Tag: Kindle
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Stop, Drop, and Roll — the Kindle is on Fire!
So the Kindle Fire has been announced, followed by the iPhone 5 – no wait, the 4S, and we’ve got Google, RIM, Nokia and everyone else lining up for their shot at end-of-year/pre-shopping killer announcements. Of course the iPhone 5iPhone 4S killed them all, but that’s not surprising and hardly worth debating. Nothing to talk…
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Silky Privacy Concerns
What about handling secure (https) connections? We will establish a secure connection from the cloud to the site owner on your behalf for page requests of sites using SSL (e.g. https://siteaddress.com). Amazon Silk will facilitate a direct connection between your device and that site. Any security provided by these particular sites to their users would…
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Amazon Lights Up Android’s Fork in the Road with Kindle Fire
What does Amazon have that Motorola, HTC, Samsung, LG, Huawei do not? In a word … everything. That pretty much sums it up quite nicely, must of us were hoping that Google and Amazon would have teamed up a little better on this and developed and true iPad competitor. Unfortunately, the reality is that…
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DadCast Episode 25 • You’re Not in Kansas Anymore McGoo
Nearly Live From the WendyHouse Studios of Valois Bay… Just ahead of the big Apple “Back to the Mac” announcement on October 20th that may or may not be about a new OS. The rumour mill has it that it should be 10.7 and not simply an incremental dot release. We should point out that…
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DadCast Episode 23 • The Year of the Tablet
Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… With the recent announcement of all the new tablet devices, we try to break down the differences and search for a way to fit them into our lives. Steve and Francois review the Apple TV and Netflix service, Steve gets grilled about his Kindle and the…