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Archive for December, 2011

Kindle Fire software update coming in less than two weeks, performance and UI improvements promised

In the wake of user complaints about web browsing speeds and other performance issues, Amazon has told the New York Times that it will be releasing a software update for the Kindle Fire "in less than two weeks." That timeframe would put this new software update about a month after the 6.2 update released at […]

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Kindle Touch jailbroken with simple MP3 hack

Just because the Kindle Touch isn’t Android-based doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be fun and potentially useful to gain root on it. Developer Yifan Lu has managed to do just that and has released the jailbreak tool for the e-reader in a format that might surprise you: an mp3 file. It turns out that the […]

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