Acer had many variants of its Iconia family at Computex this year in Taipei and the A100 Android 2.2 Tablet felt like direct competition to the older Samsung Galaxy Tab. The Acer Iconia A100 is a 7 inch capacitive touchscreen tablet with a resolution of 1024×600. The processor is a Nvidia Tegra 2 dual core  [ Read More ]

Just in time for the summer reading season, Amazon.com announced its list of the Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities in America.  After compiling sales data of all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format since Jan. 1, 2011, on a per capita basis in cities with more than 100,000 residents, the  [ Read More ]

The Computex trade show is this week in Taipei and Nvidia is there with a demo of its new quad-core ‘Kal-El’ (Superman’s birth name) tablet CPU.  Besides the quad-core processor, Kal-El features a 12-core Nvidia GPU and supports 3D stereo in a power efficient package.  Kal-El’s video capabilities will enable tablets with high resolution 300  [ Read More ]

There is nothing more frustrating than buying an e-reader only to lose it shortly thereafter. Things get lost or stolen all the time. While there are no guarantees that you can get a lost e-reader back, there are things you can do to protect yourself and your sensitive information. If you have lost your Kindle,  [ Read More ]

Apple’s iPad and the never-ending supply issues seem to be irrevocably intertwined. Supply is always falling short of demand for the tablet. To their credit, Apple has never stopped trying to overcome the situation. Take, for instance, their latest effort to ramp up production by roping in Chimei Innolux as the newest member of Apple’s supplier  [ Read More ]

Friskies has several games for cats to play on your iPad or Android tablet.  Three games, Cat Fishing, Tasty Treasures Hunt and Party Mix-Up are available, with more apps planned.  The games feature virtual swimming fish and flying food or treats.  Friskie developed the games using rigorous behavioral research techniques and feline focus group sessions.  [ Read More ]

Last month, Amazon.com introduced Kindle with Special Offers, a new member of the Kindle family that gives customers access to money-saving special offers. Just five weeks later, Kindle with Special Offers became the bestselling member of the Kindle family in the U.S.  Today, Amazon announced that it is now making special offers available for Kindle  [ Read More ]

Hewlett Packard, a long-time industry leader in printing, introduced two new business models at this year’s BookExpo. The first was very similar to OnDemand Books’ Espresso Business Machine, in which individual titles of books can be printed, bound, and covered on-site in any location that it services with the HP product. While this model may  [ Read More ]

B&N has finally released more details about NOOK 3 (we wish it was named that). The Simple Touch Reader may have an awkward name but is a pleasant surprise by B&N. It is one of the most compact e-book readers around and weighs only 7.5 ounces. It comes with WiFi support and will only cost  [ Read More ]

This week, Research In Motion (RIM) used their annual BlackBerry Developer Conference to announce the company’s new entry into the tablet market, the long awaited BlackBerry PlayBook.  Even before any details were released the PlayBook was already being heralded by some as an iPad beater. RIM are positioning the PlayBook as a dual-demographic device that  [ Read More ]