Barnes & Noble, the United States biggest bookstore chain, has released their new line of Nook tablets a few months before the holiday season. The 7-inch Nook HD tablet and the 9-inch variant will hit the shelves before Apple releases their latest iPad. The company faces tough competition from other tablet makers, including Amazon and [...] Read more → 
Amazon has faced a few setbacks in recent years. But Walmart’s decision to stop selling Amazon products may deal a big blow to the American retail and electronics company. According to a spokesperson of Walmart, “Recently, Walmart Stores, Inc. made a business decision to not carry current Amazon products beyond our purchase commitments and existing [...] Read more → 
Tablet manufacturer Barnes and Noble is going to enter a new frontier, as the company is going to add maps through map service provider skobbler in their Nook tablets. Barnes and Noble is partnering with the German based map provider to bring skobbler’s ForeverMap 2 app to their Nook app marketplace. The ForeverMap 2 basic [...] Read more → 
Good news to those who have pre-ordered their Google Nexus 7 tablets from Google Play. It seems like you will be receiving your device soon as an automated phone message on Google’s support line is saying that shipment for those who have pre-ordered the Nexus 7 have already begun. The message says that pre-orders are [...] Read more → 
The New York Times published an article last Sunday regarding Barnes & Nobles taking on Amazon. It stated that they are “putting the final touches on their (Barnes & Noble’s) fifth e-reading device, a product that executives aid would be released sometime this spring”. Unfortunately, the popular newspaper wasn’t able to get any comment from [...] Read more → As long as the Cupertino-based company isn’t releasing an official statement as to what they will be coming up next, the rumor mill won’t stop churning. This time however, its spawning twins. Yes, you read that right. Speculations now center on Apple releasing two versions of next-generation iPads next year as reported by DigiTimes. These [...] Read more → A report from Taiwan’s DigiTimes claims that purchases from 7-inch panels has surpassed orders for 9.7-inch LCD panels. This indicates that smaller tablets like the Kindle Fire and the Nook tablet has increased their production. Shipments for the smaller LCD panels reportedly grew by 17 percent in November. So does this mean that Apple is [...] Read more → Well, at least that’s what one analyst says. Richard Gardner, a Citi analyst, sent a research note stating that “several sources” indicates that Apple will be launching iPad 3 as much as a month earlier than the release of iPad 2 last year. “[T]here do not appear to be any significant technical hurdles remaining,” Gardner [...] Read more → What’s good about technology these days is that it makes life easier for us. Instead of long ques and other difficulties that we normally experience while shopping, technology now enables us to do things while we sit in the confines of our wonderful abode. We need not pay more for toll and parking fees and [...] Read more → Before, a lot of people thought ebooks will never really be a hit and ebook readers aren’t a necessity. All of that changed with the introduction of Amazon’s Kindle. For the first time ever, Amazon shoppers on Christmas day bought more books for their Kindles then they did the traditional paperbacks and hard-bounds. Usually, on [...] Read more → 