Online retailer Amazon may have started out as a book store, but today the company sells everything from shoes to groceries. Over the past few years the company has also expanded into digital media, and now Amazon offers some of the industry’s top eBook, MP3 Music, and digital video stores. Earlier this year the company […]
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How to sideload apps (even the Android Market) on the Amazon Kindle Fire
The Amazon Kindle Fire may look like a tablet designed only to access apps, music, movies, books, and periodicals from Amazon. But under the hood it’s an Android tablet, which means that it can run most apps designed for Android 2.3 and earlier. And it turns out it’s quite easy to install most of them. Most […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire hacked to run the Android Market
Update: We’ve posted instructions for rooting your tablet, installing third party apps, and installing the Android Market. The Amazon Kindle Fire comes with the Amazon Appstore which makes it easy to download and install about 20,000 Android apps. But the official Google Android Market has closer to half a million apps. So it’s no surprise that […]
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Amazon introduces the Kindle Fire tablet
Amazon has officially unveiled the Kindle Fire — its new 7 inch tablet. As expected, it basically looks like a BlackBerry PlayBook — you know, if the BlackBerry PlayBook ran a customized version of Android and tied into Amazon’s app store, movie store, music store, eBook store, and digital newsstand. The Kindle Fire will be […]