I’ve just learned that Kobo will be shipping a new Kobo Touch in the next few weeks. It’s the same Kobo Touch hardware that I’ve been having issues with, only this one costs $30 less. It looks like Toronto decided to follow the old maxim: If you can’t beat’em, join’em. Kobo haven’t announced it yet, [...]
Entries from November 11th, 2011
Amazon to Open Kindle Store in Chile Within 18 Months
November 11th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
The Chilean newspaper La Tercera reported a juicy scoop last week. According to the paper, Amazon will be launching a local Kindle Store in Chile sometime in the next 18 months. The paper goes on to cite Pedro Huerta, one of Amazons’s Directors of Kindle Content, as confirming the news. To be honest, this bit [...]
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Kindle Fire Now Showing up on Ebay
November 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Can’t wait to get your Kindle Fire to ship on the 15th and arrive on the 16th? You can pick one up now on Ebay. In fact if you choose a seller that offers expedited shipping you could get that Kindle Fire as early as 17 November. Just think how much time you’ll save – [...]
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World’s Strangest Android Tablet now Available from Walmart – $109
November 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
My competition has turned up an interesting detail on that funky Android tablet I showed you a few weeks back. He figured out who had imported it and even better, he found it for sale on Walmart’s website. I can now tell you that the name is the eMatics eGlide eReader Pro. Walmart is calling [...]
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Kobo Settled Ali’s Trademark Lawsuit in Time to be Sold to Rakuten
November 11th, 2011 · No Comments · lawsuit
It looks like Kobo wanted to tie up all loose ends before being bought by Rakuten earlier this week; they’ve worked out a settlement with Muhammad Ali over the trademark unpleasantness from this summer. You might recall that back in July Muhammad Ali enterprises sued Kobo over a full page ad that they took out [...]
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Inside the Kobo Touch
November 11th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Kobo launched the Kobo Touch e-reader back in may, but would you believe I can’t find any tear down photos? I’m a little surprised, myself. Luckily for me the FCC paperwork was released form an embargo a while ago, and I can finally show you what the KT looks like inside. Unlike the Kobo Vox, [...]
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E-ink Booth Visit FPD 2011 (video)
November 11th, 2011 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows, hardware news, video
The screen tech conference FPD 2011 wrapped up last week in Japan, and E-ink was there to show off the latest products to use their screen tech. This video is definitely worth watching; it shows a number of different products based on E-ink screens, including a couple that I had heard about but had not [...]
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Stanza Lives!
November 10th, 2011 · 17 Comments · software news
A reader has just tipped me to some great news. It looks like all that doom and gloom over the death of Stanza last month was a little premature. Amazon pushed out an update for Stanza today, and now it finally works under iOS5. Unfortunately, I’ve also just read that the new version of Stanza [...]
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Inside the Kobo Vox
November 10th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news
Kobo’s new Android tablet has been shipping for a couple weeks, and I like many have been eagerly waiting for someone to crack it open and show us the guts. Unfortunately for me, there seems to be a dearth of disassembly photos. But that’s okay, because a few days ago the FCC lifted the embargo [...]
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Amazon Bumped Kindle Fire Order to 5 Million Units
November 10th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware rumors
Our old friends at Digitimes reported yesterday that Amazon will be shipping a lot more Kindle Fires this year than expected. According to their industry sources, Amazon has increased the orders from the factories. They were reportedly expecting to sell three and half million Kindle Fires in 2011, but shortly before launching the KF Digitimes [...]
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