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Amazon is perhaps the biggest source of legal ebooks in the world, whether through the various Kindle apps you can find on mobile devices and even computers, or through the Kindle ebook readers. We've used the  Kindle Paperwhite  and the new Kindle 7th generation , and love using Amazon's ebook readers but having all your books stored on a single device or on the cloud is not ideal. Luckily, if you want to make a backup of the books you've legally bought for the Kindle, doing so is easy. This could be useful, for example, if you unintentionally erased books while on vacation, where you don't have Internet access. If you have a backup of your books on your laptop, this kind of problem is no issue at all. Making this backup can thus be quite useful, and doing this won't take you more than five minutes. Here's how: Follow these steps if you have a Kindle ebook reader. Connect your Kindle to the computer via a USB cable. The device will show up a...

Two devices from Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi expected at  CES 2015  are the Mi 5 or Mi 4S smartphone and the MiPad 2 tablet. The anticipated flagship smartphone from  Xiaomi  has been leaked in purported specifications and an image. The alleged Mi 5 or Mi 4S from the purported image appears to be a large screen smartphone or phablet, and likely uses a sapphire glass display,  reports  DigiTimes ( via  PhoneArena). The sapphire glass rumour is in-line with a  previous report , where the company was said to have ordered 50,000 sapphire covers for the smartphone. As far as the specifications are concerned, the anticipated Mi 5 or Mi 4S smartphone is rumoured to feature a 5.7-inch Quad-HD (1440x2560 pixels) display; a 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor; 3GB of RAM, and a 20.7-megapixel rear camera. On the other hand, the anticipated next generation Xiaomi MiPad tablet, expected to be called the MiPad 2, has also been leaked in pictur...

 The  HTC Desire Eye  pricing for India has been tipped at Rs. 35,990 on Wednesday by a Mumbai-based retailer, who also claimed the smartphone is now available, ahead of an official announcement by the company. In October, during the  unveiling of the HTC Desire Eye in India , the company had not announced the price and said that the device will release in late November exclusively on Amazon India. This has not happened as yet, and the  HTC  India  website  still lists it as 'Coming soon'. NDTV Gadgets was also told of the availability of the Desire Eye at a similar price in New Delhi by another established retailer. The HTC Desire Eye is a selfie-focused smartphone that boasts of a front-facing camera with the same treatment as the rear camera. Both feature 13-megapixel sensors, and are both accompanied by dual-LED flash. To put the Desire Eye's purported price in perspective, the  HTC One (M8 Eye) was launched in October at Rs. 3...

Asus on Tuesday launched its affordable 64-bit 4G LTE smartphone in China, dubbed the Pegasus X002, at CNY 799 (approximately Rs. 8,000). The dual-SIM (4G+ 2G)  Asus Pegasus X002  runs  Android  4.4 KitKat with ZenUI on top. It features a 5-inch (720x1280 pixels) display and is powered by a 64-bit quad-core 1.5GHz MediaTek MT6732 processor coupled with 2GB RAM. The Asus Pegasus X002 sports an 8-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front camera. The 16GB internal storage on Pegasus X002 is further expandable via microSD (up to 64GB). Connectivity options on the Asus Pegasus X002 include 4G TD-LTE, Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi direct, GPRS/ EDGE, GPS/ A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP, and Micro-USB. The handset is backed by a 2500mAh Li-Ion battery and comes in four colour options - Black, White, Red and Gold. The launch was first  reported  by GizmoChina. Notably, the name Pegasus for the smartphone is the original inspiration behind comp...

the end of every year in recent memory, it seems, high-tech optimists have predicted the next year as the one when robots will finally lift from our shoulders the burden of dreary domestic tasks. Think washing floors, scrubbing the grill, cutting the lawn, watering plants, changing cat litter, vacuuming the carpet - and, for good measure, pacifying the baby and entertaining the older children. That was certainly the case at the close of 2013, said Dan Kara, a robotics analyst with ABI Research. "This was supposed to be the year where everything was going to be different," Kara said. "Again." And while that home-robotics revolution didn't exactly come to fruition this year, Kara said a handful of interesting robotic debuts in 2014 brought consumers one step closer to the chore-free home of the future. That sentiment was echoed by two others who closely follow the consumer robotics industry: Erico Guizzo, editor of the Automaton blog...

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