E-Tablets: April 2013

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Kindle for Android 4: Major update, small errors - lesen.net

28 April 2013 – From John

Amazon has its Kindle app for Android devices missed an all-optical regeneration and set the version number 4 on this occasion. An update seems at present still somewhat risky, some functions can stay on track.

available in play since Friday Kindle Store App 4,0,1,3 (previous version number: 3.8.2.4) brings the Kindle Fire look to other Android devices. Most striking feature is the “carousel”, is now scrolled horizontally by using the e-book offer. In addition to the cover and the respective reading progress is displayed. Of course there is still an optional list view of your own e-book library.

Textsync No, no dictionaries

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At least in some cases, however, seems to be the new app to cause two problems that users in several reviews (in the U.S. Play Store, there are well over 100 alone 4,0,1,3) are documented. Firstly, there are occasional problems with the passages synchronization: New text positions are then transferred properly to the cloud, it always reads from the same place going. Secondly, the built-in dictionaries in some cases seem to be no longer available, a tab again to be translated word does not cause pop-ups more.

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major updates errors are almost inevitable in principle – are horrifying little problems with Kindle for Android 4 to mute annoying, but not really dramatic. Compared with the recent bug the Kindle iOS app update in the temporarily disappeared the entire e-book library from the device, the error occurs the Android App are negligible – and certainly very soon dispelled by Amazon. The real innovations of course remain a matter of taste: In the reviews, there are a lot of praise for the now modern and uncluttered home screen, many users want but also more e-book management options (keyword: shelves).

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Kindle box: Apple TV Gets the competition from Amazon? - M-magazin.net

The bookseller wants to know: On the Kindle and the Kindle, the Kindle Fire HD box is now to follow. That is to BusinessWeek have experienced. The battle for the living room is opened once more. For who is the technology, controls the content.

It is a development that fully fits in Amazon’s entertainment strategy: In addition to the book and eBook business offers mail order company for some time with LOVEFiLM not only a movie rental at, but also allows you to stream movies. All content can already get on the Kindle Fire HD.

own set-top box would be the logical conclusion to consume Amazon content also comfortable on your TV. And finally arrive in the living of users. The cabinet is designed according to the report in Cupertino, home of Apple. However, Apple has nothing to do with the project, but the Amazon development department “Lab126″, directed by Malachy Moynihan, who worked in the eighties and nineties for Apple and eventually moved to California.

Amazon recently announced to invest in future productions. This is likely to be responsible in the lead role, the success of Netflix’s “House of Cards” with a great Kevin Spacey. While Netflix can be used to set-top boxes such as Apple TV, Lovefilm has only been on the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 available.

this autumn can imagine the device Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. It is still unclear whether competing offers from Hulu, Netflix or iTunes would also work on the Kindle box. After all, the mail order company is known for extremely deep to anchor its own services in its own hardware.

Gives the rumors be believed, Apple gets tremendous competition in the television segment. The Apple TV (mStore link) sells very well indeed, but a twist of the screw innovation would do well Cupertino. An iTV would be the right answer. We are excited!

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TV plans Amazon expands the Kindle box

Full speed towards the living room: Amazon could present its own set-top box later this year. This was reported by BusinessWeek. The plan is apparently a device modeled on the Apple TV. Hardware so that brings the content from the Amazon cosmos on the TV. Thus, the world’s largest mail order company would advance to the endültig Entertainment Group. Amazon recently announced the future to invest in productions.

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according to the report in Cupertino. Not from Apple but from the development department “Lab126″. This in turn leads Malachy Moynihan, who worked in the eighties and nineties for Apple and eventually moved to California. Jeff Bezos might introduce the device in the fall, they say.

Because of Amazon CEO knows: who controls the technology, also controls access to the content. Apple is still quite successful with his former “hobby” Apple TV, a technical extension to the iTunes library. Amazon is also known to be extremely deeply integrate its services into their own hardware. Thus, critics felt the implementation of Amazon’s tablet Kindle Fire HD services to be quite disturbing.

It is still unclear whether a Kindle box could only play Amazon content. Because even Apple TV provides access to the library of Netflix. That very streaming service that Amazon now want to emulate with its own productions. The political series “House of Cards” starring Kevin Spacey was a great success. The streaming service is on almost any device, from the console games on the computer to iPhone and iPad, available. The streaming service LoveFilm Amazon, users can even get on the Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360, but it still lacks its own hardware. With the movies and series could comfortably consume on the television. But above all, their own services would therefore clearly in the forefront and not just an app, among many.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Amazon Kindle App: Great update brings new UI and other functions - androidnext

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The Kindle app of the mail order giant Amazon since 2010 already provides for an easy access to the rich Bookstore called the Kindle Store with over 1.5 million books, including 140,000 in the German language. The previously rather simply held Reader application some new features and a completely redesigned user interface get missed in the current version fourth

since even Google has gone about his offer PlayBooks in the market with electronic books, Amazon pioneered got it in this segment with a serious and extremely potent competitors do. This could be one of the reasons that the company from founder Jeff Bezos now at its reader app sets into a bit more stuff than before.

