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  Sharp Announces Phone and Tablet Display Production Move to Foxconn Plant in China

  1560 readersWe’ve heard the name Sharp in relation to speculations concerning future iPads and iPhones and each time all we got were rumors… Now Sharp is in the news again and somewhat related to Apple via Foxconn. It appears that Sharp’s phone and tablet display tech will be moved to a Foxconn plant in China. I’m talking

• How the New Amazon Kindle Fire HD Stacks Up Against The Nexus 7

  1081 readersAmazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage in Santa Monica – U.S. to introduce the new Kindle products. With the first Kindle Fire Amazon managed to pick up third place worldwide in the number of tablets sold per second in the Android universe after Samsung and before ASUS, Barnes & Noble and other big names in

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  Kindle News. China Times story on Kindle Fire 2 order by Amazon

  395 readers China Times reports Kindle Fire 2 may ship on August 7 A number of news sites are citing the China Times story (on a possible Kindle Fire 2 shipping date), which is displayed in Chinese and therefore not easily read by most of us, and so I'm posting a primitive machine-translation-to-English version of the news

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  Kindle News. China Times story on Kindle Fire 2 order by Amazon

  Array readers China Times reports Kindle Fire 2 may ship on August 7 A number of news sites are citing the China Times story (on a possible Kindle Fire 2 shipping date), which is displayed in Chinese and therefore not easily read by most of us, and so I'm posting a primitive machine-translation-to-English version of the news

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  Inside a Foxconn Plant in a Series of Photos

  1311 readersEveryone’s been talking about Foxconn, the Apple partner and manufacturer of their tablets and phones. Usually the news pieces on Foxconn are dramatic with clusters of suicides, working problems, explosions and small wages. This time some ABC reporters went inside one of the factories and check it out, with the result being the pictures below. The

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  Developers Navigate How To Design For Kindle Fire

  1557 readersLast month, Amazon announced that the Kindle Format 8 (KF8), which includes support for HTML5, is replacing Mobi 7 for eBooks. This new format allows developers to do more for the Kindle Fire, but its not yet ready for everyone to use. In the meantime, Kindle Fire devices are already shipping, which is confusing some developers, who want

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  Amid consumer dissatisfaction, Amazon to issue Kindle Fire patch

  1730 readersThe bloom may be off the Kindle Fire rose. The New York Times reports that a number of Kindle Fire users are returning the device with a litany of complaints, including the lack of an external volume control, a power button that is easy to hit by accident, sluggish applications and web browsing, and lack

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  Amazon Expands App Store to Almost 200 Countries & Kindle Fire to 170 Countries

  325 readersAmazon has expanded the Amazon Appstore globally and it is now available in almost 200 countries including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain,China and Japan, and it will soon arrive in Brazil. As part of the promotion of its Appstore expansion, Amazon is making the popular apps Fruit Ninja by Halfbrick Studios available for free on May 23 and Cut the Rope: Experiments by ZeptoLab available for free on May 24. Amazon has

• Chinese newspaper reports Amazon has ordered 2 million Kindle Fire 2 tablets for August 7 release

  550 readersMore Kindle Fire 2 rumors, from Unwired View’s translation of a China Times article: Amazon has reportedly ordered two million of the tablets to ship on August 7th, and is rumored to be preparing an announcement for July 31. According to these rumors, the Fire 2 will be 7”, 1280

• Amazon Adds Doonesbury and Dilbert to Exclusive Kindle Content

  589 readersIn its continuing attempt to create an ecosystem of exclusive content for its Kindle Fire users and Amazon Prime subscribers, the leading e-bookseller has added Doonesbury and Dilbert comics to its collection. The comics from Kansas City-based Andrews McMeel Publishing have never before been available digitally, said Amazon in a statement. PRESS RELEASE: Comic Anthologies “40: A Doonesbury