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Barnes & Noble announced the newest addition to its Nook devices, the 7-inch Nook Tablet. The device is comparable to Amazon’s Kindle Fire, but has slightly better hardware, battery life and storage capabilities. The tablet costs $250 and has access to the popular apps Pandora, Netflix and Hulu Plus. Read the full article at PCMag.com Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/111108_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Barnes & Noble announced the newest addition to its Nook devices, the 7-inch Nook Tablet. The device is comparable to Amazon’s Kindle Fire, but has slightly better hardware, battery life and storage capabilities. The tablet costs $250 and has access to the popular apps Pandora, Netflix and Continue Reading →

Amazon is now offering free e-book rentals for Prime subscribers. You can rent one book at a time and have it checked out for up to a month. The $79 a year Prime subscription now gives you free shipping, unlimited video streaming and access to over 5,000 e-books. Read the full article at CNet.com Continue Reading →

Amazon will be adding HTML5 support to the Kindle, including the latest generation of e-ink devices. What does this mean for the average Kindle user? Publishers can create content that requires rich formatting like high-resolution images and interactive features you’d expect to find online. Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/111025_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] While advances in technology help to create new jobs, workers may be losing the race against the machine. A new book by MIT researchers suggests that our economy has an inability to replace jobs faster than automation takes them away. Corporate spending on automation has increased 26 Continue Reading →

Amazon is offering a trade-in program that will give you online store credit for your Kindle. The Amazon Kindle DX has a $135 trade-in value with older models fetching between $30 and $50. Amazon is making it fairly affordable to buy a Kindle Fire before the holiday season. Continue Reading →

Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet is capable of rapidly display websites using the built in Silk browser. The technology helps cache websites based on your web history and Congress wants Amazon to reveal how it intends on using your data. The main concern is that Amazon will likely share this information with third-party companies for profit. Continue Reading →

If you bought a “special offers” Kindle, you can now remove Amazon’s ads at a cost. On your Kindle, go to the Manage Your Devices page and click “unsubscribe to Special Offers.” Depending on your model, it will cost between $30 and $40 to make your Kindle ad-free. Read the full article at PCMag.com Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/111007_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] The Occupy Wall Street protestors have gained large amounts of support despite a lack of traditional media coverage, after turning to social media. Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr are being used to organize supporters, document police action and bring accountability to the movement. In other news, the FCC Continue Reading →

Market research firm iSuppli found that Amazon’s Kindle Fire costs the company about $210 to manufacture. While this loses Amazon $10 per device, the lost money to make money model is definitely going to net them future profit in content sales. Subscribing to Amazon Prime by itself, necessary for streaming video from its library, will Continue Reading →