My colleague John Timmer reported yesterday on Amazon's new Kindle e-book reader. Kindle's software platform unsurprisingly runs on the Linux operating system and uses numerous open-source software ...

The Kindle has been out for a year now, and Amazon has had plenty of time to work out any kinks in the software and hardware. It should be a rock-solid device, right? I decided to find out. After ...

Everyone knew Amazon would announce a successor to its popular Kindle ebook reader. What people did not know was when. Thankfully, the time between when the Kindle 2 was announced and when it started ...

Jesse Vincent has managed to get Linux running on his Amazon Kindle 2. He hacked the Kindle 2 using a Ubuntu 9.04 port to ARM running in a chrooted environment. What you see there is a Kindle 2 with ...

Hacker Jesse Vincent, who’s previously written software to allow PDFs and ePubs to be read on the Kindle, wheedled and cajoled the Kindle 2 into running Ubuntu 9.04 ...

BBG has a great piece on hacking the Kindle to run Linux including a version of X Windows. The Kindle is essentially a fairly powerful little Linux box and with a little elbow grease you can train it ...

Microsoft and Amazon.com have signed a wide-ranging patent cross-licensing agreement that provides each company with access to the other's patent portfolio. Specific terms of the agreement were not ...

This week Apple launched an Apple TV+ app for Android, which means you can watch Severance on your Pixel phone without using a web browser. Next week the company plans to launch some new hardware – ...

New VMware View Clients empower more agile, productive and connected employees and students with access to their Windows virtual desktops PALO ALTO, Calif. – Dec. 15, 2011 - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), ...

Google recently added an experimental Linux terminal app to Android that installs Debian in a virtual machine and lets you run command-line apps. But if you’re running the latest canary builds of ...