A new survey has revealed that a third of Brits now own an ebook reader, a stat that has risen by 21 per cent compared to 2011. By comparison, reading printed books as an activity has fallen by 4 per cent according to the digital entertainment survey commissioned by Wiggin, although it still rides high as an activity engaged in by 43 per cent of the survey’s respondents. Add to that the fact... 

What a treat – Amazon is all set to unleash the Kindle Touch on the UK a full seven days ahead of schedule, with sales beginning tomorrow (21 April). In DepthAmazon Kindle Fire It doesn’t exactly make up for the fact that the UK is still Kindle Fire-less, but with an E Ink touch-screen you can at least pretend that it’s a tablet. Both the regular Kindle Touch and the Kindle Touch 3G... 

Now that Amazon has taken a big leap into the tablet market with the Kindle Fire, the e-tailer may spread some of that joy around with some rumored improvements to its line of e-readers. The glowing e-reader The rumor is that Amazon’s next Kindle models will feature a "glowing" display, which would jettison the traditional E-Ink screen above a "front-lit Kindle" to debut later... 

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That seems to be Toshiba’s motto as the company debuts its new Excite tablet line on April 10. The Excite tablets have kicked things up a notch with Tegra 3 processors and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but the rest of the song sadly remains the same. A size for all tastes The Toshiba Excite line attempts to cover users of all walks of life,... 

Beleaguered AOL went on the offensive Monday, announcing a $1.056 billion deal with Microsoft that will transfer more than 800 patents to Redmond, while buying the once-mighty online company time to fight off unhappy shareholders. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AOL Inc. agreed to sell more than 800 "patents and related products" to Microsoft for $1.056 billion, a move Wall Street... 

Supermarket giant Asda has decided to show Amazon who is boss by cutting the price of the Kobo eReader to just £49. While Amazon’s stranglehold of the ereader market looks likely to continue, Asda’s move to get the Kobo eReader at a price below £50 is a great one for those who are still undecided as to whether ebooks are there sort of thing. The price crash marks the first time an ereader... 

TomTom sat-navs have been hit by a "leap year" bug that causes them to lose their location. Apparently bamboozled by the extra day at the end of February, the bug leaves TomTom units with a grey screen informing the user that the device lacks a GPS signal. The problem first appeared on March 31, and appears to affect units worldwide, having been reported by users from the UK, Australia, Denmark... 

Whenever Apple brings out a new thing, it tends to bring out the doom-mongers and exaggerators. The new iPad is no exception. According to some of the more excitable bits of the internet, Apple’s latest tablet will cook your plums, keep on charging when it’s already charged and tell bare-faced lies about whether it can connect to 4G broadband. Except that last one’s true. In Australia,...