Nearly a month after making a proposal to replace its inflight manuals with 18,000 iPad 2s, the U.S. Air Force has awarded a $9.36 million contract to Phoenix-based vendor Executive Technology to make the purchase. Apple’s tablet supposedly beat out competition from the PlayBook, Xoom, Galaxy Tab and Nook Tablet. Bloomberg reports the Air Force

Barnes & Noble released its third quarter earnings this morning, and while it missed the estimates, it wasn’t all doom & gloom. The largest book selling chain in the United States reported that sales were up 5% in the quarter year over year, rising from $2.3 billion to $2.4 billion. This fell short of analyst

A new Bloomberg report suggests the U.S. Air Force may purchase as many as 18,000 iPad 2s as replacement for manuals and navigation charts. The service’s Air Mobility Command reportedly has plans to issue a proposal, which would be one of the military’s largest orders of computer tablets. If correct, it would surely advance Apple’s

It seems folks were feeling mighty generous last holiday season. Pew Research is reporting that U.S. tablet and e-reader ownership nearly doubled during the busy time frame, with the Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet and iPad leading the charge. According to the research company’s Internet and American Life Project, where nearly 2,000 adults were surveyed, 19

Is Asus’s current Transformer Prime a bit too big for your taste? Not to worry, because a new 7-inch tablet sporting Tegra 3 quad-core internals was just announced at nVidia’s CES press conference – and it’s only $249. The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet just got some serious competition. Neither nVidia nor Asus revealed anything

It seems the Nook family of devices is doing so well for Barnes & Noble that the book seller is contemplating spinning the brand off into its own company. Barnes & Noble announced this morning that Nook sales were up 70 percent for the nine-week holiday season over the same time last year.  Sales of

How does a company make a product that can go on to become a viable threat to iPad’s dominance? Amazon and Barnes & Noble have taken on this challenge by answering: ecosystem and price. That’s why the two devices have been so well received by consumers. Sure, they don’t stack up performance-wise when it comes

Come January, the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire won’t be the only  Android tablets on the market in the $200 range. Archos announced on Tuesday the Archos 70b IT, an Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) tablet that’ll run $199 with 8GB of storage. With a 1.2GHz processor and 1024×600 resolution capacitive touch screen, users will have access

More than a year and a half after the iPad was introduced, the tablet market is growing by the second. Currently, there is no shortage of options: Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Transformer Prime, iPad 2. Thanks to their larger, more immersive touch screens, productivity capabilities and convenient portability, they offer an entirely

As promised at the launch of the Nook Tablet, Barnes & Noble has issued a software update for the Nook Color, bringing Netflix and Flixster to the device, and giving owners access to Nook Comics and PagePerfect Nook Books. In total the update “adds more than 100 feature enhancements” further blurring the line between the

Thinking about picking up a tablet this holiday season? You’re certainly not alone. A whopping 90% of Americans want a tablet computer for doing everything from video chatting and taking pictures to reading books and watching TV shows. The guys at Web Pro News have attempted to make your tablet buying decision a little easier

Here’s Part Two of a 2-part tour around the new Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet and its custom operating system. To watch Part One, just click right here. Easy, huh? Nook Tablet is essentially the successor to Nook Color, and runs a heavily modified version of Android OS 2.3 “Gingerbread.” Nook Tablet steps up its

Jon unboxed his earlier, and I took mine out for a spin just now: Barnes and Noble’s Nook Tablet is basically a successor to last year’s sleeper hit, Nook Color. Where Nook Color was sort of an e-reader on steroids and sort of a tablet, B&N says the new model is a tablet through and

It’s a big week for those that are looking for a 7-inch tablet with two new competitors entering the arena: The Amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet.  With the Kindle Fire shipped a bit early, and the Nook Tablet going on sale this Thursday, many people keep pointing to either one or

Jon R is back to tackle some more questions from viewers and fans. This week, he shares his thoughts about the recently released and Beats Audio loaded HTC Rezound. He also talks about the upcoming and highly anticipated next generation eBook tablets the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire. All this and more in this

The gauntlet has been dropped. The war has started, and in the oddest turn of events, a pair of booksellers are at each others’ throats. Even more surprising than the role that both are playing is the price of their prized offerings, the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet. One year ago, a $200 or $250

The Kindle Fire release is getting oh-so close (less than a week!), and with that we’ve got some good news coming out of the Amazon camp. Users who plan to pickup the hotly anticipated device will have a bevy of apps – popular ones – to choose from. In fact, Amazon is promising several thousand

The T-Mobile SpringBoard is joining the diminutive tablet market amongst some stiff competition – Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus, Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet. So how does this one plan to stand out? Immediately the most striking thing about the SpringBoard is its attractive and solid design. Think of the original iPad but scaled down to a 7-inch

On a day when Amazon’s Kindle Fire meets yet another competitor — the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet — the company has released another TV commercial for its debut slate. In the 32-second clip, Amazon boasts about the tablets ability to handle movies, music, apps, games, and lots more. “For years we’ve been placing the things

Along with its announcement of the Nook Tablet this morning, Barnes & Noble dropped the price of its traditional Nook Color down to $199. The Nook Color was previously priced at $249, a price-point now occupied by the Nook Tablet. The Nook Color will also get some of the same new functionality that is coming

We heard the rumors, and now Barnes & Noble has made its Nook Tablet official. The tablet shares the same form-factor as its older brother the Nook Color (including its 7” screen) while updating a lot of what’s under the hood to turn it into a pretty snazzy tablet. The Nook Tablet will measure in

Barnes & Noble is fully expected to drop a new Nook Tablet come 10am Monday morning. In anticipation of that announcement, Best Buy has dropped the price of the Nook Color permanently down to $199. The Color was previously price-pointed at $249, which is the same price B&N is expected to sell the Nook Tablet

The identity behind the newest member of the Nook line has been revealed to all. Frankly, it was only a matter of time. The book retailer announced earlier this week that the company was holding an event in New York on November 7, and with four days to spare, it appears the details have been