Kogan, an Australian gadget retailer, have just unveiled a pair of Android tablets. The Agora tablets are a pair of moderately capable, moderately priced Gingerbread tablets. They have unexceptional screen resolutions, but other than that they have surprisingly decent hardware specs. They’re running Android v2.3 Gingerbread on single core 1GHz CPUs. Both have capacitve touchscreens [...]
Entries from October 12th, 2011
Kogan to Launch 8″, 10″ Android Tablets in November
October 12th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
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Trekstor Liro Color Android Tablet Launched at Frankfurt BookFair
October 12th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
This week the hardware news has been coming well, I’d like to say fast and furious but it’s really coming at a trickle. A second ebook reader has launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This time around it’s the Liro Color, a 7″ Android tablet/e-reader from Trekstor.
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Condé Nast & HP Want You to Kill More Trees
October 12th, 2011 · 5 Comments · opinion
How would you like to increase your ink cartridge bills and throw more paper away every week? If that sounds like fun then I have a deal for you. HP are partnering with Condé Nast for a new pilot program. They’re going to give you the chance to sign up for automatic delivery of CN [...]
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Inch A5i 5″ E-reader Launching Soon
October 12th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Smaller is better would seem to be the theme with the Inch A5i which was just unveiled in Russia. The A5i is Inch’s 6th ebook reader and it’s going to be a budget ebook reader based on the older generation 5″ Vizplex E-ink screen. It lacks Wifi or a touchscreen, but it has a speaker, g-sensor, [...]
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Library Ebook Use Tripled in 2011 – Said OverDrive
October 12th, 2011 · 3 Comments · library ebooks, statistics
OverDrive are reporting today that they’ve seen a record number of new ebook patrons over the past year, as well as a vast increase in app installs, mobile checkouts, and a vast increase in ebook checkouts. It’s been a stellar year at OverDrive, with total ebook turnover looking to hit 16 million checkouts, which would [...]
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Onyx Boox i62 Coming Soon – New Touchscreen Equipped E-reader
October 12th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
The Chinese ebook reader maker has just unveiled a new e-reader on their website, and it’s a beaut. The Onyx Boox i62 is going to be based on a 6″ Pearl E-ink screen. It drops most of the buttons and the Wacom touchscreen found on Onyx’s previous e-readers, and it replaces them with an IR [...]
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Fnac to Sell Kobo Ebooks in France – Will They Carry the Kobo Vox?
October 11th, 2011 · 8 Comments · ebookstore news, hardware news
It looks like France’s largest bookseller has given up on their plans to go it alone in the ebook market; they announced a partnership today with Kobo. Fnac will act as Kobo’s local retailer for the French ebook market. They are taking on a role much like that of Whitcoulls (NZ), Pearson (AUS), or the [...]
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Velocity Micro got Competitive & Dropped Their Tablet Prices
October 11th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
It’s not showing up on any retail sites yet, but Velocity Micro have responded to last month’s launch of the Kindle Fire by lowering the retail price of 1 of their 4 new tablets. The T408, an 8″ Gingerbread tablet, is now going to sell for $200. That’s $40 less than when it launched a [...]
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Kindle for PC Updated – Adds New Features from Kindle Touch
October 11th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Amazon, software news
Amazon uploaded a new update for K4PC (and OSX) in the past few days, and this is definitely one that you want to get. The app now has support for the same 5 languages as the iPad app and the K4 (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese). And like I’ve said before, I [...]
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What Could a “Kindle Membership” Program Look Like?
October 11th, 2011 · 6 Comments · opinion
Amazon is selling millions of Kindles every year and, of course, they’re selling even more ebooks, so perhaps they don’t feel the need to sweeten the customer pot with a membership program like the one Barnes & Noble offers. You could argue the B&N program is more oriented towards physical products with in-store discounts and [...]
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