Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 7:48am
With the third generation of Kindle e-readers out, we decided to put the DX in the hands of a salty ol' Kindle veteran as well as an absolute newbie. How did the DX stack up against previous iterations of the...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 6:41am
Hot on the heels of the Kindle 2, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled an extra-large e-reader today, dubbed the Kindle DX. The 18.4-ounce device is intended to give users a reading experience closer to paper, with a 9.7-inch screen that...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 4:17am
Within a scant few hours, Amazon should be delivering the new Kindle DX into our hot little hands. Wait, what — a new Kindle? Yep, Kindle 2 has only been on shelves for just shy of three months, but Amazon...
Monday, May 4, 2009 - 2:02am
According to sources close to Amazon, the online retail giant is set to debut a larger version of its Kindle reader — and the supersized version could be out as early as this week. This will be music to the...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 10:53am
In the interest of beating a horse as much as we possibly can regardless of its health, we present to you the third installment of Talking Gadget Theater. This time out, the Amazon Kindle 2 and the iPod Shuffle take...
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 7:46am
From GPSes to synthetic rabbits, more and more gadgets are being blessed with the ability to speak. Two prominent examples from recent weeks are the Amazon Kindle 2 and Apple's latest iPod Shuffle. Can their computery speech pass for human?...
Wednesday, April 8, 2009 - 8:27am
Excuse me while I withdraw my foot from my mouth. Just yesterday, I reported that the iTunes variable pricing plan was in effect, but you could still purchase tunes for $0.89 at Amazon.com, and that's where I would be pointing...
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 10:48am
The Kindle 2 has only been available for about two weeks, and already it's been snap-reviewed by countless websites, with many reviewers playing with it for just a few minutes. I wanted to dig deeper into this much-talked-about device, reading...
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 10:17am
That little Roku/Netflix box just learned another neat trick: It can now snag 40,000 movies from Amazon's Video on Demand service. You can either buy movies for between $10 and $15, or rent them for between $1 and $4, and...
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 2:55pm
DVICE writers take a closer look at the latest tech trends in our weekly column, Shift. Kindle the Second has been unveiled. OK, I know you're probably sick of hearing about it, so I'll come straight to the point: I'm...
