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Deals of the Day (9-06-2012)

Sure, next-gen tablets and eReaders are all the rage these days. But that means you can get a pretty great deal on older models. Refurbished Barnes & Noble NOOK Color tablets are going for just $120. That’s not a bad price for a device with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, an 800 […]

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ForeverMap 2 brings maps and navigation to the Nook Tablet and Nook Color

When Barnes & Noble introduced the Nook Color then the Nook Tablet, they each cost far less than most slates on the market. The bookseller partially achieved this by leaving out some hardware, such as cameras, Bluetooth, and GPS radios. Despite this lack, it’s now possible to use both Nook tabs as GPS navigation devices. […]

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Fireworks retailer uses 300 NOOK Colors with CyanogenMod for product demos

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words… and a video is worth a few thousand more. If you’re trying to sell fireworks, you’re selling a box of sticks with the promise that they’ll blow up in interesting ways. A picture on the box sort of shows what you’re really buying, but a video does […]

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B&N to spin off NOOK business, Microsoft to invest $300 million

Barnes & Noble has announced it’s creating a new subsidiary which will house the company’s digital and college businesses. That means that the NOOK eReaders and tablets and digital book divisions won’t be under the same roof as B&N’s nearly 700 book stores in the US — but NOOK eReaders will still be tied to […]

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Barnes & Noble doesn’t really want you sideloading apps on a NOOK Tablet

It was a bug, and Barnes & Noble fixed it. That’s how representatives from the company described the fact that when the NOOK Tablet shipped in November, users discovered they could download some Android apps from the internet (instead of from the B&N Shop) and install them on the tablet — until Barnes & Noble […]

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Barnes & Noble offering free (or cheap) NOOKs to periodical subscribers

Barnes & Noble is now offering discounted NOOK Simple Touch, NOOK Color, and NOOK Tablets to customers that sign up for subscriptions to the New York Times or People Magazine. Here’s how it works: Get a NOOK Simple Touch eReader for free with a 1-year NOOK subscription to the New York Times (at $19.99 per […]

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ReaderDock introduces Kindle Fire, NOOK Tablet charging docks with speakers

ReaderDock plans to introduce two new tablet docking stations this month, one for the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color and another for the Amazon Kindle Fire. The N-Station and FireStation are both scheduled to ship in mid-February, but pre-orders for each will open in late January. The docking stations include built-in speakers […]