It’s not really dead, though. Microsoft will continue to make and sell existing models (which came out in 2009) until no one wants them any more. And do you know the scary part? The hardware is dying, but the Zune Marketplace will live on and be used to support Windows Phone 7. You may not [...]
Entries Tagged as 'yesterday'
Feedbooks responds to yesterday’s Blio launch
September 29th, 2010 · 6 Comments · software news
Calvin Reid over at Publisher’s Weekly posted a follow up article this morning where he contact KNFB (developer of Blio) and asked them to explain some of the details of yesterday’s debacle. One comment made by Peter Chapman, the KNFB spokesman, caught my eye. He said that Feedbooks knew it was being included in Blio [...]
Some thoughts on yesterday’s ebook sales figures
July 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news, opinion, press release
Yesterday the AAP posted the reported sales figures for May 2010. I waited because I wanted to think about the numbers before I reported them. Here is what the press release said about ebooks: E-book sales grew 162.8 percent for the month ($29.3 million), year-to-date eBook sales are up 207.4 percent. Year-To-Date E-book sales of [...]
The Que didn’t ship yesterday (my source was right)
June 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, Uncategorized
So if you’ve been following the story on Engadget, you know that the PlasticLogic Que didn’t ship yesterday and that they’ve canceled all orders. I am both surprised and not surprised. I wasn’t surprised because I had a source who didn’t think they would ship the Que. He was why I posted the reminder on [...]
Pandigital didn’t release an update yesterday (pr dept & damage control)
June 17th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized
You may have seen the story yesterday about how Pandigital responded to the complaints and the recall story by releasing a new firmware update for the Novel. Engadget and ZDNet broke the story (that’s an important detail I’ll cover later). The problem with the firmware update is that it didn’t happen. I waited until this [...]
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