May 21, 2013

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VTech Announces InnoPad Tablet for Kids

vtech-innopad-tablet

The world famous creator of Electronic Learning Products (ELP) VTech has developed yet another high quality and innovative educational product namely InnoPad for youngsters and children. The company has proved it again its global leadership for introducing innovative technology to electronics learning toys after the great success of award winning products like V Smile, V [...]

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 [...]

VIERA Android Tablet from Panasonic revealed at CES 2011

VIERA Android Tablet from Panasonic revealed

The Japanese company Panasonic announced its VIERA tablet “with a small touch screen LCD display”, considering the number of them that are on show at CES, that being said, Panasonic has unveiled a new line of tablet devices under its VIERA brand. The slate will feature Google’s Android. “Small” varies as the tablet will be [...]

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 [...]

HTC to expand its Sense UI and LTE; teases with Puzzle to prove it

HTC Sense UI Image

HTC is reportedly on the way to open a new r wireless study facility to expand its Sense UI beyond Smartphone to home automation, the wireless study centre is expected to be in North Carolina. Drew Bamford, the head of User Experience at HTC says that HTC focuses on content delivery and natural interactions. Sounds [...]

Barnes and Noble Releases Nook Kids Collection for iPad

Barnes and Noble Launches Nook Kids eBooks Collection for iPad

Barnes and Noble is a company barely afloat with its bloated retail chain of books and is looking for another company to buy them out. Its saving grace this year has been the success of the Nook line of e-Ink electronic readers and their new Nook Color tablet device. Not only are they selling the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sony Reader Headed Back to Japan for December Launch

Sony, battling Amazon and Apple in the electronic book reader race, announced the introduction of the Sony Reader to Japan. Six models of Readers have already gone through various stages of product life in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand, with three more coming soon, but today’s announcement in Tokyo was for two of [...]

Sony PRS-650 Touch Edition Review

Sony PRS-650 Touch Edition

The new Sony Reader Touch Edition has its work cut out competing with the all-new UK-specific Amazon Kindle. It doesn’t have integrated wireless, you can’t buy and download books without hooking it up to a PC, and it’s considerably more expensive too. In terms of quality, the screen is the same size and resolution as [...]