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eReader & Tablet News – 1/25/2011 no comments
Nook 3G ereader to be discontinued?
Engadget reported yesterday that Barnes & Noble may be planning to discontinue the 3G version of the Nook ereader. According to Engadget once the current stock of the 3G version is gone it will not be replenished. Well, the original Nook is getting a bit long in the tooth – time for a version with the Pearl display. For many users I suspect a Wi-Fi connection will be good enough, especially if it carries a lower price tag.
In an article on the same topic PC Mag.com says that it was told by a B&N spokesperson that, "3G sold out during the holiday season so there is plenty of demand for it."
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Notion Ink Adam unboxing photos & videos starting to appear
The few people who were able to successfully order the Notion Ink Adam Pixel Qi tablet at the brief and problem-plagued pre-order session have started to receive their tablets and are starting to post photos and videos. You can find some at Notion Ink Fan.com.
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A couple of new personal news services launched
A couple of new online personal news aggregating services have been announced. First is Ongo, which is designed to be accessible via the web browser on computers, smart phones and tablets.
Ongo charges a subscription of $6.99 per month, for which you have access via a single site to comprehensive coverage from the AP, all original Washington Post content from The Washington Post print edition, all content from USA Today, selected top stories from The New York Times and selected content from the Financial Times. You can also add a few additional publications – the first free and after that starting at an additional $0.99 per month.
Features include customized news arranged by title, section or keyword; the ability to clip articles for later reading; search function that lets you search by category, title, date or writer; and discussion groups.
Ongo is backed by Gannett, The New York Times and The Washington Post. You can get more info and try out a free trial subscription at Ongo.com.
Another similar newly hatched service is WorldProNews.com. This is also a one-stop site for global news from sources such as CNN, MSNBC, BBC World News, Financial Times, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Reuters and more.
Categories of news covered at WorldProNews.com include politics, business, health, internet, celebrities, lifestyle, science, technology, inventions, travel, art and crafts, design, movies, music, games, books, stock market, Forex trading, gadgets, sports, horoscopes and country specific news as well.
WorldProNews.com does not have the customization and search features of Ongo, but it is free and looks useful for checking the latest headlines of various news categories from one site.
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Scan your pbook library and turn it into ebooks
Ion Audio unveiled its Book Saver book scanning device at CES 2011. 
The Book Saver allows you to scan a paper book and save it to an SD card. As the book is held in a cradle so that the pages are at the right angle the Book Saver’s two cameras take separate photos of each page. A flash is built in to properly illuminate the pages if necessary. The Book Saver only takes one second to scan two pages.
The downside is that you need to manually flip pages, so this is not an automatic process that you can set and forget. The Book Saver is expected to be available in a few months at a price of under $200.
Or, you could just use your iPhone:
Helsinki-based Norfello Inc. has announced that it has developed a new algorithm to automatically correct page curvature from 2D images. This will enable non-destructive book scanning without the need for special hardware:
“We have been using consumer grade digital cameras and iPhone 4′s camera in our tests and we are happy with the results.”, said Jarno Ruokokoski, the lead developer of the new algorithm.
Norfello published images showcase how the algorithm
works. It takes one image of a spread of a book as an input and produces two images, one of each page. In the pages produced all the curvature of text lines is removed. These images are not modified by hand, so the text area detection, cropping and whitening are also native parts of the software.
“The algorithm searches two text areas (one for each page), and for each area left and right margins. Next it approximates from a blurred image the baselines of the lines of text. The algorithm computes the corrected baselines by using spline fitting iteratively. Finally, the algorithm creates triangulation on the image based on the baselines, and draws the triangles to a new image by using affine transformations such that every baseline is a straight line in the new image and both the margins are vertical.”, explained Jarno Ruokokoski.
“This algorithm will be included in our existing App, DocScanner Mac, but we will also create a new application that focuses solely on scanning books with a clutter free user interface that makes book scanning as productive as possible and integrates with Amazon Kindle via Whispersync and iBooks. Carrying lots of books just isn’t possible all the time, but people tend to always carry their Kindles and iPads with them.”, said Tuomas Rasila.
