March 16th 2010
The Spring Design Alex eReader generated positive momentum after it’s introduction and at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but lost some inertia after that. Ordering delays slowed up the Alex while Barnes & Noble, Amazon and others delivered their wares and sold titles. That’s a shame since Spring Designs worked out two content partners for the Alex in Google Books [...]
March 15th 2010
iTunes isn’t the only DJ available on those Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Rhapsody last year joined several other music services on Apple mobile devices for music playback. Many thought the paid subscription service wouldn’t make it through Apple’s approval process, but there was a key reason I thought it would — listeners could [...]
March 15th 2010
iTunes isn’t the only DJ available on those Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Rhapsody last year joined several other music services on Apple mobile devices for music playback. Many thought the paid subscription service wouldn’t make it through Apple’s approval process, but there was a key reason I thought it would — listeners could [...]
March 11th 2010
It’s hard to think of a patent that is as revelatory as to the serious issues with the United States patent system as Amazon’s patent on 1-Click shopping.
First filed in 1997, the patent describes a method for consumers to purchase goods without having to provide credit card or shipping information every time they logon [...]
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March 10th 2010
Tags: Amazon, Checkout System, Click Online, Patent, Patents
March 9th 2010
Users could be able to browse the whole web with the Kindle’s built-in web browser, including popular web apps that have become a part of our daily routine, WebMonkey observed Tuesday. The publication pointed its finger at a one-month old Amazon job posting seeking a browser engineer who will be working at Amazon’s Lab126 unit [...]
March 9th 2010
The past two years have seen the public’s interest in e-books reach dizzying heights. The Kindle and other readers have pushed the e-book phenomenon in front of mainstream consumers. The imminent appearance of the iPad and the iBookstore have renewed that interest, and folks previously untouched by the e-book craze are now getting drawn in. [...]
March 9th 2010
Colorado recently passed a law allowing the collection of taxes from online purchases in an attempt to narrow a gap in the state’s budget. The law requires online retailers to collect taxes or provide the state with a summary of purchases by residents. An undeniable target of the new law was one of the largest [...]
March 8th 2010
Mass Effect 2 has received universal acclaim and warrants a play through on any platform. If you want to know why, just check out our review.
If you haven’t bought the game yet, then Amazon is giving you an extra nudge to do so today. The usual price of the Xbox 360 version has been dropped [...]
March 8th 2010
Though they could’ve fooled me, Barnes & Noble apparently isn’t content to let ebooks and digital mags be a two-horse race between Amazon and Apple. They just made a big hire in Jonathan Shar, from Time, who’s going to be running their “Digital Newsstand and Emerging Content, Barnes & Noble.com” division. Though that division name [...]
March 5th 2010
Tags: Amazon, Ebook Reader, Hard Time, Ipad, Sony
March 3rd 2010
Tags: Amazon, Apple Mp3, Apple Store, Itunes, Labels, Mdash, Mp3 Store, Rake, Surprise
March 2nd 2010
Quick — how many e-book reading devices can you name? Had I asked that question two or three years ago, most folks could probably come up with only a handful. However, that was before the “e-book-splosion” that I witnessed at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. When an entire section of floor space is devoted to [...]
February 26th 2010
Tags: Amazon, Apple, Nyt, Phone Calls, Publishers, Steve Jobs
February 23rd 2010
Microsoft and Amazon have announced that the two companies have signed a patent cross-license agreement which gives both companies access to each others patent portfolio. Microsoft gains access to the software technology behind the Kindle in addition to the intellectual property behind the company’s use of Linux-based servers while Amazon gets to crack open and [...]
February 19th 2010
Most e-bestsellers sold on the iPad’s e-book store should cost between $12.99 and $14.99, like on other e-book stores, but some bestsellers could be sold at a discount.
Even before the iPad was unveiled, book publishers had engaged in a price dispute with e-book retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Nobles. Publishers wanted retailers to raise [...]
February 19th 2010
Many people think Amazon is content to have consumers just read books on their Kindle e-book reader. That belief would be an oversimplification of Amazon’s strategy. Sure, Amazon would love for the Kindle to be a consumer’s primary choice for reading, but the online retailer acknowledges that people don’t take their Kindles with them everywhere. [...]
February 18th 2010
One of the newest netbooks from MSI, the Wind U160, is now appearing on an Amazon pre-order page. Hector Gomez, one of our eagle-eyed readers, spotted the page along with the $379.99 price tag. Amazon isn’t sharing the release date just yet, but I figure it should be within the next few weeks. After all, [...]
February 17th 2010
Forget e-ink, a new display technology that mimics the shimmering of butterfly wings does color and video, requires no backlight, and saves power. Plus it works in direct sunlight.
E-readers were all the rage in 2009, thanks to Amazon’s Kindle which opened up the market by replicating Apple’s tight integration between the device and an accompanying [...]
February 17th 2010
Right now, the best eBook readers are from the big guys—B&N and Amazon—in terms of both the hardware and the convenience of use. But what it someone else developed a killer feature, like…
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Tags: Amazon, Amp, Big Guys, Bookeen, Convenience, Ebook Reader, Ebook Readers, Hardware, Killer Feature, Mdash