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It has been a little while since Amazon last offered up a major update for the Kindle app on Android. That update came as version 3.0.0 back in late April and brought support for Honeycomb devices as well as and updated newspaper and magazine layout and more. And well, as [...]

Shortly before all this HP TouchPad fire-sale business kicked off, Woot.com had a (good at the time) offer on the webOS running tablet. They were selling the device with a $100 savings, which brought the price down to $379.99.

Samsung announced quite a few new devices yesterday, however two of those seemed to steal most of the attention. The devices were the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy Tab 7.7. And well, while Samsung did not offer much in terms of which markets these would be coming available, it looks [...]

Coming almost in the same manner than what we saw with the rumors of Samsung purchasing HP’s personal computer business, it looks like we also saw the rumors dealing with a purchase of webOS only to have an official response from Samsung. And nicely done, the response seemed almost as [...]

The Apple iPad 2 has been selling so well that the company might actually have ordered a large batch of devices from manufacturer Foxconn. According to Digitimes, Foxconn is expected to ship a total of 20 million iPad 2 units to Apple for the third quarter of 2011, although Foxconn [...]

At the IFA 2011 in Berlin, Sony’s CEO Sir Howard Stringer vows that the company’s tablets will beat the indisputable industry leader, Apple iPad. A tall order for the new tablets, certainly, but a challenge Sir Stringer believes Sony can do. But if Sony’s tablets underwhelm even before their official [...]

Google has silently launched an official +1 Chrome browser extension that lets users +1 any webpage on their Google+ profiles. Facebook has likewise made a silent launch of its official “Like” Chrome extension.

This piece of news might be considered  important by observers of patent and copyright law. In a landmark decision, a U.S. District Court judge has reversed an earlier order for SAP to pay Oracle $1.3 billion for copyright infringement relating to illegal software downloads done by SAP subsidiary TomorrowNow.

Some potentially terrible news for Netflix and their Instant Watch streaming service today. Back in 2008, Netflix signed a streaming deal with pay-TV company Starz for $30 million for four years. That deal was considered a steal for Netflix, as their customer base exploded after Netflix was able to use [...]

Hulu is finally out to bid and they’ve got some big fish chasing after the chance to acquire them, three of the bigger ones being Google, Amazon, and Yahoo. Yahoo may just be along for the ride, and Amazon has a running chance, but Google is looking like a real [...]