Will IDPF and W3C merger merge e-books and the web?
It’s not often you see two seemingly-unrelated digital technology consortiums come together like chocolate and peanut butter in a Reese’s cup, but that seems to be what’s in store for the...
“E-reader Roundup: 8 Devices Compete for the Crown”
From a Computerworld Report by Daniel Grotta and Sally Wiener Grotta
Before we begin, the introduction is worthy of a special mention since it offers a very useful overview of the...
What if Amazon bought Barnes & Noble?
There’s a peculiar phenomenon by which year-old articles sometimes show up again in news aggregators and social network feeds that for some reason see the month and day part...
Quick Note: 94 million tablets by 2015 says Insight Media
Insight Media has released its Ebook Reader and Tablet Market Report (by subscription @$2,500) and says that tablets will reach 94M units by 2015.
General purpose ebook readers will reach 26M units...
Digitimes: new ereaders from Amazon and Sony
Digitimes Research says that 740,000 ereaders were sold in April to May worldwide and the Nook sold 270,000 as opposed to the Kindle's 118,000. Global ereader shipments, they say, totaled...
The high cost of the Internet: E-books’ Achilles heel?
When I taught an e-book unit to my Grade 3/4 class earlier this year, one of the drawbacks of the technical age was readily apparent to them. The high cost of...
Good e-Reader starts a radio show
From the Good e-Reader blog:
Welcome to the leading tech radio show with your host Markus! Twice a week i bring you the latest news on e-paper, digital publishing, ebooks, e-readers, tablets and slate computing and...
iPhones to get wi-fi hotspots (maybe); iPad screen lock switch to return
Our sister blog Appletell reports that the Verizon CDMA iPhone, and indeed the regular iPhone as well, is going to feature mobile wi-fi hotspot capability. Theoretically. It’s up to the carriers...
Project Loon, Starry offer potential new hope for high-speed wireless Internet
E-reader users dismayed by Karma Wireless capping its Neverstop plan to 15 GB per month may soon have reason to hope for something better. Two new stories to emerge in recent...
Samsung Galaxy S phones hitting the street
A while back I covered the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy S phones and said that they would make great ereaders.
Well, they are finally hitting the streets with all...