Digitimes is reporting: Micro-Star International (MSI) is set to launch a Nvidia Tegra-based tablet PC in the second half of 2010 priced US$500, according to company sales director Sambora Chen. Chen pointed out that MSI’s tablet PC will feature a 10-inch color touchscreen with wireless support and will be light-weight and thin for mobility, while [...]
Entries from January 29th, 2010
Book: Information outlaws through the ages
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I think this should be required reading for everyone who takes a position in the current piracy debate. It’s on ym to be read pile. From CultureLab: You might think that prior to the 20th century, “piracy” only referred to nautical shenanigans. But English stationers in the 17th century labelled colleagues who printed unauthorised versions [...]
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Denmarks picks ODF over Microsoft’s OOXML
January 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
from versio2.dk: The winner is chosen. ODF runs the victory as public open document standard. The settlement is in place Friday morning shortly before the debate question that otherwise would have twisted the arm of the government and force through a dual solution with ODF and OOXML-strict as open standards. Future document format in the [...]
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Webinar: e-readers and e-paper – technology and applications
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
from the announcement: e-readers and e-paper: technology and applications, an upcoming webinar from +Plastic Electronics and IntertechPira, discusses the evolution of e-paper for the e-reader market. The webinar will provide an overview of e-readers to date, technology advances in three key areas: flexibility, colour and video and will also discuss future applications for e-paper displays. [...]
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Millions of Kindles sold?
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware rumors
There is an interesting quote from Jeff Bezos in the press release that accompanied Amazon’s latest quarterly report. “Millions of people now own Kindles,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. “And Kindle owners read, a lot. When we have both editions, we sell 6 Kindle books for every 10 physical books. This is [...]
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Summary: Apple iPad as an ebook reader
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
There has been so much coverage on this that I almost didn’t write this post. I’m just going to keep it to a short summary. We know: Apple has its own ebookstore ebooks will be in Epub the ebookstore won’t be available everywhere Adobe did not provide the DRM TeleRead is reporting that Kobo is [...]
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4 reasons why the iPad isn’t a Kindle killer
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware reviews, software reviews
I’ve been waiting since the iPad announcement for someone to loudly proclaim that the iPad is a Kindle killer. TechCrunch managed to find one fool who took that position. You might want to go read his argument before I explain why he’s wrong. The answer is pretty simple, and most people have already figured it [...]
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PSP Digital Comics Store continues to grow
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
The Playstation Blog just posted a weekly update about new titles added the store. They’ve been adding between 30 and 40 title each week with a pretty diverse selection.
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AT&T gained 1 million ebook readers in 4Q09
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
From the press release: AT&T’s fourth-quarter subscriber gains also reflect strong growth in wireless connectivity for emerging devices including eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader Daily Edition™ and the Barnes & Noble nook. Total emerging devices on AT&T’s wireless network increased by more than 1 million in the fourth quarter, its strongest quarter [...]
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Another DBW roundup post
January 28th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
Publisher’s Weekly Digital Book World: Debating E-Rights Issues Digital Book World: Baker & Taylor Shows Off Kurzweil’s Blio e-Reader Teleread Average price of ebooks sold through Kobo is $8.76 Should ebook releases be windowed, just like DVDs and mass paper editions? Majority of pirated files are not hacked ebooks: they are scanned pbooks, manuscripts and [...]
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