The previous versions of the app are limited to basic functions that are simply required to Buy, Order and read e-books. The books in the library being represented arranged in the form of a list or grid and sort by a few criteria such as archive and magazines. Then there was a local search and the ability to sync books you just read through the Amazon account with other hardware or software Kindles.

The most striking novelty of the just-released version 4 is the completely revised user interface, the books and magazines is presented in a chic carousel view. Furthermore, the navigation pane has been adjusted and now allows faster and more sophisticated access to the media stored locally and in the cloud. Also new is the option “Popular excerpts.”

reading area itself has done little, however: The top menu bar can be shown or hidden by tapping the center of the screen now, which makes for a bit more space. Otherwise, you will find exactly the same adjustment possibilities that you have already knew of the app and then find themselves in the physical Kindles.

Some users have been complaining about the update, Force Closes, against the usual procedure is to help: Stop the app manually and clear app data .
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Not only AirDroid got a major update, the Kindle app from Amazon with a new look by updating. Likewise Chrome Beta has gotten a few improvements.

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mobile Chrome browser has been done at the speed of page a lot. And in general there are, as always, the usual bug fixes and improvements. Huawei owners may be happy, because it was removed a bug that always brought a black image on the screen during the loading times.

Similarly, the erroneous Zoom treated, is now it possible to scroll in magnified images up and down.

Kindle comes in a new look

The Kindle app has received an update to version 4. The 1.5-million heavy books eBook Library has received a redesigned user interface and more features. The revised UI You can now send you a carousel view rummaging through the reading material, the navigation bar was also adjusted and gets a new menu item “Popular excerpts.”

books or magazines that you have stored in the cloud or locally, You can now access much faster with the new side menu. Who the display is too small, can hide with a finger the menu bar and has more space for the actual book.

way: the Google Play is not empty. An update to version 4.0.27 is already being rolled out. The APK is available for download at Android Police impatient.
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Amazon updated the Kindle app for Android - WinFuture

The online retailer Amazon has certainly changed its Kindle app for Android clearly affects both the appearance of the user interface and the functions. New is, among other things, the “Carousel View” in the selection menu.Who likes to read on his tablet or smartphone with Google’s mobile operating system Android e-books from Amazon, which should update the associated app, the revised version is now available in the Google Play Store to download.
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The most obvious change is the previously mentioned “Carousel”: for the available books can be browsed horizontally to see are each the cover of the most recently read titles. In the upper right corner is a kind of bookmark icon to see there the reading progress is displayed as a percentage. Thus, the Kindle app for Android optics of the Kindle Fire tablet is closer to being there this display is already longer available.

Also, the navigation has been redesigned, now can be (at the top left icon) open a menu. The first point “content” leads to the above mentioned overview display, among which are also “all elements”, “on the device”, “books”, “Documents” and find “newspapers and magazines”. There are also two further down eventually “Store” sections (“Kindle Store” and “popular excerpts”) and what about “info” (Settings, Info, Feedba ck, and Help).
Finally, it is stated that you now have the option of either the elements (ie, books and other documents) to search in the cloud or only the content that you have downloaded to your Android device.

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Kindle TV: Amazon plans streaming service - CBTech

Chris Angel | On 25 April 2013

Amazon plans according to several media reports, a separate stream service for TVs. Thus, Amazon expanded after the tablet and ebook reader Kindle its offer by another Nieschenprodukt. Especially Apple will not be happy about the new competition.

Handelsblatt reported Amazon plans its own streaming service for TV devices introduce. Although the name was not yet clear, but is “Kindle TV” The most obvious thing. The streaming service will be available internationally in the coming autumn.

using a so-called set-top box can receive movies and series for a certain monthly amount over the internet users. Similar one already knows of Apple’s iTV or other providers, such as the telecom or cable Germany.

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To make the Kindle TV particularly interesting, currently own TV series are produced. These – and other series and films – will then be available for a monthly price of 29 euros. As the “business week”, relying on insider information, reports, users also have a free access to the Amazon Instant Video service service. Currently, this service is not yet available in Germany.

Especially the Apple company might get weak in the knees with regard to the new competition. Apple iTV is currently, after a flop a few years ago, revised and will also be available this year. The offer is mostly the same: stream movies and tv shows on the internet for a fee

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According to the report should also be available on the Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle Fire Kindle HD TV. So should also go over WLAN or LTE movies can be streamed. Whether the set-top box also features an integration of YouTube and other video portals not known.

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with Lovefilm.de Amazon launched a TV streaming service. Customers can individual films and series “rent” and all unique. Room service is available for a monthly subscription, with the all the movies and series can be viewed for a lump sum.

