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  • Toshiba is done with netbooks (in the US)

    Toshiba is done with netbooks (in the US)

    Earlier this year Toshiba introduced its first netbook with an Intel Atom N2600 Cedar Trail processor. But if ...

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    VIA APC: A $49 Android computer with an ARM11 CPU

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    $74 PC on a stick features Allwinner A10 CPU, Android 4.0

    The FXI Cotton Candy is getting a lot of attention as a PC on a stick that will ...

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    AMD launches Trinity processors with an eye on ultrathin laptops

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    10 Ultrabook deals for under $800

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  • How to root a Kindle Fire with Software Version 6.3.1

    How to root a Kindle Fire with Software Version 6.3.1

    Amazon released a minor software update for the Kindle Fire this week. It gives users a little more ...

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  • New kernel brings Netflix to Android 4.0 Kindle Fire

    New kernel brings Netflix to Android 4.0 Kindle Fire

    Kindle Fire owners have been hacking Amazon's $199 Android 2.3 tablet to install unofficial versions of Android 4.0 ...

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  • CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0.1 for the NOOK Tablet kills (some) bugs dead

    CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0.1 for the NOOK Tablet kills (some) bugs dead

    Just over a week after releasing the first build of Android 4.0 for the Barnes & Noble NOOK ...

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Hacked NOOK Touch can display video (in black and white)

NOOK Touch with video

The Barnes & Noble NOOK Simple Touch is an eBook reader with a 6 inch E Ink display and a touchscreen. Like most devices with a black and white E Ink display, the NOOK Touch is designed for reading and not much else. While the display can handle text and images, the slow screen refresh rates limits the types of…

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March 18th, 2012, 12:05 pm by Brad Linder | 2 Comments

You can share a Kindle 3G connection with your PC… but you probably shouldn’t

Kindle 3G

Good news everyone! It’s now possible to hook up a Kindle 3 with free global 3G wireless to a PC and use the internet connection on your computer. The bad news? This is probably a really bad idea. Here’s the deal. If you bought a 3rd generation Kindle device with the global 3G option, Amazon lets you use that internet…

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February 28th, 2012, 10:30 am by Brad Linder | 3 Comments

Now you can boot an 8GB NOOK Tablet from an SD card

nook tablet_01

A week after Barnes & Noble released a new version of the NOOK Tablet, hackers have figured out how to get it to boot from a microSD card. This allows you to circumvent the locked bootloader and load custom firmware on the tablet including ClockworkMod Recovery or custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod 7. The new $199 NOOK Tablet features a…

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February 27th, 2012, 1:15 pm by Brad Linder | 1 Comment

NOOK Touch hack speeds up E Ink, shows why it’s not ready for tablets

NOOK Simple Touch with Angry Birds

E Ink is a pretty fascinating display technology. Designed for eBook readers, E Ink screens look a lot like ink on paper. But there’s a down side – most eReaders have slow screen refresh rates which means you can’t use them for video or even smooth scrolling in web browser or other applications. That’s not usually a problem, because most…

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February 23rd, 2012, 11:13 am by Brad Linder | No Comments »

NOOK Tablet hacks: Flash a custom ROM or boot Ubuntu to restore OS 1.4.0

NOOK Tablet Ubuntu

NOOK Tablet hackers have added a few new tools to their arsenal this weekend. Developer Cobroto has put together one of the first custom ROMs for the tablet, while developer AdamOutler has put together a rather impressive tool based on Ubuntu Linux which you can use to reformat the NOOK Tablet and roll back from OS 1.4.1 or later to…

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January 30th, 2012, 10:59 am by Brad Linder | 1 Comment

Root a NOOK Tablet with just an SD card

NOOK Tablet with Android Market

Barnes & Noble has been playing a bit of cat and mouse game with NOOK Tablet hackers. When the company released the 7 inch Android tablet in November, it didn’t take long for hackers to figure out how to sideload apps, root the tablet, and even install the Android Market. Then Barnes & Noble pushed out a software update which…

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January 27th, 2012, 3:10 pm by Brad Linder | 7 Comments

NOOK Touch hack adds USB host support (plug in a keyboard)

NOOK Touch with USB host

Ever wish you could use a USB keyboard with your NOOK Simple Touch eBook reader? Yeah, I didn’t think so… but it’s still pretty cool that it’s possible. Hacker verygreen has figured out how to enable USB host support on Barnes & Noble’s eReader and he’s posted details on how to do it at the xda-developers forum. Since the NOOK…

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January 24th, 2012, 5:15 pm by Brad Linder | No Comments »

Hacked Sony Reader shows just how fast E Ink displays can be

Sony PRS-T1

The Sony PRS-T1 is designed to be an eBook reader and little more, but it’s running Google Android under the hood. Late last year hackers figured out how to root the device and enable installation of third party Android apps. But for the most part those apps look awful on the PRS-T1, because the E Ink display has a slow…

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January 16th, 2012, 11:16 am by Brad Linder | 5 Comments

NOOK Tablet can now run CWM recovery, boot from SD cards

NOOK Tablet booting from SD

Now that hackers have bypassed the secure bootloader on the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, the real fun begins. NOOK Tablet hacking is still in the early phases, but developers have already figured out how to load a working ClockworkMod Recovery onto the tablet so that users can backup and restore software or flash custom software on the tablet. Developers…

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January 12th, 2012, 12:00 pm by Brad Linder | 2 Comments

Kindle Fire development hits high gear (new custom ROMs, Tune Packs, more)

Amazon Kindle Fire

Now that developers have successfully managed to install CyanogenMod 7, early builds of Android 4.0, custom bootloaders and recovery utilities on the Amazon Kindle Fire, the sky seems to be the limit. Over the past few days several developers have released new software for Amazon’s $199 tablet. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the new tools available for those…

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January 11th, 2012, 1:00 pm by Brad Linder | No Comments »

NOOK Tablet bootloader security bypassed, custom code coming soon

nook tablet clockworkmod

The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet is a $249 Android tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel IPS display, a 1 GHz TI OMAP4 dual core processor, 16GB of storage, and a microSD card slot. Until the Asus Eee Pad MeMo is released later this year, it’s probably the nicest Android tablet you can buy for the price….

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January 10th, 2012, 12:32 pm by Brad Linder | 2 Comments

Snowball-mod (almost) turns the NOOK Tablet into a full Android tablet

Snowball-mod for NOOK Tablet

The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet is a 7 inch tablet with a color display, a dual core processor, and a custom version of the Google Android operating system designed by Barnes & Noble. While the tablet can run hundreds of thousands of Android apps, out of the box it’s designed for reading eBooks from B&N, streaming videos from Netflix…

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December 30th, 2011, 11:35 am by Brad Linder | 13 Comments
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