Category Archives: amazon

The Kindle Fire vs. the Apple iPad isn’t really a vs.

Posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 by Rex Hammock

Starting this week, customers start receiving the new 7″ touch-screen Android device from Amazon called the Kindle Fire. As with anything that suggests a company could challenge Apple in a market it dominates, I predict you will be subjected to … Continue reading →

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CueCat 9.0

Posted on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 by Rex Hammock

After a decade of research, the scientists at Amazon.com’s A9 subsidiary may have finally solved the Cuecat conjecture, the e-shopping equivalent of math’s unsolvable Riemann hypothesis. The Cuecat conjecture, named for the most spectacularly awful gadget to ever burn through … Continue reading →

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Kindle for Mac app gets even better

Posted on Saturday, October 29, 2011 by Rex Hammock

Recently,  I blogged that the Kindle for Mac application (app) is the best way to read a book in the context of research (for example, if  you’re a student or author doing research). Today, Amazon updated the software with more features … Continue reading →

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These Kindle Fire children’s books are not just ebooks, they’re apps

Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 by Rex Hammock

When the Hammock children, both now over two-decades old, were brand new, they were never more than a few inches away from an Eric Carle book. (The Very Hungry Caterpillar* is likely the book I have read out-loud more times … Continue reading →

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The best Kindle Reader for students and researchers is, what, a Mac?

Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 by Rex Hammock

If, like me, you do lots of highlighting and note-taking while reading a book, or if book-reading and note-taking are a part of your professional work-flow (students and researchers of any kind, for example), the frustration of not being able … Continue reading →

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