Whether the service is integrated into the Kindle TV remains to be seen. Analysts even talk of detachment from LOVEFiLM and a “new era streaming history.”

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"The Tolino is a business subsidy" - manager-magazin.de

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The hope of the German Book Trade: The eBook Reader Tolino

It was a coup: Thalia, worldview, Bertelsmann and Deutsche Telekom presented early March, their answer to Amazon’s Kindle reader. Today the world boss Carel Halff an initial assessment.

mm: Mr. Halff, the Tolino is now about two months on the market. How is business? Meets the magic weapon against Amazon’s Kindle expectations?
Halff: We are very satisfied. The figures that we have achieved up to now are, well above our ambitious plans.
mm: What does that mean? To date, the proportion of the world, yes Hugendubel and Thalia was the eBooks according to GfK at around 36 percent – slightly lower than the 41 percent of Amazon . Do you believe that here can make up ground against Amazon?
Halff: We expect that we could put something over Amazon. But it will only give specific figures in early May.
mm: The small booksellers in Tolino yes once not there. It is supposed to work but working to of fer them a platform. What is given the state

Half: We are an open system and have other partners invited to join. The connection is, however, technologically complex. There are meetings. I assume that also includes other partners. But the schedule today I can not say anything.
mm: It has many amazed that she and the other companies involved, most of which have already been sold with limited success eBooks now start together, one system. Many hold the train in view of the success of Amazon for long departed. And also in the United States have competitors like Kindle Nook by Barnes & Noble extreme fighting. What made you decide to venture again now restart

Halff: The eBook market is still a niche market. The market share stood at 3 percent in 2012, according to GfK. But it develops from 2013/2014 to an audience market. For a company like the world now is the right time to enter larger. But we were also in recent years been traveling with entry-level instruments and have also sold several hundred thousand of these devices. And we have hundreds of thousands of eBook customers. No, because nothing has been missed. The large market is still ahead of us.
mm: What growth do you expect

? Halff: The growth in the overall market, but also with us is enormous. We expect that the market will double in Germany this year at least. And eBooks are up to 2015 a market share of approximately 15 to 25 percent have.
mm: What is the situation with the devices that they have sold before Tolino. Will disappear from the market

Halff: We will use the Tolino device in focus. And it will not even stay for a device in this. And other devices that we have sold in the past, increasingly losing importance. I can also imagine that we let the leak completely.

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Amazon builds just the "Kindle TV"? - PC World

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anonymous sources, Amazon wants to bring a set-top box on the market and offer its own streaming services over – for example LoveFilm

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Amazon is planning to build a set-top box for the TV, Bloomberg reported, referring to three anonymous insider. The set-top box is to provide access to Amazon’s growing video on demand service, it is said of the sources. For example, LOVEFiLM also belongs to the company: The service sent Rentals not only in the mail, but also streaming movies on the computer or for example the Playstation 3 Latter and Apple TV Amazon & Co. would do with a set-top box, of course, competition.

set-top box is to be developed by Amazon’s Lab126 in Cupertino, California. The management had Malachy Moynihan, former Vice President of Emerging Video Products at Cisco Systems and former Apple employee. The name of the set-top box was still not certain – Bloomberg is from “Kindle TV” from

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Amazon’s equipment fleet is expected to grow: According to tablets and e-readers, the publication of a set-top box is apparently planned for the living room. So that makes the online retailer Apple competition. A name for the box is not fixed yet, Kindle TV is but obvious.

Amazon stalks into the living room of many users – with its own streaming client for TVs. This at least will have businessweek.com, citing three people who should be familiar with the plans, learn. The product will appear in the fall. So far, the online retailer e-readers and tablets on the market, the Kindle and Kindle Fire. About Amazon’s smartphone plans has already been reported several times. A set-top box would expand the portfolio and round.

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Amazon would strengthen the product its own video on demand service. Via the set-top box to stream movies and TV shows should be possible to write businessweek.com. Even owners of the box would get free access to Amazon’s Instant Video service, and thus to free streaming media services. However, the service is only available to customers of the prime services and not in Germany is available. For a monthly fee of € 29 will receive prime customers faster, and Free Shipping of products from the Amazon offer. The online retailer has already funded their own television pilot programs, insofar as a separate set-top box would also strengthen such a possible offer.

Amazon would position itself next to Apple TV on the market of streaming clients for the living room, in the U.S. Roku and Boxee Box are also strongly represented in the market. Whether Amazon also allows access to video services like YouTube via its set-top box, is questionable, writes businessweek.com. About one’s own Kindle Fire tablet is a call but possible. The name on the box is also unclear. BusinessWeek speculates the device could be called Kindle TV.

Anyone interested in the hardware offerings of the online retailer, is here a test of the Kindle Paperwhite. More on Amazon you will find on this overview page.

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