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Bloomberg and Reuters report that Sony plans to complete with Amazon’s Kindle. From Bloomberg:
The $399 device, called the Daily Edition, will be available in December, Steve Haber, president of Sony’s reader unit, said at an event in New York yesterday. The model will use the third-generation network of AT&T Inc., the second-largest U.S. wireless carrier.
Sony, seeking to rebound from two straight quarterly losses, aims to tap growing demand for digital books and electronic publications. The new reader will be able to hold more than 1,000 e-books, compared with as many as 3,500 for the Kindle.
I’m old. And cranky.
It’s the Old Man Card. After a certain age, I get to play it and nobody can stop me. (One day, you will get to play it, or play the Old Lady Card, yourself. It is, indeed, a lot of fun the reach an age when They Can’t Stop You.)
The Guardian reports that Mary Lou Jepsen, who designed the OLPC, has now engineered a screen, dubbed the Pixel Qi, that can work as a computer monitor, a television screen, or “paper” that can be read in sunlight, similar to the Amazon Kindle.
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Todd Cochrane talks with Eric from Foxit
Foxit came out with a PDF reader so you can put technical documents, ebooks (Which they will be partnering with eReader) and even documents that YOU create! Todd Cochrane talks with Eric of Foxit about these new readers and what the differences are with items like Kindle.
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No Comments »I saw you back in Comdex in 83 – You were a exciting new technology – a marvel to me with a touchscreen.
Ohhhh, ohhh
But times have changed and you are now put to the side – the integration with the phone makes it real nice – and you get tossed in the scrap pile to die.
Ohhh, ohhh
I used your applications
ohhh, ohhh
And all your revelations….
I did have a PDA. I had a few of them. Palm, iPaq, Axim and a host of others. However, 2 years ago I got my first Smartphone. That pretty much put my last PDA to the side.
Earlier in the week I read the article “5 things the Smartphone Killed“. While I am not in total agreeance of the list just yet, I do agree on a lot of their items and I can see the Smartphone can totally engulf all the item replacements. Read the rest of this entry »
No Comments »Upgrading Cable – Live Show Monday 7PM EST – Upgrading Website – Win Zune or iPod – Firefox 3
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