Norfello currently has a DocScanner iPhone app that is available in the iTunes App Store for $0.99. From the press release it sounds as though the new algorithm will be incorporated in a new app that will be optimized for book scanning.
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Tablet & eReader News – 11/08/2010 no comments
iOS 4.2 is almost here for the iPad! We don’t know when for sure, but there are rumors that the new OS will be released to the general public this week. Some of the new features that iOS 4.2 will bring to the iPad: multitasking, folders to organize your apps into, direct printing to a Wi-Fi printer, a unified email inbox, additional international keyboard (over 30 new languages) and dictionary support and enhanced enterprise support.
The iPad will also receive some accessibility enhancements. These include the ability to output Braille to over 30 supported Bluetooth Braille displays in more than 25 languages. iOS 4.2 will also add the ability to control VoiceOver using a wireless keyboard.
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Qualcomm MEMS director of marketing Cheryl Goodman 
was interviewed about biomimicry and the Mirasol display by KPBS radio recently and you can listen to the podcast at the KPBS website. The podcast is about 20 minutes and, no, Ms Goodman does not spill the beans about which ereader will be the first to have a Mirasol display.
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Sony today announced that the Sony Daily Edition PRS-950 ereader is now available at Sony Style and other retailers. The Daily Edition features a 7-inch e-ink Pearl display and is the only one of the new Sony ereaders to feature a wireless connection.
Sony is also offering a $75 dollar credit when you trade in your old ereader.
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Blackboard has released Blackboard Mobile Central (BMC) for Android smartphones. BMC is custom built and branded for each educational institution, and the new Android app is making its debut at Northwestern University.
The new Android application will include Athletics, Courses, Directory, Library, Maps, News, Get Help and Links, with other features to be added soon. Developed as a native application exclusive to the Android platform, Blackboard Mobile Central for the Android leverages the device’s unique features to provide an engaging user experience, including:
- Widgets, an Android-specific feature that allows users to quickly and easily access important information from Blackboard Mobile Central at a glance from their home screen.
- Shortcuts, which let users create a direct shortcut to any one of the Blackboard Mobile Central modules directly on their phone’s home screen so that it can be accessed immediately without even opening the app.
For more information about Blackboard Mobile Central, please visit: http://www.blackboard.com/Mobile/Mobile-Central.aspx
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eReader & Tablet News – 10/29/2010 no comments
Just to catch up on a few happenings of the past couple of days:
Barnes & Noble has announced B&N Kid’s Club, a new loyalty program for parents and caregivers. On sign-up customers will receive a 30 percent off coupon good for use on children’s book purchases, educational toys and games as well as games and puzzles for adults. For every $100 spent on children’s books and toys customers will also receive a $5 coupon (limited to four times per year). There are also, of course, freebies from the Cafe involved.
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Free or cheaper ebooks sponsored by in-book ad placements? WOWIO has been issued a Notice of Allowance by the US Patent and Trademark Office for a broad patent application that covers a variety of methods allowing for the delivery of ads in ebooks, including contextual ads based on personal information or demographic criteria of the reader.
“The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has allowed 32 claims contained in of one of WOWIO, Inc.’s most important and broadest patent applications,” said Steve Hassid, Registered Patent and Trademark Attorney, Partner at Silicon Edge Law Group LLP, and intellectual property counsel for WOWIO. “WOWIO is the only company I know of that has been able to obtain a Notice of Allowance allowing claims in this evolving and expanding media space.”
“The patent will give WOWIO the right to exclude others from practicing any of the 32 allowed claims in the United States for a period of 20 years from the patent’s priority date,” added Hassid.
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Disney has released the Disney Epic Mickey App for viewing Disney comics on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. The first comic to be available is Tales of Wasteland. Disney Epic Mickey is available at iTunes for $2.99.
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Amazon has announced that it is working on a Kindle app for Windows Phone 7 that should be ready before the end of the year.
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Kobo has begun offering newspapers and magazines. The new periodicals are available with a two-week free trial. Kobo has updated its iPad app to support reading of the magazines and newspapers. Kobo’s iPad app also now enables looking words up in the built-in dictionary, on Wikipedia or on Google.
