irex Archive

  • IREX e-reader listed at Best Buy for $449

    IREX e-reader listed at Best Buy for $449

    With all the talk about the nook lately, you might have forgotten that this is ending up as being the year of the e-book reader. Just to remind you, pricing leaked today on the IREX DR 800SG reader.

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  • Hands-on: I have held the IREX DR 800SG, and it’s not half bad at all

    Hands-on: I have held the IREX DR 800SG, and it’s not half bad at all

    For the thousandth time: perhaps the last bit of tech that genuinely interests me these days (besides video games, but that's a slightly different category) is the electronic book. For someone with no real business reading book after book about, say, how bankers have ruined the world, or what makes a person violent, or what really brought down WCW, well, I do, and quite often. These books can be damn expensive, too, which is why I like the electronic book. I can hold so many books inside a book-sized device, and the books are often bought cheaper than what have paid for the “real” version. I save space and money. WINNAR.

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  • Live at the Barnes and Noble Irex DR 800SG launch

    Live at the Barnes and Noble Irex DR 800SG launch

    Nicholas 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” [...]

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  • IREX eReader clinches Barnes & Noble eBookstore

    IREX eReader clinches Barnes & Noble eBookstore

    IREX’s 8.1-inch touchscreen eReader is set to launch later this year and today they’ve announced that Barnes & Noble will be providing more than 750,000 titles when it hits the market. That is all.

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