Amazon app turns Blackberry into Kindle

Amazon could be set to open its first high street retail shop in just a few months' time, in the company's home town of Seattle. It's thought that much of the focus behind this move is to increase the exposure, sales and uptake...

WH Smith has beaten Amazon to the punch in the UK, announcing that its Kobo Vox colour eReader-cum-tablet is now available in stores nationwide. This gives it the jump on Amazon's rival Kindle Fire tablet, which as of now is only...

Samsung's Galaxy S2, a central figure in legal battle between Apple and Samsung, has won the "Phone of the Year" title at the T3 Gadget Awards, ahead of Apple's iPhone 4. The Galaxy S2 has won over the public and critics...

At Apple's recent big iPhone event, the company reported having a 74% share of the tablet market, comfortably occupying the leading position. In view of such dominance, its competitors have had to regroup and rethink their...

Online retail giant Amazon has unveiled the Kindle Library Lending service which would allow Kindle users to borrow ebooks from around 11,000 public libraries in the US.The service, which is expected to be launched later this...

The UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has declared that Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices are the most secure mobile phones among Apple's iPhone, Nokia's Symbian based line-up and Windows Mobile. The GCHQ...

The week began on Tuesday, with One Mobile Ring publishing our predictions of the happenings in the mobile world for 2011, whilst Carphone Warehouse had a phone on sale for 1p and Opera brought out a preview of their software for...

Online retail giant Amazon’s eBook reading Kindle application is now downloadable for the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 OS, along with any handsets running the platform.Windows Phone 7 Kindle now has for the first time in any of the...

Windows Phone 7 arrived on handsets at the end of last week, although the newest OS on the block hasn't really made a big splash in the headlines this week. There has hardly been any mentioned or news surrounding the Microsoft...

Online retail giant Amazon has announced its eBook reading Kindle application will be available for the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 operating system, along with any subsequent handsets running that platform.The Windows Phone 7 app...

Amazon has today announced that it will launch a new category in its Kindle store, stocking work that "can be twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book". The Kindle Singles category...

Canadian manufacturer Research in Motion has pulled the wraps from its first non-smartphone product, the Blackberry Playbook, a tablet computer that is set to target business users. The device was unveiled at a developer's...

The decision by Amazon to cut the price of the Kindle DX ebook reader by 22.5 per cent to $379 could well be an indication that the giant online retailer is feeling the heat from the Apple iPad whose current price, $499, was too...

Amazon has just brought its Kindle book reader application to the Android Market place, free of charge for everyone to use with a handset running that OS. This software now offers the same functionality as their hardware version...

The online book store formerly known as Shortcovers has undergone a brand overhaul, renaming itself Kobo, and launched a new UK-specific ebook store that claims to offer nearly two million titles for downloads. The books,...