The Kobo Store now offers the following digital publications across select Kobo devices and Apps: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Scientist, The Seattle Times, Wilson Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, American Scholar, China International Business, Columbus Dispatch , Guideposts, Harvard Business Review, National Review, New York Observer, PC Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Reason, The Christian Science Monitor Daily Briefing, The Nation, Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, Montreal Gazette, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Regina Leader-Post, Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, Vancouver Province, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times-Colonist, and The Globe & Mail. Kobo will be continuing to expand its newspaper and magazine offering to ensure that we have all the publications that people want to read worldwide.
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Both T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular will be offering the Samsung Galaxy Tab. T-Mobile expects to have the Tab by Nov. 10, while US Cellular just says that it will be in time for the holidays. T-Mobile will be offering the Tab for as low as $399 with a 2-year contract.
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eReader & Tablet News – 10/21/2010 no comments
Kobo announced on its blog today that the Kobo Wi-Fi eReader will be sold at 2500 Walmart stores in the US beginning next week.
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CNET is reporting that it has been told by an unnamed source that Barnes & Noble will introduce an Android-based 7-inch color ereader next week. According to CNET’s source, which has been reliable in the past, the new ereader will be named the Nook Color and be priced at $250.
The tipster said the entire company has been focused on this product and that "it’s a big step ahead, instead of chasing Amazon." While the new e-reader is Android-based, the source indicated it wouldn’t have the same functionality as the iPad–but it would be half the price of Apple’s entry-level tablet.
We can only speculate on the type of color display, but at the moment I can only imagine that it is LCD. Putting another Android ereader on the market with an LCD display at a higher price than similar 7-inch devices does not make a lot of sense to me, but we will have to wait and see.
Mirasol and other reflective color displays won’t be ready until next year. Pixel Qi says they are working on a 7-inch screen, but that also won’t be ready until 2011. Perhaps B&N is using a non-backlit LCD screen? Or possibly they are announcing a product that will release after the first of the year? That does not really make sense.
Lower priced Android-based color LCD ereaders have been problematic, with the exception of the Cruz Reader — which is pretty good. B&N will have to do a much better job with the software than they did with the original NOOK if they are planning one of these.
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HP has officially announced the Slate 500 tablet. It will run Windows 7 and be priced at $799. The Slate 500 will come with an 8.9-inch capacitive multitouch display. Other features include a front-facing webcam and a 3MP camera on the back. HP is aiming the Slate 500 at business users and will launch the new tablet first in the US (date TBA).
Engadget has lots of pictures and a brief video.
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There have been a number of reports of the iPad being put to use in hospitals and by medical professionals, but this is the first time I have seen fire departments getting involved.
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., a Xerox company, has launched an iPad app designed for fireman to use when making fire inspections.
FH Inspector uses the iPad’s user-friendly interface and GPS to make fire inspections more efficient. Information on such things as building details, evacuation plans, hydrant locations and more can be easily tracked and shared with firefighters in an emergency.
The app also features instant billing, which sends an automated email invoice to building owners to pay and then post their fire inspection permit that day.
FH Inspector is free at iTunes.
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eReader & Tablet News – 10/20/2010 2 comments
Verizon has announced that it will be selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab for $599.99 starting November 11.
Popular mobile applications, including V CAST Music and V CAST Song ID, VZ Navigator®, Slacker Radio, Kindle for Android, BLOCKBUSTER On Demand® presented by V CAST Video, and the exclusive golf game, “Let’s Golf,” will be available on the Samsung Galaxy Tab. In addition to text, picture and video messaging, the Samsung Galaxy Tab will also feature V CAST Apps, Verizon Wireless’ mobile storefront offering hundreds of applications for businesses and consumers at launch.
Verizon Wireless customers can add a monthly access plan beginning at $20 a month for 1 GB on their Samsung Galaxy Tab. For additional features and specifications on the Samsung Galaxy Tab, visit www.verizonwireless.com/galaxytab.
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Ectaco has had the jetBook mini ereader available for pre-order on its website for a while. Today the company announced that the mini is now ready to ship. The mini is priced at $99.95 from Ectaco and includes free shipping to the US and Canada. The mini is already available from Amazon as well. I would expect some discounting pretty soon.
