The Dutch web retailer Bol.com announced today that 318 million euros worth of goods in 2010, an increase of 40 million euros. According to the press release, they sold 3 times as many ebooks in 2010 as they did in 2009. I know that sounds impressive, but don’t get too excited. Bol.com only started selling [...]
Entries Tagged as '2010'
The number of Opera Mini users nearly doubled during 2010
January 20th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
Opera jsut released their State of the Mobile Web report today, and their data shows that 84% more people used Opera Mini in December 2010 than in December 2009. And if you look at the chart you’ll see that page views also doubled in 2010. Opera
E-Ink reported 2010 revenues almost twice that of 2009
January 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
E-Ink filed their earning report for 2010 this past week. The total consolidated revenue for 2010 was NT$25.179 billion. I did some digging, and E-ink’s reported income for 2009 was NT$12.979 billion. Their income nearly doubled in a single year. Impressive, no? What’s even more impressive is that the unit price probably dropped during 2010, [...]
I scored the best swag at CES 2010
January 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · conferences & trade shows
This is a little crass, but I had to show off the stuff I brought home from CES. One of the reasons to go to CES is the swag. (Come on, who doesn’t like free stuff?) There was a lot of it this year, too. Lots of booths had free thumb drives with press kits, [...]
Overdrive report ebook checkouts at libraries up 200 percent in 2010
January 6th, 2011 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Libraries and schools worldwide were at the forefront of the eBook boom in 2010, as patrons and students downloaded millions of digital books for iPhone®, Android™, Sony® Reader, NOOK™, and personal computers. More than one million new users signed on to access free eBooks, audiobooks, and more from ‘Virtual Branch’ websites [...]
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Top 10 literary Youtube videos of 2010
January 6th, 2011 · No Comments · humor
EvilWylie put together this list of the 10 funniest literary videos posted to Youtube in 2010. Several of the movies are still hilarious even on the 4th or 5th time through. The Cooksource Downfall parody still makes me laugh. But I think he missed one, though. The “new spice guy” should have been included.
Fujitsu demo their new Flepia Lite screen at FPD 2010 (video)
November 16th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news, video
This video was shot at FPD last week, but Diginfo.tv only posted it today. You’re looking at Fujitsu’s second gen FLEPia display, and this is the first time it’s been shown to the public. Refresh rate is 0.7 seconds, which is about over as fast as the previous generation FLEPia screen but still a lot [...]
Augen’s Espresso Firma showed up at Ceatec 2010
October 10th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Akihabara News found this Android tablet at Ceatec this past week. It doesn’t quite look the same as the Espresso Firma I showed you a few days ago, but the resemblance is striking. Here’s how Akihabara News described this tablet: MUPEN of M707, an Android 2.1 table with a 7” resistive touch panel including the [...]
Worldreader.org to Digitize and Make Available Thousands of Books by African Authors in 2010
October 9th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Worldreader.org, a non-governmental organization whose mission is to bring electronic books to children and families in the developing world, has today made available the first of thousands of books by African authors in Amazon.com’s Kindle Store. Broadly available for the first time outside of Africa, children’s and young adult fiction from [...]
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I will be giving a talk at a conference next month: XML 2010
September 27th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
I’m going to a conference next month in Philadelphia, XML 2010 eMedia Revolution. I was asked to give a talk on the state of the tablet market. Well, that’s how I think of it. Here’s the description in the program: Emerging eReader/Tablet Delivery Devices, an Update on What’s New and What’s Coming At this January’s [...]
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