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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Cellfish Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android App Reaches 1.3 Million Downloads
16 May 2012 2:05 PM | No CommentsNEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Marvel’s The Avengers Live Wallpaper Android personalization app, created by Cellfish, has been downloaded 1.3 million times, driven by the massive success of Marvel Studios’ blockbuster movie. ...
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Ereader Archive
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Kobo launches e-reader app for Android
Posted on June 18, 2010 | No CommentsKobo -- perhaps best known for its e-reader tie-up with Borders -- is bringing its platform and bookstore to Android, beating bigger players like Amazon to the game. If you've already got a Kobo account, you can just log in and get instant access to your already-purchased books, but if you're new, you can buy stuff right from your phone; it supports ePub and counts more than two million titles to its library (some of which are free). Strangely, Kobo is circulating a picture of what appears to be a Nokia 5800 with its Android announcement -- but if you can get past that, the app should be available in the Market right now. Follow the break for the full press release.
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Kobo launches e-reader app for Android originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Skiff, she is dead
Posted on June 15, 2010 | No CommentsNot to say I told you so, but I told you so. The Skiff newsreader that made waves at last CES is dead, abandoned by News Corp. who bought the e-reader software but not the device from Hearst. The software will probably be used in News Corp’s “Next Issue Media” endeavor that was supposed to [...] -
Alex eReader shipping tomorrow
Posted on April 13, 2010 | No Comments
We told you all the rumors, we told you it was available for pre-order, and now we're here to tell you, it's finally shipping! The Spring Design Alex eReader is shipping their pre-orders (at least the US ones) tomorrow. The Alex is that dual screen, Android based reader that many consider to be a very feasible alternative to the iPad.
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Quick Look: Aluratek eBook Reader Pro
Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
It's no Kindle, but at $149 the Aluratek eBook Reader Pro is a pretty interesting device. It comes with a 2GB card and includes 100 public domain books including Wuthering Heights and The Bible.
It works with PDFs, ePubs, and Mobi files along with standard text files. The whole thing works quite well and it's a nice, small size, especially for an inexpensive e-reader. It's definitely a no-frills ereader solution but it may be good for folks who find ebooks online and not through the Kindle store.
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Hands on with the Alex ereader
Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
The Alex ereader is out and I got to look at it today for a few minutes. The top part is a real epaper screen and the bottom part is essentially a small Android MID. The device has Wi-Fi and is available now for $399, shipping in May.
The company had a few interesting points about their sales strategy. Their goal isn't to sell and ship devices, although their ereader will play epub, PDF, HTML, and TXT files out of the box. They are currently partnering with international publishing houses and periodicals and will work with those partners to create an web store as well as a unique UI for each device. In this way a newspaper could offer a branded version of its reader and offer it at a subsidized rate to online subscribers or a publishing house or book store could offer their own branded experience.
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Acer has an e-reader, app store, and Chrome OS netbook prepped for ‘10, working on a tablet
Posted on January 25, 2010 | No Comments
Acer has big plans for 2010. Sometime within the coming months the world's second largest computer maker will launch a 6-inch monochrome ebook reader, cross-platform application store and a Chrome OS netbook -- along with probably a crapton and a half of computers under its Acer, Gateway, and EMachines brands. And yes, the company is working on a tablet computer says the president of Acer's IT Products division. Tablet!
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More pics of the Asus e-reader
Posted on January 22, 2010 | No CommentsWhile this will probably look primitive as heck in a few days, it’s fun to see Asus giving it their all in the ebook market. After all, we all need a 9-inch e-reader with a touchscreen in the end. Electricpig has a few more photos, but at this point these things are probably on the edge [...] -
Kindle for iPhone takes over the world, hits over 60 new countries
Posted on December 14, 2009 | No CommentsWe all now know that Kindle is more than an e-book for Amazon -- it's an entire digital content platform with aims on world domination, which explains why the company has felt more than comfortable releasing software-based readers for other platforms. To that end, they've announced that Kindle for iPhone is now ready for download in over 60 additional countries, which probably overlaps as a pretty beefy subset of the list of countries to which the actual Kindle is shipping. And, unlike the real thing, you'll actually be able to browse the full web with your iPhone -- not to say that HTML on an E Ink display was ever a very satisfying experience to start.
Kindle for iPhone takes over the world, hits over 60 new countries originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Bigfoot of Ereaders surfaces
Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
An anonymous tipster send us in this image of an e-reader running Android OS and explained that it came from a company that has never been in the tablet/e-reader business. Interesting…
I suspect this is some sort of music device for composers/performers because of all the musical notes on the top of the screen and some things we saw in the background of the image. Any guesses as to what this could be?
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LG sort of shows off a solar-powered ebook reader, but not really
Posted on October 12, 2009 | No Comments
Let's talk about the word "unveiled" on gadget sites. Unveiled is a weasel world. It means "revealed" and suggests that the company in question is showing off something that it will make soon. It is used at CES, for example, with CES Unveiled where you see product that will be announced ahead of time and then actually released much later. So in this case it is more a revelation of things to come, in the biblical sense, and less an actual revelation.
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Rumor: Android will power Barnes & Noble’s eReader
Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
With the success of the Kindle clear, it's no surprise that other booksellers want in on the action too. Barnes & Noble already launched its ebook store and the iRex DR 800SG will be the first device to run it. However, a WSJ report is suggesting that Barnes & Noble is prepping its own, self-branded device. And get this, it might run Android.
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Live at the Barnes and Noble Irex DR 800SG launch
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsNicholas is live at the Barnes & Noble Irex reader event and will report back what he’s seeing including, but not limited to, information on the e-reader. Watch this post for more details as they emerge. 11:42 – Ok folks, the Wi-Fi connection here at the New York Historical society is rubbish, so I’m literally “e-mailing” [...] -
Time Inc. wants a Kindle-alike
Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
Is this what Peter Ha is working on? Owen Thomas wrote a piece about Time Inc. wanting a specialized e-reader a la the Kindle, thereby allowing them to eschew paper magazines entir
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How Sony can beat the Kindle, provided it can find its shoes and its glasses after it wakes up
Posted on August 29, 2009 | No Comments
Farhad Manjoo has a nice "what-if" story up on Slate about what Sony can do to beat the Kindle. Sadly, what Manjoo is doing here is akin to helping a little old crazy lady across the street - at best his advice will be ignore and and worst he'll be cursed out.
He basically writes:
Anyone looking to beat the Kindle, then, should look to the iPod: Study everything that Apple's rivals did, and do the opposite.
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Live at the Sony Daily Edition eReader announcement
Posted on August 25, 2009 | No CommentsYou’ve been waiting for it. You’ve been talking about it. You’ve sent long, rambling letters to Jodie Foster about it. You’ve been calling your local Congresswoman about it: It’s the Sony Daily Edition e-reader with built-in wireless. Erick Schonfeld is on the scene live and we’ll be reporting once the doors open at 10:30am EDT. Refresh this [...]