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Microsoft pays $300m for a stake in Barnes & Noble’s ebooks

30 April 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (0)

Business makes some strange bedfellows, and somewhere in the patent suit that Microsoft lobbed at Barnes & Noble a corporate romance bloomed. Now the Redmond software giant has invested a whopping $300 million into the bookseller’s newly formed digital and college division, which will almost certainly take over the growing Nook e-reader business. Microsoft will own 17.6% …

Nook e-readers and tablets may be coming to the UK soon

08 March 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (0)

The Barnes & Noble Nook line of e-readers and its more media-friendly Nook Color and Nook Tablet entries have gained a lot of fans here in the US, but in international markets they’re basically a no-show. That may be coming to an end soon: a Nook developer workshop will be held on March 19th in …

Barnes & Noble introduces $199 Nook Tablet with 8GB of storage

21 February 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (2)

If you’ve been looking at the increasingly crowded cheap 7-inch reader/tablet market, there’s a new option at the all-important $199 price point. Barnes & Noble just lowered the Nook Tablet to a $199.99 price point, if you’re OK with built-in storage falling from 16GB to 8GB. That gives the new dual-core Tablet, introduced in November …

Barnes & Noble says new Nook device coming this spring

31 January 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (5)

Barnes & Noble is making a new Android-based Nook e-reader! Huzzah! The latter isn’t exactly news – there’s always a successor to the current model in the pipeline. But according to an in-depth report in The New York Times, the bookseller is preparing a new model of the Nook for release some time this spring. …

ReaderDock readies Docking Station for Nook Color and Nook Tablet

03 January 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (2)

before a few months ago, no one seemed interested in model-specific docks for anything more than the iPad, as far as tablets were concerned. But now more than 40% of tablets sold run Android, and a considerable number of those are inexpensive reader/tablet devices like Barnes & Noble’s Nook family. Soon there will be a …

NOOK Color gets an Ice Cream Sandwich CM9 ROM

29 December 2011 by Cory Gunther Discuss (4)

As to be expected we are seeing loads and loads of CM9 or Ice Cream Sandwich ROM’s for all types of Android devices. The popular NOOK Color that was highly hackable and enjoyed Honeycomb before many others is taking the same route with Ice Cream Sandwich. Thanks to a few hard working developers over at …

Barnes & Noble readies massive Nook Color update with Netflix and Marvel Comics

12 December 2011 by Michael Crider Discuss (2)

It’s always nice to see a company supporting its products after an erstwhile successor has been introduced, and it looks like Barnes & Noble is doing just that with its Nook Color tablet-reader. The bookseller just released a huge update to the Nook Color’s software, well over a year after its original release, and almost …

Nook Tablet Hands-on and Unboxing

16 November 2011 by Chris Burns Discuss (0)

This week marks the launch of Barnes & Noble’s second-wave full-color media consumption slate, the Nook Tablet, and with a bumped-up processor from Texas Instruments, connections to Hulu Plus and Netflix, and notably similar physical attributes otherwise for the chassis, we’ve got to wonder how this will be able to take on the competition this …

Barnes & Noble reveals Microsoft’s Android patents in detail

14 November 2011 by Michael Crider Discuss (5)

Last week Barnes & Noble lobbied United States regulators to investigate Microsoft, on the basis that its lawsuits and licensing agreements with Android OEMs constituted monopolistic behavior. The first fruit of this effort is a detailed look at the patents that Microsoft has been using to pressure manufacturers into licensing deals worth hundreds of millions …

NOOK Color officially drops to $199, goes head to head with Kindle Fire

07 November 2011 by Michael Crider Discuss (0)

Just like the leaked internal deck predicted, the venerable Nook Color is getting a price drop now that the Nook Tablet is official. The original will cost just $199, going head-to-head with the Amazon Kindle Fire while the Nook Tablet competes with some superior specs at $249. The price has already dropped on Barnes & …

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