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Barnes & Noble introduces Nook Color
Barnes & Noble has introduced the new Nook Color e-reader this week, hoping to gain an advantage over the rival Amazon Kindle in the quickly growing e-reader market. The Nook Color will use an IPS LCD screen, the same type of display used by the Apple iPad. Read the full story on After Dawn. Related [...]
Romur: Android Amazon Kindle ereader app on its way?
It looks like an Android version of the Amazon Kindle reader tool is on its way. According to Dell Mini 5 promotional materials that Engadget published, the Kindle ereader application will launch along with a mobile version of Amazon’s Video on Demand service. It looks like the app could launch along with the Dell Mini [...]
Nook E-Reader Gets Hacked to Run Apps, Browser
Listening to music as you read a book is just perfect. Now picture doing that on your Barnes & Noble Nook e-book reader. A few Nook device owners have hacked it to run the Pandora music application in the background. “It wasn’t that hard,” says Robbie Trencheny, a 18-year-old student who is also the team [...]
Barnes & Noble Nook E-Reader Has Been Rooted
Image via CrunchBase Barnes & Noble’s e-reader, “Nook,” has just been rooted by the NookDevs.com modding team. They announced that they discovered a DNS hack, and followed through by reverse-engineering the e-reader to see how it works. They eventually learned the Nook OS runs from the SD card, and Tweeted soon after: “We have root.” [...]
