Ever since Amazon unveiled its cheap-as-chips Kindle Touch , the thing’s been selling like mad here in the US. However, our friends on other continents haven’t been able to enjoy swiping and tapping its multitouch E Ink display — until now, that is. Amazon failed to alert the masses with a press release, but a quick gander at the WiFi Touch’s product page shows there’s an option to ship one just about anywhere on the globe
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WiFi Kindle Touch gets its passport, now available internationally
Strategy Analytics has come out with another report on the state of today’s tablet market, which, not surprisingly, remains dominated by Apple. Cupertino’s iOS comprised about 58 percent of the global slate market during Q4 2011 — well ahead of Android’s record high 39 percent share, but down from the 68 percent it commanded during the final quarter of 2010. 
The fine folks over at Amazon have further flushed out the firmware on its fiercely popular Fire tablet. Upgrading your Kindle Fire to version 6.2.2 will bring a handful of small performance tweaks, bugs fixes and, most notably, add a full-screen mode to the device’s Silk browser. If you’ve gone ahead and rooted your Fire, applying the firmware bump will kill superuser access — although a fresh build of BurritoRoot 2 should get you back on the straight and narrow. 
You can always count on people’s desire to avoid paying for stuff. 
It was yet another solid year for Amazon’s Kindle family of products. The mega online retailer sent out its yearly post-Christmas card , bragging about moving “well over one million Kindle devices per week” for December, making it the best holiday yet for the e-reader / tablet line, according to the company. Three Kindles held the top spots on the site’s list of best sellers, led by the Fire , the Touch and the plain old fourth generation Kindle 
