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 ...

Amazon announced today via press release what applications will be shipped and bundled on the Kindle Fire Tablet. When Kindle Fire customers across the country open their boxes next week, they ...

Explore the Amazon Kindle Fire HD's software in this comprehensive overview. Discover its intuitive interface, extensive app ...

Kindle Fire users have built-in access to the Amazon Appstore, which includes thousands of free and paid games and apps. By contrast, the iPad has a selection of apps that is about 50 times greater.

The apps still showed up in the web-based Appstore, but weren’t available for download onto the Fire. Hidden e-reader apps included Wattpad, Kobo, and Bluefire, all competitors of the Kindle.

The Kindle Fire is Android-based, but Amazon has its own app store and approval system for apps that make it onto the Kindle Fire. Apple, Android, Amazon —no matter, says David Law, director of ...

Amazon revealed its app lineup for Kindle Fire Wednesday, and it's pretty exciting. Even though the tablet will be a vessel for Amazon's media, the company is promoting competitors such as Netflix ...

This is an updated version of an earlier story. The extra real estate and consumer popularity of the Kindle Fire has proven attractive to Citigroup and Bank of America Corp., both of which on March 8 ...

I wrote earlier about Amazon’s new Kindle Fire and how the gadget is truly more of an Amazon media device than a Google Android tablet. From the interface to the app ecosystem and service ...