from basic information such as how many pages they've read to more granular info such as, "Was this test-preparation chapter effective."

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