Binatone have just announced a new 7″ ebook reader that they plan to ship soon. The new e-reader hasn’t been photographed anywhere and it’s not listed yet on the product page, so I don’t know what it looks like. But Ido have some details. It’s going to be a Kindle clone with a 7″ (800×480)screen, [...]
Entries from July 27th, 2011
Asus eee Pad Transformer to get v3.2 Honeycomb tomorrow
July 27th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news
Asus confirmed on their Facebook page a few hours ago that their premium Android tablet will indeed be getting an update tomorrow. But I’m not sure that anyone really needed the confirmation; Asus had already tweeted the announcement from their official account. They even posted the graphic you see at right. Still, I’m thrilled. It’s [...]
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OK Go released a HTML5 music video
July 27th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
Ok Go has released their latest album today, and they’re continuing their experiments with music. This video was produced in partnership with Google, and it was built using HTML5. Unfortunately, I cannot embed it here. You see, it’s blocked for all browsers besides Chrome. And since I don’t have Chrome installed I can’t even watch [...]
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OfficeMax to carry the Nook, Toys-R-Us to carry the Kindle
July 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
OfficeMax announced earlier today that thy would soon have the Barnes & Noble Nook in stores. Starting Saturday, you’ll be able to find the Nook Touch and the NookColor in more than 1k retail stores across the US. The price will be the same retail as B&N, and they will have accessories. And hot on [...]
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And the Twitter hacking continues
July 27th, 2011 · 4 Comments · opinion
Last Friday I wrote a post about the hacked accounts I’ve encountered on Twitter. it was a low key warning and suggestion that people go secure their accounts. (And then the post disappeared, somehow.) I wish I’d been noisier about this issue because accounts are still being hacked. I got another DM from a hacked [...]
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Daily Deals: Pandigital 9″ Android tablet $99, refurbed Kindles $99, & more free Vooks
July 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Daily deals
A couple different offers have popped up today, and unlike most days I can sya that they’re both good deals. 1SaleaDay has a refurbished Pandigital’s 9″ Android tablet on sale today for $99. I’ve had my problems with the company, but this is still my preferred budget tablet. I reviewed it last fall and I [...]
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Competing with Free: eBooks vs. eBooks
July 27th, 2011 · 3 Comments · opinion
My to-be-read pile of ebooks keeps growing. Unfortunately for publishers, however, it keeps growing with free offerings from both publishers and self-publishers. I admit that a lot of the free self-published books should never have seen fingers on a keyboard, but I also have to admit that I am finding a lot of good reads [...]
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Dell Streak 10 shows up in China
July 27th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Do you see that picture above? That is why I follow Chinese gadget blogs.
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A Quarter of college students would give up sex if it meant no more textbooks
July 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments · statistics
Kno, maker of the Kno digital textbook app, have just released the results of a survey showing that 71% of college students want to adopt digital textbooks. The survey was conducted in partnership with Kelton Research, during July 2011. A total of 506 college students were polled, and around 87% reported having to cut back [...]
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My how things have changed (video)
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news, video
Piotr of eBookFriendly found the video below. You’re looking at what was the cutting edge reading technology in 2007. At some trade show that year Diginfo shot a video of a brand new reading app. It was designed to run on phones and it supported converting PDFs to DJVU format. The app used that obscure [...]
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