The Amazon Kindle Fire ships with a custom version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread designed to run apps and access digital media from Amazon’s content store. But users have been hacking the Kindle Fire ...

The Amazon Kindle Fire comes with the Amazon Appstore which makes it easy to download and install about 20,000 Android apps. But the official Google Android Market has closer to half a million apps.

Since late 2011, the Kindle Fire has been one of the hottest tablets outside of the iPad and at $200, it was the first one that almost anyone can afford. This is technically a guide to the best Kindle ...

In the battle to become the "Netflix of digital books," Scribd is taking its app to Amazon Kindle Fire tablets while updating its iOS and Android apps. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading ...

Not every Kindle model can download apps. The Paperwhite, for example, is made to display documents and books -- not to use apps. Both the Kindle Fire and the Kindle Fire HD, on the other hand, can ...

WordPress has updated its native Android application for smartphones and tablets, delivering features from its version 2.0 update and making them available for owners of Amazon’s Kindle Fire and B&N’s ...

The Amazon Kindle mainly serves as an e-book reader, but the simple e-reader devices are only a portion of the Kindle line of devices. In particular, the Kindle Fire series is much more than an ...

Amazon announced today via press release what applications will be shipped and bundled on the Kindle Fire Tablet. When Kindle Fire customers across the country open their boxes next week, they will be ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. Amazon has added the Kindle Vella episodic reading platform to ...

Editor’s note: Two apps originally described in this story, Business Calendar and TouchDown for Tablet, are not available for the Kindle Fire. The consensus of most reviewers of the Kindle Fire is ...

I wrote earlier about Amazon’s new Kindle Fire and how the gadget is truly more of an Amazon media device than a Google Android tablet. From the interface to the app ecosystem and service selection, ...