Having a Kindle Fire arrive on your doorstep can be exciting, until you open it and find it won’t connect to you Wi-Fi network. That unpleasant scenario is one that some users have said they experienced when they received their Kindle Fires. Some users have have taken to Amazon’s forums to comment on the broken more »

The Kindle Fire is right around the corner, and to make the most of it’s capabilities Amazon has announced a new eBook format. The new format is called Kindle Format 8 (KF8), and will bring more HTML5 capabilities to eBooks. Kindle Format 8 will replace Mobipocket on the Kindle Fire and will make formatting better more »

Yesterday we heard all about the new Kindles from Amazon, but most of us only got to read about it in other places, or just look at them on Amazon’s website. Today we can watch Jeff Bezos announce the new Kindles as if we were there. Well, it won’t be like you’re there with Bezos more »

Today, Amazon is expected to launch the Kindle Fire, a tablet aimed at making the Amazon shopping experience better. Word has come rather quickly that a second generation will be hot on the heels of the first release, perhaps releasing as soon as Q1 2012. With this fast a product life plan, we’ve got to more »

According to All Things D, a number of top tier publishers are on board with the Kindle Fire. Three of the big names in magazine publishing: Hearst, Conde Nast and Meredith will be on board for Wednesday’s launch of the iPad-like device. Amazon has cut deals with them similar to the deals they have with more »

Underwriter Laboratories (UL) has issued a warning that some LCD TVs have entered the US market falsely bearing the UL logo. The UL is an independent product safety certification organization responsible for testing products and writing Standards for Safety for over 100 years. The UL warns there could be safety concerns with the falsely marked more »

Everybody loves a challenge, but when it takes 10 minutes to work out the time you probably have the wrong watch. However for the sake of geeky-ness and pure novelty value I will continue and introduce the “Fire,” the new watch from Tokyoflash.

And flash it most definitely is. It has a sleek, modern and almost minimalistic design, or at least it is until you press the buttons and the concealed red, blue and yellow LEDs spring to life. This is where your problems begin as the lights arrange themselves in a way in which it is possible to tell the time, just not easy. Continued after the break.

SentrySafe’s new hard drive is all but your normal USB hard drive which you can directly connect into a PC or laptop’s USB port to get some data storing goodness. It enables users to back up critical data in case of systems crash, computer failure and here’s the clincher, fire and water related disasters.

SentrySafe’s new hard drive is the world’s first and currently only fire resistant and water proof hard drive. It is actually a Maxtor OneTouch 4 mini hard drive encased in SentrySafe enclosure. That means the data in the hard drive is safe even it finds its way into burning house or submerged in water. But the SentrySafe hard drives protection from fire and water has some limitations though – fire protection last only for 30 minutes of up to 1,500 degrees heat and water survival last only for 24 hours. Anything beyond that, I guess you can kiss your data goodbye.