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 may not look like your average Android tablet thanks to its highly modified user interface. But under the hood it’s running a tweaked version of Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread, ...

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 ...

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 ...

These instructions will walk you through how to install an app that's an APK file onto your Kindle Fire. I've been contributing to PCMag since 2011 in a variety of ways. My column, Get Organized, has ...

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 ...

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 ...

In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more. by Todd Bishop on Jan 12, 2022 at 2:13 pm January 12, 2022 at ...

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 ...