May 18, 2013

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Android Online Market Starts Offering Ebooks

Android Online Market Starts Offering Ebooks

Google rolled out the Books section of its web-based version of the Android Market, now offering free and retail ebooks.  Users can now purchase books from the Android Market itself, making it easier than ever to obtain access to reading material on your Android device. The e-books in the Android Market online are quick and [...]

Google Acquires eBook Technologies to Rival Amazon and Barnes & Noble

Google Acquires eBook Technologies

Google after opening its online bookstore last month went to another step in competing with Amazone.com by acquiring eBook technologies, a company which is famous for making digital reading projects. The Internet book store, which opened Monday on 6th December 2010 in the U.S., draws upon a portion of the 15 million printed books that [...]

Amazon Kindle App for Windows Phone 7 hits the WP 7 Marketplace

Amazon Kindle App for Windows Phone 7 hits the Marketplace

Amazon released its Kindle App for Windows Phone 7. According to Amazon, the new application can be downloaded for free from the Windows Phone Marketplace. The application supports the usual features of Amazon’s Kindle apps, and also adds new features such as personalized recommendations for books on the home screen, and ability to send recommendations [...]

Free Kindle Books – Amazon Holiday Gift

Free Kindle Books - Amazon Holiday Gift

The Amazon Kindle, which is the best selling item on the Amazon website free books now more than ever before. Not only are there more than 1 million free books, which many classic public domain titles that can be downloaded at any moment, Amazon also offers many new books free for a limited time. They [...]

KDDI’s “Biblio Leaf SP02″ E-Book Reader and E-Book Store to launch on Dec 25

KDDI Biblio Leaf SP02 Image

KDDI Corp introduced its new Linux based e-book reader “biblio Leaf SP02”, Announced early October, this linux based (note android) e-Book reader comes with a 6” 800×600 monochrome screen comes with KDDI 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity and 2GB of internal memory expendable via a microSD Card. As it is the biblio Leaf SP02 is capable [...]

Barnes and Noble Nook Color App Store Coming in Early 2011

Nook Color App Store Coming in Early 2011

Color Nook can not even begin to compare with the amount of online bookstores to IPAD can access, but as far as applications go, Barnes and Noble have announced they will open their own App Store for the color Nook early 2011. At the same time, the meal can make basic Internet and comes with [...]

NEC to introduce LifeTouch Dual-Screen Android Tablet at CES 2011

NEC LifeTouch Dual Screen Tablet

To compete in the market that has already been defined by the iPad, Android tablets need something special and unique to differentiate them. It seems Dual Display makes Sense for it. Dual-display devices have become a sort of pet project for notebooks and tablet makers, and it appears that NEC intends to experiment with this [...]

Nook Color eReader Gets Android 2.2 Update

Nook Color eReader Image

Those looking to buy an e-reader or a tablet this holiday might want to reconsider the Nook Color. The full-color e-reader will be getting even more tablet-like features thanks to an upgrade to Android 2.2 coming this January. Barnes & Noble representatives spoke with SmartphoneMag.com about the update, which will turn the e-reader into something [...]

Google eBook Store Opens as Amazon Rival

Google e-Book Store

Google Inc transformed its status from digital librarian to merchant. Sources say that it is reall challenge for Amazone.com Inc. This has been a long-awaited Internet book store, which opened Monday on 6th December 2010 in the U.S., draws upon a portion of the 15 million printed books that Google has scanned into its computers [...]

Suli “SL-7 Android Tablet” with Five Finger Multi-Touch Support

Suli SL-7 Android Tablet Image

The Hong Kong based company Suli International has joined the budget Android tablet race with the Suli SL-7 device that will sell for around $250 and which comes with a capacitive glass screen, with 5 finger multi-touch support.Suli SL-7 have a higher performance Rockchip RK2818 which includes ARM9 600mhz and 550mhz new high performance DSP, [...]

Google Editions To Launch Soon – Rival to Amazon, Barnes and Noble

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google is now in the “final stages” of launching Google Editions, which was originally expected to be up and running this summer. The project recently got past several technical and legal hurdles, the article said. Google Editions is expected to have an open format that will allow users [...]

Amazon Kindle App now Available for PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry or Android

Free Kindle Reading Apps

Now Amazon Kindle books can be read on Kindle devices and also Amzon also released free Kindle reading apps for iPad, iPod, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry and Android-based devices. Users can now snugly sift out a book in the Kindle Store, select ‘Give as a Gift’ and send their gift to anyone with an email [...]