Finding a Tablet for a 4-Year-Old
Q: We have an iPad for me and my wife, but we’d like a tablet for our daughter, 4, to use on long drives and flights to keep her entertained. We would like to find something at a lower price point than...
View ArticleYouTube Executive Heads to Digital Distributor OverDrive
Lee Milstein, who had been heading up YouTube’s efforts to link up with news organizations, has left to become chief strategy officer at OverDrive, a company that distributes digital books to...
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Microsoft Says Its New Surface Tablets Are Like Its Old Surface Tablets, but...
Did you like the Surface tablets Microsoft introduced last year? Then you will like the new ones, which go on sale next month, even more. That’s the gist of the pitch Microsoft made today in New York,...
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Jeff Bezos Says Live-Help Button and Other Features Make New Kindle Fire...
Jeff Bezos presses the “Mayday” button on one of Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HDX tablets. A few seconds later, a fresh-faced twentysomething named Dylan pops up in a small window on the tablet, offering...
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Jeff Bezos Says Amazon Just Getting Started in Tablets, Stays Mum on Phone Plans
Jeff Bezos said there is plenty of work to be done to make tablets better, but is circumspect when it comes to whether Amazon sees room for itself in the phone business. Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com...
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New Kindle Paperwhite Is a Snappier, More Capable E-Reader
There’s a new Kindle in town: The Kindle Paperwhite. This latest product in Amazon’s line of basic monochrome e-readers has some welcome improvements over last year’s Paperwhite, including a faster...
View ArticleRainn Wilson Says Amazon's New Kindle Commercial Looks Too Familiar
As consumer tech commercials go, Amazon’s newest spot for its Kindle line isn’t that exciting. Like most Amazon consumer tech commercials, it is light on sizzle, heavy on people describing the...
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Kindle Fire HDX: A More Helpful Tablet
What if you could summon a tech-support person to pop up in seconds in a live video on your digital device? And what if that person could draw on the screen or even take over the device to solve a...
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Google Is Working on Ingress for iOS, but It Won't Be Ready Until 2014
Google’s mobile augmented-reality game Ingress, which has found a small but passionate audience on Android, is also coming to Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, but not until next year. Ingress...
View ArticleCandy Crush Saga Comes to Amazon Appstore
Kindle Fire owners, your productivity is about to fall off a cliff. King’s mobile mega-hit Candy Crush Saga debuts on the Amazon Appstore in “selected territories” today, and goes worldwide on Oct. 17....
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Apple Rolls Out New Gadgets, Keeps Same Strategy
If you wanted new iPads, new MacBooks and new Apple software today, then Apple gave you what you wanted. As expected, Tim Cook and company refreshed their product line, threw in a couple lines...
View ArticleAmazon Unveils Its MatchBook Print-and-Kindle Combo Deal
Amazon today launched the MatchBook program it announced last month, which lets owners of select print books bought on Amazon get the Kindle e-book versions for $2.99 or cheaper.
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New E-Book Services Borrow a Page From Netflix
If you’re a voracious reader, you know that keeping up with your habit can get expensive, whether you’re buying physical books or e-books. The public library makes for a good alternative, but sometimes...
View ArticleDelta Celebrates FAA Gadget Sanity With a Viral YouTube Hit
The Federal Aviation Administration’s move to let people use their iPhones and Kindles while planes are taking off and landing — like they’re already doing, anyway — isn’t just good news for travelers....
View ArticleAmazon Celebrates the FAA's "Nick Bilton Ruling" With One-Day Kindle Sale
Amazon said in a message on its homepage on Monday that it was running a one-day, 15-percent-off sale for its new line of Kindles to celebrate the Federal Aviation Administration’s recent reversal of a...
View ArticleAmazon to Let Independent Bookstores Sell Kindles and Gives Them a Cut of...
Amazon, which has been blamed in part for the decline of independent bookstores, said it has a new program called Amazon Source to allow them and other retailers to resell Kindle devices and...
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Google Continues to Fill Out iOS App Catalog With Music App
“A couple weeks from now we will launch Google Play Music All Access for iOS,” said Google Apps head Sundar Pichai at our D11 conference in May. A couple weeks … five months … what’s the difference?...
View ArticleE-Reader vs. iPad
Q: My wife started reading e-books downloaded from the library on her iPad 2. Indoors the print is very readable, but it loses some of the sharpness in bright light. Some of her friends suggested the...
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Dell Tablets at Bargain Prices
If you’re thinking of getting someone a new, name-brand tablet for the holidays, but blanch at spending base prices of $229, $399 or $499, Dell is hoping you’ll look its way. The computer giant,...
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Like Last Year’s Kindles, This Year's Kindles Also the Best-Selling Kindles Ever
As tiresomely reliable as November’s Black Friday sale is Amazon’s reminder that it sells lots of Kindle tablets and e-readers during the annual consumer binge. And so today we have yet another silly...
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Why Nokia Is Building an Android Phone and Why Microsoft Might Not Kill It
So, is Nokia really working on an Android-based phone, and would Microsoft really go ahead with such a device? The answer to the first one is definitely yes. And, surprisingly, the answer to the second...
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The Amazon Kindle Numbers That Jeff Bezos Must Really Care About
We all know that Amazon’s annual touting of its new Kindles as the best-selling Kindles ever has become laughable since the company doesn’t provide any sales figures to back up its claims. But a...
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Amazon Really, Really Wants to Sell More Kindle Fire HDX Tablets
Amazon seems to be selling a lot of its newest Kindle Fire tablets.* But it would like to sell many more. So here’s Jeff Bezos’s newest pitch: Buy a Kindle Fire HDX tablet today, and we’ll give you...
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AllThingsD Week in Review: Nokia's Android Phone, Bitcoin Funding and...
In case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Most people think of Facebook as a place to share photos, keep up with friends and family...
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Ho Ho No! Amazon Apologizes After Customers Lose Access to Christmas Content.
If you buy a digital song, book or movie, do you really own that song, book or movie? Or are you just renting a collection of bits, which are never really going to be yours? This question is a big one...
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