Microsoft May be Preparing to Purchase Nook Media
Microsoft has been hovering over Nook Media and Barnes Noble for a while now. The two parties had a patent lawsuit problem, then Microsoft put some money on the table and now they want to spend even more to acquire them. Hostile takeover anyone? Anyway, MS has brought the big guns, since they may be [...]
Barnes & Noble updated Nook HD Android tablets (gallery)
Summary: See if for yourself: With one major software update, the Barnes Noble HD e-reader has been transformed into an excellent, low-end Android tablet. By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for Linux and Open Source | May 7, 2013 — 21:14 GMT (14:14 PDT) Follow @sjvn Previous | Next Image 1 of 5 (Image: Screenshot by Steven J Vaughan-Nichols) [...]
Pinterest Now Being Pre-Loaded on Barnes and Noble Tablets
Pinterest and Barnes and Noble have signed a new agreement to have the app pre-loaded on any future Nook HD and HD+ tablets that are sold. Any tablets in the stores will be temporarily pulled to load a new firmware update that will give you Pinterest has a native application. Pinterest joins Facebook and Twitter [...]
Barnes & Noble Tries Buy A Nook Tablet , Get Free E-Reader Deal
The beleaguered e-reader market, challenged in recent years as consumers now favor pricier tablets, is so dire that one manufacturer is resorting to an unusual giveaway deal to generate interest in the devices. Barnes Noble Inc. (BKS) on Friday unveiled a one-week deal, which begins this Sunday, in which consumers buying a Nook HD+ tablet, [...]
Download Free Apps Every Week via Barnes and Noble Freee NOOK Fridays
Barnes Noble Announces NOOK® Free Fridays Now Includes Apps: Instantly Download a Different Paid App for Free Every Friday Free Weekly App Offer for NOOK Customers Kicks off with OfficeSuite Professional 7 from MobiSystems, a $14.99 Value NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), a leading retailer of content, [...]
HP tablet to use Android OS
Hewlett-Packard is making a tablet computer that uses Google’s Android operating system, steering clear of Microsoft’s latest tablet-oriented version of Windows, the company says. The HP Slate 7 will have an 18cm screen and cost $US169 ($A165) when it goes on sale in April in the US. Most tablet makers, including Samsung and Amazon, have [...]
Nook Color Gets Android 4.2 via Cyanogen Mod 10.1
The Nook Color marked Barnes Noble’s first attempt at an ebook oriented tablet. However, the device has since run out of favor, eclipsed as it is by the more capable Nook Color HD. Not only it remains discontinued, BN too has stopped providing any major update for the device. Thankfully, the Nook Color continues to [...]
Barnes & Noble Reports on Fewer Nooks Sold, Revenues Decreasing
According to Reuters Barnes Noble’s Nook unit reported some weak sales figures for the holiday season. The numbers came in this week and showed that fewer e-readers and tablets have been sold at the company’s own stores, plus the e-book sales growth has slowed. This begs a question: will Barnes Noble still be in the [...]
Acer Plans to Launch $99 Tablet–Duplicate
By Eva Dou Acer Inc. is planning to launch an Android tablet priced around US$99 early next year, a person with direct knowledge of the project, said. The world’s fourth-largest PC maker by shipments hopes to be the first big-brand company to launch a tablet priced to jostle with Chinese white-box tablet makers for consumers [...]
Acer Iconia B1 tablet leaks to under-cut the fabled $99 Nexus
It’s time for the $99 USD tablet war to commence, ladies and gentlemen, and you know good and well that a fast-paced company line Acer isn’t going to be left out in the cold: behold, the Iconia B1. This machine has been leaked this week with the full name Acer Iconia B1, a 7-inch tablet [...]
Barnes & Noble cuts prices on Nook tablets
The Nook tablet. Barnes Noble announced a price cut this morning for its line of Nook tablets in an apparent attempt to better compete with the Nexus 7. The bookseller’s 16GB Nook Tablet is now priced at $199, a $50 price cut from its previous $249 price, while the 8GB model’s price was dropped $20 [...]
iPad Dominates Tablets, But Nexus 7 Helps Boost Android
Apple is still far ahead of its rivals in the global tablet race, but Google’s Android is slowly gaining speed, thanks in large part to the release of the Google Nexus 7. Royal Pingdom has crunched the numbers, and announced Tuesday that the number of Android-based tablets is growing, albeit gradually. Looking at StatCounter Web [...]
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