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There is more news from Barnes & Noble. The bookseller is having a “very special event” next Tuesday, October 26 at its Union Square store to which it has invited reporters. If I were a gambler I’d be putting my money on this being the NOOK 2 announcement.
B&N also announced today that it has partnered with Blackboard, Inc. to enable college students to access and use interactive etextbooks and other digital content from the B&N catalog within the Blackboard Learn platform.
With the integration, students can access and purchase content from Barnes & Noble’s vast catalog of over 1 million titles, including e-books, e-textbooks, relevant study aids, test prep guides, periodicals, and hundreds of thousands of trade and professional titles, directly within the online course environment.
This integration easily connects faculty and students to NOOKstudy, the free e-reader and study application from Barnes & Noble, enabling them to navigate through digital content and assignments to make their studying efforts more efficient and effective. It streamlines the ability of faculty to assign e-textbooks and digital course content that students can access and purchase. In addition, faculty can assign specific readings within assigned materials pointing to the exact location where they are available in the NOOKstudy environment. Students can go straight from Blackboard Learn to the assignment and begin reading and studying.
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Amazon has put another Kindle 3 software update out as a public beta. Version 3.0.3 is just described as including general performance improvements. If you want to download and install the beta you can do so from the Kindle software update page.
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Starbucks today officially launches its previously announced Starbucks Digital Network (SDN) in partnership with Yahoo! in US company-operated stores. SDN will feature selected news, entertainment and lifestyle content in addition to local content over Starbucks’ free in store Wi-Fi connection.
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eReader & Tablet News – 10/19/2010 no comments
Liquavista will be talking at FPD/SEP 2010 next month in Japan about the scalability and versatility of its electrowetting displays.
“We’ve chosen FPD Japan to talk about the scalability of electrowetting technology because now that the technology is on the verge of becoming available we feel that it’s critical to describe what is possible and to share this with the industry.” Said Johan Feenstra, Liquavista’s CTO & Founder. “We’ve already proven in prototype production that we can develop a variety of displays ranging from 1.8” to 8.5” diagonal and believe there is no physical limitation to the size of screen that can be developed using electrowetting technology.”
“Demonstrating the ability to make electrowetting panels for all display applications regardless of their screen size shows the clear vision that Liquavista has of the future.” Added Guy Demuynck, Liquavista’s CEO. “Pairing this flexibility in size with the versatility of the technology brings a compelling proposition for any manufacturer of electronic devices, regardless of the application. We have the manufacturer and consumer at the heart of our roadmap. In support of the commercial delivery of our product next year, we believe it’s important to deliver screens which can be used in any device from small scale mobile displays through to large scale outdoor screens.”
It is likely to be late next year before we begin to see products utilizing a Liquavista display.
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Notion Ink is looking for a new logo and is having a design competition to find the right one. They are offering a $1000 prize and an Adam Pixel Qi tablet (when released) for the winning design. The contest will end soon; for details see the Notion Ink blog.
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Digitimes reports that Google has notified its partners that the Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) OS will soon be ready and that engineering samples including those pertaining to tablets should be going out in December. This means that hopefully in H1 of next year we will see Android-based tablets that can access the Android Market out of the box.
Phandroid has a blurry photo of a phone running Android 3.0 in the wild and reports on some of the new features of the next iteration of the OS. One of the biggest appears to be support for video chat.
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eReader & Tablet News – 9/30/2010 no comments
Infinity Publishing announced today that it has struck a deal with Sony to sell its books through Sony’s Reader Store. Infinity specializes in self-published authors and on demand publishing.
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Amazon is giving away five free Wi-Fi Kindle 3 ereaders. To enter, you just need to visit Amazon’s Kindle page on Facebook and become a fan by clicking on the “Like” button. US residents 18 years of age or older are eligible. The contest runs from September 27 through October 18, 2010.
