A couple days ago the UK Publisher’s Association released some data on ebook and e-reader sales over Christmas. A full 7% of respondents said that they got an e-reader for Christmas 2010. Now, assuming the UK population adult is around 50 million, that means somewhere around 3.5 million e-readers were sold over Christmas. It’s a [...]
Entries Tagged as '35'
3.5 million Brits received an e-reader for Christmas
February 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
India’s $35 tablet will be delayed
January 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
The Times of India are reporting that the primary contractor for the super cheap tablet has been let go. According to sources close to the project, HCL Infosystems had been selected as a vendor for the $35 tablet and had been dropped after insisting on several new conditions. It’s also been reported that the vendor [...]
India’s $35 to ship in January
September 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
Techpp.com are reporting that Indian $35 tablet has gotten a name, manufacturer, and ship date: The highly anticipated $35 tablet from India, Sakshat is set to arrive in January 2011, as the government of India has handed over the manufacturing contract to HCL Technologies. HCL Technologies Ltd is a well known Indian computer services firm [...]
3/5 of Brits and a third of Americans haven’t used their library in the past year
August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · surveys & polls
There was an article in yesterday’s Telegraph about the decline in library usage in the UK. The number of adults using public libraries at least once a year has fallen from 48.2 per cent in 2005/06 to just 39.4 per cent in 2009/10 according to Government statistics. The number of people who visit a library [...]
First look at India’s $35 tablet (video)
August 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews, Indian Tablet, video
The Indian Minister for Human Resources Development (similar to the US Dep’t of Education) was interviewed on Gadget Guru, an Indian tech show. His interview starts at about 2:32, and if you jump to about 9:20 you’ll see a review of the tablet. It’s not actually a $35 tablet (unless you buy it in quantities [...]
Negroponte offere OLPC tech to India’s $35 tablet program
August 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
There was a rather interesting story on the GoodGearGuide blog Saturday: The nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help develop the Indian government’s planned US$35 tablet. In a congratulatory note to the government, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said the world needs the $35 tablet, and he offered the country full [...]
More details on India’s $35 tablet
July 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Charbax of Armdevices.net found what might be the hardware developer for the $35 tablet I reported on this morning.He was at the Freescale Technology Forum last month when he met a Bangalore based company called AllGo Systems. Here is Charbax’s bill of materials for the AllGo tablet: ARM9 Processor: $5 (Freescale i.MX233) Memory: $3 WiFi [...]
India announce $35 tablet, OLPC folks nowhere to be found
July 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
Details are sparse on this tablet, but we do know that the Indian Gov’t. have been working on low cost devices for several years now. You might recall that last year they announced a low cost tablet (which never was produced, so far as I can tell). At this time we don’t know the specs, [...]
DailyLit just sent their 35 millionth book installment
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
They just announced it on their blog: We’re thrilled to announce that DailyLit has sent over 35 million book installments to readers all over the world. No wonder we’re so exhausted!
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