The Amazon Kindle Fire may look like a tablet designed only to access apps, music, movies, books, and periodicals from Amazon. But under the hood it’s an Android tablet, which means that it can run ...

The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with a custom version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread designed to run apps and access digital media from Amazon’s content store. But users have been hacking the Kindle Fire ...

In the battle to become the "Netflix of digital books," Scribd is taking its app to Amazon Kindle Fire tablets while updating its iOS and Android apps. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading ...

WordPress has updated its native Android application for smartphones and tablets, delivering features from its version 2.0 update and making them available for owners of Amazon’s Kindle Fire and B&N’s ...

Since late 2011, the Kindle Fire has been one of the hottest tablets outside of the iPad and at $200, it was the first one that almost anyone can afford. This is technically a guide to the best Kindle ...

Not every Kindle model can download apps. The Paperwhite, for example, is made to display documents and books -- not to use apps. Both the Kindle Fire and the Kindle Fire HD, on the other hand, can ...

The Amazon Kindle mainly serves as an e-book reader, but the simple e-reader devices are only a portion of the Kindle line of devices. In particular, the Kindle Fire series is much more than an ...

Editor’s note: Two apps originally described in this story, Business Calendar and TouchDown for Tablet, are not available for the Kindle Fire. The consensus of most reviewers of the Kindle Fire is ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. by Todd Bishop on Jan 12, 2022 at 2:13 pm January 12, 2022 at ...