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This Saturday, October 2, will be the 60th anniversary of Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz. As part of the celebrations a social media game will be hosted. One of the prizes is an iPad:
Also this month, PEANUTS fans are celebrating the 60th anniversary of their favorite comic strip via the "Countdown to the Great Pumpkin" (www.greatpumpkincountdown.com) game. This online social media game invites Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Foursquare and YouTube users to join the Anniversary fun by completing a series of daily PEANUTS-themed "to-dos" from early September through Halloween. Players earn points for each task completed—such as sharing a PEANUTS quote with their friends or followers, or changing their profile picture to that of a PEANUTS character—and the winner will take home a special PEANUTS-loaded iPad and have a shot at an extra $25,000. Weekly winners receive prizes throughout the contest and members of the Schulz family—including Charles Schulz’s son Craig, daughter Jill, and widow, Jeannie—are playing along, offering their own PEANUTS memories and suggesting some of the daily to-dos.
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Will we be seeing ereaders and other devices with word definitions powered by Dictionary.com?
Today Dictionary.com (www.dictionary.com), the leading online and mobile dictionary, announced the launch of its API Developer Center (developer.dictionary.com), a user-friendly distribution channel for its easy to integrate open API. The Center demonstrates Dictionary.com’s commitment to shaping the evolution of online, mobile and connected devices by providing ‘information in the moment,’ enabling developers to integrate its content and features into not only digital learning and entertainment platforms, but an endless range of applications across all platforms. Additionally, the Center will offer developers opportunities for heightened visibility via a visual gallery highlighting creative uses of the API.
"People want access to word definitions in context, without navigating away from what they are doing – Dictionary.com’s vision with the API Developer Center is to make this the standard online and mobile experience," said Shravan Goli, President, Dictionary.com. "Now literally every developer of any application that utilizes words can integrate Dictionary.com’s content and features so that their users can effortlessly experience word discovery."
Use of the API will be free for non-commercial use, and Dictionary.com will offer its content and features for commercial use on a revenue-share and fee-based basis.
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Tokyo-based Seirindo Co., Ltd. will be making its manga magazines available as an iPad app. The Garo manga is available now, with Cycle Boys and Tale of Charcoal Burner coming in October. The description of these in the iTunes store is in Japanese, though the info on the app says it is English language – I didn’t buy one ($2.99) so I’m not sure.
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The GoodReader PDF handling app got a major upgrade today. Some of the new features:
- all annotations that you create or edit in GoodReader – notes, highlights, markups, and drawings – are saved in a PDF file, so you will be able to see them later on a computer or in another copy of GoodReader on your colleague’s device
- all notes, highlights, markups, and drawings created outside GoodReader, and properly stored in a PDF file, can be viewed or edited in GoodReader
- types of annotations that you can create and edit in GoodReader: comments ("sticky notes") with 7 different icons, text highlights, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, text underlines, text deletion marks (strikeouts), text insertion marks, text replacement marks. You can freely adjust color of all of the above.
- other types of annotations that you can view in GoodReader: text boxes with callouts, polygons and polylines, squiggly underlines, cloudy shapes, rubber stamps, file attachments. All annotations that can be viewed, can also be deleted. In addition, some of them can be edited in a limited fashion (color, placement, scale).
- you can now extract files from PDF file attachments
GoodReader is $0.99 at iTunes.
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Barclays Capital analyst Douglas Anmuth is predicting that Amazon will sell 5 million Kindles this year and 11.5 million in 2012. Some of the factors contributing to high unit sales include lower pricing and availability at multiple outlets. Anmuth also thinks that Kindles are not in direct competition with tablets anymore, “A bifurcated market has clearly developed between more expensive, multi-function tablets and cheaper, dedicated eReaders.”
You can read more at ZDNet.
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Mary Lou Jepsen writes in the Pixel Qi blog that a 10-inch Pixel Qi screen that connects and is powered by a USB cable is being developed by Display Solutions AG. You could use this as a secondary screen that can be read in sunlight. It would also be possible to power the display with batteries and use a wireless USB connection. Below is a short video of the screen in sunlight.
These should be in production by the end of this year or the beginning of 2011.
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Onkyo has launched three new Windows 7 – based tablets. Two will have 10.1-inch multitouch screens while the third will have a 11.6-inch display. All come with a 32GB SSD, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Battery life doesn’t look that good (at least when compared to the iPad’s 10 hours) — ranging from 3.8 hours to 6 hours depending on the model.
