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Amazon Kindle Fire First Impressions: Solid but Limited

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September 30, 2011
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Amazon Kindle Fire First Impressions: Solid but Limited Following extended eyes-on time, here are a few thoughts on where Amazon's new Kindle Fire fits into the tablet landscape.
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Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet vs. the Competition: Spec Showdown We look at how the Kindle Fire tablet's specs stack up against other tablets in its class.
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Amazon Announces $199 Kindle Fire Tablet, Clutch of New Kindle E-Readers Amazon enters the tablet wars with the well-priced Kindle Fire, and ups the e-reader market ante with new, more-capable Kindle e-readers.
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How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way Despite early successes on the Web, the latter years of Flash have been a tale of missed opportunities.
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Will the Kindle Fire Spark Business Interest? At $200, the Fire looks tempting as an Internet machine. But will it fit the bill for professional use?
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T-Mobile Wants to Prevent US Ban on Samsung Products T-Mobile USA asked a court to prevent a preliminary injunction against the sale of the Galaxy S 4G smartphone and Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet, citing its impact on holiday sales.
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"Mango" Arrives with a Wi-Fi Tethering Surprise Microsoft has started rolling out the official "Mango" update to Windows Phone 7 devices, along with a couple of unexpected updates.
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Microsoft Kills Off a Botnet by Striking a Domain Provider Microsoft opens a front in its ongoing battle against Internet scammers, using the power of a U.S. court to deal a knockout blow to an emerging botnet.
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Linux and Windows 8's Secure Boot: What We Know So Far It's still early in the game, but Linux users could face limited options on Windows 8 certified PCs.
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RIM Calls Report of PlayBook's Demise 'Pure Fiction' Research in Motion said Thursday that it remains committed to the PlayBook tablet and the tablet market.
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Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango": Top New Business Features Microsoft's Windows Phone senior product manager details the top eight new enterprise features and enhancements found within the company's recently released Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" mobile OS.
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Tizen: A Viable Android Alternative at Last? Rising from MeeGo's ashes, this new, Linux-based mobile platform could offer a fully open and customizable 'escape route' for device makers beleaguered by Android licensing fees.
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Lawmakers Want Investigation of Supercookies Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate the use of so-called supercookies on many websites.
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Delicious Re-launch Riddled With Bugs Users of Delicious are up in arms after the social bookmarking site was re-launched this week with missing data.
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Visual Tour: Toshiba's New Thrive 7 Tablet The Thrive 7", the newest member of the Toshiba tablet family, will be out in December. Let's examine some of its features.
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Google Wallet Lets You Tap and Spend Google is first-to-market with an NFC payment system in the U.S., and the company seems to understand that it will take a while for the technology to mature.
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A Bundle of Updates Give 10 Linux Distributions a Boost Linux is more than just Ubuntu. New updates to various flavors of the open source OS are constantly raising the bar.
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