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Apple to release iWater

August 10th, 2011 · No Comments · humor

The apple fanboys at Scoopertino have turned up this new piece of Apple news. They have the product page for the new Apple Water. Move along Dasani. Step aside, fiji. Sayonara, Eva. Apple are here to replace you all.

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Gajah to release Android based e-reader

March 17th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

You might recognize this e-reader; I mentioned it when I covered Gajah at CES 2010. The BK7005 is based on a 7″ (800×480) resistive touchscreen, and it has Wifi, a microSD card slot, speaker, and it ships with support for Adobe DE DRM. It’s running on Android v1.5 a RockChip CPU, but the amount of [...]

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Samsung to release 2 new Galaxy Player PMPs

March 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news

Samsung  just announced a  pair of 4″ and 5″ media players. BTW, do you recall that Galaxy 5 Wifi we saw a few weeks back? I bet that’s one of the 2 announced today. The Galaxy players come with a pair of cameras (VGA & 2.3MP), Wifi, 8GB Flash Storage, a microSD card slot, speaker, [...]

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Wattpad release updated iPad app

March 4th, 2011 · No Comments · ipad app, software news

Wattpad  released a new version of their iPad app this week. This version adds a couple minor bug fixes for things  like the occasional skipped page and line cut-off problems. Wattpad, also known as the Youtube for ebooks, is an online community of authors, readers, and book lovers, They boast over 100k ebooks you can [...]

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GMini to release 3 new epaper e-readers in Russia

February 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news, Sipix

I’ve just come across another company in Russia with plans to release their own e-reader.  I’d say at this point Russia is possible the second most active e-reader market (after the US). Gmini announced 3 new e-readers this week. One will have a Sipix screen, and the other 2 will have E-ink screens. First up [...]

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Lexand to release 2 new e-readers in Russia

February 15th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news

Lexand have announced the release of 2 new e-readers – Lexand LE-106 and Lexand LT-105. One has a 6″ E-ink screen and the other a 5″ LCD screen. Both e-readers have 2GB Flash storage, a microSD card slot, a headphone jack, and the both lack Wifi or a touchscreen. The LT-105 has a 5″ screen [...]

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Smart Devices to release a true iPad clone

February 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news

The Chinese tablet maker Smart Devices have recently announced a new 9.7″ Android tablet. It’s not just the same size; they’re boasting that the R10 Ten uses the exact same screen as the iPad. The R10 Ten will be running Android v2.2, and it will get an update to Honeycomb. The R10 Ten will have [...]

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Archos to release another cheap Android tablet

February 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news

The Russian e-reader blog The-eBook.org just caught sight of a new Archos tablet. They haven’t released many details yet, but they have said that the Arnova A80KSC is based on an 8″ screen and it runs Android. Full details will be released when the Arnova tablet is launched. via The-eBook.org

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Wattpad to release app for HP Touchpad

February 10th, 2011 · No Comments · press release

Wattpad announced today that they are working on a new app for WebOS. This app will be specifically developed for the Touchpad, and they expect it to be out by the time the tablet hits the market. From the press release:

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ScrollMotion release new ebook app in iTunes and Chrome Store

February 7th, 2011 · No Comments · software news

Last week,ScrollMotion released a new Sesame Street ebook simultaneously for the iTunes App Store and for the Google Chrome Web Store. While this isn’t their first Sesame Street title, it is the first to be released for Chrome. This is ScrollMotion’s first Chrome store release, but it won’t be their last. ScrollMotion are now working [...]

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