13. January 2012 · Comments Off · Categories: Technology Content · Tags:

Sending documents from a PC to a Kindle e-reader just became a little turn easier. That’s because Amazon on Thursday released a young application foreboded “Send to Kindle” that enables Kindle owners to easily transport files from their Windows PCs directly to their ebook reader.

Send to Kindle is available to PC users as a liberal download. Amazon called that stand for Mac is coming soon.

Kindle users get constantly been able to transfer personal documents to their devices by either emailing them to an address assigned to their Kindle chronicle or attaching the ereader to a computer and dragging the files over. With Transport to Kindle, the appendage is simplified.

Users may transport files from Windows Explorer by merely right-clicking on a document and choosing Send to Kindle. From any other Windows application that could print, users can choose Print, and then select Send to Kindle.

A turn of different file types could exist transferred, including PDF, .doc, .rtf or .txt files. Diverse ikon files could besides be sent, including .jpg, .gif, .png, .bmp. With the app, users may archive personal documents to their Kindle Library in the Amazon Cloud and re-download them later to a Kindle device or Kindle App for iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch when connected wirelessly.

“Your finally page read along with bookmarks, notes and highlights are automatically synchronized for your documents (with the exception of PDFs) across your Kindle devices and brooked Kindle reading apps,” Amazon articulated in a blog post.

New to Kindle and want to see more? Curb out PCMag.com senior mobile analyst Jamie Lendino’s manoeuver on how to laid it up the right mode hence you’re reading in no time.

Earlier this week, meanwhile, Amazon launched a Kindle Store for iPad Web site intended that allows iPad users to buy Kindle ebooks from their Safari browser.

20. December 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Technology Content · Tags: ,

Amazon’s announcement finally hebdomad that it was selling the Kindle Flame at a rate of 1 million units a hebdomad drew widespread publicity. But how does the Amazon tablet form up equally an advertising platform? According to young data from Millennial Media, ad impressions generated by the Kindle Flame have increased at an ordinary daily rate of 19% across apps and the mobile Web.

“We’re not simply considering millions of impressions, we’re considering a monthly run rate of hundreds of millions of impressions,” the mobile ad network told in its monthly Mobile Blend report. The examine covered only the first two weeks of the Kindle Fire’s release in mid-November. It too noted the early maturation rate of Kindle Flame impressions therefore far slightly outpaced that of the iPad when it was launched in early 2010.

That’s partially because the Amazon device was released into a more mature tablet market, its $199 cost tag, and the orbit of digital entertainment offered through the Kindle Fire. Reflecting its dominance of the tablet market, the iPad typically accounts for the lion’s part of tablet impressions on Millennial’s network. Still, connected devices as a completely are responsible for exclusively 16% of entirely mobile impressions, according to the latest report.

Smartphones drive the immense majority (70%) of impressions, with feature phones contributing 14%. Across both smartphones and connected devices, Android proceeded to lead the way, generating 50% of impressions, followed by Apple’s iOS, with 30%, and BlackBerry, 17%. Growth uptake of the Android-based Kindle Flaming should assistant the Google mobile operating organization bolster its strength across completely devices.