The administrators of RedGroup Retail held the first creditors’ meetings in Melbourne and Auckland yesterday, and it does not look good. RedGroup owe some some $7.8 million AUD in salary and entitlements to their 3600 employees in Australia and New Zealand. Publishers and other suppliers are owed $44 million, and RedGroup also owe themselves $118 [...]
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More details emerge on the iPad pilot programs
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ipad pilot, press release
You might have caught the launch of the Inkling digital textbook iPad app a couple weeks ago. I just came across a new detail today that most of the stories on Inkling seemed to have missed. Do you recall the iPad pilot programs I’ve been posting about? Well, according to the Inkling press release 4 [...]
More details on EC Media’s e-reader – the Wink
August 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news, hardware news
Today was the official launch of the Wink , India’s first native e-reader. I first covered this device about a month ago, but back then all I knew was some of the hardware details (5 models with screens from 5″ to 9.7″). Now I have more info that I can share on WinkStore and Winkwire, EC [...]
New details on Copia’s Kindle clone e-reader
August 16th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
You might recall about 2 weeks ago that Copia announced a whole new line of e-readers which replaced the Epaper based ones that were demoed at CES 2010. I just found some more information on the crappy Kindle clone. I bet you’re wondering what happened to those e-readers we saw at CES (the ones still [...]
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 [...]
B&N releases more Pubit! details & it says a lot about their plans
June 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · bn
B&N updated the Pubit! FAQ yesterday, and some of the answers say a lot about B&N’s future business plans. They’re only interested in the US market, they’re looking for distribution partners, and they might be looking at POD. What do I need to create an account? A BN.com login, which you can create on the [...]
2.6m people use Opera Mini on the iPhone & other details
May 28th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
From the press release: More than 2.6 million people used Opera Mini on their iPhones, in the two weeks following April’s mid-month launch. This surge in new Opera Mini users reshaped both the top 10 countries and the top handsets for mobile Web usage, according to Opera’s State of the Mobile Web Report, issued today. [...]
More details on the Asus DR-950 leaked
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Expert Reviews UK has learned a few new details on the new Asus 9″ ebook reader. You know, given that all the information seems to be coming from the UK, I don’t think we’ll be seeing a USA release any time soon. Here is a summary of the specs: 9″ Sipix screen release in March [...]
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