Amazon recently updated its Kindle app for iOS in the iTunes App Store to incorporate a whole host of new features.

The most significant change to the Kindle app is the new support for full-color newspapers and magazines as offered on the Kindle Fire. The same options are available as for periodicals, enabling users to buy either an individual issue or a full subscriptions. Textbooks are now available, and in typical Kindle style, offer full support for annotations and zoom and pan functionality.

The library UI now offers improved organization and Kindle for iOS now offers PDF support, which means PDF links from email or Safari can be viewed via the app. The new enhanced Kindle app is available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, and users’ Send-to-Kindle email addresses now automatically sync with the other devices.

Parallels 6 for Mac is yet to be announced but has already hit some retailers in the U.S, and we’ve got our hands on the features:

-Supports Aero, Vista, and Windows 7

-Acronis true image support

-2x faster graphics support, faster file access, faster network connections, faster Windows startups, faster access to files on a network, and its faster than VMWare Fusion.

-Easy Windows Backups

-Better, Faster, Stronger gaming performance

-Windows and Mac security software included

-Easy migration to virtual machines

-Parallels Transporter is now a built-in, integrated feature in Parallels 6 versus a separate, stand alone application in Parallels 5.

-Support for 5.1 surround sound on Windows

-Spotlight, Spaces, and Expose support

-90 day money back guarantee (may depend on retail location?)

-Parallels 6 will cost $79.99, which was the old price of Parallels 5.

Here’s the big one:

-Parallels iPad app. As you may know, Parallels currently offers an iPhone/iPod touch app to access files and such remotely, but according to the back of the box, it works with the yet to be released iPad app as well. It also appears (we may get this one wrong) that the iPhone/iPod touch app will be enhanced for greater file access. We’ll have to see and we’re still wondering when this thing’s getting announced for real.

Requirements: 1GB of Ram (2 GB recommended), 450 MB hard drive minimum, 10.5 Leopard or 10.6 Snow Leopard, an internet connection, and of course a Windows OS disc.

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Lexcycle has released an update to Stanza. The app adds support for PDFs, DjVu and Comic Book Archive formats. It enables transferring of e-books directly onto the device using the iTunes File Sharing section. It also provides support for a wide variety of e-book formats, including ePub, eReader and Mobipocket.