WiFi Kindle Touch gets its passport, now available internationally
Ever since Amazon unveiled its cheap-as-chips Kindle Touch , the thing’s been selling like mad here in the US. However, our friends on other continents haven’t been able to enjoy swiping and tapping its multitouch E Ink display — until now, that is. Amazon failed to alert the masses with a press release, but a quick gander at the WiFi Touch’s product page shows there’s an option to ship one just about anywhere on the globe
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WiFi Kindle Touch gets its passport, now available internationally
Amazon announces Q4 2011 results: sales jump to $17.43 billion, but profits drop 58 percent
Amazon’s just announced its earnings for the fourth quarter of the year, and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. While net sales were up 35 percent year-over-year to $17.43 billion, net income dropped a hefty 58 percent to $177 million, or 38 cents a share — that’s off analysts’ expectations, who were looking for sales in the neighborhood of $18.3 billion and earnings of 17 cents a share
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Amazon announces Q4 2011 results: sales jump to $17.43 billion, but profits drop 58 percent
Barnes & Noble readying ‘e-reading device’ for spring, doesn’t want to talk about it
Oh spring, flowers blooming, bees buzzing, the smell of new e-readers in the air. According to The New York Times , the folks over at Barnes & Noble’s digital team are putting the finishing touches on a “fifth e-reading device,” to be released during the aforementioned season
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Barnes & Noble readying ‘e-reading device’ for spring, doesn’t want to talk about it
Toshiba announces color e-reader in Japan, hopes people buy more e-books from its store
If you’re gonna be late to a party, you should at least be fashionably late.
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Toshiba announces color e-reader in Japan, hopes people buy more e-books from its store
Nook Simple Touch gets USB host mode support via hack, plays nice with low-power devices (video)
Codemonkeys exhibiting the kindness of strangers? Why, yes, this is such a tale. When XDA Developers member verygreen came across the pleas of one user obsessed with attaching an external USB keyboard to an eReader , he did what any decent hacker would and created a workable solution.
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Nook Simple Touch gets USB host mode support via hack, plays nice with low-power devices (video)
Apple launches iBooks 2 e-Textbook platform
We’re here at Apple’s education-flavored event at the Guggenheim museum in New York City. Phil Schiller has just taken to the stage and announced the first half of Apple’s platform that’s going to “reinvent the textbook:” iBooks 2. Saying that there were 1.5 million iPads currently in use in Education (using 20,000 specific apps), the revamped book-stand now includes education-specific features to help the budding students of the world
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Chegg’s online textbooks hope to captivate minds, market share (video)
Someone’s about to get schooled, and if it’s not the youth of America, then it’ll be one of the companies rushing to release educational products this week. While Kno takes the interactive approach , and Apple typically keeps us guessing , Chegg hopes its new online reader will capture students’ imaginations
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Hanvon C-18 Mirasol e-reader hands-on (video)
Qualcomm unveiled its new C-18 Mirasol e-reader yesterday, and today, we managed to get our hands on it here at CES . Manufactured by Hanvon, this device is officially labeled as an e-reader, though to be honest, it felt more like a tablet to us. Unlike the lightweight Kindle , the C-18 felt a tad heavy in our hands, with backlighting more typical of a slate than reader
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Hanvon C-18 Mirasol e-reader hands-on (video)
Ectaco jetBook Color e-reader hands-on (video)
E Ink Holdings is here at Showstoppers to show off a slew of new displays, with Ectaco’s jetBook Color eReader standing among the most notable. First announced back in December, this device boasts a 9.7-inch, 1600 x 1200 display, replete with Triton Color E Ink technology. The WiFi- and 3G-enabled e-reader was explicitly designed with students in mind, with a bevy of educational books, tools and software preloaded
Amazon launches touch-friendly, web-based Kindle store for iPads
After being forced to give up its in-app purchasing feature, Amazon has finally brought a finger-friendly Kindle store back to the iPad.
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