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Last week, Amazon’s Publishing Group announced the launch of a seventh imprint, this one specifically for literary fiction including novels, short story collections, and memoirs. The imprint will go by the name Little A, as well as a digital-only version called Day One for individual stories from debut writers. Amazon’s new imprint follows in the [...]

Have you visited Facebook in the last minute? So have 276,000 other people. How about watched a YouTube video? You joined an audience of 1.3 million. Tweeted about how much you have to get done today in so little time? So have 100,000 other people using Twitter. These numbers and more come form Intel, who [...]

  According to the sales statistics of Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon, everybody loves e-books. The economically-priced readers; the ability to store and transport an entire library effortlessly and less expensively; the added benefits of highlighting, annotation, simplified note-taking, searchable text, and inserted ancillary materials. It’s no wonder e-books are popular. With the rapidly [...]

What’s a tech site without a fun list of what they think are some of the greatest Amazon spoof-reviews? Little did CollegeHumor dream almost four years ago when they review-bombed the infamous Three Wolves tee-shirt what majestic awfulness they had truly created. Over 2,300 reviews, each one more ironic than the last, brought this T-shirt [...]

The Idea S2110 takes what Lenovo is best known for (keyboards) and pairs it with a sleek, thin, and light tablet in a package that easily replaces a laptop for light work. Lenovo’s tablet is fairly run of the mill specs-wise, loaded with a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 running at 1.5 Ghz, 1 GB of [...]

Sometimes a 10-inch tablet is too large and a 7-inch tablet is too small. For those Goldilocks circumstances, the few 9-inch tablets on the market can make due. The Lenovo IdeaTab A2109A fits the bill, capable of both content creation and media consumption in a smaller, relatively light, and somewhat cheap package at only $299. [...]

Amazon has announced it plans to make a push into the education market by introducing Kindle Whispercast, a service for centrally managing all the Kindles used in a system. The online retailer faces off against Apple, which has been firmly entrenched in the education market for quite some time and shows no signs of losing steam. [...]

Every night at 2:15 AM Central, Amazon gives away a free paid app through its Amazon app store. I let you know if today’s app is useful or more clutter in your app drawer that just plain isn’t worth downloading. Today’s free app of the day is EVAC HD, a game with a series of [...]

Yesterday’s article about AT&T’s policies towards FaceTime over cellular caused a bit of discussion on the Facebook feed. One hearing-impaired reader didn’t feel AT&T’s choosing to block the feature for all but a select few was such a big issue. After all, hearing impaired users can use other phones, other networks, or other apps. He [...]

Today is going to be a big day for Apple. Every time the computing giant has an announcement, a ton of pundit opinions emerge and interest rises from the non-tech press that few other tech announcements get. You even see it in the weeks beforehand, as outlets everywhere discuss laundry lists of rumors. Not wanting [...]