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Tuesday, Jun 9
Supersized Kindle DX Makes E-Reading Easy for a Supersized Price
Inside of 10 minutes, the document arrived via Whispernet (Kindle's wireless service) and I was reading the scanned pages. At last month's announcement, Jeff Bezos made it clear that the DX was targeted largely to students requiring textbooks and ...
Why E-Books Are Stuck in a Black-and-White World
The hitch is that color e-ink technologies aren't anywhere near ready for prime time. Amazon chief Jeff Bezos recently told shareholders that a Kindle with a color screen is “multiple years” away. “There's no doubt color displays can offer much more ...
Monday, Aug 11
Can the Kindle Break the E-book Curse?
It was a good day for Amazon.com with shares rising more than 8% after a report by Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney doubling his previous predicted sales for the e-book reader. “Turns out the Kindle is becoming the iPod of the book world,” he says in the report.
Wednesday, Dec 12
Amazon's Much Mocked E-Reader Sells Out - Wired News
Amazon's Much Mocked E-Reader Sells Out - Dec 12, 2007 By Betsy Schiffman December 12, 2007 | 1:18:18 PMCategories: Amazon.com Amazon.com's Kindle, a $400 e-reader that received so-so reviews, ...
Tuesday, Nov 27
Pigs Fly, Hell Freezes Over and Verizon Opens Up Its Network -- No, Really
I think this is brilliant move," concludes Hazelton. "They're answering Google in a way that doesn't limit them to Google's platform." In other words, Verizon has figured out a way to avoid locking itself into using one operating system (Android), while at the same time following the clea...
