It’s actually been available for a couple months now, but today Mozilla made it official. You can now download Fennec for your Android v2.x phone or Nokia N900. This is the alpha release of Fennec v2.01, so don’t be surprised if it crashes. You can find more information and download it here.
Entries from August 27th, 2010
Firefox Mobile for Android now officially in alpha
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
Tags:alpha·Android·firefox·mobile·officially
Notre Dame to launch iPad pilot program
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · ipad pilot
The South Bend Tribune are reporting on Notre Dame’s iPad pilot program: “This has become known as the iPad class,” Corey Angst, assistant professor of management at the University of Notre Dame, told his students on their first day of class Aug. 24. “It’s actually not … it’s ‘Project Management.’” A member of Notre Dame’s [...]
Cybook Orizon officially unveiled
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Bookeen just revealed the new Cybook Orizon. Apparently I was wrong and the model from CES 2010 was not replaced. I don’t have all the details yet, but I do know that it has a 6″ touchscreen and Wifi. There’s no word yet on price or availability. From past coverage, I know that it’s supposed [...]
Tags:cybook·officially·orizon·unveiled
Humor: David Pogue reviews the K3 (video)
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · humor, video
So David Pogue of The NYTimes got one of the early Kindles (of course) and he did this video where he tries to compare it to the iPad. It’s hilarious. The news coverage for gadgets has gotten so serious that the only option left is satire. I couldn’t help snickering
Podcast – Lewis Hyde interviewed on his book about IP
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · podcast
Lewis Lapham of Bloomberg interviewed Lewis Hyde, and they discussed Hyde’s book, Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. They also discussed: Creating Intellectual Property 1710 Statute of Anne The Cultural Commons Corporeal vs. Incorporeal Goods U.S. Piracy I haven’t listened to the podcast, but it looks interesting. You can download it here. via Bloomberg
Rumor: Samsung to use Liquavista screens
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware rumors
This rumor came across my desk: Samsung is possible scenes for his new e-reader technology from the Dutch base Liquavista. The world’s largest display manufacturer, closed earlier this week collaboration with E Ink. Samsung indicated that the cost for E Inks screens become too high, but that his activities in the e-reader market will not [...]
Tags:liquavista·rumor·samsung·screens
2 New ebookstores open in France
August 27th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Actualitte are reporting that Darty and Carrefour have each opened an ebookstore this week. Each site will be selling ebooks encumbered with Adobe DE DRM in Epub and PDF formats. They also sell e-readers. There are a couple rather interesting details here. First, these companies are retail chains, not tech companies. Darty’s closest US analog [...]
Tags:2·ebookstores·france·open
Kogan raised the price on their e-reader as a stunt
August 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
One of the Australian tech blogs I follow is Oz-E-Books, which is run by Darryl Adams. He noticed last night that Kogan, an Australian electronics retailer (similar to Newegg) had raised the price on the e-reader they had just started selling. It was a stunt: I was caught out by the Kogan e-reader price hike, [...]
Skytex Primer – new 7″ e-reader
August 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · hardware news
Do you remember how I said we’d see a bunch more Kindle clones by the end of the year? This one doesn’t have a full keyboard so I won’t add it to the list. The Skytex Primer is based on your standard 7″ 800×480 LCD screen. It has a 400 MHz CPU, 2 GB Flash, [...]
Apple Pages ’09 now supports Epub export
August 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software news
Apple’s word processing app Pages has been updated so you can now save your document in Epub and PDF. This means that Apple just added an export option to Pages that Open Office has had since the middle of last year. For more details you should visit the Pages support page, or go over to [...]
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