Not every Kindle model can download apps. The Paperwhite, for example, is made to display documents and books -- not to use apps. Both the Kindle Fire and the Kindle Fire HD, on the other hand, can ...

One of the main reasons to root your Kindle Fire is so you can install the Google Play Store and have access to apps that can't be found in the Amazon Appstore. But if you're worried about voiding the ...

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 ...

The recently launched Scribd subscription e-book service is adding an app for the Kindle Fire tablet as well as providing updates to its iOS and Android apps. The service, which provides users access ...

Berlin-based OpenStreetMaps map app maker, Skobbler — which claims its map engine is ‘on a par with Google’s’ and last month relaunched into the Android app market with a hybrid online/offline map ...

Amazon this morning announced a small, but significant change to its “Login with Amazon” service which currently offers an alternate way to sign up for and authenticate with mobile applications on ...

Amazon on Monday celebrated the launch of its new Amazon Coins by giving “tens of millions of dollars†of the virtual currency to Kindle Fire users as part of its latest bit to attract customers to ...

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 will be ...

After some back-and-forth between Amazon and Wattpad, a third party e-reader app, Kindle Fire owners can now use a different apps to read e-books on their device. Before now, Amazon had been hiding ...

Editor’s note: Two apps originally described in this story, Business Calendar and TouchDown for Tablet, are not available for the Kindle Fire. The consensus of most reviewers of the Kindle Fire is ...

Microsoft debuted its Xbox SmartGlass app for Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD this morning, giving Xbox 360 users with one of the Amazon tablets a new way to interact with their living room consoles.