At just $200, Amazon’s Kindle Fire is less than half the price of the cheapest iPad—and to an extent, early reviewers of the Fire say, you get what you pay for. Then again, you’re still getting a lot of entertaining bang for your two-hundred bucks. Update:...
Amazon just unveiled three new versions of its Kindle e-reader, and there’s something for everyone. Want a color Kindle that plays movies? Check out the $199 Kindle Fire. How about a touchscreen Kindle that’s readable in direct sunlight? Try the Kindle...
A shock-proof case for your smartphone is one thing, but how about sensors that can tell if you just dropped your $500 handset—plus a series of tiny airbags to cushion the fall? It’s a sounds-crazy-but-just-might-work kind of idea, and it comes from the mind of...
The Roku ranks as one of the best home-video bargains out there, if you ask me, with the cheapest Roku streaming HD-quality videos from the likes of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon for a mere $59—or forty bucks cheaper than Apple TV. Well, Roku just refreshed its entire...
Picture this: You’re out running errands when you remember you’re fresh out of stamps. Time to drop by the nearest post office, which is … where, again? Sure, you’ve got your iPhone handy, but you’d rather not deal with tapping out a search...
More chatter about new, probably LCD-screened tablet said to be on tap from Amazon, with researchers at Detwiler Fenton claiming that the color Kindle (or whatever the whispered-about tablet ends up being called) will stream movies from Amazon’s Instant Video...
Several of the big tech blogs just posted reviews of the new touchscreen Nook e-reader from Barnes & Noble, and the notices are strong, a few bugs and miscellaneous nitpicks aside. Heads up, Amazon. From Engadget: The reader is a little buggier than we’d...
Among the 250-odd titles now available for download: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, Intuit QuickBooks, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Dragon Age: Origins, Civilization V, and Roxio Toast 10 Titanium. Any and all downloads are backed up on your account and can be re-downloaded...
