You know that free 3G connection on your Kindle that lets you download books from anywhere you are? Well a hacker named Andrew D’Angelo has found a way to tether to the ereader, giving you free internet access on another device.
Almost 5000 ebooks have been pulled from the the Kindle Store because of a change made to Independent Publishers Group’s contract with the online seller. The move is a result of Amazon’s demand for upfront payment from publishers, required to host their books on the store. [Paid Content]
If you thought the Kindle Touch was limited to page-turn taps and a pokey on-screen keyboard, it’s time to re-evaluate. A start-up is now demonstrating software that lets the eReader handle handwriting recognition.
Amazon’s Kindle ads have long gone after tablets over readability in sunlight, which is fair. But now that its Kindle Fire is a glare-prone LCD turbo-tab itself, the company has chosen a new battlefield: price. Hold on a sec!
A platform is useless without dedicated developers. Brandon Watson, former head of the Windows Phone Developer Experience, knows this better than anyone. Knowledge he will surely carry over to his new gig as director of Amazon’s Kindle Cross Platform team.
Compared to 10 per cent in mid-December, over 19 per cent of US adults now own a tablet, according to Pew. There was an identical trend with ereaders, too, and there’s not as much overlap as you might expectr: 29 per cent own one or the other. That is a lot of new iPads and Kindles. [Pew via Electronista]
I like using my ereader for things other than books, but aside from Instapaper, converting regular files into ereader format is more hassle than it’s worth. Now Amazon’s making it easier to send non-book files to your Kindle.
It’s time for the iPad 2 to get off its high horse, because there’s a new leader in the burgeoning market of covers that don’t just cover: the completely self-explanatory SolarKindle which harnesses the sun to keep Amazon’s ereader powered for up to three months.
Amazon dropped the anticipated and somewhat clamored for first update to its Fire. The bad news: it’s a bit of a pain in the arse to install. The good news: it’s completely worth it. The entire tablet feels energized.
Amazon’s rumoured software update for the Fire is here, and like the last one, it breaks root. But it also disables the current easiest way to re-root the device, SuperOneClick.
