A new eBook and application for iPhones is allowing readers to ‘turn the page’ without touching their mobile phone.

The app contains recipes by the well-known chefs and cooks in the Ebury Publishing My Kitchen Table series. Because users may well have food on their hands during preparation, the app takes advantage of the front-facing camera on newer iPhone and iPod Touch devices, allowing them to simply wave their hand over the screen to move to the next page.

A new study from the United States shows that multitasking with mobile devices is a popular activity when watching television.

Around 40% of tablet and smartphone owners in the USA used their devices daily while watching TV, according to a study from Nielsen. This contrasts with the 14% of eBook reader owners who watched TV while using their device every day.

Mobile technology company Myriad Group has revealed version 2.0 of Myriad Alien Dalvik.

The original release allowed Android apps to run on non-Android smartphones; Alien Dalvik 2.0 enables Android applications to run on other platforms as well, such as tablets, eBook readers, TVs and in-car devices.

Amazon has updated its range of Kindle e-book readers with four new devices. Three share a similar design to previous Kindles, while the fourth - the Kindle Fire - is an Android-based tablet.

The two current Kindle devices - now renamed the Kindle Keyboard and the Kindle Keyboard 3G - will remain on sale.

Mark Bridge writes:

I’m not a big fan of reporting on rumours - I’d rather wait until the real thing happens - but I thought these two stories were too big and too well-defined to ignore completely.

Firstly, it looks as though Amazon will be announcing an Android-powered tablet tomorrow. Called the Kindle Fire, it probably won’t be a direct replacement for the Kindle e-book reader but an alternative. Most commentators suggest we should expect a 7-inch colour screen, a focus on cloud-based services and a pretty heavily customised version of Android.