In this post I’m planning to show you the man behind the curtain. I’m hoping to give you a better understanding of what I can see, both as a blogger and as someone who watches the media. So the hot story this past week was about how the Kindle Wifi could now download Audible audiobooks [...]
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Amazon killed Lendle – what’s the rest of the story?
March 21st, 2011 · 11 Comments · Amazon, opinion
Earlier today the ebook lending site Lendle shut down their site, claiming in a tweet that: Amazon has revoked Lendle’s API access. This is why the site is down. It’s sad and unfortunate that Amazon is shutting down Lending sites. In a later tweet: According to Amazon, Lendle does not “serve the principal purpose of [...]
iriver Cover Story now £99 at Waterstones
March 10th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Yesterday I found the iriver Story on sale, and today I discovered that iriver’s other e-reader, the Cover Story, is on sale at Waterstones for only £99. That’s £50 off the previous retail. This e-reader is based on a 6″ E-ink screen, and it has a touchscreen, Wifi, 2GB Flash storage, a SD card slot, [...]
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WHSmith now have the iriver Story Wifi on sale
March 9th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
The iriver Story Wifi is on clearance right now at WHSmith. It’s been , marked down to £99.99, which is about half off the previous retail price of £199. For comparison, the Kindle Wifi is selling for £112 right now. This Kindle clone comes with a 6″ Pearl E-ink screen, 2 GB Flash, and a [...]
Apple’s Vig: the story so far
February 23rd, 2011 · 3 Comments · app store news, Apple
I’ve heard from a couple people that my post yesterday was confusing. Sorry about that; I though everyone had been following this as obsessively as I have. Let me correct my mistake by giving you a summary of what’s happened so far. For the sake of being thorough I’m going to have to start in [...]
Engadget got a visit from the iriver Story HD
January 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
So it turns out that the Story HD was at CES 2011, only the iriver rep managed to zig while I zagged. Luckily he stopped by the Engadget trailer and they shot a video. They certainly seemed by the increased screen resolution on this pre-production unit. It’s supposed to hio retail shelves in May.
iriver Story HD does exist
January 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news, press release
This is just a brief not to mention that I found the press release for the new Story HD. It basically confirms the news story I showed you last week. I still do not know if this e-reader is actually at CES. The Story HD was not at the LG press conference today and iriver [...]
Kindle – a Made in Israel success story?
December 17th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
If yyou are particularly tech savvy (and a little OCD), then you might now that the Kindle is running a fair amount of software written in the Java programming language. What you might not know is that a lot of the programming work was done by Sun Microsytems, and in particular it was done by [...]
Iriver Cover Story now in stock at Waterstone’s – £129.99
November 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
iriver’s latest e-reader, the Cover Story, is now in stock at Waterstone’s . The Cover Story is based on a 6″ E-ink touch screen, and it has 2GB Flash, a SD card slot, accelerometer, stylus, and support for Adobe DE DRM. The base model is now selling for £129.99, and the model with Wifi is [...]
iriver Cover Story hits the FCC
October 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
This is a good piece of news for a Friday. The paperwork for iriver’s second gen e-reader just showed up in the FCC database today. I’m hoping this means we’ll see it in the US. There’s not much in the way of new details, though. We already knew that the Cover Story had a 6″ [...]
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