Search experience on tablets will soon be a new experience, courtesy of Google that has re-evolved its search strategy in tablet PCs. Much of the tweaking has been done to make the best use of tablet features and to be more friendly to touch based inputs. So among the things to be seen in the  [ Read More ]

Some more free ebooks: Grace by Deneane Clark is a romance that is currently free at Barnes & Noble.  At the Kindle Store it is priced at .59 and receives 4 1/2 stars by 5 reviewers. Hostage in Havana (The Cuban Trilogy) by Noel Hynd (4 stars/2 reviews) Thriller. Also free at Also free at  [ Read More ]

If you like reading magazines and newspapers on your iPad, you’re in luck. Barnes & Noble announced that NOOK for iPad customers will soon be able to access one of the largest selections of digital periodicals. iPad users will have access to popular daily, weekly and monthly periodicals, including Esquire, Maxim, Forbes, Food Network Magazine,  [ Read More ]

Amazon today reported its earnings for its second quarter, which ended June 30, 2011.  The company’s worldwide revenue increased by 51 percent year over year, but net income decreased by 8 percent.  Amazon’s growth came at the expense of some of its profit margin as it spent heavily to improve its infrastructure. Amazon continued to  [ Read More ]

Publishing industry experts have had much to say about ebooks since the first digital edition appeared on the market. While public opinion may still be out on whether ebooks are the next big thing or a flash in the reading pan, new unexpected benefits of digital reading appear on a fairly consistent basis. According to  [ Read More ]

Apple has managed to ruin many e-reader apps available for iPhone and iPad by requiring the developers behind them to part ways with 30% of their revenues. Kobo, Amazon, and B&N have already stopped accepting payments in their applications. Kobo may have made changes to its native app for iOS. But it intends to use  [ Read More ]

Amazon has more than a million tablets on order, according to Taiwan’s DigiTimes. If accurate, this would make the online bookstore a significant force in the media tablet business, second only to Apple. It’s an increasingly crowded market, with companies such as Acer, Archos, Asus, Dell, HP, HTC, Lenovo, Motorola, RIM and Samsung all shipping  [ Read More ]

Lenovo has announced a new family of tablets, one of which is the first Android-powered tablet to achieve Netflix certification: IdeaPad Tablet K1 — designed for consumers.  The IdeaPad K1 is available to pre-order now for 9.99 and is expected to ship in the first week of August. 10.1–inch screen; 10-point multitouch; Resolution 1200 x  [ Read More ]

Lenovo is in the news again with another tablet device. So while the two tablets spotted just the other day at the FCC did make things mysterious, we can definitely say the plot thickens a bit with the latest tablet device from the company. This since there is no confirmation the tablet codenamed A1-07 is  [ Read More ]

Many of us do not have enough time to read as much as we like. Some of us are suffering from the “Internet effect,” which is making it hard to read for long periods of time without losing focus. These are not things that can’t be fixed with a bit of training. Here are 4  [ Read More ]