Prices range from ¥49,800 ($597 USD) to ¥69,800 ($836). Onkyo expects to begin shipping in mid-October.
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eReader & Tablet News – 9/25/2010 no comments
There have been rumors that Entourage has a smaller version of the Edge in the works. The Digital Reader was able to get
a few photos and some details of the new Pocket Edge.
The Pocket Edge will have a 6-inch Visplex (not the newer Pearl) e-ink display and a 7-inch LCD screen. The new model is said to weigh about a pound, and will come in both Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi plus 3G via Verizon. This looks quite promising.
Photo – The Digital Reader
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Samsung may be working on a 10-inch version of its Galaxy Tab. Gary Twohig, general manager of Samsung Mobile in Ireland, said in an interview with the Silicon Republic that the larger tablet would be launched in the first half of 2011. The reference to the 10-incher has since been edited out of the article.
(via TNW, where you can see what was edited out)
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Dell apparently has plans to introduce a 7-inch version of its Streak tablet. Michael Dell briefly showed off the new tablet onstage at an Oracle event this week.
(via WSJ)
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Today is the start of Banned Book Week, an annual celebration of the freedom to read that was started in 1982 by the American Library Association, American Booksellers Association and the Association of American Publishers.
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eReader & Tablet News – 9/20/2010 no comments
According to Digitimes, Pegatron will be helping to build HTC’s Android tablet. Some of the specs of the tablet are mentioned as well. It will be based on the Tegra 2 from Nvidia, will have a multi-touch display with 1280 x 720 resolution and will come with a 32GB SSD. Digitimes says that the price of the tablet is estimated to be US $789. I would expect a tablet from HTC to be available at a subsidized price through wireless carriers.
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Google Docs coming to iPad? From the Google blog today:
…today we demonstrated new mobile editing capabilities for Google Docs on the Android platform and the iPad. In the next few weeks, co-workers around the world will soon be able to co-edit files simultaneously from an even wider array of devices.
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In the second quarter of 2010 wholesale ebook sales saw a small decline over the previous quarter ($88.7 million vs $91 million), though sales on a year over year basis were still way up. The third quarter appears to be resuming surging growth rates again — ebook sales in July, 2010 were $40.8 million, almost half of the entire previous quarter’s sales.
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There was an interesting post on the Notion Ink blog over the weekend about some of the choices involved in designing the Notion Ink Adam Pixel Qi tablet.
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Amazon has made available another beta release software update for the Kindle 3. Version 3.0.2 is said to include web browser and general performance improvements. If you want to try it out, you can download the patch from the Kindle 3 Software Update page.
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eReader & Tablet News – 9/14/2010 1 comment
A roundup of some brief ereader and tablet related stories.
The annual Ipsos Mendelsohn Affluent Survey (via Advertising Age) of heads of households making $100,000 or more annually has found that the affluent are spending 12 percent more time on the internet, reading 16 percent fewer magazines and are buying more ereaders and tablets.
Nothing surprising there, except that there are still lots of magazines that don’t have iPad editions yet.
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Engadget was the apparent beneficiary of an AT&T leak yesterday and reported that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab will find a home with that carrier in the US.
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Infinity Publishing has signed an agreement with Kobo to make Infinity ebooks available through the Kobo ebook store. Infinity is a publishing company that caters to self-published authors. For a package price of $199, Infinity will turn an author’s existing work into an ebook, assign an ISBN to the title, and handle distribution.
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Graphic.ly has announced that it will be offering single issues of Marvel comic books on its desktop reader. Graphic.ly is the first desktop digital comic reader to be able to offer single issues of Marvel comics.
Many of the popular Marvel titles will be available at Graphic.ly, including Iron Man, Kick Ass, Amazing Spider Man, Captain America, Astonishing X-Men and more.
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Random House has announced a partnership with Seattle-based Smashing Ideas’ ePublishing group to bring multimedia children’s book apps to mobile devices. Smashing Ideas is a digital media agency whose recently formed ePublishing Group is headed up by Ben Roberts, co-creator and developer of Alice for the iPad.
