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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
25 May 2012 12:30 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LONGWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DoMark International Inc. (OTCBB: DOMK) announced today that management of its wholly-owned subsidiary, SolaWerks, has...
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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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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Amazon Kindle Archive
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Nintendo considering adding Kindle-like wireless access to future DS
Posted on November 3, 2009 | No CommentsCorrect me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the Amazon Kindle the first device to launch with built-in wireless (that is, cellular data) access? You know, you pay for the device, and then you don't have to pay monthly wireless access because it's already included in the cost of the device? It's pretty neat, I think I can say without too much grief, and is a model that's been copied by other e-book readers. Now it looks like Nintendo is considering such a model for future versions of the Nintendo DS (and not necessarily the XL, mind you). Exciting!
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It’s a netbook! It’s an e-reader! It’s the enTourage eDGe!
Posted on October 19, 2009 | No Comments
Reading e-books on a netbook is a nuisance, right? But e-readers are a pain because they're a single-function device, which means your man-bag gets filled with yet-another-specialty-gadget. Behold the enTourage eDGe: "the world’s first dualbook, combining the functions of an e-reader, netbook, notepad, and audio/video recorder and player in one."
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Plastic Logic’s Que e-reader: One for the businesspeople in the audience (apparently)
Posted on October 19, 2009 | No CommentsAnother day, another e-reader. Toady's is the Plastic Logic Que, which is pronounced like the letter that falls between P and R. I, however, will henceforth pronounce it like the Portuguese word for “what,” and the European Portuguese pronunciation at that. (Sorta sounds like “quh.” It's a movement!) Plastic Logic seems to be aiming it at the business market, which I don't think we've really seen before.
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The Queen’s Digital English: The Kindle is coming to the UK
Posted on September 30, 2009 | No Comments
Seems our compatriots across the sea will have the Amazon Kindle as soon as next week. "Reliable sources" have confirmed that the publishers involved signed non-disclosure agreements, adding weight to our previous suspicions that the e-book reader would be available in Britain this fall. It's all quite a cloak-and-dagger event.
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Hands-on: I have held the IREX DR 800SG, and it’s not half bad at all
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsFor 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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Compare Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader Daily Edition, and IREX DR800SG wireless e-book readers with this handy chart
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsChoosing a wireless e-book reader is getting tougher all the time! Well, maybe not all that tough but here’s a chart comparing the offerings from Amazon, Sony, and IREX. Device Kindle Kindle DX Sony Reader Daily Edition IREX DR800SG Price $299 $489 $399 $399 Screen Size 6 inches 9.7 inches 7 inches 8.1 inches Touch Screen No No Yes Yes Rotating Screen No Yes Yes Yes Storage 2GB not expandable 4GB not expandable 2GB expandable via Memory Stick and SD No on-board memory, comes [...] -
Is Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol the first e-book to outsell its hardcover counterpart?
Posted on September 16, 2009 | No CommentsWhat's the one area of technology that I'm still relatively keen on? That's right: e-books, but that's because I like the idea of having several books on my person at all times in a device that fits inside my trousers. (The latest: The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze. Not an e-book, by the way, since I'm not made of money.) Devin, on the other hand, who also reads his share of books, is not as big a fan of the tech. We're like The Odd Couple! Anyway, I bring this up because it looks like Dan Brown's latest novel, The Lost Symbol, is the first book on record that is selling better on the Amazon Kindle than its hardcover counterpart. (Blah, blah, the death of books...)
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New Barnes & Noble E-book Store to Power Plastic Logic Reader
Posted on July 20, 2009 | No CommentsBarnes & Noble is getting into the e-books business, all guns blazing, as it announced a new expanded e-book store that will be available across different devices such iPhone, BlackBerry and the yet-to-be released Plastic Logic e-reader. The company’s e-book store will have more than 700,000 titles, compared to the 300,000 or so that its closest [...] -
The official Kindle 2 case is cracking the Kindle 2, $5 million lawsuit filed
Posted on July 15, 2009 | No CommentsIt seems that the Kindle 2 has an issue when used with the official protective case: it cracks. Obviously everyone that spent $30 on the case that’s suppose to protect the Kindle from such damage isn’t too happy right now. Amazon previously stated that owners were kind of out of luck and had to spend [...] -
Book publishers’ latest hobby? Complaining about the Amazon Kindle’s success
Posted on July 9, 2009 | No CommentsWe're starting to see more and more “hate” being thrown Amazon's way. That's because, of course, the Kindle is something of a success, and publishers, who already operate a pretty wonky business (more on that in a bit), are becoming concerned that Amazon will soon be able to wield the same kind of power that Apple did over the music industry. Basically, book publishers don't want Amazon to “own” the digital book market.
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Libre: And now iriver preps its own e-book reader (for Japan at least)
Posted on June 29, 2009 | No CommentsSometime this year iRiver, which will soon change its name to MouseComputer, will release its very own e-book reader in Japan. It'll be called the Libre, and it'll probably be priced around ¥29,800 ($312).
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Amazon becoming Apple becoming…
Posted on June 26, 2009 | No CommentsIt's raining for perhaps the 900th day in a row here, so we might as we learn something while we're all stuck inside all day illegally downloading Michael Jackson songs. The Amazon Kindle—I'm sure you've heard of it. What you might not know is that it represents perhaps the last piece of tech gadgetry that I actually enjoy. Well, would enjoy—at $350, it's still a tad expensive for me. In any event, Fast Company has a fun cover story this month, written by an old professor of mine, about how Amazon is trying so, so hard to make e-books the new hot thing, just like how Apple did a few years ago with digital music downloads.
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Kindle DX Teardown Reveals Inner Beauty
Posted on June 11, 2009 | No CommentsA teardown of the newly introduced Amazon Kindle DX shows an e-book reader with many replaceable parts that make it service-friendly for its users. Amazon launched the Kindle DX, a large size e-reader with a 9.7-inch screen and features such as auto rotate from portrait to landscape mode a few weeks ago. Priced at $489, the [...] -
PVI to buy E Ink for $215 million
Posted on June 1, 2009 | No CommentsYou may not know who Taiwan-based Prime View International is but the makers of the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader sure do. See, PVI is the company that builds the electronic paper displays for the world's most popular ebook readers. Now, it's also the expectant owner of US-based E Ink and all the associated patents that come with. The deal, if approved by government regulators, is expected to close by October.
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