Amazon is sprucing up its Kindle e-reader bringing in touch screen start up company Touchco by way of an acquisition. It is expected that the Touchco’s interpolating force-sensitive resistance technology that allows for flexible, transparent and pressure-sensitive touch-screens... 

We were wondering how Kindle’s impending active content (read: apps) would be harnessing that free Whispernet bandwidth. As it turns out, there’s just a smidgen allowed for gratis. According to the terms laid out by Amazon, there’s a 70 / 30 revenue split, with... 

Amazon’s just announced the Kindle Development Kit, or KDK for short, which will be rolled out starting next month in limited beta and then to wait-listed folks “as space becomes available.” The apps, here called “active content,” will eventually... 

Amazon has announced that authors and publishers around the world are now able to use its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform (DTP) to upload and sell books in English, German and French to customers worldwide in the Kindle Store. Previously DTP was only available to authors... 

With e-book readers being all the rage these days, have you asked yourself when you’re going to pick one up if you haven’t done so already? The Owen E1 e-book reader ain’t too shabby features-wise, where it is slightly smaller than the Amazon Kindle, featuring... 

An Israeli hacker has found a way to defeat the digital rights management (DRM) on e-books for the Amazon Kindle. Of course. Ever since DRM-protected e-books came into existence, this day was inevitable. Now if you want to copy a Kindle book over to your IREX or Sony Reader,... 

Nielsen statistics show the most popular cellphones and mobile sites around, the Kindle gets cracked once again, Netflix starts streaming Criterion classics, and sometimes knowing a little bit about computers is a curse. The meaning of openGoogle’s Senior VP for Product... 

Rumors of Apple’s tablet are going around the Internet again, and this time IDF has predicted that Apple’s tablet will appear in 2010, and not 2009. Considering that we’ve less than a month to go before we see 2010, we can certainly believe that. Apparently... 

Do you own a Kindle? Do you hate holding it? Well then, say hello to the Kradle, a hunk of plastic designed to prop up your Kindle so you don’t have to do anything annoying such as use your hands while you read. Sure, there are smarter ways to spend $20, but then you’d... 

The Amazon Kindle is on several gadget gift lists this year, and why not? After all, it’s a sleekly thin e-reader, has a nice price (now $259 — with no monthly subscriptions or contracts, thank you very much), its wireless service just went global, and there’s...