I use devices until they stop working; I won't upgrade just for new features. My decade-old Fire 7 still reads, streams, and browses fine; longevity matters. Silk browser, multitasking, and apps keep ...

The new Amazon Kindle Fire is a powerful, dual-core Android tablet for only $200. It doesn't have the quarter-million apps from the Android Market, though; by default, you can only load the "thousands ...

From the moment Apple shipped the first iPad back in 2010, pundits started wondering when someone else would ship a tablet that rivaled it for overall appeal. The initial wondering, logically enough, ...

The amount of potential fun to be had with the Kindle Fire HD is dependent on how much money you're willing to spend, and how guilty you're willing to feel after all that buying. The tablet's main ...

Amazon’s Kindle Fire arrives on Tuesday to shake up the tablet market, and the reviews are rolling in. Although it’s impossible to review the Kindle Fire’s key feature–the $199 price tag–the idea of a ...

The Albany Parks & Recreation Department is offering a class on the basics of using a Kindle Fire. Tim Babcock is the instructor. Participants should bring their Kindle Fire to class, and they need to ...

As part of the Kindle Fire unveiling on Wednesday, Amazon announced its new browser architecture, dubbed Silk, which does some processing and rendering in the cloud to speed up Web browsing. Featuring ...