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On The Cheap: Barnes & Noble Wants To Sell You The N.Y. Times

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:12:30 +0000

Here’s a tempting offer: Barnes & Noble is offering a free Nook Simple Touch or a $99 Nook Color (the one that’s easily hacked into a tablet) if you subscribe to the New York Times through them. If you’re not much into hard news, they’re also offering the Nook Tablet for $199 (a $50 savings) […]

Does A Tablet By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?

Reuven Shechter — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:28:08 +0000

What exactly defines a tablet? Is it the large touchscreen? Is it the operating system? Is it the ability to run apps? What separates a tablet from a PC, curated e-readers from tablets, and junk from quality hardware? This question has been recently relevant in the introduction of the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire to […]

Want An Android Tablet? Dude, You’re Not Getting a Dell.

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:51:14 +0000

A few months after killing off the Dell Streak 5, Dell has now ended their 7″ model’s suffering as well. This is something that surprised no one, what with the Streak recently being priced at under $100 at local Staples and other retail outlets. What’s particularly telling, tough, is this comment from CEO Michael Dell: […]

Barnes & Nobles’s NOOK Tablet Driving Consumers Into A Corner

Reuven Shechter — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:39:35 +0000

In a post-Fire world, even the smallest differences can push the average consumer into a decision between Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble’s NOOK Tablet. One of the main advantages the NOOK Tablet had over the Kindle Fire had been twice the storage space (16 GB vs. 8GB) as well as twice the RAM […]

Comic Chaos Strikes The Tablet Universe

Yoni Gross — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:42:44 +0000

Amazon’s highly anticipated Kindle Fire begins shipping this week, and that means discussion in the tech world can turn to only one thing: comic books. Fine, maybe not just one thing, but Amazon has already dramatically changed the landscape of the comic book industry without even shipping its outrageously low-priced tablet. The Fire was announced […]

Barnes & Noble Officially Joins Tablet Party And Brings Refreshments

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:36:43 +0000

Thanks to hackers, the Nook Color has long been an unofficial tablet. Now Engadget has discovered that Barnes & Noble plans on making it official by releasing the Nook Tablet on November 16. You can snag something that looks a lot like a Nook Color, but is lighter, has twice the memory, and won’t need […]